An Apostle of Alaska

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  • Posted By: Robin1395 @ 09/06/2008 7:40:30 PM

    John McCain's choise of Gov Sarah Palin for his running mate was reckless. The first important decision of his presidency and this is the path he chooses? And I find it equally reckless for her to accept. Does she really believe she is up to this? I don't think so.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/07/2008 7:57:30 PM


      Why do you even care. . . ? You are not voting for the McCain/Palin ticket. Does this woman threaten you Obamabots that much ? This has to be the first time in history that a Democratic nom for Prez has had their panties in a bunch about of all things a VP pick, and not the top ticket. It is ridiculous. LOL. But then, you should be afraid cuz I tell you I was on the fence before and was leaning towards McCain. But with this great choice of Palin I am now excited about voting forthe repub ticket. ; 0 D

    • Posted By: elouis @ 09/06/2008 8:56:17 PM

      Did you see that sign at the RNC the night McCain gave his speech? "McCain & Superwoman". Your question is a good one. "Does she really believe she is up to this?"

      I wish her and her family the best. Americans don't want to see other Americans fail, particularly is they have good intentions. But, can we be real when facing all of the problems that we face? If I were Sarah Palin, I'd tell the MCCain campaign to get rid of those ridiculous signs and be real!

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/07/2008 7:57:02 PM

    Kittykat9,
    I do not believe, as an independent myself, that the issue with Palin is with her conservative, impulse-driven beliefs, but rather with whether she is really ready to face United States-sized challenges, not Alaska-sized challenges, facing Americans? Her executive experience of a much smaller, simpler-to-manage state does not automatically qualify her to manage a much larger, more complex nation ofours and deal with the global community.
    Got it? Now, stop being so ignorant.

  • Posted By: dunnhaupt @ 09/07/2008 7:53:38 PM

    What is this nonsense about HER not giving interviews? Has everybody lost their mind? She is the applicant, not the employer.

  • Posted By: midwestgrlstl @ 09/07/2008 6:49:58 PM

    Governor Sarah Palin called HIllary Clinton a B@#ch and Barack Obama Sambo, after learning that Obam won the Democratic primary, see for yourself:
    http://www.mediatakeout.com/2008/26436-explosive_report_sarah_palin_calls_barack_obama_sambo.html

    • Posted By: Roscoe barks @ 09/07/2008 7:51:33 PM

      I heard/saw the news article when Obama spoke of his muslim faith. I was hoping the link you provided would have a link that I could hear/see Palin calling Obama Sambo. Unfortunately, it was only a link to another website that ***shock*** heard about it on a blog.

  • Posted By: neos @ 09/07/2008 6:48:54 PM

    Meanwhile back to the issues.  Barry Goldwater must be rolling over in his grave over what debasements of the U.S. Constitution the Bush Administration has gotten itself into, and which the man who took his seat in the U.S. Senate, John McCain now ardently defends.  Warrantless domestic wiretapping, warrantless searches and seizures, arresting U.S. citizens without probable cause, holding them without trial, etc., etc....No REAL conservative believes these things are legitimate perrogatives of the federal government. There are innumerable horror stories you can research and recount of how the GOP has sat idly by while our cherished Constitutional protections have been ignored, abrogated, and turned into a joke. The last thing real conservatives want is the Orwellian Police State we're presently heading for.

    • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/07/2008 6:59:40 PM

      Furthermore, whether you like it or not, conservatives was and still is part of the backbone that make this country great. You would be intelligently dishonest if you can not acknowledge this.

      Same thing would apply for true Democrats, the country has its share of great Democratic presidents. However, The nastiness & disrespectful of today's democrats are beyond belief!!!

      • Posted By: neos @ 09/07/2008 7:25:42 PM

        Did you listen to Guiliani, Graham and Palin during the convention? This was just before John McCain asking us to put an end to partisan rancor.

    • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/07/2008 6:54:15 PM

      I am of the believe that our constitution does not apply to non-US citizen, and/or illegal immigrants, specifically, it does not apply to terrorists.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/07/2008 6:40:15 PM

    This is why Barack is Qualified to be President and Palin is Not... Over 7 Years as a State Senator, with laws made that have been implemented in his Name, that Illinois State residence must Follow. Federal Sentor, with National Laws confirmed via President George W. Bush himself..Stop belieing palin's Bush Speech Writer...Wikipedia You, Mother Luva !!
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    1. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

    2. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.

    3. After announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama emphasized withdrawing American troops from Iraq, energy independence, decreasing the influence of lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities.
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    • Posted By: NELEGER @ 09/07/2008 7:22:24 PM

      Omar, wake up. The O-man voted 130 times present in congress. That means he was not even doing his job as a senator. He is a fraud. At least he could have read about the issue at hand and voted "yea" or "nay". He didn't. He can not make the right decisions. What I saw was the frontal lip lock on JOe Biden's pretty white wife!! Whoa!! That he can do. Watch out Joe!!

  • Posted By: kittykat9 @ 09/07/2008 7:22:10 PM

    Obama bumped his mentor off the ticket to get into the state senate pretty ,pretty bad. Obama is just an ivy guy who has a way with words with nothing to back them up. He doesn???t know what he is doing, well actually he does all he wants it a political career advancement, the biggest leadership job out there when he has led nothing, wait he did lead a 18 month long campaign. Look at CNN Doc ???Obama revealed??? it doesn???t give a good take on him but yet friends and even Michelle is on the show, see it on youtube. If had to choose between Hillary and obama, big H would get my vote. But that???s not reality Johnny and Sarah are getting my vote.

  • Posted By: allknowingone2 @ 09/07/2008 6:50:11 PM

    What laws has the inexperienced state senator initiated? What executive experience does the man have? Almost all positive comments about the inexperienced Senator from Illinois are lies.

    • Posted By: neos @ 09/07/2008 7:11:20 PM

      One of Sen. Barack Obama's major legislative accomplishments in the Senate, the The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 has briought transparency to federal spending.  Look at http://www.federalspending.gov which his legislation created, a veritable "Google of the Federal Budget", where anyone can research every dollar to see where their tax money is actually going.  The whole Federal Rathole is now online, for the first time ever, inviting scrutiny from whoever has the patience to slog through it all.  You dont have to be a CPA to realize that this does more in the long run to control wasteful federal spending than all the speeches Bush, Bush, Reagan, Ford, and Nixon ever gave on the subject, put together.

    • Posted By: Marcus CA @ 09/07/2008 6:57:01 PM

      The senator from Illinois has as much executive experience as the senator from Arizona does.

      • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 7:06:45 PM

        I thought you Dems were comparing PALIN to Obama for a moment. Boy its hard to keep up.

    • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 6:58:27 PM

      Maybe when Obama gets to the White House he'll vote "present" like he did 130 times in his state legislature? They say Palin is uninformed, but Obama apparently doesn't even have an obligation to study a bill enough to vote Yes or No.

  • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 7:04:28 PM

    I have an idea. Lets have TWO presidents. Obama can raise taxes on, and confiscate all the guns from, the Democrats, and McCain can cut taxes for Republicans and send only their children to fight overseas. It sounds like a good plan, but then again, if Democrats couldn't tax Republicans, where would they get any money?

  • Posted By: neos @ 09/07/2008 6:39:56 PM

    JBlackwell, Another deception. Lower taxes except for those who earn over 250k a year IS part of the Dem. platform. and as far as lower taxes being part of the Repub platform, consider this; The last 5 repub. presidents had deficit spending every single year. Expect more of the same with McCain. The last 5 repub. presidents left the federal goverment larger than they found it, Expect more of the same with McCain.And with the repub. call for tax decreases, how did we get the money to cover the deficits and increased spending for the ever-larger government? Did we increase revenues and responsibly pay our way? No, we did not. We put it all on the ol' VISA card. Instead of tax and xpend liberals we got borrow and spend conservatives. Yep, we borrowed a ton of money from our bestest buddies: China and Saudi Arabia, etc. and plan to leave this enormous tab to our kids. And now we get to divert hundreds of billions of dollars a year to our bestest buddies to service the debt. Money that could have spent at home repairing our crumbling transportation infrastructure, for example. Remember the Clinton surpluses???

    • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 7:01:12 PM

      I'm not going to spam a reply to every time you spam yours into the main thread.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/07/2008 3:03:03 PM

    Like it or Not...

    Rezko: Found Guilty

    Not Obama, of Anything !!

    Rezko's Wife: Not Guilty or on Trial. Rezko's Wife Purchased and sold the Home and Land to the Obama's, it was a sweet Deal, Not Illegal. Sorry

    The Obama's: Not even on Trial. They Bought a Home at a Great Price and sold some Extra Land to Rezko's Wife, who Sold that Land at a PROFIT...

    Thats Capitalism, Not ILLEGAL A!! Wipe

    Rev.Wright was Addressed, Rev. Wright Served his Country as a Soldier and with Honor, he Did Not say "God Damn White America" he said "God Damn America" which would Encompass Black, White, Asian & Hispanic America. But Actually, Wright was Damning the Government and what they do to Others around the World... But Wright Never Refused to Pledge Allegiance to the Flag, Nor say that the state of Illinois should Secede The Nation (USA) and beconme it's own COUNTRY...

    Sarah Palin & her Husband Subscribe to this and were Members of the (AIP)

    The Alaskan Independent Party... Tada !!
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    PALIN'S CASE IS A CASE OF A LACK OF MORAL AND LEGAL ETHICS AND A HISTORY OF ABUSE OF GOVERNING POWER !!

    • Posted By: star3 @ 09/07/2008 4:57:03 PM

      Omar, we LIKE her, we don't WANT Obama, so you can come up with anything you want to change that, but unless you have proof positive that the right has the spawn of Satan, we aren't interested.

      • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/07/2008 5:58:00 PM

        YOU HAVE THE SEED OF LUCIFER...THE PIT-BULL IN LIPSTICK !!!

        THE BROAD IS A FAKER...PLEASE DON'T MISTAKE HER...OK
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        The words of founder Joe Vogler are proudly displayed on the Alaska Independence Party's website (at least as of this writing):

        Note: "I'm an Alaskan, Not an American. I've got no use for America and Her Damned Institutions."

        Big Note: Given that one of America's "Damned Institutions" is the Department of Defense, this raises a few questions about Gov. Palin's strength on National Security Issues.

        In covering Sarah Palin's reported membership in this extremist party (see update),

        Jake Tapper quotes its current leader as saying that .."Sarah Palin is "A Fine Individual" ...
        "She's forthright and She Puts Alaska First."

        "She Puts Alaska First"

        Note: The AIP's Motto is "Alaska First, Alaska Always"

        The AIP is the 3rd Largest Political Party in Alaska...keep that in mind, as well as Todd Palin, being a 7 Yr member, as well as Sarah Palin attending this Organization and while the Governor of Alaska, sent her Congratualations to the AIP's Conventioneers !!!

        Do keep this in Mind, Those People (Alaskans) think of themselves as their own and we are Americans

        There's an endorsement to remember. And in case we think her past association in this party was just some youthful indiscretion, she addressed them by video hookup earlier this year. In the video shown above Palin says she is "delighted" to be addressing the group, that the party "plays an important role," and wishes them "good luck on a successful and inspiring convention."

        The Alaska Independence Party wants to open all Federal lands (like state parks) to private ownership - presumably by the people who live nearby. It also wants to abolish all property taxes. It has a few other pretty extreme views, too.

        "Her damned institutions." Imagine if those out-of-context remarks of Obama's preacher had been codified into a political organization - and that he had joined it. Then imagine he had come back and given a speech there a few months ago.


        • Posted By: star3 @ 09/07/2008 6:57:21 PM

          Omaar, you just proved my point. Keep going, you'll manage to ruin it for the left, yet, which works for me.

  • Posted By: Marcus CA @ 09/07/2008 6:11:04 PM

    In 2006, nearly 100,000 people voted for Sarah Palin, electing her governor of Alaska. In 2004, nearly 3,600,000 people voted for Barack Obama, elected him senator from Illinois.

    • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 6:17:04 PM

      Irrelevant. Alaska has fewer people. What PERCENTAGE of the people for each? Are their ideas correct? What are the demographics? Its is possible the majority can be wrong or the people stupid? Your numbers don't mean anything.

      • Posted By: Marcus CA @ 09/07/2008 6:26:16 PM

        Palin won her election with 49% of the vote. Obama won his election with 70%

        • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 6:37:17 PM

          Fair enough, but what about my other questions? Can the majority be wrong? Did Obama and Palin have competent opponents? What are the demographics of Alaska versus Illinois, and do they vote differently ( i.e. do blacks vote monolithicly on the basis of race like they did in the Democratic primary? ) Again, your numbers are not meaningful. I could care less if someone is POPULAR with my ideological opposite. This is not a game of jump-on-the-bandwagon. There is no prize for guessing the winner.

          • Posted By: Marcus CA @ 09/07/2008 6:54:59 PM

            In terms of the demographics of these states, I would imagine that those of Illinois are much closer to the nation as a whole than Alaska's are. I seriously question the ability of any governor of a small state --- regardless of party --- to effectively carry out the duties of our top two national executive offices. I doubt that the legislature of Alaska or Vermont or Wyoming or Delaware has the diversity or complexity of the U.S. Senate, over which our v.p. presides, so I don't think that being governor of any of those states prepares someone for the national stage.

          • Posted By: Marcus CA @ 09/07/2008 6:46:59 PM

            Can the majority be wrong? In the eyes of the minority, they usually are. In this election, as in most, supporters of the losing candidate will believe that the majority was wrong. That's a given. I guess the clearest evidence that the majority was wrong comes when someone loses a bid for re-election, but at this point, neither Palin nor Obama have run for re-election to their current offices.

            • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 6:54:25 PM

              The point was whether I should care if Obama took his election by a landslide or not if I patently disagree with his ideas. Appeal to the Majority, while the foundation of modern democracy, is a logical fallacy if you're evaluating something for truth. If we're asking whether 2+2=4, the vote is irrelevant except perhaps as a measure of stupidity. Agreed?

        • Posted By: neocon @ 09/07/2008 6:44:46 PM

          Of course you seem to fail to disclose that the other 2 candidates were remove from the ballot and Alan Keyes was inserted (from Maryland) on the ballot as a last minute candidate. I would of been surprising had he not got 70%. But, I would like to know about the candidates he had removed from the ballot for state senator. One was the incumbent a well respected democrat. Seems like a track history developing.

  • Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/07/2008 3:05:10 PM

    So far, what I see is that Obama is promising a lot of fishes to the American public (lots of people like free fishes). Where as, McCain says, I don't have any fishes for you, but I can give you a fishing pole (lots of people don't like fishing)....!

    • Posted By: neos @ 09/07/2008 3:13:08 PM

      My fellow American, Is there something inherently wrong with giving fish to the needy? Jesus did it.

      • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/07/2008 3:42:57 PM

        JESUS didn't STEAL the fishes.

        NOBAMA!!!

        • Posted By: lvbartman @ 09/07/2008 4:50:29 PM

          Well, isn't that special??!! Tell you what, you keep your church out of our civil government, and we will keep the government out of your church. THAT is the USA!!!!!!!

          • Posted By: star3 @ 09/07/2008 6:53:55 PM

            Ibvar, is it ok with you if we still say GOD BLESS AMERICA? We're not talking about putting our CHURCH in the government, we're talking about KEEPING GOD in it. The above quotes did not come from any church, per sae, they came from the BIBLE.

        • Posted By: star3 @ 09/07/2008 4:51:48 PM

          LOL Right on, HR!

      • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 09/07/2008 3:41:38 PM

        Actually that's a mythological story. Back in the real world, politicians take fish from fishermen and give them to people who refuse to fish.

        • Posted By: lvbartman @ 09/07/2008 4:53:11 PM

          Acutally, in the real world, fishermen sell their fish to the hightest bidder, who take their profit, sell it to the hightest bidder, etc. If you can't be the highest bidder, too bad, so sad. Starve!

      • Posted By: star3 @ 09/07/2008 4:50:22 PM

        Neos, giving in an emergancy situation or to the poor or just because you want to do something nice for someone is very nobel, and not a thing wrong with that, but to give to those who refuse to get for themselves is plain foolish, because, then they expect, so will not have any incenitive to try to get into a position which will enable them to provide for themselves. Give a man a fish, he can eat for a day, teach a man to fish, he can eat for a lifetime. Jesus was very mush for helping those in need, but not in enabling them to continue to be un-productive individuals, unless completely dis-abled or too old to do for themselves; I'm sure Jesus expected able bodied people to be as self sufficent as possible. We may not all have Bill Gates' potential, but, each in our own way should do what we can to reach our OWN potential.

  • Posted By: allknowingone2 @ 09/07/2008 6:43:53 PM

    I'd expect the media which is so entralled with Obama to put Palin down.

    • Posted By: ShawnTX @ 09/07/2008 6:52:41 PM

      Is it really putting her down when all you have to do is report the facts on her and it comes out negative?

  • Posted By: Farfel @ 09/07/2008 6:50:22 PM

    I just woke up from a horrible nightmare. In it, McCain went to Alaska, and while he was shopping in a Family Dollar Store he found this trash-mouth Tina Fey look-alike clerk with a Mormon-polygamist-wife hairdo and he asked her to be his Vice Presidential running mate. She held insanely scary rightwing views, yet the American people actually LIKED her and ignored her freaky views because they were evidently hell-bent on having a trash-mouth Tina Fey look-alike clerk with a Mormon-polygamist-wife hairdo negotiating with Putin and dealing with global warming. Can you even IMAGINE a worse nightmare??

  • Posted By: allknowingone2 @ 09/07/2008 6:45:30 PM

    I expect that the media which is so onsided in favor of Obama to be negative to Palin. Hopefully America will open its eyes about the anti American Obama before it is too late.

  • Posted By: JeffCorry @ 09/07/2008 6:38:47 PM

    Good article. I think Newsweek did a pretty good job of staying neutral with Sarah Palin. Thank you. I feel refreshed. She seems like a decent lady to me. Most of us aren't concerned with the education she has received, but we are concerned with how she has treated others and how she takes care of her family. We hope that we'll get the same treatment. She has my vote.

  • Posted By: orca2008 @ 09/07/2008 3:34:37 PM

    The real Obama -Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they'll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of "social change."
    The pitch Public Allies makes on its Web site doesn't seem all that radical. It promises to place young adults (18-30) in paid one-year "community leadership" positions with nonprofit or government agencies. They'll also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats.
    In exchange, they'll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education.
    But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about "social change" through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation ??? the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul "The Red" Alinsky.The government now funds about half of Public Allies' expenses through Clinton's AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it into a national program that some see costing $500 billion. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military, he said.
    The gall of it: The Obamas want to create a boot camp for radicals who hate the military ??? and stick American taxpayers with the bill.

    • Posted By: megrisa @ 09/07/2008 6:38:19 PM

      Did you forget to take your medication today? lol

  • Posted By: Iron Horse @ 09/07/2008 6:34:48 PM

    Those who think Palin is qualified to lead are totally out of their element and in need of therapy. Someone who suddenly finds herself rehearsing, rather than being ready, on foreign policy and other issues of significance to this most complex, superpowe nation is the remotest person from being qualified. After all, America is no small-town (and small-towns and their valuesare fast disappearing in the midst of rapid urbanization in the face of the expanding global economy), and what best suits the nation is a person who understands the complexities of the global community, a world of over 6 billion humans with complex and varying cultures.
    Obama, as a person representing diverse cultures(after all, the world is so diverse that a small-town Palin will never be able to comprehend) is better qualified to meet the challenges of the 21st global community. Anyone who disagrees should feel free to do so, but to insist that Palin is more qualified just reflects our utter ignorance of and disregard of the interconnected, information-age world. A governor of a 670,000-population state is too unqualified to lead a nation of over 300 million people of diverse, complex backgrounds.

  • Posted By: Dartay @ 09/07/2008 6:33:36 PM

    This "apostle of ALASKA" needs to stay up there and butcher the wildlife. If she is SO good with energy issues, she should have been on the list for the Sec of Energy or Dept of Interior . She is NOT VP material. Her powerhunger ability t force her views upon the realms of her government is UNACCEPTABLE!

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