Palin Parses

Jake in a couple of months you have spent more words assailing Palin over the silliest things; but yet you seem to miss all the things in the pasts of Obama and Biden.
Does the term “in the tank” ring a bell?

That Palin she’s such a maverick with the truth!
(Liar)

8 years of parsing to get what they want and avoid being seen as unethical
as all the crap fell around them…
now we see
same team
same tactics
same ethics problems
ugh

A personal agenda.
A State Trooper threatened to kill her father.
Personal agenda?
I guess, but where else in the world does a State Trooper get to threaten to kill the father of the Governor and get away with it?

So abusing power is NOT bad thing.
She no doubt fits in with the current administration.. GEE! what a surprise .These last few weeks to the election seems to take a eternity, can’t wait’ so she can head back to reindeer country .

I think people should be asking if she allowed Todd to do what he did because she knew he was not a state employee and could not be officially charged with ethics violations. In other words, she let Todd do it for her own deniability. In my mind, and in legal terms, that is a conspiracy to violate ethics laws.

Palin = SCARY!!!

The report addressed the idea that Palin was afraid of Wooten.
It mentioned that if she were really afraid, why did she reduce the size of her security detail during the time in question?
And why did Todd Palin repeatedly emphasize that Wooten should be fired because he made the Department of Public Safety look bad, rather than that he was a threat to the Governor.
It also mentioned that firing Wooten might increase the danger of any threat, not reduce it.
The report also noted Sarah Palin’s lack of transparency in refusing to meet with the Legislative Council to clarify these issues.

Yes. I did read part of the report. I am amazed at the number of contacts Sarah, Todd and staff made about this Wooten guy. Really fixated on him. And, I watched as Todd said he mighta made one call. One call, Todd?
I thought is was revealing that they wanted this guy arrested for shooting a moose, when Palin loaned him her tag for the moose, her father butchered the thing, and they all shared the meat? Kinda left that part out, Sarah?
Hired a detective to watch his every move? you’re kinda obsessed with this guy.
Now, the guy had medical o.k. to ride the snowmobile, had permission to use the police vehicle to drop off his kids, but… you just kept at it.
You should have let it go long ago. But, you needed to destroy him.
On another note, you also hired unqualified friends for jobs that you fired others from. She likes cows? Are you kidding me?
An expert on energy? I don’t think so.
The “where’s sarah” buttons? hmmmm.
Todd doesn’t keep a calendar? Isn’t that convenient?
Personal email accounts? again.
I’d say I don’t want your “transparent” style of government… ’cause it’s as phony as you.
.

By Sarah Palin–Quote-”I pray to God that people have enough time to let this register with them and start again, connecting the dots, and understand the contrast between the tickets.” End of quote–Another quote-”It’s not negaive, it’s not mean-spirited to be out there and bringing to light the other candidate records & associates—” end quote. I read the report and diffently see she abused her power–and Todd Palin has too much involvement in her position–Think what he will do if she becomes Vice President–HE will be running the country!! Think about this people! She has lied about so many things–how can you not see this???

Why not read the report? Aren’t you a REPORTER? Once again just let us know what only you think we should and need to know.

This is another case in which you have the defense possibly worse than the original offense.
Her defense suggests that she doesn’t have a clue about what kind of conduct is expected of an elected official.
Of course Palin as governor has the authority to fire her public safety commissioner. But what the report highlights and what its conclusion — that Palin has abused her power — is based on is the tremendous pressure that Palin has exerted, directly by herself and indirectly through her husband and subordinates, on her public safety commissioner to fire the trooper. Based on such findings, the report actually concludes that Palin has violated the law.

Obama has purchased for himself a 1/2 hr. slot each on both CBS and NBC, for $900,000 and $800,000, 1 week out from the November election.

Just for argument sake. How do you trust Trooper Wooten? There is no smoke without fire. Trooper Wooten must have done something to make Palin take that action.

One tiny exchange with the press and she comes off as just another hack politician. There’s nothing new or wonderful about this woman, except maybe her desire to satisfy the neocon men who are promoting her. Political porn by any other name.

This was done when French said that an October surprise harmful to Palin was coming.
Democrats are amazing in this regard.

Why do Bush/McCain supporters refrused to accept that Palin is part of the G.O.B.N.
GOOD OL BOY/GIRL NETWORK!!!

Katie S.
From CNN
Speaking Thursday to CNN’s Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, Wooten gave his account of the Taser incident but denied ever drinking while driving.
He said that he was a new Taser instructor, and his stepson was asking him about the equipment. “I didn’t shoot him with live, you know, actual live cartridge,” Wooten said. Instead, he said, he hooked his stepson up to a training aid “with little clips. And you know the Taser was activated for less than a second, which would be less than what you would get if you touched an electric fence… It was as safe as I could possibly make it.”
He said his stepson was on the living room floor surrounded by pillows, and that he “was bragging about it,” and that the family laughed about it.
Asked whether it was a dumb decision, Wooten told CNN, “absolutely.”

HP Boston
Thanks in reminding me about that 1/2 hour of prime time Obama bought. I need to set up a new identity so I can give him more money.
It’s so nice to irritate republicans in the morning.

Obama teaches ACORN how to commit voter fraud and you guys are obsessed with defending a guy who threatened to kill Palin’s father?
Obama has soaked in the hate of twenty years of Wright, Phleger and Meeks and this is more important?
Obama campaigns for a terrorist in Kenya and this is all you have?
Obama is the right hand sockpuppet of Daley and Ayers and this is the big concern?

I have a question
was Sarah Todd her sister or any of her family there when he Tasered his stepson.
seems like that would be a reasonable question because the reports are that the family was all there.
does that include the woman who is throwing these moronic rallies and can’t answer simple question…and obviously has some issues happeneing when she governs…
did she watch while the kid was tasered?

Oh dear! Where are the GOP bloggers to defend Sarah Palin on this one?

Obama pals with terrorists like Ayers

Obama gets his funds from Palestanian terrorists which is why he opted out of federal funds

Obama gets real estate deal with Rezko

drjohn
What you are saying is typical republican speculation. Unfortuantely for you, you have no facts to support any of it. Just speculation, speculation, and more speculation.

probably soro, ayers and the rest of the antiamerican radicals hijacked the DNC 4 yrs ago, and planned the launching of the puppet, ignoring all the democratic games, stepping over democracy etc
I asked myself the question, where are the others democrats that do not support the mafia activity that is going on in the party???
or they should be hold responsible for not condemning publicly such antiamerican radical conduct??, or are they a part of it??, can we trust them(hillary, bill, bobm albios, etc)???

HPBoston
Obama probably will have one more gate
the gate that is keeping us in this last 8 years of this team’s he11.
same team
same tactics
same parsing ethics to cover themselves.
9th year…
If we choose the other “gate” with palin… we all know where it goes…

May be she thinks “abuse of power” means drinking too many powerade or redbull in one sitting.

Come on – politics aside…… This “first couple” were using all the power they could get to seek revenge on this guy. Did he deserve it? you can decide…. was it right of Sarah and Todd to do this? Absolutely Not!
Being of independent mind, I do not want to see more of this stuff for the next four years. And I definitely don’t want to reward this behavior with my vote. The American people, as people, not Republican’s or Democrats, have to stand up and fight for our country, we need to go back to civility. Democracy shouldn’t and can’t work like this this!

HP Boston
“Puppet”? lol lol lol lol
you are kidding right?
There is one person being made a puppet…because they have to…
poor Mccain has tried to play puppet for the last few months…to the right wing.
and yesterday…you saw the regret in his eyes.
the same regret we always see from McCain after he charges into something and then tacks to try and fix the problem he got us in.

BUT, HOW does this effect the COUNTRY….IT DOES NOT!
BUT OBAMA cozying up with AYERS, HAMAS, and similar DOES effect NATIONAL SECURITY interests and also the VOTER FRAUD is just contempt for our system as a whole, he acts like he will get the election no matter WHAT he has to do to get it! NOTICE that ACORN and their fraud has been in all the battleground states where he claims to be ahead!

BUT, HOW does this effect the COUNTRY….IT DOES NOT!
BUT OBAMA cozying up with AYERS, HAMAS, and similar DOES effect NATIONAL SECURITY interests and also the VOTER FRAUD is just contempt for our system as a whole, he acts like he will get the election no matter WHAT he has to do to get it! NOTICE that ACORN and their fraud has been in all the battleground states where he claims to be ahead!

vs
“Obama gets his funds from Palestanian terrorists which is why he opted out of federal funds”
Speculation, speculation, speculation. I guess when you don’t have any facts that is all you can do.
Facts people, facts, facts facts.

HP Boston
go look up Joe Vogel
Timothy mcVeigh
and how Todd palin and sarah palin came to be a member and a supporter of AIP that Vogel founded
and then go watch those videos of her rallies
you want to talk about terrorism…
tell me you do not see a future Timothy mcVeigh in those rallies that Palin incited that mccain is mortified and nervous by.
all of America should be disgusted by this woman…and recognize why her history and her husband’s history (you know the guy that uses her office and she cc’s on her gubernatorial emails) his history with AIP and Joe Vogel’s values are important.

“Governor, did you abuse your power?”
“No, and you should read the report that said I did, because it said I didn’t.”
“Huh?”

It is my belief that the American voter can see through the garbage that the MSM is trying to sell us. ARE WE to believe that Palin’s attempt to fire one man disqualifies the Rep ticket. Yet, the sins of Obama have no impact on his judgment, character, or integrity to be the President.
BUT despite what the polls say. The voters hate the Rep. party and Bush and want to punish them desperately. However, the voters still distrust Obama and fear his leadership especially in a time of economic turmoil.

I know that most democrats believe it’s “their time” their turn after 8 years of Bush, but I am not just voting Republican, Im voting for the man I can trust….not someone with so much baggage. It should not have been hard at all for the dems to win this one. I do believe that Obama has made it a very disfunctional election at best.

Jake, apparently you need to read the report. And you need to specify that the committee did not vote to approve or recommend the report.
I read the full report and it says that she did nothing wrong in firing Monaghan. It says that Todd Palin was wrong in trying to get the trooper Wooten fired (although it doesn’t show that he did anything but ask about the progress of the case and inform voice his concerns about what the trooper was doing).
It then tries to say that Gov. Palin was in violation of the ethics law for being negligent in not stopping her husband. That finding is clearly at fault in three ways: (1) It nowhere proves that Todd Palin’s actions were illegal – it’s just the opinion of the investigator (2) The ethics statute explicitly says “one cannot negligently or accidentally violate the ethics law”, which is exactly what the investigator accuses her of doing and (3) the statute is specifically about using office in pursuit of personal gain, and goes on to list several examples of personal gain all of which are material in nature. Nowhere in the report does the investigator explain how the Governor would have gained from having Wooten fired.

It is interesting to note when republicans are presented with facts they don’t like they turn to speculation against their opponents to try to hide their illegal activities.

HP – McCain was ahead in the polls, how can you say it is the voters that hate John McCain? He won the Republican primary, how can you say it is the voters… He cooked his own goose by selling his soul to the base and abandoning his own beliefs and ethics. As for Sarah, I dont believe she ever had any to begin with.
I think the American people have realized that the politics of slash and burn, lies, and power grabbing is not working. We have chosen a different road, Republican’s are welcome to travel it with us.
Come with us on the path to fixing the problems created by the angry politics of Bush.

I’ve monitored all the media during the campaign and realised the fix was in early on as all the right wing corp-media worldwide was with BO from the very start. BBC is one of the worst offenders. if you search their archives you will find nothing positive about McCain, in fact very little reporting on his campaign at all. search BO and you will find hundreds of glowing articles and multiple endorsements by celebs, yet very little on policies.
I still cannot believe a majority of dem voters over 30 would vote for BO, so the amount of fraud necessary is huge. the polls have been faked and the corp media has a lot of input in calling the elections, so here’s wishing you strength and courage as you enter the final straight. get the reformers in the white house and then demand reform of the corp media, the elections and the financial system. good luck to you all.

HP from Boston writes at 11:34 am, “ARE WE to believe that Palin’s attempt to fire one man disqualifies the Rep ticket.” No, on the contrary, her abuse of power to fire competent civil servants certifies her as a Republican candidate.

Another loose cannon (Sarah Palin) on the deck of of the Ship Of Fools. Hey! She just fired a shot inot our own hull! Holy cow! The rudder’s jammed in a hard right turn and the compass (McCain) keeps changing direction! Looks like we are dragging our anchor (Bush/Cheney) What shall we do, what shall we do? Abandon ship you fools.

I have been a democrat all of my life. This will be the first time I have voted for a Republican for President. Why? Because Obama is not a true Democrat. Instead, he is a socialist who has created a socialist network, largely run by organizations like ACORN, Bill Ayers, and others. They are subversives. They have taken over the DNC. It isn’t the party of my father and grandfather. It is the party of socialism.
These people scare me. They should scare you too. Now go do your duty and join me in trying to purge them from our party. Or better yet, have them all arrested for their subversive activities. You know, like voter intimidation, registering phantom people to vote and then having someone show yo to vote for that nonexistent person! Oh, and like cheating in the caucuses, strong arming people at the convention, and taking money from foreign sources for the Obama campaign.
Corruption has taken over the DNC. Until you purge it, I am no longer a democrat.
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We all know what went on. A personal vendetta pursued through an abuse of her position and authority. The ethical and moral problem is simply that she is untrustworthy and unreliable with power. Legally actionable or not, there is now pro-active corruption in her record.

I still cannot believe a majority of dem voters over 30 would vote for BO, so the amount of fraud necessary is huge. the polls have been faked and the corp media has a lot of input in calling the elections, so here’s wishing you strength and courage as you enter the final straight. get the reformers in the white house and then demand reform of the corp media, the elections and the financial system. good luck to you all.

Kevin, Otown and HP – you don’t get it yet do you?
Lies, semantics, distractions….. it’s not working this time. The Rove playbook only works on the gullible. After a while even the people who don’t want to think about it get it.
No one thinks it is the Dem’s turn… if that is the way the system works, let’s just give up and start over. It is the turn for truth and change of direction… We have to try something new, what we have been doing for the past 8 years is sure not working..

Danny
“”I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments. I will respect him. I want everyone to be respectful, and let’s make sure we are, because that’s the way politics should be conducted in America.”
“I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared (of) as President of the United States.”
“He’s a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign is about.”
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At the same time he was running ads saying Obama was unfit to be President. He only said the above because he was getting to much flake by other republicans because his negative comments was hurting republicans more that it was helping them. It has nothing to do with integrity by either McCain or other republicans.

DENY DENY. REPEAT THE LIE.
That’s Palin.
She will get to deny more facts after the Yahoo case is heard.
Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates to use Yahoo instead of the secure state system, in order to avoid the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, so the Native Americans and SIERRA Club could not find out what she is up to in her dealings with oil companies.

Otown – way to contribute to a civilized conversation. Keep it up, it really helps win over independent voters.

How close is this to making a deal with a convicted felon who is on the verge of spilling the beans?

Can’t we all just be friends?

HP Boston
The world doesn’t like what Republicans have done to it!
The BBC is a good news agency it gets its money from the public it can not be brought like comercial networks.

Senator Hollis French who spearheaded this political smear is a staunch Obama supporter and Monegan and him are close friends. In fact French had stated that he promised his party he would do whatever he could to bring down Palin. French is also known in Alaska as the “phony solider”.

sorry 60 year old…

The only way to stem the rising tide of corporate greed and manipulation in this country is to vote out all the Republican droids.

Campbell,
I suppose those ten republicans on the panel let him do that to a fellow party member, because you know, there were only 4 democrats on the panel, and all of them voted unanimously to open the investigation and release the report.
Nevermind the investigation all started before Palin was chosen as running mate, Obama is psychic and planted people there to assist in his conspiracy.

The report states,
“I find that Governor Sarah Palin Abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act…
“Compliance with the code of ethics is not optional…”
It was a bipartisan panel consisting of mostly Republicans that decided this. They voted unanimously not to suppress this finding but let the public know about it now.
How can you condone the abuse of ethics and power by a public official.
This is not conjecture or hearsay.
This has been proven.
Now if anyone looks away and try to massage this so that it’s “O.K.” then to these people, anything goes, and they have no right to use the words “ethics” or “fraud” or to make any arguments about ethics or morality at all, because they have destroyed their credibility.

Good News for Obama with the information coming from the White House about North Korea.
I have no doubt Obama will use this during the debate.

chris
Thats what the BBC is saying!
They also have info on McCAIN Palin getting paid by Trott and Trott.
Trott and Trott and the RNC are working together to get people who’s homes are forclosed to be denied the right to vote..
In most states McCain’s HQ’s are in Trott and Trotts offices.
Trott and Trott works for Countrywide kicking people out of there homes and then they pass the info on to the RNC to have the people take of the voting register!
Its shamefull!

The rising tide of socialism the writer is scared of:
that would be McCain’s plan to give $300 billion of my tax dollars to the banks, right?
What exactly is wrong with socialism, buddy?
Any actual ideas there or is this just red-baiting with no concept of what you are addressing?
Let’s have a good medical system for everyone.
We may need to have several federal medical schools to end the control the MD’s have over the availability of MD’s. The grads wont go into their practice in debt, because they will work as interns and MDs in Appalachia or the high plains or the inner cities and earn their room and board and tuition.
Socialized medicine depends on having the money to pay for a good system. We have the money for Palin’s war against the Russians, or we have the money for an improved medical delivery system.
We are not England. We can make it work to everyone’s satisfaction and of course, people with big bucks can still buy a heart-lung transplant on the open market.

Trott and Trott works for Countrywide kicking people out of there homes and then they pass the info on to the RNC to have the people takeN ofF the voting register.

Wow…. this woman amazes me. Can she not see that having her husband use state offices and meet with on-duty state officials about his personal family vendetta….. is a big NO NO??
We need to send her back to the Outer Limits, and fast!!

Sarah is Guilty of abuse of power as governor. This is an ethics violation. Huge chance of a huge law suit by Trooper Wooten!!! Lawyers will be all over this!!
(1)Firing Police Commissionr Walt Monegan was Sarh Palin’s right – but did find evidence discharge partly due to he said he could not reopen an old investigation report on Trooper Wooten.
(2)Abuse of Power decision – Sarah abuse power as governor by using her position to try to get her brother in-law Trooper Wooten fired.
(3)Sarah Palin claims of threats were only Palin Family verbal complaints. No 911 calls when incidents happened. No audio, video, no other witnesses, no other outside violence complaints. Finally Divorce Trial Judge has dismissed protection order due to lack of evidence. Legislative investigation revealed Palin family actions andf requestsd by Sarh Palin herself to decrease security protection which is usual & customary do not support they were scared
(3)Sarah Palin and McCain Campaign Claims investigation was caused by Democrats and Obama is lie. Started in July. Voted 100% by all legislators -Democrats and Republicans- and Republicans has majority!! Only Palin-McCain Campaign supporters are saying this!!
Sarah Palin is a very dangerous lady!! She has displayed all these types of actions since becoming Mayor of Wasilla. As Mayor she found herself subject of lawsuit too, and only lost because Police Chief work agreement with prior Mayor forgot to have passed through city council.
Help all of America if John McCain is elected.

As a republican I am insulted to think that American have to set our standards low just to try to have Sarah fit in. Folks, who are we kidding???? I am sorry being selected as a VP is a crucial and an important task. Picking a VP is not a joke this is some serious stuff!!! Sarah Palin has proven yet again to be controversial..She continues to lie and on top of that she is not a very bright cookie. Now this huge scandal that she abouse her powers as a governor. I trully belive the findings they are factual. We have 10 republicans and 4 democrats in this commitee apainted in fact by a republican. I dont see not one American voting for this team. Folks ABUSE OF POWERS sounds familiar, CHANEY….This is the icing of the cake. Sarah Palin is no reformer, shes a joke. She will go down in History as the worst VP choice. Look at the polls Sarah Palin aproval are falling faster that a high speed rail. Americans are rejecting in big numbers. We republicans need to re-group and that starts with choosing a solid presidential pick, not an erratic one…And picking a qualify VP..Not like Sarah who lacks smartnees, and has not valid foreign experience. I will gladly casrt my vote for the best team and that is not McCain/Palin.

She didn’t break the law, she only violated a wimpy old state ethics statute. Whew! I am soo relieved.

It’s really odd that in a post about Palin’s abuse of power (and her inability to comprehend the document) that the conversation gets back to Obama. I find it repulsive that the republican campaign this year has no positive message for Americans – everything is anti-Obama.
What’s also clear based on this report and all the other things Palin has concealed is that she is deceitful and has lied about every aspect of her record and experience. We now have a vp candidate that will not have a press conference before the election, has been documented as someone who abuses power, appoints cronies and BFFs to positions of power, shares her governship with her husband, uses personal email for state business, thinks Russia being a neighboring country gives her foreign policy experience, was for earmarks and the bridge before she was against them, and on and on.
When will the press DEMAND a press conference? This is un-heard of, but I guess we can’t expect her to act like a vp candidate when she merely is playing one on tv.
I have had enough of the secrecy, the lack of transparency, the personal vendettas, and her awful vile at these rallies. McCain showed clear lack of judgment in picking her and his honor has been irretrievably damaged because he did not ask her to step down.
As republicans we need to stand FOR someone, not just AGAINST someone else. Enough is enough – we need to re-claim our party from McCain and Palin.

The operative words are “I find…”
Who the hell is “I” and what law gives him the authority to “find” anything?

It’s obvious she abused her power.
Can ANYONE tell me why she tried to get Wooten fired instead of calling the police for his reputedly abusive behaviour and criminal intimidation?

Republicans, in general, are a very scary bunch. Misinformed, immature, emotional, mean spirited- mostly clueless. I’ve got mine, & I want to keep it- the heck with anybody that wants to help those that need help. Power hungry, corrupt, decietful. I don’t want to be associated with those whom are foolish enough to support the Angry Old Man Mccain, his vile wife, or his crazy running mate palin. I’ll never vote for a republican until they fix their problems. & they’ve got a bunch of problems. Worst of all, they fill up media time with repetive, untrue propaganda- obviously they’re out of worthwhile things to talk about, lets tune them out en-masse-

Of course she did not break the law -
A GOVERNOR CAN FIRE AN APPOINTED POSITION FOR ANY REASON
BUT…
She used her power like Gonzalez and IT IS UNETHICAL!!

LET HER HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE and explain it, Palin supporters. She deserves to be heard from.

I hope this will help Obama in winning the elections. 8 yrs Bush has brought a lot of war , hate and financial crises in the world. Long live Bill Clinton and the nineties!!!

WestCoastMessenger,
It really depends. It shows Obama’s ability to think ahead, actually (good judgement). He was taking a calculated risk, knowing that if he could raise more then McCain, he would have an advantage and not be curtailed.
I don’t mind his changing his mind, I mean, having a president that sticks too stubbornly to something even after it’s proven wrong isn’t good either (think Bush).
What I find particularly glaring is how McCain has sunk so low in the recent weeks. What happened to “I will not take the low road to the highest office?”

ACORN Fraud In Pennsylvania
Clarice Feldman
The American Spectator documents huge vote registration fraud in Pennsylvania:
A retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice says that she is “not confident we can get a fair election” in the state come November.
Justice Sandra Newman, accompanied by Dauphin County District Attorney Edward Marsico and Pennsylvania Republican State Chairman Robert Gleason, expressed her concerns at a Harrisburg press conference this morning. A thick document replete with photo copies of phony registrations and aerial shots of vacant lots used as “addresses” for “voters” was handed out to journalists.
Gleason was even more explicit.
“Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board” with 57, 435 rejected for faulty information. “Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the Primary election.

First, McCain commits adultery with his first wife.
Then, McCain is found guilty of using poor judgement in the “Keating Five” controversy.
Then, Sarah Palin supports the Alaska Independent party, attending two of its annual conventions and supporting its efforts to develop an anti-government militia, as reported by media.
Next, Sarah Palin breaks Alaska’s ethics law.
I think I see a definite, anything goes, law-breaking pattern by these two politicians, and that is very bad.
They cannot be trusted in the White House.
Let’s send Palin back to Alaska, and McCain back to his Senate position.

Give me a break! You reporters need to start reporting on the judgment, character & past of Mr. Obama. The reason he has no “troopergate issues” is that he never held an executive position and had “buddies” like Ayers, Rezko, ACORN associates do his dirtywork. His links to the dark side are much deeper. We as Americans need to be very concerned if he is elected. Get your facts straight if you’re going to ruin someone’s reputation…slam the right person!

FIRST-HAND CORRUPTION.
No need to look for the friend’s friend’s friend.
SHE’S CORRUPT.
SARAH PALIN = CORRUPT
SOME REFORMER!!!

HP – Stold??? Stold?? Really, was it STOLD????
Grant me the serenity……
It was the deregulation of the media and fair and balanced rules for the news (by your saint Reagan) that ruined our media and our news outlets. Most news network shows are all biased one way or the other and the trend is towards the right, not the left…. media follows money duh. FOX is the worst of a bad lot.
Now go practice your English grammar.

Rather than fussing over the report, which could be spun either way (and is), I would like to see Sarah Palin appear on ANY of the regular Sunday news and interview programs before the election. Her failure to appear bothers me a lot more than “did she or didn’t she?” in Alaska. So far, I have not seen her exhibit any talent beyond memorizing talking points and making quirky facial expressions. Is she not versed enough to articulate the GOP campaign positions?

Quick question for all:
Do we know how many troopers are there in Alaska and how many of them have had inquiries/disciplinary actions against them in the same time period as that of Wooten/Palin?
And did the Governor ask those troopers to be fired as well? Or was Wooten the only one to have the Governor’s eye?
Coincidence I am sure.

Chipo1965You were not listening I want to live in a world where everyone thinks and acts independently. NOT JUST LIKE A DEMOCRAT. This is what I used to love about New Hampshire, before all the Liberal Mass. residents started moving in. Sorry I’m from Mass. and there is no other way here, but the democratic way. Call me silly , but call 99% of Massachusetts silly to. After all we have Barney Frank and the people of this state keep voting him into Congress. What does that tell you ? No matter what vote democrat. I already live in a world where everyone thinks and acts the same.This is my issue.

Chipo1965 | Oct 11, 2008 12:26:08 said : “chris, are you a Palin supporter or what? I cant tell from your post. it seems you are trying to make excuses for her but it just confirms my distaste for the lady”
No, she had a record of firing, eliminating positions, trying to fire civil servants in Wassila, and many of these actions seemed to be political or ideological in nature. Not using the talents of talented civil servants makes for bad government. As governor, she had more power then ever before, and the legal right, so same deal.

Do we know how many troopers are in Alaska and how many were under inquiry/disciplinary action in the same period as the Palin/Wooten incident?
And, did the Governor ask all those troopers to be fired as well or somehow she randomly zeroed in on this Wooten guy?
Coincidence I am sure

Someone asked,”How can you condone the abuse of ethics and power by a public official?” I can’t but lets face it. No matter what state we live in the Mayor or Governor once elected gets rid of who they don’t want for any reason they want. Especially if they are of the opposite political party. I guess you could say we’re used to it. At least I am I live in Mass.. I used to be naive and thought this was wrong. But all my politically connected democratic friends told me this is common and is just politics and widely acceptable. After all they still condone Barney Frank .

I’d bet a dozen donuts Palin will get replaced as VP candidate “in the interest of national unity” or some such spin, because it’s the Repub MO when they “get caught”. This is a classic Repub response “The McCain campaign issued a statement that said the report “illustrates what we’ve known all along: this was a partisan led inquiry run by Obama supporters.” The statement added: “Lacking evidence to support the original Monegan allegation, the Legislative Council seriously overreached, making a tortured argument to find fault without basis in law or fact.” Scary to think such dumb justification could be used to start a war… oh wait a minute, it was – to paraphrase “those WMDs gotta be around there somewhere”. Repubs are turning into quite a group of dumb whining blame shifters.

Palin ducks the press just like she ducks the issues.

Just proves “they” are right when “they” said if McCain wanted to pick a qualified female VP candidate, he could have but it’s not Palin. Making decisions based on emotions in the public eye are impossible to negate and should not be done – good that she did though so we know now instead of sometime when it could cause REAL damage – like if McCain tips, she becomes pres, and has a bad hair day and launches a nuke on some scapegoat.

Doris why should Sarah get lost when Obama, Barney frank and Chris Dodd won’t?

Doris why should Sarah get lost when Obama, Barney frank and Chris Dodd won’t?
silly silly bots…..so silly.

Doris why should Sarah get lost when Obama, Barney frank and Chris Dodd won’t?
Posted by: conf1689
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Let’s keep it simple. Name one involvement in potentially illegal activity that Obama has been investigated for?

Able None Yet, but I am hoping they are all investigated in their ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the collapse of our economy due to the housing fiasco.

Hey all my sibling Pumas,
Here in NM, voter fraud has been huge since 2000, when in my opinion we had a coup d’état via computer technology and blatant ballot fraud. Whatever shadow power took control then is not about to relinquish that power now.
I am working the polls this time and we are now being contacted for special self protection training and voter protection strategies prior to election day.
Acorn has been rampantly active here. We have run tests on the voting machines and they are continually coming up with inaccurate info in guess who’s favor?
I was harrassed continual on my cell by the Obama campaign and feel our Governor (who shall remain nameless) in complicity with what is happening here.
New Mexico was a huge Hillary state (though that was never reflected properly in the primarys nor by the news media) and there is a great deal of worry that there will be violence. We dont really ever get national press, but I will keep you all tuned in bout this. This area is a hotbed.

Able None Yet, but I am hoping they are all investigated in their ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the collapse of our economy due to the housing fiasco.
Posted by: conf1689
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You’re grossly oversimplifying the current crises. First of all pretty much anyone who owns property has benefited from real estate inflation over the past 20 years and no politician was going to do anything to stand in the way of it. Bush bragged about how he was fostering “the ownership society”.
Second, Fannie/Freddie hold about half the mortgages in the country — all of them “standard” loans, not the riskier stuff. It’s costing taxpayers about $200b to shore them up. The other half is owned by private banks and investors, and Congress has committed $700b to help that 100% free-marketing free wheeling side.
Real estate collapsed because prices were inflated and investors left the market. The inflation could have been slowed if credit had been harder to get, but Fannie/Freddie were in control of that.

My college son informed me yesterday he doesn’t care who wins. Sad but true. So I asked him to vote for McCain beacuse I do care. He said yes. Also informed me his friends are voting for McCain. I guess Obama should have sent Bruce Springstein to their college.Two months ago my son was for Obama, don’t know what happened. May-be the charms worn off or they’re mad Bruce didn’t show up.

Feeble press to McCain spokesperson:
“If Sarah Palin gets a moment in her busy, busy schedule, could she come over to our jacuzzi and answer a few questions about that embarrassing Troopergate word or whatever it is over a latte? Thank you very much in advance oh powerful and ever knowing public relations person.”
McCain / Palin campaign to press:
“Publish this other thing instead.”
Feeble press to McCain spokesperson:
“Gladly, your highness. What can we do for you tomorrow?”

vs and hp boston:
President Obama. Get used to it.
Less than 100 days!
Obama/Biden 08

as far as changing the outrageous and unfair bias of the media pro leftists and socialists.. we can do something about that..
we could bring the networks to their knees if millions of americans agreed to boycott those unfair news networks who stold democracy away from us..
persistent bombardment on a mass scale of the sponsors with threats of boycott of their products would light a huge bonfire under the networks asses..
this is very do-able and something americans who care can do easily..

probably soro, ayers and the rest of the antiamerican radicals hijacked the DNC 4 yrs ago, and planned the launching of the puppet, ignoring all the democratic games, stepping over democracy etc
I asked myself the question, where are the others democrats that do not support the mafia activity that is going on in the party???
or they should be hold responsible for not condemning publicly such antiamerican radical conduct??, or are they a part of it??, can we trust them(hillary, bill, bobm albios, etc)???

NO ONE NO BODY KNOWS WHO OR WHAT OBUMA IS………….b/c he is a phony, a fraud and a sorry excuse for judgement and the world biggest LIAR!! His friends are terrorists and his pastor is a hate monger!!

I can’t believe how many posters simply assail Obama and apparently miss the point of this article. None of the Palin crowd can actually defend her actions, so instead they ramp up the attacks on Obama. It’s much easier to do. Instead of intelligent defense of their queen bee, they substitute rumor and innuendo hoping people are stupid enough to be sidetracked. The state legislature investigator found Palin guilty of abusing her office. Nothing anyone says about Obama changes that fact. Can you imagine this person in the office of the presidency? I can hardly wait to see how far Obama is ahead of McCain in the polls next week. We should see a huge jump in the current leader in the polls: That One. Obama in a landslide. Even Virginia is jumping the conservative ship. I’m sure we’ll hears cries of rage and disappointment from the religious fanatics. I’ll get a perverse satisfaction watching them whine and stamp their little feet. This will be pain worth seeing.

PALIN = LIAR, CRIMINAL, UNETHICAL!!
McCAIN = FOOLISH, ERRATIC for picking Palin!
OBAMA = WINNER IN A LANDSLIDE!!!

PALIN IS A LIAR – AGAIN!!
“Monegan has said he was fired in July after refusing pressure to sack Wooten, who had gone through an acrimonious divorce and custody battle with Palin’s sister.
Palin and her husband, Todd, have consistently denied any wrongdoing, describing Wooten as a “rogue trooper” who had threatened their family — allegations Branchflower discounted.
“I conclude that such claims of fear were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the Palins’ real motivation: to get Trooper Wooten fired for personal family reasons,” Branchflower wrote.
THIS IN NOT SOME DEMOCRAT CONSPIRACY LIKE PALIN AND McCAIN SAY…
These are the findings of an 8 week investigation, 25+ witnesses “under oath” done by 10 Republicans and only 4 Democrats!!!!
PALIN IS A SHAPE-SHIFTING LIAR!!
PALIN IS A CRIMINAL AND BELONGS IN JAIL!!

I’ve said this before. Palin ran the state of Alaska like it was the high school student council. She appointed her buddies to jobs like Secretary of Agriculture, and she whacked anyone who didn’t wink at her the way she wanted them too. Is that bad? Maybe not for Alaska, but it would disastrous for the U.S. in this time of crisis. She will be just a heartbeat away from the oval office.

The “personal” benefit Governor Palin might have been seeking concerned her father’s personal safety.
State trooper Wooten had threatened to kill him if he hired a lawyer.
What a deal ~ ought to have every lawyer in America hopping on that one Fur Shur.
In any case, the guy who wrote up the “report” appears to think that something in a “code of ethics” supercedes the commonly held opinion of ALL MANKIND that children have a right to defend their parents against assault by a jackbooted thug.
Ergo, Governor Palin, had every right under Heaven and Earth to defend her father from the death threat uttered by Wooten.
Interesting that so many Democrats and main stream media types think that self-defense is not a right defensible over the petty claims of a code of ethics.
I pity them. I pity their loved ones.
Be warned, never turn your back on a Democrat or a MSM type. Even if one were your brother or sister they cannot be trusted. No integrity.

What the heck was Todd Palin doing using the Govenor’s office for their personal vendetta against Wooten? And she allowed it! This is the abuse of power. Her subordinates/aides couldn’t say “no” to the First Dude.
Palin is Spiro Agnew in high heels. And now there are questions about just WHO built her half million dollar house on Lake Lucille. One hand washes the other in Alaska.

Jeez. More than 200 comments here, and maybe 10 have any thought behind them whatsoever.
And for you statistics fans:
The word “economy” has been used 6 times in this thread.
The word “Iraq” has been used twice.
“Health care” – Once
“Afghanistan” – 0
Well played, folks.
–WKW

Governor Sarah Palin is so unethical, she lies without blinking. Sarah doesn’t have a conscious.
We’ve already had the ol’ “Missin’ a conscience…” for EIGHT LONG YEARS.

Troopergate Inquiry finds Sarah Palin GUILTY.
Sarah Palin VIOLATED THE TRUST Alaskans placed in her and BROKE THE LAW as their governor when she fired a state official who had refused to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper, according a legislative report released Friday night.
Ten republicans and four democrats were unanimous in adopting the findings (as they were in initiating the investigation.)

William is what we call the “obvious problem identifier”. The most annoying folks to be around – because they don’t back it up with a solution.

Some post appear to be far beyond the topic, the essence ” But the report is not as Gov. Palin is presenting it, in terms of ethics laws.” The report is from a process that predates Palin’s current status, and was fully supported by her party, Republicans, in Alaska. So, what does this have to do with the campaign, Obama, the media or anything else?

The McCain/Palin ticket is the first in American history in which both candidates were found to have violated ethics standards before a national election.

Remember Sarah’s unequivocal “no one in my administration ever talked to Monegan”?
Disgusting and shameful. What a disappointment. The Palins have let a lot of people down.

Hey everybody, let’s not miss the big story here: Sarah Palin ACTUALLY TOOK A QUESTION FROM THE PRESS.

Tina—he didn’t actually TASER the kid. The story is he used the TASER on the kid on the “test” setting—at the kid’s request. The little boy wanted to show his cousin BRISTOL how tough he was and that he wasn’t a “mama’s boy”. Was it bad judgement? Absolutely. But the test setting isn’t a severe thing at all. You have to keep in mind that all these accusations were made years after they occured, when the Wootens were involved in a custody battle. That’s why they didn’t stick. And as for the moose incident—-Wooten was hunting with his wife(Palin’s sister). She had the permit and he didn’t, and he shot the moose for her when she couldn’t. Again, this came forward years later during the custody battle.

SC Superman do you have any problem with Obama’s connection to Jerimiah Wright?

We actually need someone who abuses power in the White House. The US is still strong because of heroes like Cheney, who abuses power all the time, but kept us safe from the WMD that Saddam had. Sure, they never found them, but only because Saddam was so crafty. He has them hid. Put Sarah in office, and she’ll find’em, by golly.

So Sarah Palin has been officially found to be
guilty of ethics-in-office violations, committed
not only by herself but by her “First Dude,” who
got his brainless wife screwed by his primary
handling of their joint vendetta against Sarah
Palin’s sister’s ex-husband. Known as “the
Shadow Governor,” when Todd Palin wasn’t out
racing on the slopes, he was lounging in a
government conference room, with his own phone,
harrassing Alaska’s Law Enforcement
Commissioner, whom the governor subsequently
fired, claiming other reasons than the fact he
wouldn’t fire the ex-brother-in-law, a state
trooper. And the gov had her aides doing the
same. The bipartisan investigative panel couldn’t
nail her for the firing, because there’s no law
against her firing officials for any reason she
wants, but they slammed her, justifiably, with
what they could — ethical violations.
And this is the next VP? Not if even the most
rabid Republican remembers what ethics means
but, given the McCain-Palin duo and the Bush-Cheney-Rove et al cadre and those who want four years of worse, I’m not at all convinced they do.
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The press must hammer Palin on this issue so much so that she needs to spend every minute of her time thinking and spewing a new way to defend her unethical behavior. Monegan has ample support now to also file a Federal lawsuit against the Palins. Keep them tied up in courts.

The woman once again proves herself to be an abject, shameless liar. The funniest part of the report was Palin claiming that Wooten was threatening her family…at the same time that she was reducing her security detail.
Pathetic that the McCain campaign’s immediate response was to blame it on Obama, apparently heedless of the fact that the committee consisted of ten Rebublicans and four Democrats.
Haven’t we had enough lying during the past eight years?

Some poster here has the nerve to defend Palin by saying Wooten has been divorced four times–Slinging mud is all the Republicans can do at this point–they’ve bungled a war we never should have started, they’ve let their campaign contributors loot the country…what do they have left but garbage?

HPBoston: You must not have anything else or better to do but write bad comments about Obama and the Democratic party! I see you have many, many comments just on this page! Maybe you should spend some of your time reading about McCain/Palin–Sarah Palin for VP or even President??Do you honestly see this? I think you are part of the McCain/Palin campaign or you would see how dishonest/liar Sarah Palin is. Did you read the Troopergate report?? How many times Todd Palin is involved in her job–do you want him running the country?? What is wrong with you!!!

The biggest revelation from the Troopergate findings is what an ABSOLUTE AMATRUEISH governor’s office Palin runs.
She is out of her depth beyond Mayor, she sure isn’t ready for PRIME TIME NATIONAL politics.

Gosh Willie, do you think that’s possibly because this thread is about Palins violations of ethics, abuse of power and failure to acknowledge any shortcomings?
Just speculating, Darnit All, Wink Wink Wink ;-)
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By all means you have a point. But it would be a better point if half the thread wasn’t invoking ACORN as a mass terrorist group that Obama had to apologize for. With a few conspiracy theories in there to boot. ;)
Honestly, this won’t hurt Palin with the base – they love when their leaders flaunt the law (see Bush, George W.)
And seriously, Jake: Could you do a post explaining what socialism is, please? Because there are way too many folks out there that love to use the the word socialism, even though they have no idea what it means.

THIS IS WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND FOR PALIN.