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Your argument doesn't make any sense if you are an Obama supporter.
She has Executive experience as govenor of Alaska.
Obama has none.
She has experience as commander of the Alaska National Guard.
Obama ordered some ghetto flunkies around once...:lol:
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Sly McCain has one upped Obama...this is brilliant.
You have to love the way they are going right after Hillary supporters in Ohio! Yes!
Look at the forum here if you don't believe me...this should be Obama's moment the day after his speech...everybody is talking about Palin! :lol:
You have to love the way they are going right after Hillary supporters in Ohio! Yes!
Look at the forum here if you don't believe me...this should be Obama's moment the day after his speech...everybody is talking about Palin! :lol:
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But Obama has zero experience...your position couldn't be more ridiculous.
Do you know what cognitive dissonance means?
Better look it up before your head explodes...:lol:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deflecting
MJ, the question was about Gov. Palin (lack of) experience NOT Sen. Obama hence your asinine attempt to deflect the issue at hand.
When you want to discuss the issue the OP posted or anything of substance then some D level defense mechanism then reply to me.
Desparate move and a virtual concession by McCain.
JUNEAU, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said at least two dozens calls were made from her staff members to Department of Public Safety officials questioning the employment of a trooper who went through a messy divorce with Palin's sister.
But Palin maintained none was done at her direction, a claim backed up by one administration member caught on tape.
Frank Bailey, the boards and commissions director, told The Associated Press he acted on his own – and not on behalf of Palin or her husband, Todd – when he called Ketchikan-based Lt. Rodney Dial, pushing for the firing of Trooper Mike Wooten.
“There was never any direction by the governor, never any direction by Todd to make the call or to make any call to DPS on this stuff,” Bailey said.
In the recorded conversation, Bailey is heard telling Dial: “Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, why on earth hasn't, why is this guy still representing the department? He's a horrible recruiting tool. ... You know, I mean from their perspective, everyone's protecting him.”
Palin said she heard the conversation for the first time on Tuesday when she returned to Anchorage from state business in Fairbanks. She said it was unclear why the recorded conversation only recently surfaced.
“It's embarrassing for me to disclose at this time a conversation has occurred, again unbeknownst to me,” she said at a hastily arranged news conference at her Anchorage office.
Bailey's conversation is one of about two dozen discussions discovered during a recent internal investigation conducted by the Department of Law, begun after a legislative panel hired an investigator to determine if Palin abused her power last month when firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
Attorney General Talis Colberg said his office talked to about 14 state employees, but only identified Bailey. Colberg said materials from the interviews will be turned over to the legislative investigator Stephen Branchflower.
“Some of these were fairly minimal type of contacts,” Colberg said. “Ultimately, I think Mr. Branchflower will focus on two or three people, but it's really up to him to decide.”
Monegan has claimed he felt pressured by members of Palin's family and administration to fire Wooten.
Palin said that neither Monegan nor anyone with the public safety department notified her of the Wooten-related contacts made on her behalf.
The Palins have accused Wooten of drunken driving, illegal hunting and firing a Taser at his 11-year-old stepson, Palin's nephew. These allegations led to an internal investigation, which occurred before she ran for governor.
Todd Palin has said the family was concerned about the governor's safety, claiming Wooten threatened to kill Sarah Palin's father and made vague threats to her. Todd Palin has said he took concerns about Wooten directly to Monegan.
Bailey said the only time he heard Palin discuss Wooten was during a security briefing shortly after she was elected in November 2006.
“From that point on I've had a concern this person could fly off the handle and do something terrible to the governor, to her family or to the public,” he said of his motivation to make the phone call. “I cannot stress enough that they have never asked me to follow up on this. It's never been implied, nothing like that.”
Palin and Colberg on Wednesday said a CD of Bailey's recorded conversation and notes from the others are to be turned over to Branchflower, a retired Anchorage prosecutor hired by the Legislature in the $100,000 investigation.
Palin said besides Bailey, the calls were made by members of her administration including former Chief of Staff Mike Tibbles – now with the campaign office of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens – and Colberg.
At Wednesday's news conference, Colberg admitted he placed one of the calls, but was satisfied when Monegan told him he had done everything he could. Tibbles didn't immediately return a phone call to the AP seeking comment.
“Many of these inquiries were completely appropriate,” Palin said. “The serial nature of the contacts understandably could be perceived as some kind of pressure presumably at my direction.”
But it was Bailey's conversation with a trooper that Palin said was “most disturbing” and “problematic”
“Mr. Bailey seemed to be speaking on my behalf, but Mr. Bailey was not speaking for me,” Palin said. “His comments were unauthorized as well as just wrong.”
Palin said no decision has been made about Bailey's employment status.
Palin also absolved Department of Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer, whom Monegan previously named as those among the administration who pressured him.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20080813-1956-wst-moneganfiring.html
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Swiftboats start your engines.
JUNEAU, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said at least two dozens calls were made from her staff members to Department of Public Safety officials questioning the employment of a trooper who went through a messy divorce with Palin's sister.
But Palin maintained none was done at her direction, a claim backed up by one administration member caught on tape.
Frank Bailey, the boards and commissions director, told The Associated Press he acted on his own – and not on behalf of Palin or her husband, Todd – when he called Ketchikan-based Lt. Rodney Dial, pushing for the firing of Trooper Mike Wooten.
“There was never any direction by the governor, never any direction by Todd to make the call or to make any call to DPS on this stuff,” Bailey said.
In the recorded conversation, Bailey is heard telling Dial: “Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, why on earth hasn't, why is this guy still representing the department? He's a horrible recruiting tool. ... You know, I mean from their perspective, everyone's protecting him.”
Palin said she heard the conversation for the first time on Tuesday when she returned to Anchorage from state business in Fairbanks. She said it was unclear why the recorded conversation only recently surfaced.
“It's embarrassing for me to disclose at this time a conversation has occurred, again unbeknownst to me,” she said at a hastily arranged news conference at her Anchorage office.
Bailey's conversation is one of about two dozen discussions discovered during a recent internal investigation conducted by the Department of Law, begun after a legislative panel hired an investigator to determine if Palin abused her power last month when firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
Attorney General Talis Colberg said his office talked to about 14 state employees, but only identified Bailey. Colberg said materials from the interviews will be turned over to the legislative investigator Stephen Branchflower.
“Some of these were fairly minimal type of contacts,” Colberg said. “Ultimately, I think Mr. Branchflower will focus on two or three people, but it's really up to him to decide.”
Monegan has claimed he felt pressured by members of Palin's family and administration to fire Wooten.
Palin said that neither Monegan nor anyone with the public safety department notified her of the Wooten-related contacts made on her behalf.
The Palins have accused Wooten of drunken driving, illegal hunting and firing a Taser at his 11-year-old stepson, Palin's nephew. These allegations led to an internal investigation, which occurred before she ran for governor.
Todd Palin has said the family was concerned about the governor's safety, claiming Wooten threatened to kill Sarah Palin's father and made vague threats to her. Todd Palin has said he took concerns about Wooten directly to Monegan.
Bailey said the only time he heard Palin discuss Wooten was during a security briefing shortly after she was elected in November 2006.
“From that point on I've had a concern this person could fly off the handle and do something terrible to the governor, to her family or to the public,” he said of his motivation to make the phone call. “I cannot stress enough that they have never asked me to follow up on this. It's never been implied, nothing like that.”
Palin and Colberg on Wednesday said a CD of Bailey's recorded conversation and notes from the others are to be turned over to Branchflower, a retired Anchorage prosecutor hired by the Legislature in the $100,000 investigation.
Palin said besides Bailey, the calls were made by members of her administration including former Chief of Staff Mike Tibbles – now with the campaign office of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens – and Colberg.
At Wednesday's news conference, Colberg admitted he placed one of the calls, but was satisfied when Monegan told him he had done everything he could. Tibbles didn't immediately return a phone call to the AP seeking comment.
“Many of these inquiries were completely appropriate,” Palin said. “The serial nature of the contacts understandably could be perceived as some kind of pressure presumably at my direction.”
But it was Bailey's conversation with a trooper that Palin said was “most disturbing” and “problematic”
“Mr. Bailey seemed to be speaking on my behalf, but Mr. Bailey was not speaking for me,” Palin said. “His comments were unauthorized as well as just wrong.”
Palin said no decision has been made about Bailey's employment status.
Palin also absolved Department of Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer, whom Monegan previously named as those among the administration who pressured him.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20080813-1956-wst-moneganfiring.html
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Swiftboats start your engines.
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Yes...of course she can lead. And she has better credentials than Obama.
Yes Americans will buy into her...they will believe she can lead.
And again...it can be pointed out she has more experience than the Presidential candidate on the other side. A nice bonus.
I hope to god Dems attack her...she has a reputation in Alaska for turning that right around on you.
Please do it. It will only inflame the women voters....this is brilliant!
