Sarah Palin Was as Bad as We Thought
With the election a distant memory and the McCain and Palin teams publicly discussing their internal battles, we learn the following...
From Newsweek's Special Election Project comes the real Sarah Palin. She met staff members in a towel:
At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute," she said.
Then Fox News's Carl Cameron repeats venomous off-the-record remarks made by frustrated staff, on condition they not be revealed until after the election:
The transcript goes as follows:
Fox's Smith: Now that the election is over, Carl, tell us more about all those reports of infighting between Palin and McCain staffers.
Fox's Cameron: Well I wish I could have told you more at the time but all of it was put off the record until after the election. There was great concern in the McCain campaign that Sarah Palin lacked the degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, and a heartbeat away from the presidency. We are told by folks that she didn't know what countries that were in NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement—that being the Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. We're told that she didn't understand that Africa was a continent rather than a ... country just in itself. A whole host of questions that caused serious problems about her knowledgeability. She got very angry at staff, thought that she was mishandled, was particularly angry about the way the Katie Couric interview went. She didn't accept preparation for that interview when the aides say that that was part of the problem. And that there were times that she was hard to control emotionally. There's talk of temper tantrums at bad news clippings ...
I've written before and been skewered for same when I questioned Governor Palin's intelligence. Turns out I was more than right to do so.
I am no fan of Sarah Palin, but it seems petty for McCain staffers, who put her before McCain as a great running mate, should now be mocking her. Leave her alone and let her crawl back into the iceberg from whence she escaped. Paying her any more attention only increases her hunger for public attention.
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Bonnie The Bigot
Bonnie, your bigotry is only matched by your misguided belief that you actually have an opinion that matters. I could provide the usual hate twitters that you gleefully evoke from the right-wing kooks, however, as you know it's a waste of time to think that a biased liberal, such as yourself, holds any compassion, let alone any possibility of serious contemplation to any conservative doctrine. You and the rest of your PBS ilk (and supporters of serfdom) are truly the current hate-filled promoters of the soft-tyranny that's overtaking the USA. Someday soon, when the governmenet has control of most every aspect of the freedoms we once enjoyed (plus control of all your money...Oops, I mean "the people's" money) you just may have regret for unwavering support of such tryanny as found in the current party of the Democrats.
New Leadership...
She was a good candidate for VP, but as a leader of the party, I'm not sure the mainstream media would allow her fairness in a run against the left-wing illuminati, as before.
Debt
I agree, we should stop the character assassination of Palin and McCain and start concentrating on how we're going to get out of this mess. Do you realize that the U.S. government owes $2.67 trillion dollars? That represents 20% of our GDP. We owe China, $541 billion— up from $61.5 billion in 2001 — a 9-fold increase. We owe Russia $74.4 billion — up from $10 billion in 2001— a 7-fold increase. We owe Japan, $585.9 billion; United Kingdom, $307.4 billion; OPEC nations, $179.8 billion; Caribbean banking centers, $147.7 billion.
It seems we need to go to a pay-as-you-go system which is a lot better than borrowing up to our eyeballs. Look what the Republican administration and the greedy Wall Streeters have saddled the next generation with. I think we need to be prepared to pay some taxes now and if we had payed some as we went along we wouldn't have this huge debt. Paying for what you get as you go like most Americans, would keep the budget balanced. I never have understood the wisdom or lack of it of borrowing instead of paying for it as you go. How about sending a bill to Iraq for them to pitch in and spend the $80 billion they have stashed. That would take care of about 8 months that we are spending $10 billion a month.
The debt ceiling has been moved upward three times during the Bush administration and it is now at $10 trillion.
Fine all those who got big CEO balloon deals and get the money back from them. Get the oil companies to invest some of their tremendous profits in alternative energy Wind Farms and Nuclear Plants and refineries. If everybody that ripped off the American tax payer was made to forfeit their big profits, we could start crawling out of the whole they have dumped us in.
The Bush administration has lied to the American people time and time again. When are you people going to understand that. Cheney has led us down the wrong path. I am so tired of hearing that he is a born again Christian — that would turn me off right there if that is the example. Quit drinking the kool-aid and think for yourself. I voted against every incumbent that was running. How about you? Throw all the bums out during the next election and in two more cycles, we could get rid of a bunch of the professional govt. people.
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