Sarah Palin Picked as VP

Was she in AIP (Alaska Independence Party)?

Hoping that she will help push health care ...  Is it not sick?  That the health of the Nation
Is not a top priority?  But Bailing out the folks who rob us is ?

http://current.com/items/89298199_free_health_care

Democratic Congress May Adjourn, Leave Crisis to Fed, Treasury

By Kristin Jensen

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn't equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can't agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way.

Lawmakers say they are unlikely to take action before, or to delay, their planned adjournments -- Sept. 26 for the House of Representatives, a week later for the Senate. While they haven't ruled out returning after the Nov. 4 elections, they would rather wait until next year unless Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who are leading efforts to contain the crisis, call for help.

One reason, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday, is that ``no one knows what to do'' at the moment.

``When you rush to judgment, you usually make mistakes,'' said Sherwood Boehlert, a former Republican congressman from New York. ``This is something you can't go on forever without addressing, but Congress in a short span of time is best served by going home.''

The Vice President of the United States^[1] is the first person in the presidential line of succession, becoming the new President of the United States upon the death, resignation, or removal of the president. Every presidential term ends on January 20 of the year immediately after a presidential election. As designated by the Constitution of the United States, the vice president also serves as the President of the Senate, and may break tie votes in that chamber.^[2] He or she may be assigned additional duties by the president but, as the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, in performing such duties he or she acts only as an agent of the president.

*Memphis Lawmaker's (DEMOCRAT )Son Investigated for Palin Hacking* | Thursday, September 18, 2008 | wrecradio.

Memphis Lawmaker's Son Investigated for Palin Hacking

Mike Kernell confirms to Mike Fleming that his son has been contacted by authorities.

State Rep. Mike Kernell has confirmed to 600WREC's Mike Fleming that his 20-year-old son is the one being mentioned in earlier published reports that state he has been contacted by authorities investigating the hacking of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account.

Fleming is host of The Mike Fleming Radio Program. He said Kernell told him, "That is my son that is being referenced in that story."

The Memphis Democrat's son, David, is a student at the University of Tennessee.

The FBI and Secret Service launched an official investigation Wednesday. Content from her e-mail, including family photos, have been posted on the internet.

The hackers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It is despicable to invade someone's privacy like that. Having said that....why was she using Yahoo mail for official business? Obviously to avoid the scrutiny that comes when official emails are requested by the courts....that shows poor judgement and hints at trying to cover up actions that may be unseemly or perhaps illegal. If she is VP will she put our nation's secrets at risk the same way? We have not heard from Palin's camp any explanation as to why she was so careless with official information. Lest someone think I'm bashing her in support of Obama...I trust none of the politicians running for the Presidency this year. Not a single one of them will make our lives better or truly protect the little guy or the constitution.

Sarah Palin sure likes to go on the attack against Obama.  It seems like every speech she gives is only about Obama, and picking apart his daily statements.  Her husband probably sits in front of the TV with a pen & notepad studying Obama's every move for his wife's new speech. 

Just a few parting thoughts:

Palin said she supported "special needs" kids then cut Alaska Special Olympics funding in half.

Palin said she sold the Governors jet on ebay - it didn't sell.

Palin said she would put federal checkbook online - was actually done in 2006-2007, by a bill co-sponsored by Barak Obama.

Palin said she took a voluntary pay cut - check her salary, it actually increased.

Palin said she doesn't discriminate against gays - actively participated in "Pray Gay Away".

Palin said Alaska was responsible for 20% domestic supply of oil/gas. It is 13%

Palin said she never hesitated about becoming vice-President. She did.

Palin said she went to Iraq. She didn't.

Palin said her teleprompter broke at RNC. Nearby witnesses said it didin't.

Palin said she fired the Governor's executive chef. Then he appeared cooking in the Palin family home.

And remember all the bru-ha-ha about Obama's paster, Jeremiah Wright? Palin's paster, Thomas Muthee, whom she credits with her becoming Governor, started his career as a witch-hunter in Kenya village, for a person who was supposed to be causing traffic accidents.

If I had a $1 for every lie she tells, I'd be a rich person. D

Maybe that's why she avoids reporters so diligently......

Alaska governor loses subsistence rights appeal
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Filed Under: Law | Politics

An Alaska Native subsistence rights case that Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, appealed was rejected by a federal court on Tuesday.
In a unanimous decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to overturn federal approval of a subsistence moose hunt in rural Alaska. The Cheesh-na Tribal Council won the right to expand its traditional and customary hunting area before the Federal Subsistence Board.
Palin's administration challenged the board's approval in hopes of limiting where tribal members could hunt. But the 9th Circuit said the evidence strongly favored the tribal council, whose leaders intervened in the case with the help of the Native American Rights Fund.
NARF attorney Heather Kendall-Miller represented the tribe and its president, Larry Sinyon. She cited the case in a widely-read critique of Palin that has been circulating in Indian Country ever since the governor was selected by Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) as his running mate.
"Palin's attack here has targeted (among others) the Ahtna Indian people in Chistochina; and although the federal court last year rejected this challenge, too, Palin has refused to lay down her arms," wrote Kendall-Miller and her husband, Lloyd Miller, another prominent Native rights attorney. "The battle has thus moved on to the appellate courts."
McCain supporters have dismissed the charges as unfounded. In an interview with Indian Country Today, Ken Johns, the president of the Ahtna Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation whose shareholders are affected by the case, said Palin was only trying to protect the state's interests.
"She inherited these cases, and I'm not surprised she didn't just drop them," Johns told ICT.
Palin's Republican predecessor, former governor Frank Murkowski, initiated the challenge to the Federal Subsistence Board's decision in 2005. But it was Palin who took the case to the 9th Circuit -- after a federal judge issued a final judgment in June 2007, her administration filed the opening brief with the appellate court in December 2007, a year after she took office.
With subsistence a hot political issue in Alaska, it's not unheard of for the state's top executive to become personally involved in litigation. In 2001, former governor Tony Knowles (D) stopped the state from taking a significant Native rights case to the U.S. Supreme Court after meeting with Katie John, the Native elder at the heart of the dispute.
"We must stop a losing legal strategy that threatens to make a permanent divide among Alaskans," Knowles, who remains popular among Alaska Natives, said at the time. "I believe Alaska must do everything it can to protect, not fight, the subsistence rights of rural Alaskans."
Knowles unsuccessfully ran against Palin for the governor's seat in 2006 and tried to make her lack of experience with Alaska Natives an issue in the campaign. After Palin canceled a meeting with Native executives, she acknowledged she didn't "know enough" about the issue.
"I didn't know enough about tribal government and we did not have time to do all the research to give the subject its due," Palin told The Anchorage Daily News in October 2006.
McCain supporters have noted that Palin's husband, Todd, is Alaska Native but his heritage doesn't appear to have brought about any major changes in the state's tumultuous relationship with Alaska Natives. State Republicans have long refused to accept the federal status of the more than 200 tribes in the state and they funded lengthy battles against Native subsistence rights.
Last year, Palin appointed a Native subsistence rights opponent to an important state board. She relented only after Native groups complained. A Native person was appointed instead.
The Palins are at the heart of an investigation into the firing of Walt Monegan, the first Alaska Native to serve as public safety commissioner. Todd Palin refused to testify before a state legislative panel that was created to look into the matter.
After firing Monegan, Palin appointed someone who was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint. That candidate withdrew amid controversy and she ended up appointing a Native person to the post.
9th Circuit Decision:
Alaska v. Federal Subsistence Board (September 23, 2008

I will 2nd that BabyGirl.

.... an investigation into the firing of Walt Monegan, ... a state legislative panel that was created to look into the matter.

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That's what I call a matter of national importance.

At least she didn't

get us into a war...

or skeezle the American public out of their homes...

or command a hedge fund that made billions off the misery of others...

or pretend that Wall Street dosen't need oversight and then profit off that stupidity...

I could go on...

Incoming...

Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement

*JEFFERSON CITY* - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights.  The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family.  Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility.  When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.”



http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem

Another Obama supporter from the Blue state out west. Everyone I talk to from CA supports Obama. My sister currently resides in CA. I still think many women will vote for McCain/Palin

Im convinced Barack Obama is not qualified nor has the experience or judgement required to be president. This should be interesting.

I did not see Couric but I did see McCain vs Obama debate. I think Obama lacks substance. I thought McCain came across well. No offense Albert but after that debate I thought someone would have to be a little off in the head to vote for Obama.

DONT,for all of our sakes!!!!!!!!!

BabyGirl, if she's half the person you are, she's got my vote.  

Kilt2 wrote: Sarah Palin     mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm   she is yummy   I have a major woody for her

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my comment:

Sarah is very attractive but you need to apply a technique I have used when swept away by a dynamic, attractive, woman. Close your eyes, forget the look, and listen to the words. Think of the call at 3 a.m. to a person who would be the commander in chief of our military and who would be called to lead our country and make huge decisions requiring years of experience and not just a successful campaign strategy. The aggressive hawklike (heavy on the word like) policies of not speaking softly and still carrying a huge stick, complete with tactical nuclear weapons to be used to attack Iran's hardened bunkers, may sound rough and tough in the media, but this is not a time for rough and tough. This is a time to consider every move, every strike, every policy which could have huge and lasting repercussions on our country.

Male, female, black, white is not the issue. The issue is experience. You cannot swap a banging hammer for change with one candidate who traveled around the world and knew most of the nations great leaders, how they ticked, and how far they could be pushed, and what would happened if they were pushed too far.

IMHO of course. This is not American Idol, this is selecting a possible president if McCain succumbs to melanoma after three surgeries for it.

We need a young a vital and energized leader like JFK, with experience. We need a door #3 and we don't have one. Considering the truly unstable world situation now in foreign policy we need a leader. This is not a matter of who voters identify with and vicariously imagine themselves as being elected.

Having lived in the shadow of the nuclear age for 60 years, are these people aware of what could be unleashed in a get tough show which may pull in Russia and China in a military confrontation with the U.S. Even Kennedy had a tough time with this and for those of us who know, or have known, we were that close to a global nuclear war.

Iran is developing nuclear weapons and putting them in shelters that can only be taken out by nukes. No progress at all was made in negotiating with Iran. They spent their time calling for the 2nd coming of the 12th Iman.

We could hope for a staff and cabinet around Obama that would make up for his lack of experience. We can hope.

Medclinician

We can only live our best lives...and help each other while...

 old movie stars, ball team owners, and soccer mom Govs keep the country distracted while the rich and infamous run the country.  We knew that.. right?

There has to be something there, she was a Governor after all.  New blood is good.  A woman even better. The country is run by a collective.  So not to worry if she is not good at off the cuff with Katie.  

Mary08 wrote: There has to be something there, she was a Governor after all.  New blood is good.  A woman even better. The country is run by a collective.  So not to worry if she is not good at off the cuff with Katie. Â

Did you not read my post earlier about 37 Sarah Palin lies? Doesn't sound like a good leader to me, unless you've liked Bushs' lies. D

Ok. I deeply love my country. I am sick of this like everyone else by now.  My husband has put Palin down since the announcement.  I think her experience ( or lack of political experience) maybe what we need working for Americans, she could give a new perspective.   Some of the smears about her are shameful.  This would never happen to Hillary. Palin is closer to the average woman than Hillary has ever seemed.  She seems more genuine than any candidate I have ever seen.  I plan on wathing the debate with my three daughters, I hope she inspires them and my oldest (13) remembers it as historical.  Anyone with daughters should use the opportunity to encourage them that she is living the American dream.   I just don't trust Obama ( maybe his name just reminds me of Osama- which some news outlets have begin spelling Usama-has anyone else noticed this?) I wish i could put my finger on why.  I have voted Dem. so I consider myself an undecided independent overall.     PS . I didnt like or watch Oprah that much before but now she is never to be on in my home ! She should have interviewed Palin prior to the election !