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  • Posted By: FennGibbon @ 09/06/2008 12:28:05 PM

    I rather like how the article only specifically referred to "allegations" that Wooten had tasered his stepson and illegally shot a moose, thus creating a patina that Wooten wasn't all that bad, and so any expressed comments of concern by the Palins could be seen as pettiness. In reality, of course, Wooten had (no mere "allegation," but actually fact), among other things, tasered his stepson, been caught drinking in a patrol car, and threatened to have his father-in-law "eat a <expletive> lead bullet" if he helped his daughter in the divorce. And, of course, all of this was known when he was punished with a 5 day suspension (reduced from 10 days after the troopers' union complained). Now, I don't know about other people, but while the tasering and drinking might only warrant suspension (though for more than 10 days), I'm rather disturbed that a state trooper making death threats would be treated so cavalierly by the powers that be.

    Oh, and I can't help but notice that you didn't mention that the tape recording showing Bailey asking about Wooten (after Palin had denied any officials were involved) had been released by Palin herself, after an investigation she had launched into the matter, and the release was part of an apololgy on her part for being mistaken in her earlier denials (she had been unaware of the actions of others when she made her first statement).

    But if you reported any that, it wouldn't leave the impression of a petty, vindictive woman ready to abuse her power, and you wouldn't want to do that, would you?

  • Posted By: Yes! We ALL Can @ 09/06/2008 12:25:09 PM

    Comment: Good! We don't want someone as closed minded as you to vote for a president that is obviously far above your level of thinking!! It's too bad that your mind is so small and narrow that you would simply disqualify someone becuase of thier name. How ______ist are you? I'll let you choose whatever word to fill in the blank that best describes you. I hope and pray that you will really take a look at this man and his policies and reconsider your vote.

    I hope you ask yourself - Am I better off today than I was 4 or 8 years ago with Bush & McCain? I know your answer is NO. Newsflash - our lives will not get any better in the next 4 years with McCain as president.

    Obama will begin to change this and you will experience the best America has to offer similiar to how everyone did when Bill Clinton did. Regardless of Clinton's personal life - he led this country with great instinct, vision, judgement, pease and more money, jobs and health care for all. Barack will do this for you again. Believe in him that he can do it - you already KNOW that McCain and Bush cannot not. If so, why hasn't he done it already?!!

    No way, no how, no Bush-McCain and Palin!

    Obama-Biden '08 and '12!!!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 12:04:54 PM

    1. The Bill Ayers Story is retarded, the Man is a University Professor, is not this Terror to the Nation as you would assess him to be... If Ayers was this National Security or TERRORIST THREAT to AMERICA...

    Ayers would be... A.) In Federal Prison For Life or B.) Dead as a Door Knob...

    The CIA, The FBI and the President would make Bill Ayers REAL HISTORY !!

    So Stop the Sean Hannity, Rush Limabugh & Anne Coulter A!! Wiping and Bull-Spitting..OK


    2.This Story is not about Mike Wooten, who has Admitted to his WRONGDOINGS, he's STILL an Alaskan Policeman. Wooten was only Suspended 5 Days. he's still a Policeman. Everybody knows that policemen by an large are Steroided Out, Mental Cases, with a Badge an Most have Citations of Varying Degrees, based on how long they've served and what Department.

    Note: Its the Man Sarah Palin Security Administrator and Palin's Administrations Constant Harassment and Bullying, via Palin's ABUSE OF POWER, THAT HAS HER P-SSY IN A RINGER...

    NOT WOOTEN..I REPAEAT NOT WOOTEN....

    WOOTEN IS THE DISTRACTION...IT'S SARAH PALIN THAT IS THE FOCUS, BASED ON "ABUSE OF POWER"

    GETTING ILLEGAL ACCESS TO WOOTEN'S RECORDS.WHICH IS AGAINST ALASKAN STATE LAW, MAYBE EVEN FEDERAL LAW ?

    WOOTEN IS SCOTT FREE...PALIN SHOULD'VE LEFT IT ALONE, LIKE NOT LEAVING THAT LIBRARIAN ALONE, WHO SUED AND WON AND HAS HER LIBRARIAN JOB BACK.

    SARAH PALIN: SHE IS A GOOD OLE GIRL POLITICIAN, WHO JUST AS "GOOD OLE GIRL" DOING WHAT THE "GOOD OLE GUYS DO"

  • Posted By: day678 @ 09/06/2008 12:01:28 PM

    Sarah Palin is just Ann Coulter in disguise. Gotta love the stupidity of the Repubs.

  • Posted By: Mtobias @ 09/06/2008 11:47:29 AM

    Palin is too extreme for America.
    Supports Creationism in the school
    Denies Global Warming
    Collects soft money for indicted Senator: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html#more


    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html#more

  • Posted By: dr doug @ 09/06/2008 11:40:02 AM

    Surprise! Surprise! The McCain campaign has their hands in the stifling of the investigation! Is this the way the "reformer" does things? I hope the press badgers Mc Cain and Palin about this until they are so embarrassed they let the investigation go on unimpeded. POLITICS IS SO DISGUSTING!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:29:49 AM


    Palin has said...

    "The War In Iraq is for Oil"

    "The War in Iraq, is for Natural Resources"

    She also said that she "Like or Agreed with Sen. Obama's Energy Plan"

    She also Thanked Obama for the "Stimulus Checks The Alaskan People and Americans Recieved this Summer, Because the Alaskan People were really being HIT HARD by the HIGH PRICE of GAS and OTHER EXPENSES"

    How is this Witch going to be able to AVOID these Contradictions...How in the He!! will she be able to DANCE AROUND HER OWN WORDS !!!!

    She was for the so called Bridge to Nowhere, until it was politically expediant to be Against it and the Governemnt REFUSED to give her MORE MILLIONS to accomplish the job.

    The So Called Alaskan Gas Pipeline, Palin Bragged about in her Speech Wednesday, WILL NOT BE FINISHED UNTIL THE YEAR (2019) !!!

    Palin is Not Against Government Hand outs, in EarMarks as she Claimed in her SPEECH, the town of Wasilla LIVES OFF GOVERMENT MILLIONS at then Mayor Palin's REQUEST !!!

    The People of Kitchakin Alaska surely did not feel that their Town ws Nowhere they are Pissed at Palin for Demeaning their Town, their People and the Bridge She Supported !!!

    You know "The Little Guys, the ones she is suppose to Champion, the ones she Promised she would help by building this Bridge"

    This Witch is a FRAUD !!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:28:17 AM

    Note: The Alaskan Independence Party's objective has always been to get AIP Members, to become a part of either Democrat or Republican Party's, then use those members to Achieve their Objectives and that is to have the Oil, Gas & Natural Resources State of Alaska to Secede this Union, making the Union 49 States, opposed to 50. The AIP believes that the Vote to make ALASKA the 49th state in the Union, was an ILLEGAL and CORRUPT VOTE, therefore the VOTE was ILLEGAL and such a VOTE is to be VOIDED !!!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:27:32 AM

    This Woman, Sarah Palin was not Vetted at All and she's a FRAUD !!!

    A governor had been elected on its ticket in 1990, when the party was not even a decade old. And membership was swelling.

    Big Note: Among the new recruits was (Todd Palin) whose wife, Sarah Palin, would later become Governor???

    The Palins attended the party???s convention in their hometown, Wasilla, in 1994, according to party officials, where the party called for a revote on statehood and a draft constitution for an independent Republic of Alaska. Mr. Palin joined the party. Ms. Palin remained a Republican and never joined the Alaskan Independence Party, but returned to its convention in 2006 to speak as candidate for governor. After she had been elected, she recorded a video greeting that was played at the party convention this year. ???Good luck on a successful and inspiring convention,??? she said. ???Keep up the good work, and God bless you.???

    Now that she is the Republican nominee for vice president ??? for a campaign whose motto is ???Country first??? ??? the couple???s interaction with the Alaskan Independence Party has gotten attention because of its reputation as a secessionist group. Alaskan Independence Party officials released a statement Monday saying that Ms. Palin had been a member for two years, from 1994 to 1996, information included in reports in The New York Times and other news outlets. In Internet videos of recent party meetings, other party officials can be seen boasting of Ms. Palin???s past membership.

    THE BIG COVER UP: On Tuesday, though, the party???s chairwoman, Lynette Clark, said the earlier statement was false. Ms. Clark said that she had based it on information another party member had given her, but that a review of the records showed only that Ms. Palin had attended the 1994 conference. Ms. Clark added that while the review confirmed Todd Palin as a member, it did not indicate that Ms. Palin had been one.

    On Wednesday, Ms. Clark released a corrected statement, saying, in part, ???I, foolishly, repeated and accepted as fact what an officer of this membership shared with myself, and husband Dexter Clark, over a year ago.???

    Mr.Todd Palin registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995, remaining a member for all but two months of the next seven years, until he registered as an UNDECLARED voter in July 2002.

    he Alaskan Independence Party???s Web site, akip.org, which includes the motto ???Alaska First ??? Alaska Always??? in its banner, describes party members as seeking ???a range of solutions to the conflicts between federal and local authority,??? including ???advocacy for state???s rights, through a return to territorial status, all the way to complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska.??? It calls for repatriation of lands held by the federal government ???to the state and people of Alaska,??? as well as, among other issues, the right to home-school children and the privatization of government ser

  • Posted By: bamalady @ 09/06/2008 11:25:07 AM

    The republicans are saying it is political and they want to move the investigation to another venue because of politics becoming involved. What is this? Republican Speaker of the House John Harris is this not BIG politics? I am hoping everything continues and their cutting this investigation short does not indicate that the BIG government has spoken again. It looks as if you really can't fight "City Hall". Smells like another cover up by the Republicans.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:23:26 AM

    Barack Obama: 110th Congress

    In the first month of the newly Democratic-controlled 110th Congress, Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D???WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the "Honest Leadership and Open Government Act," which was signed into law in September 2007.

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    He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.

    Obama's energy initiatives scored pluses and minuses with environmentalists, who welcomed his sponsorship with John McCain (R-AZ) of a climate change bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two-thirds by 2050, but were skeptical of his support for a bill promoting liquefied coal production.

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    Obama also introduced the "Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007," a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008.

    Later in 2007, Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, and calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs.

    He sponsored the "Iran Sanctions Enabling Act" supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran's oil and gas industry, and joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.

    -------------------------------------------

    A provision from the Obama-Hagel bill was passed by Congress in December 2007 as an amendment to the State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill.

    Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries.

    After passing both houses of Congress with bipartisan majorities, SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush in early October 2007, a move Obama said "shows a callousness of priorities that is offensive to the ideals we hold as Americans.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:21:31 AM

    Following meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq in January 2006, Obama visited Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. At a meeting with Palestinian students two weeks before Hamas won the legislative election,

    --------------------------------------------------------

    Obama warned that "the U.S. will never recognize winning Hamas candidates unless the group renounces its fundamental mission to eliminate Israel."

    He left for his third official trip in August 2006, traveling to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. In a nationally televised speech at the University of Nairobi, he spoke forcefully on the influence of ethnic rivalries and corruption in Kenya.

    The speech touched off a public debate among rival leaders, some formally challenging Obama's remarks as unfair and improper, others defending his positions.

    110th Congress

    In the first month of the newly Democratic-controlled 110th Congress, Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D???WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the "Honest Leadership and Open Government Act," which was signed into law in September 2007.

    -------------------------------------

    He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.

    Obama's energy initiatives scored pluses and minuses with environmentalists, who welcomed his sponsorship with John McCain (R-AZ) of a climate change bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two-thirds by 2050, but were skeptical of his support for a bill promoting liquefied coal production.

    ---------------------------

    Obama also introduced the "Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007," a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008.

    Later in 2007, Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, and calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs.

    He sponsored the "Iran Sanctions Enabling Act" supporting divestment of state pension funds from Iran's oil and gas industry, and joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.

  • Posted By: MaCoNeSu @ 09/06/2008 11:20:59 AM

    She is there for the ignorant white trash vote, plain and simple. The Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter/hate radio listeners. What I think will surprise many Republicans that many of the so called ignorant white trash people, although undereducated, have an inherent BS detector and an instinct to move away from it.

  • Posted By: thatwasme @ 09/06/2008 11:06:55 AM

    Great article from the reporters at LeftWeek.

    • Posted By: IGGY @ 09/06/2008 11:20:12 AM

      Smear Tactics calling it LeftWeek. Just wishing that the problem will go away calling names. Would the mortgage crisis, tensions in the middle east, tensions in the relationship with Russia, 6.1% unemployment, falling stock market, record budget deficit, soaring food prices, gas price, and more will go away if you just call them names, democratic hysteria?

      Go for it Newsweek, we can't let spin doctors run the country at this crucial moment.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:17:47 AM

    Barack has State & Federal Laws with his Name On Them...

    Has Sarah Palin or Rudy Giuliani ...He!! No !!

    As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

    In August 2005, he traveled to Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. The trip focused on strategies to control the world's supply of conventional weapons, biological weapons, and weapons of mass destruction as a first defense against potential terrorist attacks.

    Following meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq in January 2006, Obama visited Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. At a meeting with Palestinian students two weeks before Hamas won the legislative election,

    --------------------------------------------------------

    Obama warned that "the U.S. will never recognize winning Hamas candidates unless the group renounces its fundamental mission to eliminate Israel."

    He left for his third official trip in August 2006, traveling to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. In a nationally televised speech at the University of Nairobi, he spoke forcefully on the influence of ethnic rivalries and corruption in Kenya.

    The speech touched off a public debate among rival leaders, some formally challenging Obama's remarks as unfair and improper, others defending his positions.

    110th Congress

    In the first month of the newly Democratic-controlled 110th Congress, Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D???WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the "Honest Leadership and Open Government Act," which was signed into law in September 2007.

    -------------------------------------

    He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.

    Obama's energy initiatives scored pluses and minuses with environmentalists, who welcomed his sponsorship with John McCain (R-AZ) of a climate change bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two-thirds by 2050, but were skeptical of his support for a bill promoting liquefied coal production.

    ---------------------------

    Obama also introduced the "Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007," a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008.

    Later in 2007, Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, and calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs.

  • Posted By: BrentfromChicago @ 09/06/2008 11:16:29 AM

    For those who don't know the facts behindthe case, AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION by the state troopers found that State Trooper Mike Wooten 1) Used a taser on his 11 year-old son, 2) Drank beer in his squad car, 3) Illegally shot a moose, and 4) THREATENED TO KILL GOVERNOR PALIN'S FATHER . The fact that he wasn't fired is a testament to the Alaskan good ol' boy problem that Sarah Palin has been trying to stop.

    Why the Obamaniacs are defending this piece of crap is beyond me.

    But this is from the same guy, Barack Obama, who called William Ayers "respectable" and "mainstream." Evidently Obama is a very poor judge of character.

  • Posted By: MaCoNeSu @ 09/06/2008 11:15:30 AM

    Ah, four or more years of pummeling the press for trying to do its job. We have a responsibility to find out everything there is to know about this woman's history, character and what it will mean to our future. Her personal life demonstrates a lack of "truthiness" and a pretty narrow ignorant point of view.
    Our country is not a homogeneous little small white Alaskan community where she and her husband could bully people into submitssion.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:14:27 AM

    For a Jr. Senator and a Person as Un-Informed as Sarah Palin & Rudy "Mr. 911" Giuliani on Obama's Success, who called Obama a "Social Activist" & "He's Done NOTHING..NADA"

    They are Dead Dog.... WRONG !!!

    The Jr. Senator will PROVE, he's done Much More than What Sarah Palin & R. Giuliani Described & Demeaned Wednesday Night !!

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    Barack Obama: Has State & National Laws Confirmed by the State of illinois & The National Law, Signed by the Your Republican "Savior of the Free World" President George W. Bush Jr

    Question: Has Sarah Palin or Rudy Giuliani ?

    Ans: He!! No !!!

    109th Congress

    Obama took an active role in the Senate's drive for improved border security and immigration reform. In 2005, he cosponsored the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act" introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

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    He later added three amendments to the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act", which passed the Senate in May 2006, but failed to gain majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives.

    In September 2006, Obama supported a related bill, the Secure Fence Act, authorizing construction of fencing and other security improvements along the United States???Mexico border.

    President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act into law in October 2006, calling it "an important step toward immigration reform."

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    Senate bill sponsors Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Obama discuss the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act.

    Partnering first with Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN), and then with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Obama successfully introduced two initiatives bearing his name. "Lugar-Obama" expands the Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction concept to conventional weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles and anti-personnel mines.

    ------------------------------------------

    The Lugar-Obama initiative subsequently received $48 million in funding.

    The "Coburn-Obama Transparency Act" provides for the web site USAspending.gov, managed by the Office of Management and Budget. The site lists all organizations receiving Federal funds from 2007 onward and provides breakdowns by the agency allocating the funds, the dollar amount given, and the purpose of the grant or contract.

    In December 2006, President Bush signed into law the "Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act," marking the first federal legislation to be enacted with Obama as its primary sponsor.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/06/2008 11:12:53 AM

    SARAH PALIN: NOT PROPERLY VETTED, IF VETTED AT ALL...

    SHE ATTENDED 5-6 COLLEGES.

    EARNED A DEGREE IN "jOURNALISM"

    NOT POLITICAL SCIENCE OR US LAW OR INTERNATIONAL LAW !!

    SOME OF THE COLLEGES PALIN ATTENDED HAVE NO RECORD OF THIS WOMAN ATTENDING THEIR COLLEGE NOR CAN THEY RELEASE HER GRADES !!

    IF THIS WERE OBAMA OR BIDEN...

    THEY WOULD BE NOWHERE NEAR OR SENATE MORE OVER THE WHITE HOUSE !!

    NO POLITICAL SCIENCE OR LAWYER BACKGROUND, WHICH IS HIGHLY RECCOMNED FOR THE JOB AS COMMANDER IN CHEIF, WHETHER PRESIDENT OR VICE PRESIDENT.

    MEMBERS OF THE (AIP) THE ALASKAN INDEPEDENCE PARTY, WHICH SUBSCRIBES TO SECEDING THE UNION AND MAKING ALASKA IT'S OWN SOVERIEGN COUNTRY AND THAT THE THE VOTE ON ALASKA BECOMING THE 49TH STATE IN THE UNION WAS ILLEGAL, CORRUPT AND THUS MAKES THE VOTE ON ALASKA BEING THE 49TH STATE IN THE UNION NULL AN VOIDABLE !!!

    FACING AN INDICTMENT

    SARAH PALIN: HAILING FROM THE VERY CORRUPT AND FROZEN FRONTIER OF ALASKA...

    HE!! NO !!!

    SARAH PALIN : THE ALASKAN "EARMARK LASS" OF THE YUKON...ONE HEART ATTACK, STROKE OR HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES AWAY FROM BEING PRESIDENT OF THE USA... NO THANKS

    SARAH PALIN: ALASKA FIRST, ALASKA ALWAYS !!

    SARAH PALIN: GAS PIPELINE THAT BRINGS BILLIONS, THOUGH THE GAS LINE WILL NOT BE FINISHED UNTIL (2019)

    SARAH PALIN: I SOLD THE STATES PLANE ON EBAY, THOUH IT ONLY GOT ONE BID AND WAS LATER SOLD OFFLINE, TO A REPUBLICAN AT A 500,000 LOSS !!

    A PLANE THAT WAS USED TO TRANSPORT PRISONERS TO ARIZONA PRISONS, WHEN NOT IN USE BY THE GOVERNOR...

    WHAT FORM OF AIR TRANSPORTATION AND AT WHAT COST TO THE ALASKAN TAX PAYER, WILL BE THE NEW ALTERNATIVE TO TRANSPORTING PRISONERS TO STATESIDE PRISONS BE...HMMMMM

  • Posted By: mcgreen @ 09/06/2008 11:07:31 AM

    Shades of Alberto Gonzales. I give credit to watchful media - this fiasco started long before she was nominated by McCain. We don't need 4 more years of republican legal trickery.

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