Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials….
In Wasilla, a builder said he complained to Mayor Palin when the city attorney put a stop-work order on his housing project. She responded, he said, by engineering the attorney’s firing.
She even referred to her critics as “haters.” This person can’t be allowed anywhere near the West Wing, or anywhere in DC where she could be making the decisions, grasping her hands around the necks of people in power – hiring her friends and firing her foes as she and McSame see fit. This is more of the same – when cronyism and politicizing the bureaucracy have been a disaster these past 8 years.
If this doesn’t inspire people to get involved in Obama’s campaign, I don’t know what will. And the quotes were only from page one of 5 in the online story! (Also in there – some of the books she tried to have banned on request of her church friends, without even reading those books to see if they were deserving.)
I know that there’s an organized carpool, maybe even bus, picking up people at Peabody and Newburyport for NH every single Saturday, to help Obama. I plan on going next weekend. If any others would like to join me, please do so. Just respond in the comments and give me an email – and I’ll tell you who to get in touch with.
Comment from Alterecation today:
she wasn’t part of the Arabian Horse Association was she?
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p>I’m John McSame and I approve this message.
I can’t imagine anyone, no matter whether you’re liberal or conservative, thinking that the country should be run like Tammany Hall, with personality or “connections” substituting for competence and qualifications.
making the label “Four More Years” really stick.
What will happen next, getting Evacuation Day off? Luckily, Mass is a state where none of that kind of thing ever happens. I can understand how many of you are “frightened” by such behavior. Maybe we should call Howie Carr and ask him if this kind of thing has ever occurred in the Bay State?? Maybe once or twice…
to absurd proportions. It’s one thing to give a job to a qualified professional who you know can do the job and has helped you get there; it’s quite another to give a childhood friend the top agricultural job because they like cows.
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p>I do not think it unreasonable to give people who you trust – and who have experience in that field – a spot in an administration… but quite another when you put them as head of a huge government agency with actual responsibilities. The bar must be higher there.
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p>No one would know and/or care if Bush made Michael Brown something akin to his press secretary, but when you put Brown in charge of fucking FEMA then we get the clusterfuck job that was done after Katrina.
Early in the Iraq occupation, the Bush Administration filled the offices of the Provisional Authority in Iraq with young, just-out-of-college Republican activists who knew very little about what they were doing and even less Arabic. The Defense Department was in charge of this operation. Two classes of people were frozen out for fear of not being on board of the program: members of the State Department and Arabists.
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p>This is why Palin is another sign that the McCain-Palin ticket is a continuation of Bush policies by other means. When one places loyalty above expertise in government functions, the results are entirely predictable. There is a name for such results.
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p>Failure.