Think CHeney is a evil sob? Our next vp will be worse!!

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is ³Racist, Sexist,
Vindictive, And Mean²
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isper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
September 5, 2008
³So Sambo beat the bitch!² Sarah Palin

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described
Barack Obama¹s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a
restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party
presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and
who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch
with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat¹s primary
battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at
nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed
loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

³It was kind of disgusting,² Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in
a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being
discovered telling folks in the ³lower 48² about life near the North
Pole.

Then, almost with a sigh, she added, ³But that¹s just Alaska.²

Racial and ethnic slurs may be ³just Alaska² and, clearly, they are
common, everyday chatter for Palin.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N¹-Fetch-It, ³darkie musical²
swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska¹s
Aboriginal people as ³Arctic Arabs² * how efficient, lumping two
apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description * as well as
the more colourful ³mukluks² along with the totally unimaginative
³f**king Eskimo¹s,² according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians
interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg.
According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also
vindictive and mean. We¹re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican
Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it¹s in their
genetic code. So much for McCain¹s pledge of a ³high road² campaign;
Palin is incapable of being part of one.

Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It¹s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically
about Palin * especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For
one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines
into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a
recording told me that ³all circuits are busy² or numbers just
wouldn¹t ring. I should think a state that¹s been made richer than God
by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.

On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly
Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they¹re
afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine.
Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.

³The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,² an insurance agent
in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. ³It¹s corrupt and
arrogant. They¹re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals
with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if
they have to.²

³Once Palin became mayor,² he continued, ³She became part of that
inner circle.²

Like most other people interviewed, he didn¹t want his name used out
of fear of retribution. Maybe it¹s the long winter nights where you
don¹t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they¹re
under constant danger from ³the authorities.² As I interviewed
residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the
state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See
nothing that¹s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political
commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into
a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.

Alright, that¹s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little
sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But
there¹s ample evidence of Palin¹s vindictive willingness to destroy
people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator
she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin
demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the
book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.

Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the
party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into
trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a
recall campaign.

³People who fought her attempt to oust the librarian are on her
enemies list to this day,² states Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla resident
and one of the few Alaskans willing to speak on-the-record, for
attribution, about Palin. In fact, Kilkenny actually circulated an e-
mail letter about Palin that was verified and printed by The Nation.

For good measure, Palin booted the Wasilla police chief from office
because, she told a local newspaper, he ³intimidated² her.

Running on Extreme Fringe Evangelical Views
Sarah Palin drew early attention from state GOP apparatchiks when,
during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion
platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan
municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her
extreme fringe evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state
capitol, state Republicans tossed some money behind her campaign.

Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone
who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything
but.

³She¹s doesn¹t like different opinions and she refuses to compromise,²
Kilkenny notes. ³When she was mayor, she fought ideas that weren¹t
hers. Worse, ideas weren¹t evaluated on their merits but on the basis
of who proposed them.²

Sound familiar? Palin may well be Dick Cheney¹s reincarnate.

Something else has a familiar Republican ring to it: Her tax policies,
and a ³refund surpluses but borrow for the future² attitude.

According to Kilkenny and others in Wasilla as well as Juneau, Palin
reduced progressive property taxes for businesses while mayor and
increased a regressive sales tax which even hits necessities such as
food. The tax cuts she promoted in her St. Paul speech actually
benefited large corporate property owners far more than they benefited
residents. Indeed, Kilkenny insists that many Wasilla home owners
actually saw their tax bill skyrocket to make up for the shortfall.
Two other Wasillian¹s with whom I spoke said property taxes on their
modest, three bedroom homes rose during the Palin regime.

To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with
zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with
$22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor *
especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the
city¹s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment
plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer¹s money on, if not
fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?

For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a
matter of fact.

Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one
other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled
out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that
she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the
land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and
lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original
estimated price of the facility.

She also worked hard to get voters approval of a $5.5 million bond
proposal for roads that could have been built without borrowing.
Anchorage may not be the center of the financial universe but, like
good Republicans everywhere, Sarah Palin knows how to please Alaskan
bankers and bond dealers.

For good measure, she turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box
stores and disconnected parking lots.

Sarah Barracuda
En route to the governor¹s igloo, Palin managed to land what Anne
Kilkenny says is the plumb political appointment in the state: Chair
of Alaska¹s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), a $122,400 per
year patronage slot with no real authority to do anything other than
hold meetings. She took the job despite having no background in energy
issues and, as it turned out, not liking the work.

³She hated the job,² an OGCC staff member who is not authorized to
speak with the news media told me. ³She hated the hours and she hated
what little work there was to do. But she couldn¹t figure out a way to
get out of the thing without offending Gov. Murkowski² and the state
Republican Party regulars, some of whom were ****ed off they didn¹t
get appointed.

But ever the opportunist, Palin quickly concocted a way. First, she
waged a campaign with the local news media claiming that the position
was overpaid and should be abolished * despite the fact that she
lobbied Murkowski hard to get it. Then, mounting what she saw as a
white horse, Palin raised a cloud of dust by resigning from the OGCC
and riding away with an undeserved reputation as a ³reformer.²

But when a local reporter dared to suggest that the reformer Empress
has no clothes, Palin tried to get her fired.

³She came at me like I was trying to steal her kids,² said the
targeted reporter, who now works for an oil company in Anchorage. ³I
heard she had a wild temper and vicious mean streak but it¹s nothing
like you can imagine until she turns it on you.²

Not surprising since some of her high school classmates still openly
call her ³Sarah Barracuda,² Kilkenny insists.

Still, as a Republican Party hack Palin managed to get herself elected
running under the false flag of a ³reformer.²

And what did she bring to the job? No legislative experience other
than a city council of a village of 5,000 people, which is smaller
than some high schools in Chicago. Little hands-on supervisory or
managerial experience; after all, she needed to hire a city
administrator to run Wasilla. No executive experience, except for
almost being recalled as mayor. A philosophy of setting public policy
based on one word: No.

And what has she done since winning the job?

According to Kilkenny, nothing. Well, nothing other than suggesting
the state¹s multi-multi-million dollar, oil-generated surplus be
distributed to residents and finance future state needs by borrowing
money. Gee, doesn¹t that sound precisely what George Bush did with the
surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton in 2001 and we all know in what
great shape Bush¹s economic policies left the nation.

It may explain why, when asked by reporters, including me, what she
thought about Palin being picked to be McCain¹s running mate, her
mother-in-law replied with a sardonic, ³What has Sarah done to qualify
her to be vice president?² Of course, when the woman * said by many I
spoke with to be well-respected in Wasilla * was running to succeed
Palin as mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her, so that may explain the
family tension.

As Governor, Palin gave the legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, according to the chair of a legislative committee. But
then she staged a huge grandstand play of line-item vetoing countless
projects, calling them pork. ³They were restored because of public
outcry and legislative action,² the aide said. ³She vetoed them mostly
because she had no idea what they were or why they were important.²

But it was enough to get the McCain, who is mostly unobservant of the
world around him anyway, to think Palin has a reputation as being
³anti-pork².

In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as
far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She
only opposed the ³bridge to nowhere² after it became clear that it
would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders
assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly
humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.

As for being ³ready on day one² to be commander in chief, despite the
repeated public claims she¹s made, the Alaska National Guard commander
said that, ³she has made no command decisions, other than sending some
troops to help fight a few brush fires and march in parades at county
fairs.²

³Sambo Beat the Bitch²
³Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,² someone who thinks
these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin¹s
tenure in Alaska state and local politics.

³She¹s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,² is the more blunt assessment of
Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now
a businessman in Idaho.

³Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,² he adds.
³These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone
not white and good looking actually, were around long before she
became a glint in John McCain¹s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they¹re
true? Because everyone who isn¹t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks
that way.²

³Sambo beat the bitch² may be everyday language up in the bush.
Whether it * and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects
when she says such things in public * should be part of a presidential
campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about
McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about
Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and
vote anyway for McCain.

"NA" wrote in message
...

³So Sambo beat the bitch!² Sarah Palin

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described
Barack Obama¹s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a
restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party
presidential nomination.

If truly narrated, this means that Mrs. Palin was unaware of the
Democratic party's decision until "a few days after . . . " This
seems so unlikely as to cast doubt on the whole anecdote by
"Lucille, who is part Aboriginal . . . "

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

In article ,
"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"NA" wrote in message
...

³So Sambo beat the bitch!² Sarah Palin

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described
Barack Obama¹s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a
restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party
presidential nomination.

If truly narrated, this means that Mrs. Palin was unaware of the
Democratic party's decision until "a few days after . . . " This
seems so unlikely as to cast doubt on the whole anecdote by
"Lucille, who is part Aboriginal . . . "

Where does it say she found out about Obama winning? She was just
talking about it. Typical DIck Cheney Chicanery. You are talking about
Palin's vp lock up over a week after it happened and you didn't "just
find out about it", yet Palin's discussing it to a friend causes you to
use the non sequitur that she just found out.

Think CHeney is a evil sob? Our next vp will be worse!! DICKLESS
CHANEY = Palin

On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:17:14 -0400, wrote:



No kiddin'? Who'da thunked it?

Idiot.

Davey