Team McCain and the Trooper

It's bad enough that Bush has gotten away with not cooperating with investigations RE: his and his administration's actions. Are we REALLY going to let the Republicans get away with this to ramrod through a VP candidate who most of us had never even heard of until 2 weeks ago? If this investigation goes away and this country elects Bush - Palin (oops...I meant McCain - Palin) we will see another 4 years of no checks and balances on the Executive Branch. Not that we live in a democracy today even - but that will only get even worse.

The National Inquierer is reporting that Palin's oldest son, the one who is going to Iraq, was a heavy Oxycontin, user. Usually I wouldn't pay too much attention to an article by them, but since the Edwards scoop, they've attained some credibility. So what's the story?

Good job Mike Isikoff too bad you're not working for the McCain campaign. So they have the husband exerting influence on a government employee, and they have her on tape, not good and the McCain campaign is pressuring them to put the kabash on the investigation. Sooner or later someone is going to crawl out of the woodwork with some really bad news..

I think that in a democratic society (The United States of America) that this investigation should go on without obstruction. The public has a right to know what the truth is and the republicans should not be trying to thrwart the ability of this non-partisan investigation. There is too much at stake and we the people have a right to know the character and ethical decisions and behaviors of someone that is running for a high level position such as the vice presidency. Let's face it if this person (Palin) is guilty of unethical conduct should she be one of our leaders in the free world? This is very disturbing to me and if she indeed tried to use her power to fire someone out of a personal vendetta for her sister, what can we expect from her if she becomes vice president? I am concern about our rights as US citizens under McCain/Palin leadership. These are questionable ethical behaviors that we need to fully investigate before voting for Palin.

I can not believe the republicans are trying to push this under the run. This investigation was going on with the approval of the governer..until she got put on the ticket. Now the republicans want to add there muscle behind it...see this is why there is so much that needs to be learned about Palin before she is even thought of in a position to run this county

I personally am happy to see the results by Oct. 10th rather than Oct 31st -- let's get the truth out there for the early voters, too!
It may sound cliched, but "where there's smoke, there's usually fire" and this isn't the only accusation or proven attempt of using political power to fire, punish or otherwise harass someone who disagreed with Gov. Palin.
The October Surprise will be that she steps down and McCain gets to have the person he really wanted - Joe Lieberman, plus... HE GETS TO KEEP ALL THE RIGHT-WING CHRISTIAN DONATIONS TO HIS CAMPAIGN!!

That's McCain for you. McCain = BUSH = MORE OF THE SAME.

Been there, Done that. TWICE.

And as Sarah the pitbull would say: Thanks, but NO THANKS.

typical,desperate attempt to suppress the truth. Reminds me of Watergate when Nixon and his crowd circled the wagond and tried to bury the facts behind procedural shenanigans such as executive privilege. The truth will emerge, as it usually does, and the efforts of the McCain-Palin desperadoes will only serve to heighten the curiosity of the public .Ahab Greenbloom

Why are republicans unable and always unwilling to look at the truth, first most of the retards believe in a imaginary friend that speak to them personally and no one else, then they steal, lie and cheat at everything they do. Then the morons wonder why the rest of the world want's to put a price on their head and hunt them to extinction. Stupid should hurt..... punch a republican today.!!

We can see where this is headed. Palin will be found to have done nothing illegal in firing Monegan, since public safety commissioners serve at the governor's pleasure. But the media will frame this case in vague but sinister terms: Think "abuse of power." It will also bury the back story that explains why Palin was so concerned.
So here are some key facts to keep on file (for a full report on Wooten, see adn.com/front/story/476430.html). You may not be seeing much of them from here on
Heath and Sarah Palin, who was not yet governor, said that Wooten had threatened to kill Heath ??? telling McCann that Heath "would eat a f***ing lead bullet" if he hired a lawyer for her. They also charged that he had used a Taser on his own 11-year-old stepson, had drunk beer in his patrol car and had shot a cow moose without a license (the latter a crime in Alaska, where such licenses are not easy to come by).
??? The state police investigated these charges and substantiated all of them. Col. Julia Grimes, then head of the Alaska State Troopers, suspended Wooten for 10 days and wrote, "The record clearly indicates a serious and concentrated pattern of unacceptable and at times, illegal activity occurring over a lengthy period, which establishes a course of conduct totally at odds with the ethics of our profession." She warned him he would be fired if he didn't shape up. The troopers' union got the suspension cut to five days.
Now ask yourself this: If you were Sarah Palin and had such a revealing look at Mike Wooten, would you have wanted him on the force? Palin was acting as any concerned citizen should after a close encounter with an unfit cop. If there's abuse of power in this story, it lies on the side of bureaucrats and unions protecting officers whose behavior makes them a danger to the public.

Rev. Wright at it again:

More than 20 years after Rev. Jeremiah Wright allegedly stole the wife of a man whom he was counseling, he reportedly moved on to another married woman.

Dallas church worker Elizabeth Payne, 37, claims she had a sexual affair with Wright. When rumors of the relationship began to surface, Payne's husband left and she lost her job as a secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III at Friendship-West Baptist Church, according to the New York Post.

"I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that's why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me," Payne said.

Members of the church "found out about the affair in the spring," Payne said.

Payne had organized several Texas appearances for Wright after Barack Obama denounced his 20-year pastor for his controversial sermons.

Nothing to do with Obama, but still too funny.

If someone has nothing to hide, as Palin has previously stated, then why would the McCain campaign & fellow GOP members try to stop the investigation now? Sounds like Ms Palin might not be as pure as the driven Alaskan snow after all!

Sarah Palin's life is like an episode of the Jerry Springer show. She has a pregnant 17 year old daughter, her future son-inlaw has an appalling myspace page, and her sister's divorce from her second marriage would makes Brittnany Spears look classy. I am all in favor of historic canidacies-but the firsr white trash VP-not so much.

I'd rather know before I cast my vote what kind of person I'm voting for. So, no, it is improper to quash an investigation at this stage. Crying "foul" about efforts to find the truth about any politician's record suggests that we voters have no obligation or right to be informed--with facts, not hearsay or innuendo or propaganda, etc--before we mark our ballots. Previous posters might like living in the dark and accepting at face value the pretty tales they hear, but I've had enough of being lied to. Why aren't you tired of the lies, too?

If there is no there there, it should be allowed to come out in an investigatigation that began BEFORE Palin became a candidate for VP. If ther is a there there, the Amaerican voters have every right to know in a timely way, in other words. before she has a chance to actually receive any votes for VP. What's so hard about that?I think McCain is hiding behind Palins apparently extremely feminine skirts, which makes her, in a very sexist way, off limits for any sort of real criticism (you don't hit a girtl if you are a real man, meaning Obama and Biden) and fears losing that apparently very flimsy shield. Do you honestly believe he draw those big crowds
on his own? Let the investigation continue. Do you think McCain would have cared two cents worth about it if he had chosen someone else to run with? He shouldn't be allowed to wiggle out of what I suspect, was a very poor job of vetting Ms. Palin.

palin is not a pig w/ lipstick , she in her own words a pit bull w/lipstck SHE is extremely dangerous and can not be trusted . at an early phase of here potical life .she is already expert in circunventing the truth. claiming cridit for which many otter harder to eliminate THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE! She is obsess in power control of others . She is under investegation for abuse of power.It seems amoral to charge gob for staying at home. THANKS N.L.M. D/L//N.D.