Troopergate Report Concludes Palin Abused Power

Ah! wait a minute what about ACORN?
what is the true story behind ACORN. and is it true that Obama campaign has given them $800,000? is it true that Obama was their attorney in Chicano? Please we need to know the real story behind the “image of Obama”…we need facts before voting and it’s hard to find a fact without a partisan tilt..so help us!

wait a minute, you are telling me that you’ve already read 267 pages , or you are feeding us more junk with this news

You do not use your position as a public official to carry out a vendetta against your ex-brother-in-law.

So, the Troopergate report is out. Its findings:
Governor Sarah Palin violated the state’s executive branch ethics act, which says that “each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
OUCH.
EXIT the GOP VP candidate.

YEAH DID SHE ACTUALLY BREAK A LAW? DOES SHE GO TO JAIL? I AM FOR OBAMA BUT I MUST ADMIT THIS TROOPER GATE SEEMS PRETTY LAME. THE GUY TAZZERED HIS OWN SON

Impeachment please.

wait a minute, you are telling me that you’ve already read 267 pages , or you are feeding us more junk with this news
Posted by: frieda | Oct 10, 2008 8:58:26 PM
You only need to read page 8. Check foxnews.com .. its a breaking news banner there too.

IS THIS ILLEGAL?

Abuse a power, even within the law, is an official reason for impeachment.
Palin could be in serious trouble now.

No surprise. I mean what can you reall expect from people like this. John McCain is going to get what he deserves for abandoning his principles and kissing the right wing’s butt.

all i can say is mccain sure can pick a winner—-i never in my life have seen something like mccains wife and palin spewing hate—-enough is enough—and now mccain is trying to appologize for what has gone on—sorry john this is your dirty can of worms—-you are one sick individual

Oh come on . .. a little power only corrupts a little bit . . . she only done a little bitty thing . .. .

And SHE’S attacking Obama about honesty?
SHE claimed she knew nothing!
Good bye McCain and Parrot!

OH Sarah…you’ve been a very bad girl!

Palin abused her power, yet she wants us to think she’s a reformer. I’m not buying it!

Hey Sarah Palin,
I think Steam captured my feelings best when in 1969 they said : Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye.

Because this was a partisan witchhunt that didn’t find anything
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Sorry, but it was a BI-PARTISAN commission that called for the investigation.
She’s lied the entire way about her involvement.
Hahahaha Keep trying to defend theis person. She is the WORST VP choice ever.
She was NEVER vetted and the results get better every week!

You mean Palin has “Power”!!!!!!
Obama doesn’t have any power.

GUILTY!GUILTY!GUILTY!GUILTY!!!!!!!!
McCain is associated with a now known criminal!Does America deserve a “criminal” as it’s next Vice-President? Isn’t it illegal for a person with a criminal record to serve in the Executive Office of the United States of America? S.Palin/McCain have no choice but to disavow her as a participant in such a pristine, lawful, righteous,highly esteem, and non- contaminated by the unlawful element scourge of this great/law-abiding country!!!!

Ah…John…..
First of all Acorn tried to bring up discrepancies in Nevada…weren’t listened too and THEN raided. Second..no donations to Obama for general election…Third they are trying to root out bogus registrations THEMSELVES…Fourth – no law violations because no voting yet…
Then…let’s talk about voter suppressions and illegal tactis by the Republican Party…want to discuss THOSE… Don’t worry… the entire truth will come out. Everyone in Obama’s camp wants credible voting and registration..so…let’s focus on the real lawbreaker- Gov Palin…no wonder McCain’s been spreading the sh** so deep…not to mention the terrorist ties of his own…OH!!! and the Rolling Stone article…www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/2 It comes out this next week…..bad news for MCcain – so much dirt not discussed on him

Sarah Palin’s a convict.

So Todd got to totally ignore that subpoena afterall? I don’t get to ignore subpoenas. You don’t get to ignore supoenas. Did that witch-tracker preacher of the Palens confer on Todd some kind of superpowers in a secret ceremony? I sense a plot for a Stephen King novel is evolving.

LOOK AT ALL THESE PUBS TRYING TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. AS THEY ALWAYS DO.
Palin got busted. She LIED about it. She tried to COVER IT UP.
She said yesterday, “This election is about honesty”
We all knew she was guilty. That’s why they tried to duck subpoenas. That’s why they had 30 lawyers in Alaska trying to stall every step of this investigation.
They never vetted her.
Hahahahaahhaa
All week you’ve been calling Obama a liar. Now are all you hypocrites going to say that doesn’t matter?

What’s the difference between an embarrasment and Sarah Palin?
What’s the difference between a major liability and Sarah Palin?
What’s the difference between a public violation of public trust and Sarah Palin?
The abuse of lipstick.

Reading the report, it states that Gov. Palin was well within her right to fire Monegon, who serves at the pleasure of the governor.
What it takes issue with is Todd Palin’s attempt to get a sheriff who tasered his 10-year-old son off the force.
I know, for your “progressives” the sheriff will garner a monument.

One would think with Sarah Palin on the ticket the Republicans would have the lead… she does have “executive” experience.
Ted Rollins; a prominent Republicans on Lou Dobbs states the campiagn is over and Obama has won.
His only question to McCain is… how does he want to be remembered?

“The report had two Recommendations for Action:
1.) Amend the definition of “governmental agency”.
2.) Add an amendment to permit those who file complaints against peace officers to
In other words there is no there there. Oh but, wait, Obama maybe in the process of trying to steal the election via voter fraud, illegally benefit from foriegn campaign contributions and in cohoots with Rezco for corruption, oh well not worth a mention in the world of ABC.

That’s too bad about Mrs. Palin; she seemed like such a good Republican too and an intelligence we would all like to see applied to our fates.
What a dumb pick. Well we’ll look forward to seeing John McCain’s great bipartisan nature as he reaches across the aisle for unity after he loses in November . . .

There is a GOD.

“Well we’ll look forward to seeing John McCain’s great bipartisan nature as he reaches across the aisle for unity after he loses in November . . . ”
Anybody want to bet McCain is a complete hypocrite and will not be seeking bipartisan unity, but trying to further demonize Obama?

Damn, Palin is a criminal! This is devastating for the McCain campaign. This is the icing on the cake of a failed campaign! Obama’s lead will continue to grow with just 3 weeks left.
Obama/Biden 08

You got McCain today trying to sooth the savage beasts him and Palin incited and now his star pupil has been shown to be the shrew that we all suspected.

On the GOP ticket we now have the official Keating investigation and the official Troopergate investagtion. ‘Poor judgment’ for McCain and ‘violation of the ethics law and of public trust’ for Palin.
Bush-Cheney were VERY clean candidates in comparison.

Palin is another corrupt Republican who constantly lies through her teeth.

Vindictive and not too bright are Mrs Palin and her dude.
Time to send them back to the great white north.
If McCain wanted a woman VP, he should have called with Hilary. (It’s not too late – she’s available.)

“I guess now Palin can pull an “Obama” and say, “gee, golly that was a bonehead decision I made” and she’ll be off the hook. That’s the way it works for Obama… Fair’s fair!”
The difference is, that Obama has never been investigation for any wrongdoing during his career. You could call that a MAJOR difference.
Both McCain and Palin have now officially been under investigation: for the Keating Five scandal and for Troopergate.
The GOP ticket is a heavily stained ticket.

8 years of Republicans in the White House was not enough! We want MORE! 8 more years! Vote Republican!

Well, this sure makes some fine headlines for the McCain-Palin ticket.
They fully deserve them.

For those asking if this is ILLEGAL, yes, yes it is illegal. It is a violation of the Ethic’s Act which basically says that a public/government official can not abuse their power. this kinda of stuff could potentially be grounds for impeachment (though she may just get hit with a lighter penalty). What? did you all think that ABUSING EXECUTIVE POWER was legal?

The Democrat partisan report had two Recommendations for Action:
1.) Amend the definition of “governmental agency”.
2.) Add an amendment to permit those who file complaints against peace officers to receive some feedback about the status and outcome of the complaint.
In other words there is no there there.
Oh but, wait, Obama and his campaign is under investigation for trying to steal the election by paying ACORN to commit voter fraud, illegally benefit from foreign campaign contributions and in cahoots with Rezco for corruption, oh well not worth a mention in the world of ABC.

Oh come on . . . it was just a teeny, weeny little bit of abuse of a teeny weeny little bit of power …
I mean just because it was over a custody agreement for her sister’s children . .. jeesh . ..
Of course she has the right to use the power given to her by the people to fix up this little matter for her sister . ..

“In my eyes you are true heros.I would go to the ends of the earth to protect my sisters and their children”
As the investigator asked in his report, why would getting Wooten fired from his job make him less of a threat? As he correctly concluded the opposite would be true – Wooten would then have more cause to come after her. Lies, lies, lies.

The Democrat partisan report had two Recommendations for Action:
1.) Amend the definition of “governmental agency”.
2.) Add an amendment to permit those who file complaints against peace officers to receive some feedback about the status and outcome of the complaint.
In other words there is no there there.
Oh but, wait, Obama and his campaign is under investigation for trying to steal the election by paying ACORN to commit voter fraud, illegally benefit from foreign campaign contributions and in cahoots with Rezco for corruption, oh well not worth a mention in the world of ABC.

Read the report, Not the slanted (all for Obama)news headline.
On Page 8:
“In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.”

WEST COAST
YOU ARE VERY AWARE THAT THERE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY—REMEMBER THAT ONE TAKES THE BOW AND ONE TAKES THE BLAME

Jake what’s a “budge” dispute? Care to elaborate?

She was just fixing up a little matter for her sister.

How utterly ridiculous. Abuse of power, but legal right. Sounds like a little attempt to tarnish the Governor before election day. Let’s compare. Getting a trooper fired who tasered a boy, drank in his patrol car, threatened to kill someone, ORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR hangs out with the likes of Ayers, Wright, Khalid, Rezko and Pfleger, hmmmmm, I’ll have to sleep on that………NOT!!!!!!
Obama is DANGEROUS in the most absolute way, his EGO, his LIES, his CORRUPTION.
Stop drowning in the koolaid!

It is so SHAMEFUL for Sarah Palin, and so disappointing for REAL Conservatives like me, but then again, this is NOT the first time she has been disappointing, nor do I suspect it will be the last. OsiSpeaks

Gee, what happened to Ayers now Republicans??
McCain/Palin are going to be on TROOPERGATE DEFENSE every single day from now until Election day!!!
Sorry no time for calling Obama a liar and terrorist anymore fools!!!!
SHE IS AT THE VERY LEAST A LIAR, AT THE WORST SHE WILL BE IMPEACHED AS THE GOVERNOR OF ALASKA!!!!
Palin will be lucky to get elected as Dogcatcher of Wassilla after this!!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-April
“As a woman that has seen so many women and children threatened and abused by men,Sarah and Todd thank you so much for trying to get a rogue cop ,that tasered an 11year old child, off the force. ”
Funny thing about this…
for one thing, other than the taser incident, there is no evidence that Wooten ever abused his children… Second, Wooten taser his son because the son wanted to be tasered to prove he was a man in front of his cousin Bristol.
And here’s the real kicker… right before the incident, the son told his mother, sarah palin’s sister, that he was gonna let himself be tasered by his father and her ONLY response was “you better not”… she then did NOTHING to stop the son from being tasered… oh and she also waited a good 2 years, during their divorce, to report the incident took place.
Child negligence is ALSO a form of child abuse. if you’re gonna use that taser incident as an argument for child abuse, then before you go patting Sarah on the back for fighting child abuse, you should tell her to do something about her sisters negligence in regard for caring for her children.

Jake get it right… she also broke the law..
From page 65-66 of Branchflowers report:
“Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in ‘official action’ by her inaction if not active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired [and there is evidence of direct participation]. She knowingly, as that term is defined in the statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired. Her conduct violated AS 39.52.110(a) of the Ethics Act.”
She broke and violated trust and there is direct evidence that she more than participated in this vendetta.
The worse part is that she allowed her husband unusual access to her office and staff to pursue this obsession.
She is morally and ethically corrupt and does not deserve to hold the title of governor let alone vice president.
Now lets see if the per diem money and email lawsuit will get attention from ABC.
Today another lawsuit was heard in court regarding preserving the emails from Palins private yahoo accounts.
The judge said that she is to preserve all emails from those private accounts as well as her employees.
Where is that story Jake?

but the special legislative panel convened to investigate whether Palin unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state’s public safety commissioner, has issued its report, and the CONCLUSION IS THAT SHE DID!
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For the willfully ignorant who pretend they didn’t see that last sentence.

Here’s the thing. There are multiple laws in Alaska (I know, shocker).
Sarah Palin was in violation of ethics laws because she allowed her husband to use her office and pressure state officials to fire Wooten because of family reasons. This is a pure abuse of power for personal gains.
Sarah Palin was not found in violation of rules regarding her firing of her Commissioner because there were reasons besides his refusal to fire Wooten for his dismissal.
So indeed, Sarah can be found both guilty and not guilty at the same time.

IMHO the biggest problem I have w/ this whole deal (as I’ve stated on numerous occasions) is the attempted cover up & stonewalling. They would have been a lot smarter (Palin & camp McCain) to have gone & sat down w/ the ADN editorial board & come clean on the whole deal & stated the facts surrounding Wooten along w/ an apology for having abused her power. Most people could understand (not necessarily excuse) why a person would do what they can to defend their family.
The attempted cover up, stonewalling, & smearing of good people in Alaska in order to keep the facts from coming out are what will destroy any trust…
Big mistake.

but the special legislative panel convened to investigate whether Palin UNLAWFULLY ABUSED HER AUTHORITY, has issued its report, and the CONCLUSION IS THAT SHE DID!
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For the willfully ignorant who pretend they didn’t see that last sentence.

For those asking if this is ILLEGAL, yes, yes it is illegal. It is a violation of the Ethic’s Act which basically says that a public/government official can not abuse their power. this kinda of stuff could potentially be grounds for impeachment (though she may just get hit with a lighter penalty). What? did you all think that ABUSING EXECUTIVE POWER was legal?
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Monte,
Violating publicly granted power is a Republican credo. Cheney did it. Bush did it. The laws don’t apply to them. Didn’t you know that?
And Cheny, Bush, and Palin all ducked subpoenas and tried to cover up after the fact. It’s like you have to be crooked to get into the club!
There were 10 republicans, and 4 democrats on that panel.

Good, glad Sarah stood up as her right to fire a state employee who would not fire the trooper who hurt a 10 year old child and made threats to her family. He did not need to be a trooper. The firing was not of a divorce mess. This was a political hack job. The report shows she broke no law so get it correct. If I were her, I would had done the same thing. Go Sarah. God Bless you. It’s a shame the trooper is still on the job but glad the other man was fired.

Quit trying to justify this by saying it was about the trooper.
It was about abuse of power and firing an official – not the trooper.
Face it, she abused power, she lied about it, she tried to cover it up, she tried to hamper the investigation, she ignored subpoenas.
Fitting for the cocky know-nothing who thought she could fake her way to the Vice Presidency.

THIS IS A SERIOUS MATTER, IT DOES TELL US ABOUT McCAIN´S JUDGEMENTS AND NOT BEING READY TO LEAD ! CHOOSING A CRIMINAL POWER ABUSER, ANTI-WOMEN´S RIGHT, ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALIST, DUMMY IN SECURITY, ECONOMY AND FOREIGN POLICY AS VP IS A CLEAR MEASURE OF McCAIN´S JUDGEMENT !

You all are playing right into the hands of those carefully pulling the levers behind the curtain in Oz. You can argue this bs the media is fueling you with right and left and who is right and who is wrong? Let’s face it, they’re all the same. America is changing before your very eyes and they have us ninnies arguing over race and fraud and lies and accusations hurling right and left. And let’s not forget the economy to really put our heads in a spin. We are falling right into their greedy little hands. We are nitpicking about stupid bs stuff as a few elite are taking over the reigns and pretending to give us a president we think we want but we’re not sure why in the end. geez… people, THINK

No wonder that this woman in her one and only debate seriously proposed to extend her powers as a Vice-President.
When will Alaska start the impeachment procedure?

So what happens now, she gets a slap on the wrist.

Abuse of power . … now what does that remind me of . .. . hmmm . .. oh yeah! Bush and Cheney and the current Republican administration!
8 More Years! Vote Republican!

Let me count the scandals and criminal investigations Obama and his campaign is currently being investigated for: (1) ACORN voter Fraud . There IS a RICO investigation of ACORN and the Obama campaign underway. Federal agents are investigate ACORN, which has been funded with upwards of $800,000 in questionable donations from the Obama campaign (in what appears to be the expressed and explicit direction to engineer voter fraud in the general election). – (2) the Sun Times is reporting that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to make a plea deal with Rezco that may finger Obama based on Obama’s support of Alexi Giannoulias, the 30-year old State Treasurer of Illinois (who was elected only because Obama backed him). (3) ). There is a lot of activity in Chicago right now, with a lot of IRS agents looking into the finances coming in and out of this city, and across state lines (this was established on Monday when the GOP issued emergency press releases that much of Obama’s campaign contributions could very well be illegal foreign contributions – what appears to be deliberately poor record keeping designed to hide the true identities and monetary sources of online donors is at issue here.

Board members who read the findings are on Fox now saying that the entire matter was blown up.

This means that Sarah Palin has found herself on a bridge to somewhere. The Republicans would lose and she’ll find herself heading to Alaska. Please contribute some money towards Sarah Palin’s one way ticket.

Q: Whats the difference between Sarah Palin and a convicted felon.
A: Lipstick

And the it just keeps right on going.. how hysterical…
“Palin this! Obama that! He’s better! No, she’s better! He’s a liar! No he is! No she is!” Keep it up, keep your eye on the bouncing balls… Doesn’t anyone else find this election and the timing of the bail out, say “odd”??

Board members who read the findings are on Fox now saying that the entire matter was blown up.
Posted by: Christie | Oct 10, 2008 10:03:26 PM
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AND WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FOX NOISE TO SAY??
Unfortunately NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN say different!!!!!
They say GUILTY – CRIMINAL!!!!

The today’s news said the All of Detroit Automakers are at the brinks of bankruptcy. But Obama has repeatedly promised he will, no matter what, protect Detroit Workers. So you should trust him.

Palin is unethical! A bipartisan group released this report. End of story. This is the person John McCain chose after 1 hour of questioning. End of story. Note to McCain on Palin……thanks but no thanks!

HERE WE GO ! A WORSE THAN CHENEY WHO WOULD FIRE AND FILL IN THE GAP WITH HER OWN CLOSE FRINDS . THIS A BIG CRIME ! ABUSE OF POWER AND ALSO CORRUPTION ! I AM GONNA VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ALL THE WAY !

Geevill,
Its a good thing that ‘real Americans’ only make up about 10% of America then.

Hey Jake,
Nice partisan headline you got there. The same report says that she was within her right to fire him!!!
This is a non issue blown up by the Obama partisans supporters in Alaska. They are probably disappointed that was not law violated LOL

Give her a cell with a view of Russia….so she feels at home

Mary in AK,
Don’t you wish!!! Where did you here that, on FOX Noise????
NBC Nightly news says it is an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE!!!!

Eight years of Republicans in the White House was not enough! We want MORE! Vote Republican. We want MORE! Eight More Years! Vote Republican!

Anyway, glad she stood her to the employee.. shows she will not take dirty behavoir of hurting a child. The trooper is a disgrace and should not even be on the job and the man fired is a sore loser..he should had not protected a trooper who hurt this child and made threats to Sarah’s dad. When the media should praise someone, they don’t.

They are handing out lipstick at the McCain/palin rallies now, so their supporters can use it to hide the foam that is frothing from their mouths.

Fellow PUMAs, Republicans, Independents, and others I implore you to fight this disgusting frightening marriage of dictator corrupt Obama and the MSM.
Vote MCCain-Palin. get everyone you know to vote for them. We must save our country from the socialist Obama-media coalition.

I think the taser incident is a little more complicated than what some people will have you believe. This is from the CNN interview with Wooten:
“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, that he ‘was bragging about it,’ and that the family laughed about it.
Asked whether it was a dumb decision, Wooten told CNN, ‘absolutely.’
The 2006 report called the incident an example of ‘extremely poor judgment,’ and noted that he has been trained in ‘the risks associated with use of the weapon on a child.’”

So the outsider is an insider after all.
Its the perfect match with the Keating scandal. McCain and Parrot both abused power for themselves.
And the Pubs will still want to talk about Obama and the six steps to Kevin Bacon accusations.

McCain might be a bit powerless. But it does not qualify Obama. Someone, here, puts Obama has similar character as Adolf Hitler as the both are common in having a talent to attract people at the first place. I don’t know about Obama, but for Hitler, German people later became so regretful.

Sorry Cristie, it really looks like she used her power to try to settle a family score. It was a family matter. She’s not very smart in some ways.
And by the way, the trooper is not guilty until proven innocent. Sarah Palin is not judge and jury.

Jake, all year long you’re reporting on rumors, and now this is all you have to say about these findings!?!?
Are you in Palin’s tank!?!
The only reason that Palin didn’t break the law is that the Alaskan law states that a Governor can fire poeple for ANY reason or NO reason at all…
SO, the FIRING itself can’t be the problem. The violations of the Executive Branch Ethics Code and the public trust though are pretty serious stuff though, certainly for a Governor who’s currently running as a VP candidate.

Pubs now have two candidates on the same ticket who have violated the ethics rules outlined by their respective positions in government.
McCain/Parrot = Team Unethical

Eight years of Republicans in the White House was not enough! We want MORE! Vote Republican. We want MORE! Eight More Years! Vote Republican!

Sarah, I’m sorry, but I can see the end of your political career from my house.

Trooper Wooten had his hearing; there were findings. These have been made public.

What about Louis Farranah saying Obama was the Messiah.

MIguy
Yes Palin has the right to fire!
But using her position to try to force Monegan to fire Wooten is an impeachable offence.

Serves her right for lying on Obama about Bill Ayers…
If she abused her power once, she will do it again.
This gives Obama/Biden so much ammunition.,, tee hee

Sarah, was this an attempt to fully restore the glass ceiling by proving that you’re too imcompetent to be a Governor of less than 700,000 people?

I am a recovering Republican…
I am sick to my stomach right now…
HOW COULD SHE????

McCain has no choice but to dump Palin if he wants ANY chance at the Whitehouse.
What an old fool, anyone could see Palin was trouble from the outset. McCain vetted her for only one hour before asking her to be on the ticket. Good judgement. Do you really want
McCain (Guilty of poor judgement) and Palin (Guilty mis-using her executive power) to to run the US (into the ground)?
McCain is toast ….

Aussie:
On these anonymous blogs, it is difficult to tell at times who is being truthful about their identity. However, I will assume you are not familiar with the US system. An “impeachable offense” only indicates that a hearing can be made based upon the allegations – it does not mean that any such proceedings should or would ever take place. For an ethics violation this minor, in which no illegality occurred, don’t hold your breath hoping for an impeachment hearing. Bush has done more “impeachable” offenses that have not been followed through.
As for your thoughts on China being the only superpower, you are underestimating the US. First off, economic realities tie all of the world’s major economies and as the US economy goes, so goes the rest of the world. The US military, just like Russia’s in the 1990′s, is not going to just vanish.
So the status quo is the status quo.

Very interesting that even though Gov. Palin had the state constitutional authority to fire the Public Safety Commissioner for ANY REASON, that the state investigation would conclude that she abused her power when she fired him citing that his refusal to fire the trooper “was not the sole reason” but was “likely a contributing factor.”
So there is no definite conclusion that it was a contributing factor, only “likely” a contributing factor. And they acknowledged that there was at least one other reason for firing the commissioner. So explain to me exactly HOW she abused her authority? ANY reason is still ANY reason.
And even more interesting is the mainstream media’s headlines. All of the major news outlets are going with the headline that she abused her authority. Yet clearly, in spite of the official conclusion stating THAT, it is a bogus conclusion. And the mainstream media knows it.
If this had been a Democrat, the headline would have read: “Gov. Palin is cleared of charges even though investigation says otherwise.”

robin
CNN, BBC and Australian networks ABC Channel 10 Channel 7 and channel 9 all say its an inpeachable offence.

It is time to boycott all companies that purchase ad time with these in-the-tank for Obama meda outlets. We are at war with the leftist liberal socialists.

She clearly abused her power. The investigation was pretty clear about that.
“For the reasons explained in Section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides”"
OUCH!

McCAIN BOOED AT HIS OWN RALLY TODAY!!!!
CROWD TURNS ON McCAIN!!!!!
He was booed for finally calling Barack Obama a decent family man, a good citizen and not someone to be afraid of as president of the United States!!!!
Gee, that kind of blows a HOLE in the last gasp of the McCain/Palin campaign, YA THINK????

Response to Aussie: “As for your thoughts on China being the only superpower, you are underestimating the US.”
Just look at the bs you all are talking about here. Look at the two men running for President of the US. Look at all of the people they are associated with. They’re all just narcissistic politicians. And look at this ridiculous bickering. It sounds like an 8th grade football rally. And Aussie is under-estimating the US? By whose standards??

As an independent voter I am turn off by the McCain/Palin ticket. So negative and no substance. Palin now is not to be trusted. She abused her powers as governor. Shameull. I will no longer have to decide who to vote for. It is clear I will cast my vote for Obama/Biden.

GOV Palin did the RIGHT thing – the cop needs to go! IF anything, GOV Palin now has more credibility – and Voters will Rally to her.
The real concern – to ALL Americans is this voter FRAUD – ACORN!
ALL Americans should be OUTRAGAED!
And- what is obama’s connection to this corrupt group????

msa: I’m not bickering – please read my posts. My comments stand as they are, by any standard the US remains a superpower. Likewise, as I’ve noted below, these issues are distractions.

i am glad there were dems and reps on the comm.

This in no way compares to Obama’s terrorist connections that would not allow him security clearance for a federal job. He would not qualify like he isn’t qualified to be President with ZERO experience and 143 days as a senator voting present. At least she was trying to protect an innocent child from being tazored and not protecting ACORN and voter fraud.

abby,
i hope you are self employed and all of your kin can work for you.
and maybe you will never have to deal with from a boss what mr. wooten had to deal with from sarah and todd palin.
egor,what was the name on the jar?
abby, something or another
ok, good, abby, abby who?
abby-normal

“I can see my house from the prison”
Palin is finished in politics. What a supreme bozo.

Jeanie, are you talking about Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign advisor, taking $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac up until this past August.

I am impressed. What a maverick. She won’t answer moderators or reporters questions. She won’t release her emails to comply with investigations. She hides official business in her personal email accounts. She abuses the power of her office to intimidate subordinates with personnel decisions. And she’s only been governor for two years. Palin is a unique piece of work. Too bad her 15 minutes are up. But she’s special and should be able to be ruler of her own little cell, with a nice view of Russia to take advantage of her foreign policy creds. You betcha.

Sarah Palin continues to drag the Republican ticket down.
Please do not compare your self to a pitbull, Sarah. I know dogs and you are not worthy of the comparison.

“I can see my house from the prison”
Palin is finished in politics. What a supreme bozo.
Posted by: Paul | Oct 10, 2008 10:56:57 PM
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!
PALIN = CRIMINAL PIG WITH LIPSTICK!!!!

The US is not “toast” if Obama wins. Even McCain had the decency to say that today…

don’t you people ever come up for air?
fox news is wall to wall with the ACORN story, fox has got that covered.
if you want to hear ACORN news 24/7
listen to fox.
no wonder sarah palin, things cheneys position as vp with his power is a good thing, and she thinks it should be expanded.
she has been just dreaming about what she would like to do as vp, with old man mccain.

He was booed for finally calling Barack Obama a decent family man, a good citizen and not someone to be afraid of as president of the United States!!!!
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Actually, I thought that was the first thing he’s done in a while that showed some leadership.
The tone of his events are getting out of hand(“kill him”, “hang him”, etc…)By stopping the violent reactions of the crowd, he did the right thing.
Letting those types of things go unchecked is not right in my opinion.
You at least have to give McCain credit for taking charge of his rally.
But his policies, not so much.

I get it – Obama was never accused of committing any crime. Otherwise it would have been all over the headlines. You right wing nutjobs are always looking for a demacrat conspiracy. If you are looking for wrongdoing why don’t you focus on the criminals on the republican side. That’s where all of the crooks are.

“Under the U.S. Constitution, abuse of power is an impeachable offense”
No, this is not true. Even if it were, it would not apply to Governor Palin. Please please please, stop it. I can’t stand having to defend her – she has enough negatives without need for distorting the truth.

Obama/Biden – the only Positive choice
I agree with you its just a shame McCain only acted like a human when he saw in the polls that his Negative attacks are damaging him not Obama.

Tell me something I didn’t know.

Pale face PALIN makes Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko and Jeremiah Wright look like saints.
She is not fit to serve this great nation of ours.
Go back to Alaska and raise your brats Sarah!

Davis is confused.
“There’s not a consensus for the conclusion,” said GOP Rep. Bill Stoltze.
This was Branchflower’s opinion. Period. Recall Ken Starr’s report?
They voted to RELEASE IT. That is all. It was a partisan hit piece. This is dead in the water. A Dem on the committee has said there will be no further action by them. Sorry, no cigar. Goodnight.

Finally, the truth about ACORN.
Thanks Deena.
You know, ACORN has been around for a long time. Funny it’s only become a problem this election year.
The Republicans are a disgrace.
Whatever happened to Country First?!

Nicholas, your liberal media is only relevant and real in your head and in tothe Fox News Network point of view. It was the so-called liberal media, along with you, that got us the last 8 years of Bush and into a war we had no business waging. Finally, the media is not falling into the he said, she said propagand like they’ve been doing since the Clinton administration.

Election Protection, a non-partisan coalition, offers voter education and protection through an informational Web site and an election hot-line (1-866-OUR-VOTE). They’ve also offer a useful voting checklist flyer you can print out and bring with you to the poll.
Posted by: Irma
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Even better, go pick up an absentee ballot, if you are not on the list you can get it corrected. If you are on the list, you won’t have to worry about the long lines on election day.
I have already cast my ballot and it felt GREAT!

karen,
even if what you say about the trooper is all true,
apparently, the palins really did not want JUSTICE to be served this man.
because if they had-they would not have gone about it the way they did.
and there is where sarah and todd palins troubles start.
surely this man would have been brought to justice without sarah palin, abusing her position as gov. to do it.
i would think what she and todd were doing was beneath her position as gov.
which maybe a sign she should not be gov.
and it is a clear sign she should not be anywhere near the white house.
we have seen enough of the bush adm. abusing it’s power already. we will not put sarah palin who abused her position as gov. as vp.

Who is Barack Obama? He was born in . . . well, that’s a matter of current court dispute, so we have to refrain from talking about that.
As he grew, Obama was heavily influenced by his father’s religious and philosophical views of . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.
In his teenage years, Obama made many friends in line with his beliefs, such as . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.
He was able to attend college, and even graduated Harvard Law School, thanks largely to funding by . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.
After he graduated, he used his legal expertise to help out groups like . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.
He also married Michelle Obama, who has given speeches on Obama’s proposed policies. The point we disagree on from her speeches . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.
After law school, he also made numerous more friends in line with his beliefs like . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.
He also joined several organizations whose philosophy was . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.
After that, he became a senator, announcing his candidacy for president after holding that office for 143 days.
So, there you have it – Obama was born, graduated from Harvard Law School, became a US Senator, and then ran for president. We could tell you more, but . . . well, the Obama campaign would prefer we didn’t talk about that.

“MY GOVERNMENT IS MY WORST ENEMY. I’M GOING TO FIGHT THEM WITH ANY MEANS AT HAND.”
This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week.
THE QUOTE IS ACTUALLY FROM JOE VOGLER, the raging ANTI-AMERICAN who founded the ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY, the very same SECESSIONIST PARTY that Palin’s husband Todd belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier THIS year.
PALIN SAID TO THE A.I.P.: “Keep up the good work, and God bless you.”
SARAH PALIN WANTS OUR FLAG TO HAVE 49 STARS? WTF is WRONG with Republicans? Are they just about winning no matter cost? They MAKE UP crap about Barack Obama and this stuff is TRUE. Republicans gave us EIGHT YEARS of BUSH and they are back for MORE?
Todd Palin was a member the Alaskan Independence Party working for Alaska to secede from the United States. Todd Palin registered in 1995 until 2002 when he registered as “undeclared” while his wife ran for office. She sleeps with a man who is committed to the idea of destroying our United States.
Sarah Palin and ‘first dudes’ political alliance with a TERRORIST WHO WAS MURDERED IN 1993 DURING “A PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES SALE GONE BAD.” Todd Palin joined the party two years later.
Let me repeat that: A PLASTICS EXPLOSIVE SALE GONE BAD.
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” Joe Vogler said in 1991 in a taped interview.
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE THIS, FINE. JUST LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELF. STOP SUPPORTING THIS EMPTY HEADED LUNATIC CHEERLEADER FROM ALASKA. DO IT FOR YOUR COUNTRY.

BC, Obama’s mother was a White woman, the mother who raised him. I’m a White woman and we’re both voting for Obama. Her from heaven and me, in the voting booth.
White Women for Obama ’08

We have been given a clear warning about the vice-presidential nominee for the Republican party.
We already know she is a pathological liar. We already know she refuses even basic transparency and accountability, refusing to hold a press conference as veep nominee for the first time in modern American political history and refusing to provide even minimal documentation of her fifth pregnancy.
Barely into her first year as governor, as one might expect of such a person, she abused her power as governor of Alaska to persecute a former family member.

Just Saying,
I noticed you don’t mention 8 YEARS as a Illinios State Senator.
Guess that’s not as impressive as being a mayor of a town of 6000? (One that ended up $22 million in debt by the way)

Should Have Played Nice, Can you name just one person in Obama’s circle of friends and collaborators that is not a terrorist, communist of crook? You can’t and you still want to vote for him. You must be brain dead.

Now let’s get back to McCain for some more questioning of the vetting process.
There was none.

So let’s get this straight,
The best possible VP choice for the GOP has been found guilty of abusing her power.
Actually that sounds about right.

Not only did she abuse her power but she was palling around terrorists. The AIP was sponsored by Iran to visit the UN in 1992 but the founder was killed trying to buy plastic explosives before he could leave.
Palin had given speeches to the group (this year) and her husband is a former member. A group backed by Iran!

ah shucks now,
white women on board for obama,
i am too.
lets all ride this train to the white house.
oh, look girls, the straight talk express is all jacked up.

btw I’m laughing my a off about the fact that a right wing reporter as Drudge simply refuses to report on this…
I guess that’s what repubs call a good press

Wow, she did it.
So much for her career.

the trooper that the Gov was upset about was linked to her family but he tasered his own son and he was drunk on the job… the governor was within her rights to reassign the supervisor… who was paid by Obama supporters to come out and speak

ok, karen,
you win, you are right, the commission is wrong.
i am sure you will get the term they put in their report that gov. sarah palin abused her position. taken out of the record.
and have it replaced with
gov. sarah palin did the right thing.
at any rate, she will not be vp.
and that is all i care about.

momof2
to follow your logic Mccain should dump palin and then since you think Palin is such a drag anyone else would make him come back in the polls… not that hes that far off now…that would be dumb for you to do since you are just prayin for an Obama win…this messianic stuff is gettign creepy

The writing’s on the wall…
Rev. Jeremiah Wright was right.
If you do good, you will be blessed.
If you do evil, you will be damned.
America is in a hell of a mess! Just look at this week’s headlines.
We are no longer the innocent sweet nation we once were. We have blood on our hands from the innocent Iraqi’s and we will pay the price.

omg
the report also said that firin the commiss was within her autority we will take you down on election day it doesnt matter how many you have mobilized and the ayers-acrorn thing is much more serious sure you can say that Obama helped Bill clinton get elected in 92 but he seriously didnt ned his or acorns help back then

AL
to the obamabots its what you are now that absolves you of your past… thats just not true… see there are all these nutcases waitign to come out of the shaddows because obamas acceptance means they are … thats ludicrous

As David Brooks (republican) said, “palin is a cancer that will kill the republican party”.

i agree with you Aussie… i think you misinterpreted my post. I was replying to someone who had responded in kind to you. ;-)

The state trooper for sure need to be fire. He is danger as a public safety officer. Just like Obama, he is danger to be commander in chief for this great country.

It’s sad to see some of these supporters of McCain and Palin saying things in rally’s like “terrorist” and “kill him”. That is crossing the line but to Palin it’s perfectly ok. Most people would have a problem with that logic. But some of the supporters are so desperate and angry, filled with rage because there guy is down in the polls. These folks need to get some perspective. It’s just an election. Y’all need to calm down and take a breath. It’s not our fault McCain is being erratic and his campaign is out right lying and spinning things every which way possible to try and play all angles. That’s there fault. That is what is causing him to be down in the polls. Now this report came out and is hurting you guys even worse. Again your anger is misdirected. It’s not our fault Palin lied and abused her power as governor. You should be angry at her and McCain, not us. We haven’t done anything but support our candidate. What’s wrong with that?

AL
I agree with Mccain that Obama is an honorable person and that hes not a muslim now but mauybe he once was thats different from abusing power as a st senator by giving education funding to a voter rights group that still has implications today

“The AP reports that the bipartisan committee concluded that a family grudge wasn’t the only reason Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, but was likely was a contributing factor.”
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That is just plain wrong. AP will need to do retraction. See your own story:
“I’m going to vote to release it, but it’s not a vote in total agreement,” said Republican Sen. Gary Stevens.
“There’s not a consensus for the conclusion,” said Republican Rep. Bill Stoltze. He said he expected there would be “robust and vigorous intellectual debate on that in other corners.”
Those who think this was a bipartisan finding are not paying attention.
Bill McAllister, Palin’s Alaska communications director, released a statement saying the report “vindicated the governor by finding that she acted within her constitutional authority to remove ‘at-will’ employees.” But he questioned the report’s abuse of power finding.
We question how Mr. Branchflower reached the conclusion that Governor Palin abused her power with respect to Trooper Mike Wooten. That finding required speculation and assumptions on Mr. Branchflower’s part and could not be supported solely on the basis of the evidence that he collected,” McAllister’s statement said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6004368&page=1

Before you start spewing, Ok, thanks for asking. Obama is refusing to release his records in the Illinois Senate however there are some things we know about such as: Obama voted present a lot on many controversial issues. Obama voted four times against a bill that would have saved the life of a baby born alive after a botched abortion because (and this is documented on YouTu##) it would have been an inconvenience to the woman and doctor to have to make another decision about sparing the life of the baby. Obama wrote a lot of letters advocating funding for his buddy Rezco’s slum lord projects. Plus:
- Voted AGAINST a bill letting people argue self-defense in court if charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home in self-defense.
- Unsuccessfully sponsored measure to expunge some criminal records and create an employment grant program for ex-criminals.
- Voted AGAINST making gang members eligible for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang.
- Voted AGAINST giving tax credits to parents who send their children to private school.
- Voted NO on a bill to give no offer of “good time” for sex offenders sentenced to the County Jail –
Obama was the only vote against the bill.
- Voted “Present”on a bill to restrict the location of buildings with adult uses (you know porn shop, strip clubs, etc…) within 1,000 feet of any public or private elementary or secondary school, public park, place of worship, preschool, day-car facility, or residential area.
- Voted NO on a bill, requiring school boards to install software on public computers accessible to minors that blocked sexually explicit material.
- Voted YES on a bill that allowed the purchase of 10 hyperdemic needles from a pharmacy without a prescription.
- Voted “Present” on a bill which established a zero-tolerance drug-testing policy for Dep’t. of Corrections Employees.
- Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.
Again, thanks for asking.

REPUBLICANS ARE LIVING IN HELL OF PALIN!!!
ALL ABOARD, THE SIX-PACK EXPRESS JUST WENT FLAT!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN08

Just Saying
absoultely
talk about someone trying to mimick George W Bush to the letter…Bush refused to turn over his records to this day and it is better that Obama fully explain rezko,ayers,wright,acorn… a new kind of poltics doesnt mean you do the same ol thing and use your thugs to quash any inquistion

Pray for the USA!
Not the AIP

clearly thinking
yep.. and Hillary spoke out about ACORN in the primaries and was ignored… I hope that she wasnt paid off because I dont think she would do that…Obama would set the countryback decades… a virtual copy of LBJ

******************************************** OKAY i will bite, what is the STRONG EVIDENCE. And seeing Obama was 4 years old when he was in Indonesia, this fellow with STRONG EVIDENCE is remembering from 43 years ago, when Obama was 4 years old.
You people should get some lipstick to cover the foam coming out of your mouths.

The Republicans tried to make fun of Barack Obama as a community organizer at their national convention in Minnesota, which I guess just goes to show how little Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have to fear from right-wing “humor.”
Now they’ve gone further: Now they’re attacking ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), one of the strongest, hardest-working, most dedicated community organizations in both Chicago and in 40 states across the U.S.
Why are they after ACORN? Well, I’m sure they’re going to come up with a lot of “reasons” in the coming days. But the real reason is obvious: Because ACORN, along with Project Vote, just announced that they had successfully registered 1.3 million poor people this year.
Get that? 1.3 million, including 148,000 in Pennsylvania, 152,000 in Florida, 217,000 in Michigan, and 238,000 in Ohio. No wonder the GOP is up in arms. They’re scared of too many poor people preparing to vote this year.
In the last week, the right wing has tried to blame ACORN for the collapse of the globalized financial system–yeah, that’s a viable argument. They got excited because they found a some possible fake registration forms in Florida, which predictably led to a bunch of whining from the party that stole an entire presidency from Al Gore by blocking vote counts, mischaracterizing voters as felons, refusing to recount entire counties, sending congressional staff down to riot and intimidate volunteer vote-counters, and topped it all off with the most partisan, badly-reasoned, illegitimate Supreme Court decision since Plessy v. Ferguson. A decision so illegitimate that the partisan majority, to their eternal discredit, themselves damned by writing into their own decision that it should never be used as a precedent for any other court ruling.
This week, the right-wing is hyperventilating because apparently Democratic election officials raided an ACORN office after they found the names of some Dallas Cowboy football players among the 80,000 new registration forms that ACORN helped to get done in Nevada.
Obviously it’s not right for a fake “Tony Romo” to be registered in Las Vegas, so someone was probably playing a not-very-funny joke, or trying to pad their registration numbers to get paid a little more money rather than doing the hard work in the hot Nevada sun that helping voters to register requires, or maybe a provocateur was setting up ACORN for some bad press. But remember the basic point–it’s not voter fraud unless someone shows up at the voting booth on election day and tries to pass himself off as “Tony Romo.” And who would try to do that? No one is going to be that stupid.
The truth is, the main voter fraud efforts going on in my lifetime–and I was born the week of the Selma march in 1965–have been repeated conservative attempts, far too many of them successful, to demonize and suppress the vote of African-Americans and Latinos in election after election, a history for which former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman actually apologized a few years ago, while promising the GOP would no longer engage in such tactics.
So they stole an election from Gore, made the Department of Justice into an outfit for partisan hacks, allowed New Orleans to drown, lied us into a war against a country that did not threaten us, replaced science with bad ideology, indebted our grandchildren to China, and turned our banking system into a deregulated casino–but thank the Lord that “Tony Romo” will not be able to sneak in to vote in Nevada next month.
This time, there are already fake flyers mysteriously appearing on the streets of minority areas of Philadelphia, illegal voter purges in numerous states, “caging” tricks, threats of using home foreclosure lists to strike voters from the rolls, and “black box” electronic vote-counting systems under the control of private companies–and we haven’t even gotten to election day!
Meanwhile, I say thank you, ACORN. Thank you, Project Vote, for taking our democracy seriously enough to try to include 1.3 million more poor people in a more perfect union.

omg
excuse me but we are comfortable with our religion and we are former hillary people that will carry through with our threat despite what you say and despite obama holding a gun to her head to tell us to support him… good luck gettign that extra 5 percent of fraudulent votes to offset anything on election day

If Palin abused her power once, she will do it again.
She and her family are trash.
She will bring disgrace to the White House.
What a joke she turned out to be.
McCain was stupid not to vet her at all.

Goodbye Sarah!! and Farewell…
We hardly knew ye…
Parting tis such sadness…
Good luck on the road to nowhere… tee hee

Guess Obama’s Alinsky training of
ACORN community organizers is coming in handy when it comes to registering voters in Ohio.
A homeless guy in Ohio: 1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS
‘ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS’

blip
well if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck….Palin opposed alot of corruption in alaska… Obama lives with it in his neighborhood

“unlawful abuse of power”
She stepped in it now.

JG
your right.. we made a mistake… Bushs admin wasnt 1984 but Obamas will be 1984 and animal farm and with bidens case Of Mice and Men with Biden being the guy that looks after lenny

Sometimes I cringe,when I read the hate blogs from the race baiters ,and how they portray Obama,as anything other than an American family man.They use racial slurs on various blog boards,and use fear tactics in their attempts to sway the voter.But then I take solace,in the intelligence of the American voter this election,and that the haters have actually persuaded more people to stand up and support Obama.In fact,the shift in Florida to Obama,can partially be attributed to Jewish voters rebelling against the hateful messages,supported by the RNC and VP candidate Palin.Veiled or overt,the message smelled like a stinking rat carcass,and I’ve never been prouder to know that my country,will not stand for these gutter politics today.

not so fast its not over till election day..you think you succeeded in causing an uproar over palin… but everyone doesnt have to live by far left rules Im a moderate democrat and prefer to remain that way

McCain selected a VP candidate who was found in violation of ethics law by an investigator chosen by his own party—three weeks before the election.
That’s not smart politics or good judgment.

Lars Siler:
Race has nothing to do with an intelligent person’s opposition to Obama.
Obama’s history of corruption, lack of foreign policy experience and hard left legislative record/associates have everything to do with an intelligent person’s opposition to Obama.

We’re gonna win, I understand logic will not sway you but consider this. The worse two years in economic terms have been under the rule of a Democrat controlled Congress. Pelosi and Reid have refused to drill for more oil, build new refineries and new nuclear power plants which have resulted in sky high energy costs. Obama is in bed with ACORN which started the ball rolling on our current financial crisis due to strong arming banks into handing out loans to people who could not afford to pay for them. You may think that President Bush is at fault for our current economic crisis but you are dead wrong. President Bush was able to get out economy moving after 9/11 and Katrina through use of his tax cuts which Obama plans to rescind. The current economic crisis is far worse and Obama plans to increase taxes on American business so they will be handcuffed and unable to compete in the global market. Obama is planning to increase spending by a TRILLION dollars than out and out lies by telling us he will cut spending so there is a net cut in government spending. Where will the cuts come from? Obama does not say. If Obama is planning to cut the military spending all I can say is start building your bomb shelters cause Al Qaeda and the rest of the fanatic Islamic terrorists will have nothing standing in their way when they attack us.

AL
yep it was a democrat I rest my case

Just saying
yea Obama will have no money to implement programs that have been long awaited by his precious diciples! The US Treasury money is going out to allt he banks as we speak to bail them out too bad

PALIN makes REZCKO, AYERS AND WRIGHT LOOK LIKE SAINTS…
This has been a hell of a week. Obama will be a welcomed change.

Senator Obama is not a Muslim.
That said, What on earth is wrong with being a Muslim in America? There is no religious test for political office under our Constitution. Nor should there be.
I lived for many years in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, and Jordan. I have traveled to Israel’s west bank and to the Palestinian areas of Bethlehem and Jerusalem numerous times. The Muslim people are 99.9 percent peace loving and do not believe in terrorism. The Koran expressly prohibits terrorism. Al Queda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, are not mainstream in the Muslin world. Remember, most Muslims are not Arabs. The vast majority of Muslims live in Indonesia and parts of Asia, and share peaceful relations with their Christian neighbors.
My Muslim neighbors wherever I lived always respected my Christian beliefs. We should respect theirs.
McCain/Palin supporters are attempting to foster fear, hatred, and xenophobia.
America is better than that. Jesus did not say to hate and fear your neighbor because he was different from you. He taught love your neighbor.
Please stop the lies, hate,and fear tactics. We are a better country that what you are showing yourselves to be.
Not this time

The report couldn’t be clearer:
Palin violated Alaska state law in abusing her power and the public trust for her personal benefit.
This clip is making the rounds. It shows Palin saying that she is firing Monegan because of his poor performance on alcohol issues. Then a short time later, she offers him a new job in Alcohol Beverage Control to take advantage of his strength in that area ???
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/10/131/24458/636/625854

I guess Obama did a pretty could job of training his ACORN disciples how to use Alinsky’s Rules of Radicals techniques when it came to registering voters.
Homeless guy in Ohio: 1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS “ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS”

Hey Stan I Am -
The person who would occupy the White House – Gov. Palin- is packing her bags and headed by to Alaska by now.
Let ACORN have it’s day. It’s time for the Dems to steal an election for a change. Bush did it twice.

to JG: The focus of my post was not that an intelligent voter couldn’t choose McCain.The point I was making-now pay attention-is that the hateful,dangerous message being perpetuated by the McCain campaign and RNC and Fox talking points,were rejected by the aggregate intelligence of the American voter,and could prove costlier to McCain’s campaign,as it has turned off Jewish,and swing voters, notably in Florida.It seems to have had the same effect on a greater number of Hispanics as well,so while I hate to hear these terse,vile ads and messages over Obama(who has already been vetted by the American public at large),the desired effect has backfired on the GOP strategists,whom have underestimated the country’s desire to change direction,and get away from the gutter politics of the past.Maybe the country has grown up,because the last time this strategy was employed,it gave us 4 more years of Bush.And it probably has cost McCain Florida,and therefore the election.Thank You

Obama and his campaign are currently being investigated for: (1) ACORN voter Fraud posted by lamplight
******************************************** No he is not, you silly boy.

Turn out the lights….. the Repub party’s over..
you betcha….. wink wink…….. gosh darn it….
Who is Sara Palin…? she can’t tell the truth, how can we trust her? the Alaskan ‘outsider’ that’s worse and dumber than a ‘Chicago politician’……
mercy….
amazing that when the legal system runs it’s course bad folks come up short…… wink wink..hey… let’s try that legal stuff with GW Bush and the crime family

“Getting a trooper fired who tasered a boy, drank in his patrol car, threatened to kill someone,” Brenda
Brenda,
Mike Wooten used a “demo” taser that is used for training at his stepson’s repeated request. The boy laughed, and told his Mother that it didn’t hurt in the least. A demo pack does not have the wires or the darts. It’s a very low voltage charge. As for the drinking, Mile Wooten denied it, and the Palin’s were the only witnesses. He also denies making any threats against his father-in-law, and there is no evidence.
Trooper Wooten was disciplined for the untagged Moose Hunting. All these incidents happened years ago, and no complaint was made until the child custody legal proceedings started.
As for her abuse of power. Sarah Palin broke the law. In the separate finding the report said that she didn’t break a law in firing Moneghan, but she broke the ethics law in trying to get Mike Wooten fired for “personal” reasons.
She is not an ethical person. She once said when Mayor, “I’ll do whatever I want to do, and if a judge tells me to stop, then I’ll stop.” This translates to, “the law doesn’t effect me, until I’m caught.”

Truth matters
yes they are Obama gave money from his campiagn for ACORN to register voters so he is implicated and furthermore it was acorn whose chairwoman is a personal friend of obamas pressured banks to give ill advised loans to clients your really dense!

Blue
you better watch out its nto goingt o be a landslide because Obama is intertwined in this mortgage mes and they are trying to cover it up and run outt the clock

Re:”ACORN voter Fraud”
How can there be voter fraud when we haven’t had the election?!
Voter fraud happens when somebody votes who isn’t supposed to, or when somebody votes twice. This has NOT happened.
If Obama wins, watch the Republicans start screaming vote fraud. They don’t respect our elections or our constitution. And they have wrecked our economy.
Your schemes won’t work. If Obama gets the most votes, he will be the President and there is NOTHING you ignorant goobers can do to stop it.

staniam
you just go right on believing that…
electoral map is bluer every day..
even McCain is giving up

blue
nope hes not givign up hes only down because of the financial mess that obama is involved in… you will be the one dissapointed on election day

‘Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation has concluded.’
OMG….. a conspiracy by secret Alaskan socialist manchurain candidate muslims disguised as Russians…..

Martha Stewart
How could it possibly matter whether such a picture exists or not? Who cares?

Truth matters
yes they are Obama gave money from his campiagn for ACORN to register voters so he is implicated and furthermore it was acorn whose chairwoman is a personal friend of obamas pressured banks to give ill advised loans to clients your really dense!
Posted by: staniam
******************************************** Obama’s campaign paid Acorn to work on voter registration and get out the vote during his Primary campaign.
SO WHAT?

PALIN = LIAR, CRIMINAL WITH LIPSTICK!!
McCAIN = LAUGHING STOCK, FOOL FOR PICKING PALIN!
OBAMA = LANDSLIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

truth matters
oh yea and they are no longer workign with them in the general election… obama said that but its not true if the voter registration was sent in by acorn for the GE and dont even go there if Obam stole votes from primary candidates by way of acorn its not right and you will burn in hell for accepting that

Harry reid
yea Freud was an addict like most ofthe obamabots but at least he gave us the “freudian slip!”

Davis
it wont be a landslide at most obama wil win 271-265 but if one or two states switch over it will be 268-268

She is guilty of abuse of
power. Let the punishment
fit the crime: impeachment
and expulsion from office.

From Australian newspaper:
ALASKA PANEL: SARAH PALIN UNLAWFULLY ABUSED HER POWER AS GOVERNOR.
What ever your opinion this is how its being reported around the world.
Its the same in UK papers along with Canada NZ and Singapore.
All say its a major blow to McCain.

martha stewart
yep Carville and Terry mcauliffe were paid off big time by ACORN one being the good soldier the other salivating over being VA Governor …if nobody will tell the truth I will.. prob it was donna brazile who did the arm twistign that voodoo practising caboose of a woman

cincyr
you people are just bringing this up to blunt the acorn-ayers thing.. nobody is listening so your screwed

Repubs make me laugh with all their conspiracy theories. Why don’t they just look in the mirror – THERE’S SARAH PALIN! SHE TURNS OUT TO BE A CRIMINAL!!
NICE JOB PICKIN HER, JOHNNIE!!!

truth matters
its people liek you that make moderates like me cringe… the only radixcals are people that sit in churches liek wrights for 20 yrs and do nothign and think that ayers is acceotable… the 60s are over and we arent goign back to that…get it out of your head that your going to be smoking something obama legalized because hes not going to do it… and if there is a dispute about the election the supreme court isnt exactly goignto be favorable to him.. thats not a threat its a promise

“This can’t be good! Rezko snitching on Giannoulias? Blagojevich? Obama?” The Real Obama:
“I bet it occurs to Rezko that Sneed could give Fitzgerald the Obama trophy – and I wonder if that puts just a little pressure on Rezko to try and compete for that reward. If Sneed snitches post election Barry Obama will hide under the Oval Office desk and Fitzgerald will be deported. Can you imagine the issues of saftey for Fitzgerald if he goes after Barky at any point? Radio show hosts can’t even host a program that speaks against the One without being flooded by the minions.”

Owen
if she is taken off the ticket she will run in 2012 and beat your messiah but you will have your hands full this time either way.. you have to be ahead by 6 pts on election day or racial overtones will overtake obama period

Read the report.
Not one instance where Palin asked her cabinet appointee to fire the officer.
Not one instance of undue influence being exerted.
Evidence of both incompetence as well as insubordination.
Evidence of a trooper who makes threats, commits a crime which is overlooked, tazers his kid, drinks on the job, is observed doing personal business on company time and while claiming a severe injury and filing a workers comp claim, is seen snow mobiling and having a grand time. This trooper after 1 1/2 “investigation” is given a slap on the wrist with no information given to the person who filed the complaint.
The lead investigator states without any evidence, he can read Palin’s mind and just knows she removed him for incompetence, insubordination AND for not firing the trooper.
The only lies to be found in this report are those of the lead investigator.

Palin is just another lying politician…
seems that the witch doctor didn’t get all that evil out of her, better go back for a refund!!!
this is just too funny….

Wooten – Perhaps it is because your information is coming directly from Michelle Malkin – and she is not a journalist or a very bright or reliable person and no one believes her. The absolute desperation of McCain supporters grows more shrill everyday.

mara
you are banking on al of the hillary supporters to vote for obama andthats not going to happen because we can carry through on a threat

badger
re: ‘Sarah Palin will be respected, and empathized with now more than ever,’
she will be impeached or thrown out of office by the next election and generally known as the fraud she is

Donoke9_10,
Ya, that will save her from all the bad press and accusations over the last two-three weeks until the election!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!
PALIN = LIAR, CRIMINAL PIG WITH LIPSTICK!!!

donke9-10
thankyou… Im too lazy to actually look up the citation but I heard it read and that has been my point all night these people are overzealous sexteme schills

The fact is she allowed her husband to use her office and to see Trooper Wooten’s file.
That’s not allowed. As a public servant, any reason for dismissing her subordinates should be void of personal reasons.
The big issue is that she fired the commissioner just because he resisted her requests to fire Wooten immediately- proper protocol indicates the need for a detailed investigation before firing Wooten. If that guy is such a danger, why hasn’t he been reported to the police or something?
I really have to take everything Palin says about Wooten with a pinch of salt because in divorce proceedings- especially ugly ones- both sides will dig up dirt on each other, no matter how true.

Hey Dave!
It’s over buddy. Palin is not fit to step foot in the White House. She lied and let her husband run her office.
She should have kept her mouth shut about Obama and Ayers. On top of that she was lying.
Good night sir.
Practice saying “President Obama”

‘Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation has concluded.’
seems pretty doggone plain to me….
gosh darn it……

So Palin did not break any laws, she was within her rights as a Governor to dismiss him and they think the issue of her brother-in-law was a factor but not the sole factor in his dismissal. The problem is? So I’m supposed to worry that perhaps the issue of her brother-in-law , by his own admission, tasering his own child was a factor in all this?
If I’m going to worry about ethics in this election I’ll worry about the fact that Obama, Biden and McCain all take money from Wall Street financial institutions implicated in this economic crisis in which we and our children will potentially be paying for years. I’ll worry about Dodd, Shumer, Dole and the other on the banking and finance committees and the money they take from Wall Street. I’ll worry about the relationship between Freddie and Fannie and Barney Frank and others.
I’ll worry about politicians who put their corporate contributors before the people they represent. I’ll worry about the lack of political courage either Obama or McCain displayed in regards to this bailout and question why they supported a bailout with no regulatory oversight with teeth in it, supported 150 billion dollars worth of pork on top of it and so on. I worry more about the fact that many average Americans could see the writing on the wall in the housing industry and yet Congress, the Presidential candidates, Greenspan and this administration didn’t . That’s the kind of ethics I worry about not Troopergate. Talk about diverting attention from the real issues, this is right up there with the rest. Her brother-in-law was never fired and the man who was dismissed this investigation itself says there were other factors other then just the brother-in-law issue. We have people out there worrying about their mortgage and keeping their homes, their jobs, their pensions and their investments.
We should be worrying more about Obama and McCain’s relationship to Wall Street and their other corporate contributors rather then wasting our time on this nonsense.

John McCain can’t do anything right!
Palin makes Rezcko, Ayers and Wright look like saints.
So Sad…

The sad thing is that our country is on crisis and everyone is arguing about some soap opera in Alaska.

Posted by: Grey Matter | Oct 11, 2008 1:18:38 AM
Gray matter, this was all released at about 9:00PM eastern time on a Friday…
Wait a day or two, after the whole MSM has time to dig into this a bit!! These loser Republicans are shaking in their boots right now, it is going to blow up in their faces next week!!!!

aussie
11 percent plus turnout is not enough for Obama to win you dont know poltical science of the US I guess

Fire Palin now

Harry 12:54:08-that is really funny. Davis: Nothing will neutralize Ayers and Acorn. Acorn got caught registering dead people and people that lived in vacant lots in St. Louis City. They just all recently were convicted. The shame of it is that was the 2006 election and they all voted for Claire McCaskill. Where IS that “Missouri truth squad” when we need them? Maybe now would be a good time to send the squad and the Palin panel to Chicago to investigate. Rezko’s sentencing was delayed until after the election so we won’t know what he told the Feds until then. Obama’s been on a lucky streak since the Wall Street crisis.

chad
thats not a repubatble electoral count… you can talk all you wont .. it will not be a landslide

Who is the real Sarah Palin? She is a dictator. The investigation is over and the bipartisan report found that Gov. Palin committed a serious offense – abuse of governmental power. (There were 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats on the Commission.) Under the U.S. Constitution, abuse of power is an impeachable offense. Withholding 1,000 pages of underlying documents seems unjustified and suspicious.
This is not a partisan investigation. We had 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats on the commission, so don’t blame Obama. The question is do we want a female Cheney? America take a second look at McCain & Palin and all you’ll see is another Bush & Cheney.

staniam,
I believed Aussie meant that ALL but 11 percent were now behind Obama.
100-11= 89% support Obama.
Get it?

Davis,
Obama=landslide?
It’s possible, but for sure it’s going to be smelly, thanks to his cheating ACORN buddies stealing votes. Even the biased MSM is reporting fraudulent voter registration practices by ACORN like their offices in Nevada just raided by the FBI.
ACORN has hired ex-felons convicted of identity theft to do their voter registration drives. Now that’s what I call a cunning way to achieve a tainted victory.

grey matter
I know what aussie meant but Im saying he cant win without that 11 percent plus turnout against him got it?

aussie
11 percent plus turnout is not enough for Obama to win you dont know poltical science of the US I guess
Posted by: staniam | Oct 11, 2008 1:28:28 AM
he said 11% of hillary supporters. which out of the 18 million is less than 1.8 million. Kerry lost to bush by 3 million votes. Obama has a MUCH bigger lead than Bush had…. 11% of hillary supporters won’t make a difference, plus i seriously doubt its more than 500k if that.

Davis
you will have to answer for the acorn involvement int he banking crisis plus the voter fraud that wont go away

davis
it isnt a lock and you are extemely foolish for saying so

‘Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation has concluded.’
just the tip of the iceberg …… you betcha

I think any of most you could pick on anyone you don’t want elected, especially a Republican in the White house. I you examine any of the the Canidates you can find something to make an issue of. It would be GREAT to have a woman in the White House. Look how well Margaret Thatcher did in London. Guess it mostly Democrate Males trying to get a female potential Vice President not elected. I’d will be voting for her over all others.

Huh?
Bash McCain? I AM bashing his judgement, though, for picking such an inexperienced VP who has questionable ethics. Why did the report say that her firing of the commissioner was not completely based on legitimate reasons, then? It would have been one thing for her to bring up the need to get the TROOPER fired, then getting his SUPERIOR fired just because he wouldn’t jump when she asked- firing his subordinate without the proper investigation and justification required.
Even without this Trooper thing, Palin is so inexperienced and naive about foreign policy it’s terrifying. She sees the world as Israel+America and all her allies = automatically good all of the time. Excuse me governor, maybe you should go to Palestine and see some of those orphaned children there who lost their parents to questionable air strikes carried out by Israel. Cannot second-guess Israel AT ALL?
Face it, even without that, your candidates are spending their time trying to tear down their opponent but are relatively quiet on the economy. This is not the time to “define” each other. That was in the earlier leg of the race. NOW, it’s ISSUES that matter.

If it’s fair and relevant to go after Obama for sitting at a Board of Directors table with a former terrorist then I think another candidate’s getting into bed (literally!) with a current (until a couple of years ago) member of a secessionist party AIP is just as relevant.
Sometimes I wish there was a huge megaphone that could be hooked up and all the rabid, angry, ready to believe the worst voters who are crowding into the McCain/Palin rallies could hear a full list of the things that the Obama campaign has NOT gone into that would have made such good fodder:
– Cindy’s addiction
– Cindy’s theft from her non-profit
– cheating on and then abandoning Carol
– Palin’s connections to AIP
– Troopergate
– McCain’s confessions to the Viet Cong
– Keating scandal
– a host of other ‘questionable’ associations
– etc, etc, etc,

Dave in lv
thats right! I cant beleive I I userd to be a part of these partisan hacks that now support obama… Hillary had something on obama but didnt use it because she was paid off I cant say I blame her

Linda,
I’m a woman too and would love to see a woman in one of the highest offices.
But Palin isn’t the right woman. She’s just shows that she lacks any understanding of foreign policy and now with this Troopergate thing.
Hillary, women like Condi, Olympia Snowe, Kay Bailey Hutchison are strong leaders, but Sarah Palin is not ready.
I don’t vote for someone just on the basis of wanting to see a woman in the WH. If she’s qualified, the fact that she’s a woman is a bonus, not the deciding factor.

staniam
hopefully when you look at the sky tomm, you will see a bright BLUE sky……to remind you of the coming Repub defeat.
hey did you notice McCain is now correcting the freeper base that Obama is NOT an arab?
amazing…..too bad he can’t rein in those attack ads…….. guess ya can’t have everything
g’nite

You all don’t understand this voter fraud. They were just registering voters with random names. They didn’t care if it was Republican or Democrat. It’s not like they could show up to vote because the ID wouldn’t match. This is just a bunch of losers seeing who could register the most voters. They weren’t specifically registering Democrats. I have failed to see one report that says the fake registrations had ‘Democrat’ checked on the sheet.
Get over it, its a non-story.

grey matter
you are a little more sensible than davis and the others I think Hillary and any other elected official would be better than Palin but I cnnot support obama because he chose cohersion and didnt pick Hillary you do not jump out of line period

James Danley,
Only one problem there fool…
The Palin conviction, the questions about the “First Dud,” the whole MOB KILL HIM thing at the McCain rallies, etc., etc., is going to suck all the oxygen out of all of that!!!
McCain will be on defense “explaining things” until November 4th!!!
Then on Wednesday before the elections Obama will be on Every station in the country for 30 minutes making his case!
Too bad Old Senile John doesn’t have the money for that huh?
I just gave “another” $200 bucks to Obama tonight, just want to make sure he has enough to finish that old fool off!!!

The original article was about a VP candidate who has just been convicted of obstructing justice. Instead of discussing this, the Michelle-Malkin wannabees talk about Malkin and her newest obsession – ACORN. I don’t take voter fraud lightly – especially after living through the civil rights movement and the elections of 2000 and 2004. So I looked it up. Nothing is proven. Everything is under investigation. In at least two states – there are TWO voters under investigation. The timing of this inquiry also seems to be perfectly coordinated with John McCain’s drop in the polls. ACORN has been around for a long time. Now, all of a sudden, Michelle Malkin and her minions are pretending this is in every state – and spotlighting minority voters in particular. Oh – and tyng it to Obama as well. Why didn’t we hear about this during the primaries? Maybe because John McCain was winning then.

Actually we don’t know if Hillary might have not wanted to be VP anyway.
She and Obama come off as leaders in their own right, it’d be like having too many cooks in a kitchen. I don’t think Obama “snubbed” Hillary. If he thought so poorly of her, he would have no qualms about using her just to win the election-so he could get all the Hillary voters easily too. But he did not, and that’s why I think he put his country first. I’m sorry I can’t say the same about McCain.
Hillary and Obama would be like having two presidents and I don’t think either of them would want that.

I cnnot support obama because he chose cohersion and didnt pick Hillary.
Posted by: staniam | Oct 11, 2008 1:48:08 AM
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First staniam, stop drinking and learn how to spell. Second the reason he didn’t pick Hillary, is that she would have been a drag on the ticket…
Could you imagine the ads right now? That Sniper Fire video running 24/7 in a continuous loop?
Obama made the right choice in Biden, notice even Jake T. has laid of of Biden with his gaffe series!
McCain and ALL the Republicans are done. It will not only be a landslide for Obama, but for all Democrats as well!!!

Matt,
You have reports on film of Acorn employees telling people who to vote for.
You have reports of one person taken to vote 75 times for Obama under same day voting rules. The Acorn person who gave him food and cigs said it was ok.
You have Dem state officials asking reporters not to question Acorn employees bringing people in to vote.
Nothing wrong here.

dave in lv
yep Pres Clinton pointed out durign the nevada primary that that is what occured and it will happen again the general .. if ACORN is workign on voter registration for thr GE naturally they are being paid and bribing people with gifts

Staniam,
I think those 11pts would be referring to those news websites posting just the poll they conducted. RCP took those polls to average out 6.5 pts all across the board.
Why do you support McCain/Palin? If you were a Hillary supporter, you’ll know Obama’s views are much more similar to hers. I don’t think he “snubbed” her. Like I said below, if he really thought so little about her, he would have no qualms about using her just to win the election.
Hillary and Obama are leaders in their own right. It would be like having too many cooks in a kitchen. I would not be surprised if Hillary had declined the veep role, not because I think she’s power hungry and wants only the top position, but she knows that it can’t work out well that way.

Dave in Las Vegas – If you are an edcuation expert or even someone with some kind of reasonable ideas on how to improve American education – don’t leave us waiting. What are they? How are you going to change education for kids who don’t know how to read? How are you going to change education when teacher: student ratios can go over 35? How are you going to improve education when some kids don’t even have text books? You sound full of brilliance. Shed the light.

Well I am not surprised.

levi
but if Obamas actions with acorn are investigated and his campaign implodes before election day Palin will resign office anyway if elected to the VP

Staniam,
Obama has nothing to do with ACORN. He did not work under them as community organizer. The only association with them was when he and a few other lawyers represented ACORN and the Justice Department against the state of Illinois to force it to comply with federal voting laws.

loose association and a campaign giving money directly to ACORN is workign with them… I know you are a red hot liberal organizer who thinks strong arming people because your hippie way of life is threatened is justified but I beg to differ

levi
thats irrelevant

Finding One of the report is that Palin abused her power in violating Alaska state law to seek personal benefit. It affirms that yes, a governor has the right to remove a department head for whatever cause they wish. However, she, her husband and her aides harassed Monegan with a non-stop barrage of inquiries and attempts to get Monegan to fire the state trooper Wooten. Monegan stood by the law, carried out the investigation, reviewed it again for the Palins, took disciplinary action but could not and did not fire Wooten.
The investigation concludes that most likely his failure to fire Wooten was at least a contributing factor in his firing. But from her time as governor-elect up to the present, Palin engaged in an unrelenting personal vendetta against Wooten utilizing the full apparatus and power of the governor’s office. That’s petty, dumb and unlawful and she should be booted as governor, not to mention from McCain’s ticket!

hopesprings52
she still was justified in her actions as governor and havign some petty polticy disagreement because she “threatens” you is silly just deal with it… you people werent able to change things in the 60s and 70s for womens rights etc as far as equal pay and thats just a buzz word now Obama cant change it

Bishop Thomas Muthee, who has spoken repeatedly at the Wasila Assemblies of God Church and personally blessed and anointed Governor Palin in 2005, engages in what NAR terms “spiritual warfare”– with an aim to de-Catholicize communities and nations. “Brazil is occupied by Catholics,” declared Muthee in a militant sermon he gave on March 14, 2004 at a United Kingdom church, ‘but people are being saved anyway!”
C. Peter Wagner says that the Roman Catholic Church is under the sway of a great demon he calls the “Queen of Heaven.”
Top NAR leaders go on spiritual warfare expeditions to try to decrease the power of this “demon.”
…
“As a Catholic,” said Cocozzelli, “I am deeply concerned about Governor Palin’s ongoing involvement with Pastor Ed Kalnins and Bishop Thomas Muthee, both of whom are engaged in the anti-Catholic New Apostolic Reformation movement.”
In fairness, we do not know what Governor Palin believes. But her involvement with this movement requires us to ask, Does Sarah Palin share this view of Catholicism? Does she view Catholicism as demonic or anything other than a legitimate, international faith?

Davis
Obama became famous for readign a teleprompter and its not up to obama to decide what Hillary does she is her own person… you will not dictate to anyone and you will not act as if Obama has already wonunless and until obama wins on election day…GOT IT!

grey Matter
judgign from your comments about education youre just a bitter teacher looking for a handout

Grey Matter
pontificating about whether Hilary would do just fine as “a lion of the senate” is dumb…the deal is because Sen Reid and Speaker pelosi screwed up on the bailout plan and reid should resign and install Sen Clinton as majority leader before the election period…if Obama wants to appoint Sen Clinton to the supreme court to get rid of her as an opponent thats his choice but you have no say in the matter!

Grey Matter
Obama has barely any legislative achevments and will be a president on par with Carter and Clinton knows that shes just going because she has to but I dont furthermore the 60s radical mess has to stop… nothing on your wishlist will become law no matter what you think

Staniam
My comments on education?
Please don’t make such assumptions, staniam. I am not a “bitter teacher looking for a handout”.
I don’t mind having a frank discussion with you, you do not need to get personal. I thought you were quite reasonable in your earlier posts about the polls replying to me, weren’t you? It’s not like you’re incapable of that.

Davis,
I agree. I may have supported Obama, but I thought he and Hillary were great candidates.
Posted by: Grey Matter | Oct 11, 2008 2:23:17 AM
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Oh, I thought you were a former Hillary supporter. OK, nevermind…

re: Post by: Anita Yova | Oct 11, 2008 2:16:14 AM
By your definition the US was also a terrorist in WW1 and WW2.
As a matter of fact, by your definition, all armies in all wars throughout time are terrorists.
As George Bush once said “That doesn’t make any sense.”

prefros
all you nuts are going ape over palin shes not going to be president when they are elected…the ACORN stuff does matter and you cannot say based on todays polls it will be that way on election day … nobody can so get off of it

Eight years was not enough! We want MORE! Vote Republican! Eight More Years!

By your definition the US was also a terrorist in WW1 and WW2.
As a matter of fact, by your definition, all armies in all wars throughout time are terrorists…………
so you are saying Nazi Germany and Japan
did not Invade other countries and
Kill Millions of People and that
The Untied States should have just
LET JAPAN AND NAZI GERMANY SLIDE
IRAQ HAD NO WMDS AND WE WHERE THE ONES
THAT INVADED IRAQ FOR WMDS THAT THEY
DID NOT HAVE … BUT OUR ACTIONS KILLED
ONLY IN THE 100 OF THOUSANDS
SO WHAT WE SAY SORRY? OR LIKE McCAIN
50 MAKE IT 100 YEARS…

anita
100 yrs was a figure of speech you obama hippies that take everything litterally are pathetic

prefros
8 more yrs of the last 4 is dumb… you know mccain is even to the left of obama

THIS JUST IN PRESIDENT BUSH AS
DECLARED A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
WITH A PENDING WORLD DEPRESSION AND
HAS ORDERED NATIONAL ELECTIONS
HALTED UNTIL THE WORLD EMERGENCY
IS DECLARED OVER……..
the future headline?

WOW, I just watched ABC’s Nightline…
A last minute scathing addition to the end of the program about Palin and her CONVICTION in Alaska!
Gee, since it was a last minute thing they threw together Terry Moran didn’t quite have all the facts, so he made it sound REALLY BAD… Like she was going to get IMPEACHED OR SOMETHING!
Of course that was after the long report (half the show) about McCain’s ANGRY MOB SCENES!! And of course a minute or two on how ERRATIC McCain has become!
Ouch! Sorry about that one Republicans! That one is going to hurt!
But don’t worry, they showed Obama’s best steady and calm soundbites of the week, during the whole first 15 minutes of the show!
So it is all good!
Hope you got a chance to see the show too!

make what you will of Palin’s attempt to rid her police force of an abusive trooper who tazered his son and beat up his wife and father-in-law…. and who happened to be Sarfah’s brother-in law!
He deserved to lose his job..though I understand he didn’t!
In any case, the case is closed, and Sarah will not be chastised further…
But isn’t it interesting that the resolution of the Rezko case, which might sling some dirt towards your
beloved Barack, keeps getting delayed and delayed until now it will go beyond the election>….. while this piddly little travesty…. got pushed up?
I wonder how much that cost the Democrats?

Yes, she broke the law.
While she has the authority to hire/fire at will, she CANNOT use the power of her office to settle personal scores. That’s what she and Todd did, and that’s where she broke the law.
She also allowed her husband access to her office and records in an improper manner.

What I love about these rumor mungers,is that if there are any serious questions left about Obama’s judgement,than the facts will be obscured by their hate campaign,and noone will take them seriously,if they do have any legitamite arguments. Reminds you of the Boy who cried “Wolf”

lars the ACORN stuff is more legit than Palins alaska dealings thats pretty much white trash stuff … ACORN committed a federal offense

hmmmm
the democrats will see the light and abandon obama in droves

Was Barack Obama Planted?
From J. Hansen
10-9-8
______
And on that trip to Pakistan, barry/Barack used an Indonesian passport.
Indonesia doesn’t honor dual citizenship…. so the only way he could have gotten a passport woulid have to been born in Indonesia!
Currently floating around in some Philadelphia courthouse, is a law suit suggesting that Obama had actually been born in Indonesia … andd that his American Birth Certificate… is bogus!
If such is the case, then he cannot run for President!
But of course, he IS Obama, and this is just an unconstitutional technicality……

He has written two very successful books and they made him millions of dollars. Stop being so paranoid.
Posted by: The Unshrub | Oct 11, 2008 4:02:15 AM
———————
The books, semi-auto biographical novels, were quite creative.
Maybe he should be an author.
Books seem to be the only things Obama’s ever completed!

Every two years republicans make the same allegations about ACORN right before the elections and so far there has not been one criminal charge. The republicans do this to fool those who are too stupid to know better.

October Non-Surprise: Obama Partisans Determine Sarah Palin Guilty of Abuse of Power<
Joe Biden immediately thanked his fellow Obama campaign members for preparing such a "clean and articulate" report.
Awesome: Yeah, the headline says abuse of power. How about the actual conclusion?
I find that, although Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Gov. Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as a commissioner of public safety.
In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercie of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.

Posted by: staniam | Oct 11, 2008 4:06:45 AM
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Nice “cut and paste” there staniam!
Say really after all of this time of thinking you were a man, are you really a woman?
I am not trying to slam you now as usual, I just want to know. It would really explain the whole Hillary thing and a lot more…

unshrub
that was obamas justification for ACORN that he worked with them to help Clinton in 92 they are still crooks Ayers applied for an educatiomn grant and gave 50 million to ACORN and other entitities that are non educational related

staniam
You are confussed. Just because someone does something you don’t like, that doesn’t make it illegal or unethical.

I say if we can only get those Republicans back in the White House we’ve got a chance to save America!
8 More Years!

staniam
I could care less what you call me. In fact, as stupid as your conclusions are, I consider it an honor for you to claim I am too dumb for words. That proves you don’t have the ability to write, you just said so yourself. No wonder you can’t reach a logical conclusion. Go read a book on logic. You might learn something.

Obama is going to win and there isn’t a a thing anyone can do about it. Maybe some of you should read the story about the boy who cried wolf one too many times. This is what the republicans have been doing and now people don’t care anymore. HA HA

It is so much fun to upset the republicans.

I sure hope that the undecides aren’t taking this dumb little mistake by Palin as any indication that shes dumb, small-minded, petty and vindictive.

If we could only have 4 more years of Bush, all might be right with America. But we don’t have that option so we must chose the next best thing! McCain and Palin!
8 More Years! Vote Republican!

Staniam:
I am so angry about Palin’s records being forged and revised!
That’s disgusting!
I hope someone manages to remove Obama’s teflon vest so that all the dirt creeping up his legs will wrap around his skinny body and make his face replicate the picture of Dorian Gray!
Obama has NEVER won a clean election!
Not in Illinois!
Not for the Senate!
And not in his race with Hillary!
He is just another smooth-talking Chicago politician with a cigarette in one hand and a bill of lies in the other!
Do your remember the Obama Laundry List of Lies?
Like the little pink bunny it keeps growing and growing and growing…..
and thanks to him and his associations with Ayers and Acorn and Rezko and monies pocketed by him from Fannie and Freddie, the economy keeps shrinking!
Palin gave money back to the people of her state!
Obama took money from the people of HIS state, and from our country!

“If we could only have 4 more years of Bush, all might be right with America. But we don’t have that option so we must chose the next best thing! ”
4 years more of Bush, OMG the USA will be a third-world country.

9/11 happened on Bush and Cheney’s watch – and they had lots of advance intelligence. I say this with no satisfaction, it’s just the truth. And then they attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and killed thousands and thousands of people. They have bankrupted the USA and left it billions and billions of dollars in debt.
Eight more years! Vote Republican!

“the bipartisan committee concluded that a family grudge wasn’t the only reason Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, but was likely was a contributing factor. ”
McCain picked the wrong VP, end of story.
Ditch her now it’s possible.
Palin can make up a lame story, for the sake of the campaign ….., and go back to Alaska with some honor.

/11 happened on Bush and Cheney’s watch
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yes! AND THEY ARE NOT RUNNING THIS YEAR! So forgeddaboudit!
BUT DO YOU REMEMBER THE VERY FIST TERRORIST ATTACK UNDER CLINTON’S REIGN, WHEN AN SUV WITH A COUPLE OF BOMBS EXPLODED IN THE GARAGE OF ONE OF THE TWIN TOWERS?
Maybe this was all Clinton’s fault!
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
We need to deal with TODAY!
I trust McCain with making the right decision more than I do Obama.
(I would have trusted Hillary more than either of them….. but we need to deal with TODAY!)

Hmmmmm
you are right and thats exactly why thinking people will independantly go out and vote against Obama in droves there is nothign these pithy little insects can do about it

PALIN in 2008 says: “I AM NOT A CROOK!”
NIXON in 1974 says: “I AM NOT A CROOK!”
Or Obama, you decide….

Palin and McCain are real dudes. He does not look well physically or mentally, and she is good at reading from a teleprompter, but apparently can’t think coherently when answering questions.
Plus she was dumb enough to use her office to try to bully her sister’s ex out of a job . . . that’s just plain dumb. Very small time.

prefros
you will not belittle someone because of age or appearance when I tell you to you will comply!

Davis.
You’re right!
Palin is NOT a crook.
This was NOT a criminal investigation!
She was not found GUILTY of any criminal act!
If you are looking for GUILTY and CRIMINALLY INVOLVED you need look no farther than your bosom buddy, Obama, and his associations with Acorn and Ayers and Rezko and Nachmi Auchi and Rashid Khalidi…… among others!

Davis I agree with this:
Davis.
You’re right!
Palin is NOT a crook.
This was NOT a criminal investigation!
She was not found GUILTY of any criminal act!
If you are looking for GUILTY and CRIMINALLY INVOLVED you need look no farther than your bosom buddy, Obama, and his associations with Acorn and Ayers and Rezko and Nachmi Auchi and Rashid Khalidi…… among others!
you wasted your time tonight but you probably can afford it you rich hippie!

Palin is no dummy!
She has given money BACK to the citizens of her state… money earned through her diligence and designated terms with the big gas and oil companies!
Katie Curick’s interview was more of an interrogation than a conversation, but Sarah came off relatively well with Gibson and did extremely well in the debate with Biden!
She is not jaded like most politicians, and she is a quick study!
She has managed a city and then a state while married with children….
What offices/companies/businesses/has Obama run?
Heck. He was in charge of a subcommittee on Afghanistan… yet he never could find the time to hold a meeting!
THAT was dumb!

pefros
Read the 9/11 report. The training, preparation and infiltration into the US all happened on Clinton’s watch.
The only intelligence given to Bush was there might be an attack somewhere, sometime, somehow.
Boy, that sure nailed things down.
Try to read a little below the headlines.
And yes, the attack on Iraq was to PREVENT another 9/11 attack from happening.
So far, it’s been successful.

“Palin is no dummy!”
It sounds desperate…..

Pefros:
“9/11 happened on Bush and Cheney’s watch,”
I don’t deny this!
I think they both should have been impeached!
BUT THEY ARE NOT RUNNING IN THIS ELECTION!
The members of Congress who voted for the war, did so because of information given them by these bozos in the aftermath of the bombings which had just occurred!
Don’t blame those who took Bush and Cheney at their word….
Don’t blame Hillary.
Don’t blame McCain.
Obama had no vote.
In this case, the messengers were to blame……

pefros:
That’s the problem, corrupt Democrats are so greedy, they don’t want to share the access to the corruption.
Actually, it’s not that they don’t want to share, it’s that their corruption is so deep, the Dems can’t find their way to the door!

“The report states she could fire her appointee at will for any reason at all.”
That’s no excuse.
She abused her power, that is the issue.
The commissioner was doing his job without any complaints.

Isn’t it remarkable that the resolution of criminal trials which might affect Obama…. such as the Rezko case…. are being delayed til AFTER the election while this pishakeh nebbishe pissante trial of Sarah Palin….had to be pushed ahead!
Not that it matters.
If it had been MY nephew who had been tazered and MY sister who had been beaten and MY father who had been threatened, and if I had any clout, i probably would have actied the same way!
But Sarah’s issue was an ethical one not a criminal one.
And Obama’s association with Acorn and Ayers is not only an ethical problem but also a criminal one which negatively affected not on the education of our children but, additionally, the living conditions of their parents!
And now, it turns out, he was/is involved in the falsifying of voter records!
Is this the kind of change you can support?
Not me!

hmmmmmmm,
Oh?
You would try to get the abuser fired from his job instead of, say, REPORTING him to the POLICE, maybe? I don’t understand. If he was such a abusive person, why didn’t she report him or something instead of letting him stick around?
Considering it was a messy divorce, both husband and wife would be digging up all kinds of stuff about each other, no matter how true, which is why i take it all with a pinch of salt.

PHOENIX—Sen. John McCain’s wife and father-in-law continued a lucrative business partnership with disgraced financier Charles H. Keating Jr. for 11 years after the GOP presidential nominee said he ended his close friendship with Keating.
“Cindy McCain’s business partnership with Keating in a real-estate development between 1986 and 1998 netted her a tidy profit, in addition to years of significant tax benefits. Her father, who died in 2000, earned similar returns.”

Grey Matter:
You need to read the report.
The WHOLE report.
All 263 pages of it!
The commissioner was in charge of the trooper.
And he wasn’t fired; he was offered a different job.,, partly because of this, partly because of budget cuts.
But tell me, gray matter, How does THIS investigation stack up against all the garbage Obama is involved in with Acorn and taking the second largest amount of money (although he was in the senate for the shortest time) from Freddie and Fannie?
Hmmmmmmm?

It just seems like such a sad time for the Republicans.
Sarah has revealed herself to be a bit of a dipstick, not that fast on her feet, not that well-versed or well read and pretty clumsy with her personal vendettas and the power of her office.
McCain really seems to be a confused has-been wandering around looking befuddled and whacked out . .. whenever his time was, it’s gone now.
And what record do the Republicans have . .. . well . . . the last 8 years.
Fortunately, Obama and Biden look half-ways conscious and intelligent.
I’m looking forward to John McCain reaching across the aisle for bipartisanship after he gratiously loses the election.

Poor Sarah. She decided to use her office to exert pressure on an ex-family member. Why else were all those calls being made, but to continue to bring the issue of her ex-brother-in-laws behavior to the attention of her official.
Her and her bone-head husband.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
That’s trying to address a personal score through the office. It’s just not smart.
Sarah loses big time. It is exactly what the report calls it . . . “an abuse of power”.
I wonder how she’s going to be treated when she returns to the Governorship.

talk about priorities! lets talk about what is more controversial ,apresident nominie who has definate ties and dealings with TONY REZKO CONVICTED FELON. REV. JERAMIAH WRIGHT RACE -BAITING HATER OF AMERICANS AND WHITES. BILL AYERS UNREPENTANT TERRORIST.THIS SHOWS SIGNIFICANT INSIGHT TO OBAMAS CHARACTER!!!!!!SARAH PALIN DID NOTHING THAT ANY ONE OF US WOULD HAVE DONE IF OUR FAMILY MEMEMBER WAS BEING THREATED AND A 10 YEAR OLD TASERED. THAT COP ADMITTED TO THE TASER INCIDENT .GO TO HIS INTERVEIW ON LINE AND SEE WHAT HE SAID. HE WAS ADIRTY COP YOU ALL NO HOW DIRTY COPS WORK. OH BUT IT IS SARA PALIN SO THIS IS DIFFERENT?WELL IT SHOULD NOT BEAND WHAT SHOULD BE PRIORITY IS OBAMAS ASSOCIATIONS WITH THESE THUGS. GO TO YOU TUBE AND SEE THAT WHACK JOB FARAHKAN TALK ABOUT OBAMA BEING THE CHOSEN ONE. HE LIVES ON THE SAME BLOCK AS OBAMA AND WILLIAM AIRS 11111 WHERE THE HELL IS OUR HIGHER UPS. HE NEEDS TO STEP DOWN IMMEDIATELY!!!!!OUR COUNTRY IS ABOUT TO BE TAKEN OVER WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WHO HATE US AND WE HAVE A REAL PROMBLEM HERE WITH A SOCIALIST NOMINIEE AND CONGRESS ,WHO BY THE WAY GOT US INTO THIS ECONOMY MESS.AND THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA IS COVERING UP THE THRUTH LIKE IRAQS MEDIA DID WITH THEIR REPORTING ON TV STATIONS. WOW .WHERE ARE YOU GUYS??????????

Concerned in OH,
Project Vote was independent of ACORN in 1992.
One of Project Vote’s most successful voter registration drives was directed by U.S. Senator and 2008 United States presidential candidate Barack Obama in Chicago during 1992. According to Chicago Magazine, “More than 150,000 new African-American voters were added to the city’s rolls” during this drive.
The conservative group Capital Research Center alleged that Project Vote’s voter mobilization efforts have frequent problems with fraud.
Project Vote noted that all lawsuits in 2004 brought against it alleging fraud were dismissed and claimed that “politically motivated law firms brought baseless charges of voter registration fraud

In the last 2 years since the Democratics took Congress my 401k is down 50%. Unemployment went up almost as fast as gas prices.
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You don’t really believe that the financial mess happened overnight do you? Is THAT your rationale?
The financial crisis started well before 2006. Remember McCain saying he wanted regulation in 2005?????
So either he’s lying again, or the crisis was a result of actions that occured prior to 2005.
Either way, bad for the Pubs.
Two candidates on the same tricket who have ethics violations. Two candidiates who used public office for personal gain.
McCain/Parrot = the unethical choice

Anyhow, don’t worry concerned in OH; it’s just politics and the Republicans have had their kick at the can for 8 years – and it really is a mess!
Sarah and her bone-headed husband made a goofy bunch of ethical mistakes in Alaska and vehumiliated themselves, McCain and aging and tired Republican party. Unfortunately Sarah and the hubbie may be too full of themselves to even realise what dummies they are.
McCain really doesn’t look well physically or mentally. Sarah seems to all appearances to be a small-minded lightweight.
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Project Vote often coordinates voter registration campaigns with local chapters of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now(ACORN).
It has also worked with organizations such as Demos, National Voting Rights Institute, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Fair Elections Legal Network regarding election administration policy and voting rights, including enforcement of the National Voter Registration Act through research, litigation and technical assistance.

Anyhow, don’t feel sorry for the Republicans.
They’ve had their kick at the can for the last 8 years! Drove the country into billions and billions of dollars of debt.
The Democrats just have too strong a ticket; people are sick of the corrupt and arrogant Republicans. Time for a change.
Still, given the mess the Republicans have left – God bless America.

What’s wrong here is: because she is now running on a VP ticket, she got off scott free and the GOOD cop gets no compensation! That cop wanted wanted to DEFEND women from getting RAPED!
Palin is the worst abuser of power in office and her egoist way of doing business I hope will DESTROY her political career.

Concerned in OH Bush and Cheney just put the USA billions and billions of dollars in debt, and it climbs every day by millions.
They took on a war they could not afford, and a war they thought they would win easily . … and they were terribly wrong.
With the mess they’ve left the country in – God bless America.

DEMS AND REPUBS. THIS IS NOT A WAR BETWEEN PARTIES AND WHO IS GOING TO WIN —— THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!OR ELSE WE WILL ALL LOSE!!!!!!!!!

I still feel sorry for Sarah. Hard to believe she would be petty enough and stupid enough to use her office to settle a family score.
She’s just not that smart – this was dumb, dumb, dumb on her part.
Let’s elect her Vice President . … I don’t think so.

Did Palin abuse her power?
You betcha!
Time to put the pitbull back in her kennel.

“Concerned” thinks helping Americans is “squandering money”, but invading a nation that posed no threat is justifiable.
Sorry, but the economic chaos is not the result of Obama. It’s the result of 8 years of Republican economic theory.
And McCain proposes $300 billion to bail out banks, and gives another $300 billion to the rich, and then wants to continue spending billions in Iraq.
You’ve got a eratic candidate who has consistently shown bad judgment.
And obviously, the Pubs did not vet their VP candidate at all. We ALL knew that from day one, but perhaps you should wake up and realize that Palin is not what they told you she was.
Just because someone stands in front of waving flags, spews some generic platitudes, and reads a sarcastic speech does not qualify them to lead!

Liberati,
I marvel when I see rants that call common sense to question.
The Troopergate report is in all Newspapers Nationwide.
If you must know, many Newpapers and blogsites in Europe carried the news.
It has just broken and it is expected of a Journalist to report the news.
I therefore refuse to see the reason for castigating Mr Tapper for including it in his blog.

Worse than Acorn
LOOK UP MCCAINS TIES TO:
Trott & Trott that specializes in housing foreclosures.
TROTT AND TROTT ARE SHARING THERE FORECLOSURE INFORMATION WITH THE MCCAIN CAMP… TO BLOCK PEOPLE FROM VOTING!
TROTT AND TROOT HAVE GIVEN MCCAIN $72,000 DOLLARS
JOHN MCCAIN IS RUNNING HIS CAMPAIGN OFFICES OUT OF TROTT AND TROOT OFFICES.
THEY AND THE RNC ARE TRYING TO BLOCK PEOPLE FROM VOTING!
THE BBC EXPOSED IT!!!
MCCAINS IS BAD!!!! WAIT TO THE AMERICAN MEDIA GET HOLD OF THIS ONE!!!
OR MAYBE THEY WILL IGNORE IT TO LIKE SARAH PALIN AND THE ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY.

“Palin is on the ticket because of the same triumph of allure over ability that has denied women opportunities for decades. She is here because a campaign that is going down the drain in tighter and tighter circles said “What the hell, we have nothing to lose. Let’s get us a babe.”

Unfortunately the McCain Republicans picked a babe stupid enough to try and run a person vendetta using the power of her office against her sister’s ex.
Small-minded politics and a really stupid move.

Why do the Pubs keep trying to use the trooper as their defense for Palin?
This WAS NOT about the trooper. It was an investigation as to whether a GOVERNOR used the power of the office (power granted by the PUBLIC) to pursue PERSONAL agendas. Did they fire someone to settle a personal vendetta. Answer : YES!
Todd Palin is not an elected official. What the hell is he doing hanging around the governor’s officae and making calls anyway?
Also, Palin LIED about this. She said she had no knowledge. The report indicates she clearly did.
Bad judgment by Palin. Bad judment by McCain.
We all knew this was coming right? Why else would they send 30 lawyers to Alaska, dodge subpoenas, hamper an investigation, and then request that the result not be made public?
But don’t worry, the McCain campaign issued their own report that stated Palin cleared herself of any wrong doing. And if it comes from the McCain campaign, it can’t be a lie right?
Oh, those bi-partisan committees are SO biased aren’t they?

Letterman: McCain Is “Being Squirrely,” “I Just Don’t Know If We Can Trust Him”

PEFROS1111DONT BE THROWING JUST WORDS OF IGNORANCE OUT THERE.

I am reading through these posts. What does ACORN have to do with this story. Focus on Palin! That is what this story is about.

NO THIS IS CLEARLY ANOTHER ONE OF OBAMAS PAYING OFF THE DEMS. OUT IN ALASKA ON THE PAYROLL WHO ARE THE JUDGES AND LAWYERS AND WHO RUN THE COURT SYSTEM!!!!ACORN —SECRETARY OF STATE IN OHIO JENNIFER IS CORRUPT AND ON THE TAKE!!!!!!! WHERES THE HOLLERING ABOUT THAT.READ OTHER FACTS ——THEY ARE OUT THERE!!!!!
Posted by: MARIANN | Oct 11, 2008 7:51:46 AM
Then why were there 10 REPUBLICANS and 4 democrats on the panel.

Posted by: Jeanie | Oct 11, 2008 8:22:36 AM
Explain this. How do you figure if there were there 10 Republicans and 4 democrats on the panel that Obama is digging up dirt on her.

So what impact does this have on the campaign? Is this enough to force Palin off the ticket? No swing voter wants an ethically challenged neophyte running with a 73-year-old “maverick.”

palosi owns the system now,,,THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO FEDS AND THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACE ..CAUSE IF IT WAS ANY BODY RUNNING THAT HAD SUCH THUGS AS FRIENDS ,LIKE OBAMA HAS I WOULD NOT LIKE IT

Her ethics are challenged? She didn’t break the law in any way and all of you spewing your hate can’t tell me you wouldn’t have done the same thing, to get rid of the that tasered your nephew. I know I would have done that and more.

You do notice she was found not in violation of firing the guy only letting her husband be involved! If that was my brother in-law I would have shot him!
You do also notice that none of the mainstream media is saying ANYTHING in reference to Rezko talking to the FEDS, or Obama and ACORN! Wonder how it is ok for OBAMA to forget to tell the FEC about $800,000.00 he gave to ACORN from his funds and pushed it off as a clerical error!
Rezko / Ayers / Rev. Wright / Farrakhan / ACORN and the list keeps growing

Todd Palin’s outsize role in the mess. Branchflower said it was out of his jurisdiction to pass judgment on the First Gentleman, but his report paints an extralegal role for Todd Palin that would have made the Hillary Clinton of 1992 blush. In the report, the head of Gov. Palin’s security detail says that Todd spent about half of his time in the governor’s office — not at a desk (he didn’t have one), but at a long conference table on one side of the office, with his own phone to make and receive calls. It became a shadow office, the informal Department of Getting Mike Wooten Fired.
It was at that long table that Todd Palin first scheduled a meeting with Walt Monegan, days after his wife’s administration began. He showed Monegan three huge binders of evidence against Wooten, including a picture of a dead moose that had been shot illegally. After Monegan came back saying that there was no new actionable information, Todd began a very visible campaign of stewing and fuming, trying to get access to personnel files, calling up and down the Public Safety org chart.
The report also raises the suggestion that the final incident that led to Monegan’s firing was perhaps the most (unintentionally) hilarious part of the whole saga. In the run-up to Alaska’s 2008 Police Memorial Day event, Monegan visited Palin in Anchorage and brought along an official portrait of a state trooper in uniform, saluting in front of the police memorial in Anchorage, for Palin to sign and present at the event. The trooper? Mike Wooten.
Palin signed the photo and didn’t say anything, according to Monegan’s testimony, but later cancelled her attendance at the event, sending Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell in her place. The head of her Anchorage office followed up with a call to Monegan berating him for his insensitivity. (Monegan swears he didn’t know it was Monegan in the picture, and that he didn’t even know what Wooten looked like.)
Shortly after that incident, Monegan’s fate was cast. But even then, Palin’s staffers were blithely adding more evidence to Troopergate. When Monegan’s potential successor, Chuck Kopp, asked Bailey, the Palin staffer, why Monegan was being fired, he was told simply: “Todd is really upset with Monegan.”
So what does this say about the possible Vice-President of the United States? Certainly not as much as her enemies would have hoped. She was only directly involved in a small bit of the pressure campaign — a meeting or two and a couple of emails. She can thank Monegan for not having her hands dirtier; it was he who told her to keep herself at “arm’s length” from any Wooten conversations.
But even though she won’t likely face any legal repercussions, the amateurism and cronyism of her brief administration hardly leaves Palin sitting pretty. Troopergate’s final verdict may be even more damaging than a rebuke: her administration was, at least this regard, just as self-motivated as the Washington fat cats and lobbyists she hopes to unseat.

the trooper maybe a vile person, AND
since/if he was/is such a vile person,
there should have been no problem with the palins having this man punished without THE PALINS-using the back door of her gov. office to do it.
poor judgement.
the big wigs of the rep. party, who have some intregrity and standards that they live by, were unsure about palin in the beginning,these good, hard working republican, who have made politics their business, are NOT going to sully their long build careers on Sarah Palin.
needless to say mccain and his bad judgement of picking palin (brilliant political stunt-which is now blowing up in his face) has the rep. party in a tight spot.
what about all of the republicans running for re-election at the local level, who have not abused the power of the office they hold, to do anything?
it is not fair.

now go have a nice day boys and girls1

If Obama applied for a federal job, HE WOULD NOT PASS SECURITY CLEARANCE AND HIS APPLICATION WOULD BE REJECTED.

Sarah Palin referred to her family as Alaska’s first family, an elitist remark if I ever heard one. I guess she thinks of herself as Sarah 12 pack instead of Joe 6 pack, you know, just somewhat better than the rest of us. Heavens to Betsy, this woman is just a heart beat away from being president, scary, but after all it is Halloween.

ACORN—OPRA WINFREY-FARAKAN-TONY REZKO–WILLIE AYERS–CHAVEZ—REV WRIGHT–OBAMA LEADER OF THE WOLVES1111111111

marianne,
hold the shift button down and turn those 1111111111 into !!!!!!!!!!

OTOWN GOOD IDEA OBAMA IS DANGEROUS

And, in contrast to the breathless liberals’ conclusions, the finding says (oxymoronically);
“Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.”

omg,
Please.okay Obamabots give me a break. If you want to vote for Obama fine. But don’t. I repeat don’t use something as weak as Troopergate, to defend yourselves and your candidate against the MOUNTAIN of evidence against Barack Obama and Ayers, ACORN, REZKO, FANNIE MAE, FARRAKHAN,JEREMIAH WRIGHT. Let me remind you that Obama is at the top of the ticket. If I can be forgiving of Biden and the plagiarism allegations and MBNB bank and his lobbyist son, then I can be forgiving of Sarah Palin.
You see it is like a car and Obama has too much junk in the trunk.
i once supported the guy but on closer examination and the 143 day senator record and seeing his performance at the debates where he had NO EXPERIENCE to speak of.
I switched to MCCAIN.

tropper- pooper- thats nothing compared to those haters of obamas out out out out obama obama out

You OBama supporters-
Do you think it’s ethical for Obama, on the US dime, to go to Kenya and and campaign for Raila Odinga?
Odinga, who’s campaign is about (surprise!) change, is an Islamic Supremacist who wants Sharia as the official law of Kenya and wants Christianity outlawed in Kenya.
Obama campaigned for him in 2006.
Anyone want to explain this?

O Town -
The same “cult of personality” issue you bring up about Obama can also be said of Palin. We have only known her six weeks and the Republican base is following her without question. They have eaten the “moose stew” and fallen under her spell.
At rallies last week she kept asking, “Who is the real Barack Obama?” Well, who is the real Sarah Palin? The good ol’ gal hockey mom or a petty, vindictive normal politician who uses her office to try to settle personal scores?
So, how about Todd Palin was a member of the AIP gate? The Palins sit in church and listen to hate speech gate? Vicki Eisman gate?
There are plenty of shady connections and guilt by association charges on BOTH sides. And McCain’s campaign manager was involved in Freddie/Fanny, so they don’t want to go there.

i wonder if this is the way all the wrong things that the troopers do is handled?
the gov. and spouse intervening?
are there not laws on the book to be followed, up the chain?
why would the gov. need to get involved at this level?

And a hypocrite too. Let’s not forget HOW and WHY obama got Alice Palmer’s name removed from the ballot in Chicago — he questioned the VALIDITY of her nominating signatures. In other words, he accused her of VOTER FRAUD. And he won*.
So obama was AGAINST voter FRAUD before he was FOR it??
Very conveeeeenient, no?
Oh, and a liar too. His website flatly denies that Obama ever worked for ACORN. Not true. Not even close.

Obama goes on about “predatory lending” but it was Clinton who pushed Raines into making more risky loans to those who could not afford them.
Then Obama hired Penny Pritzker, the Queen of the SubPrime mortgage market, as his Finance Chariman.
JIm Johnson, head of Countrywide and another Fannie CEO, was also on Obama’s team.
These people destroyed the financial sector of this country and they wer and are Obama team members and advisors.
Obama wants to do for the rest of the economy what these guys have done for Wall St.
Never mind what Obama says- this is what he’s done.

So how many kids does a cop need to taser to get sacked?
What a crock. We have a socialist about to become president and the media ties itself up in knots about a drunken jerk cop who’s tasered a kid.
How many of you want a guy like this with a badge and a gun?

You think the stock market is bad now, go ahead and vote for the socialist obama. Watch it go through the floor.

Jake: This post is just the type of junk-reportage that feeds the public distrust of the media and the belief that organizations such as ABC are simply incapable of objectively reporting facts.
You state: “The AP reports that the bipartisan committee concluded that a family grudge wasn’t the only reason Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, but was likely was a contributing factor.”
Can you please explain why you, in your capacity as ABC News’ Senior National Correspondent, intentionally failed to provide your readers with the actual decision of the committee which appears in the short sentence immediately following the reference to “a contributing factor:”
I find that, although Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. IN SPITE OF THAT, GOVERNOR PALIN’S FIRING OF COMMISSIONER MONEGAN WAS A PROPER AND LAWFUL EXERCISE OF HER CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY AUTHORITY TO HIRE AND FIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH DEPARTMENT HEADS.
The committee investigation was instituted to determine if Palin did anything unlawful in the firing of Monegan. You have obviously and intentionally “reported” only a “likely” investigative “finding” of the committee. On the other hand, you have intentionally failed to provide your readers with the ultimate result – the final decision of the investigation: what Gov. Palin did was both “proper” and “lawful”.
As a result of your intentional omission of the most important language of the report, your readers (most of whom will never take the time to determine what the committee actually decided) leave your post with a totally incorrect impression. Why do you do this? Do you simply not care what this type of “reporting” is doing to your profession? Would you please explain in your next post?

Good Morning,
Sarah Palin has not been found guilty of anything. The Branchflower Report is just his report; nothing more, nothing less. He concluded that the primary charge against Sarah was groundless.
Branchflower offers the opinion that Srarah abused her power by not stopping Todd Palin from inquiring about Trooper Wooten’s hearing. He concluded that Todd Palin was trying to get Wooten fired, to settle a fammily score.
That is only Branchflower’s opinion. It is sort of like when Ken Starr completed his report, and concluded Bill Clinton had committed an impeachable offense.

Don’t forget TRAVELGATE with Hillary. I quess that (leftist) female democrat in Alaska who went after Palin to smear her reputation forgot about that. What goes around comes around.

The biggest anger should be where the most corruption is which is MUCH bigger than Watergate (which was all politics), is the HIGH crimes in Congress over this cover up what happened with Fannie and Freddie to Countrywide to ACORN. I pray this all comes out and takes it in every direction to Obama, Pelosi, Dodd, Reins, Franks even to Paulson and Chris Cox. Makes you wonder the economy is in ruins, politicans are becoming dirty rich, Obama is close to America haters Scary. It explains to me perfectly why people are angry.

Well, let’s see; a State Trooper tasers a ten year old kid, drinks in his cruiser and threatens to kill the father of the Governor.
And the Trooper’s boss won’t fire this guy.
Doesn’t anyone think something’s wrong with THOSE ethics?
The guy is most likely a BOT!

VOTE HIM OUT CALL UP A SPECIAL PROSECUTER!!!OBAMA IS A LIAR AND A BRAINWASHER HE IS A THEIF

“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.”

Palin is now denying she did anything wrong.
Geez, why did she fight so hard to block the investigation, then? Let’s remember the panel was made up of 10 republicans and only four democrats. And the investigation started way before McCain chose her.
Can she just admit it? It really seems quite clear she did something fishy, no matter what she says. I quite frankly find it strange that instead of reporting the “abusive” Wooten to the police on charges of criminal intimidation, she tried to get him fired from his job. The logic just isn’t there.

Christie, no one except the base cares about Palin. Her negatives among independents have gone up. And they are the ones she needs to reach. Posted by D————————-
Really? I don’t think so. The Pope has been outfront saying that the democratic party represents “the party of death” That speaks volumes. Palin supporters are calling into talk radio and are saying they are democrats/independents who support her. You cannot make a blanket claim. Election day, we will all speak about what is happening to our values and direction we are going as a people and crimes being covered up on both sides.

Keep dreaming Christie. The rallies she holds are heavily conservative. Even the republicans know that’s all she appeals to now. You have me laughing at what the pope says though. And I’m a catholic.

You have me laughing at what the pope says though. And I’m a catholic. by d—-really? a catholic laughing at the pope’s words

I am not specifically a Palin supporter but want to make just one thing clear: As long as the areal residents overwhelmingly support the politician, that politician must be considered to be doing great job for the residents, and that’s all about the value-measurement of politicians.

Grey Matter, Alaska state law gives the Alaska State Personnel Board the jurisdiction over ethics issues. So back on Sept. 1, Gov. Palin requested that the Alaska State Personnel Board review the case. Gov. Palin attempted to block the Alaska state legislature’s investigation because: (1) She knew it would be a partisan report, in spite of the committee being bi-partisan (and she was proven right); (2) The Alaska State Personnel Board is already reviewing the case.

Copy and paste and listen to Obama’s own words.

Is this the same panel that Obama spent loads of taxpayer money to pay the witnesses to change their story?
The guy was lousy at his job and needed to be fired.
Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

Emm: Please provide a link to credible proof that Obama spent loads of money to get people to talk. This investigation was started before she was picked for VP, which again brings into question Senator McCain’s decision-making skills. Didn’t he know about this before he chose her? If he did, why did he choose someone who would provide this kind of distraction?
And the fact that she gave the “First Dude” so much access and control is very worrisome. Yeah, Wooten doesn’t seem like a prize, but that cannot excuse her using her authority in an inappropriate manner.
I’ll bet she doesn’t have the courage to face the media with an actual press conference to address the matter. She didn’t do anything illegal, but this does bring up issues of character and truthfulness.

Sarah hassled Wooten because of personal family ties, using her office to pursue a personal vendetta after a messy divorce from her sister.
Such poor judgement and such small time politics.
If Wooten hadn’t been Sarah’s ex-brother-in-law the matter would have been left to rest after Wooten’s suspension.
Unfortunately Sarah chose to use her office to pursue a personal family issue. Not smart at all.

“Very bias, you are.”
Small point here, but what is this new thing of people using “bias” as an adjective? “Bias” is a noun. It’s something you have or don’t have. If you have it, you’re “biased.”
I did say it was a small point…. I just can’t help but notice how people don’t seem to be able to spell or use grammar properly anymore.

Manolete – Dream on!! Sarah Palin couldn’t name a single newspaper that she reads. She couldn’t name a single Supreme Court decision besides Roe v. Wade. She hadn’t heard of the Bush Doctrine. These are easy questions. It might be comforting to think it was liberal bias that did this to her, but she brought it on herself. And the intelligent women I know are all pro-Obama.
As an aside, SJ, yeah, I’ve noticed that too. The spelling and grammar in the comments section has been going to the dogs for a while!!

i love the fact that obama had an accident it’s not his fault all poltics are convincing liars…..–
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