Palin Watch
Reactions to Sarah Palin:
Rick Steiner at Seattle P.I. slams the governor for her poor record on the environment. He says she has not taken climate change seriously, despite the thinning of the arctic ice cover; has sued Bush to stop polar bears being declared an endangered species (and lied about the scientific evidence); opposed the clean water initiative and supported mining operations that would pollute salmon streams; supports drilling everywhere you could drill regardless of the environmental impact; and has coddle Exxon with regard to compensation payments over the Valdez disaster.
Subpoenas will be issued in the investigation of whether Palin misused her powers as governor to conduct a personal vendetta against her ex-brother-in-law and wrongfully fired a public safety commissioner because he would not fire the latter.
Gee, wasn't one of the charges against Kwame Kilpatrick, who was just forced to step down as mayor and faces 4 months in prison, that he fired a deputy police chief and other officers for personal reasons?
And then, she seems to be hiding from us.
posted by Juan Cole @ 9/06/2008 12:01:00 AM
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So, what's the problem?
Be patient. It takes time to rain a parrot.
Other interesting news:
Google" Palin calls Obama a Sambo".
Re Kwame Kilpatrick and Sarah Palin: It's OK If You're a Republican. IOKIYAR.
In fact, it's all ok if you're a Republican. John Ridley at Huffington Post has written two articles on Conservative Palinguage:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/the-guide-to-the-conserva_b_124368.html
You know, if you name your child Barack, you're a terrorist, but if you name him Track, you're colorful. If you're born in Hawaii you are exotic, but Alaska, you're true-blue American. Etc.
Sarah Palin is a shrill, female, lipstick_wearing pit bulldog [do the math] whose ferocious bite has sparked an outpouring of money and support from the shrill, "can't_get_enough of that old time jingoism" hypocrites who run the Republican right. She avoids interviews because parrots don't handle unscripted speech very well.
I have a hunch that her appeal will wear out within a few weeks.
Re hockey mom:
There is an interesting moment in a speech that was carefully wordsmithed to hit fundraising words like "San Francisco".
After Gov. Palin delivers the lines about Russian tanks in Georgia, watch her eyes, and her lipstick. There is a moment of something, of not knowing how to play the line, of having stepped into an unfamiliar depth.
Palin is a dangerous extremist, but she's also a 100% hypocrite in her personal and political life, whether it be the earmarks issue or sex outside the marriage.
In other words, she's as Republican as Republican can be.
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