On Nov 15, 10:04*am, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:37 -0600, Ken Fortenberry

wrote:
Hey Rick, do you have an opinion as to what this means ?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009...AP-US-Palin-Bo...

Yes. *It means almost nothing. *It's a book by a pol. *If those are the only
"misstatements" it contains, I'd say the Obama administration needs to have her
number on speeddial...and an open line for Biden...

I did notice that many of the "facts" alleged as "corrections" of her claims are
not, in fact, _facts_, but rather, opinions as to the situation, or, unrelated
comments about other events. *For example:

"PALIN: "Was it ambition? I didn't think so. Ambition drives; purpose beckons."
Throughout the book, Palin cites altruistic reasons for running for office and
for leaving early as Alaska governor.

THE FACTS: Few politicians own up to wanting high office for the power and
prestige of it, and in this respect, Palin fits the conventional mold. But
"Going Rogue" has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto, the
requisite autobiography of the future candidate. "

Um, OK - where are the _facts_ in the "FACTS" that contradict "PALIN?"

and

"PALIN: Boasts that she ran her campaign for governor on small donations, mostly
from first-time givers, and turned back large checks from big donors if her
campaign perceived a conflict of interest.

THE FACTS: Of the roughly $1.3 million she raised for her primary and general
election campaigns for governor, more than half came from people and political
action committees giving at least $500, according to an AP analysis of her
campaign finance reports. The maximum that individual donors could give was
$1,000; $2,000 for a PAC.

Of the rest, about $76,000 came from Republican Party committees.

She accepted $1,000 each from a state senator and his wife and $30 from a state
representative in the weeks after the two Republican lawmakers' offices were
raided by the FBI as part of an investigation into a powerful Alaska oilfield
services company. After AP reported those donations during the presidential
campaign, she gave a comparative sum to charity."

Again, where are the _facts_ that dispute her? *Moreover, where is what she
actually "boasted," versus a paraphrasing of what she supposedly was "boasting?"

Even the ones that have specific numbers are not only not contradictions, they
are as silly as the "Obama doesn't know that there are 50, not 57, states...."
bit:

"PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as
Alaska governor, asking "only" for reasonably priced rooms and not "often" going
for the "high-end, robe-and-slippers" hotels.

THE FACTS: Although travel records indicate she usually opted for less-pricey
hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four
nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers
come standard) overlooking New York City's Central Park for a five-hour women's
leadership conference in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was
well over $3,000. Event organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her
daughter. The governor billed her state more than $20,000 for her children's
travel, including to events where they had not been invited, and in some cases
later amended expense reports to specify that they had been on official
business."

She spent "over $3000.00," including airfare, on a 5-day/4-night trip to
Manhattan 1 time, and that contradicts her position that she didn't "often" stay
at "high-end" hotels? *Do any of the NYT editors actually live - hell, have they
ever even been to Manhattan? *And she spent $20,000.00 on "children's travel"
during her 3 years or so in office? *She has 5 kids, one born while Guv, and all
of whom were under 18 when elected, including 2 that where, what about 5 and 7,
when she was elected? *Are they kidding? *A wag might enquire as to how much an
Obama date-night in Manhattan runs the US taxpayer...even when the POTUS uses
his points for dinner and theater tickets...or some of the, ahem, $1.4 mil or so
his campaign hauled out of Citibank and Goldman Sachs in contributions.....

HTH,
R

No, a wag would say something clever.

Moron.

g.