A Police Chief, A Lawsuit And A Small-Town Mayor

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  • Posted By: sognib @ 09/14/2008 12:22:42 PM

    All you fine folks just don't get it. The polls are meaningless.Women are tired of being classified as fools and idiots. They will unite behind Sarah. They will elect her even if they do not totally agree with her. Women have to get started somehow and it might as well be with her. A strong-willed woman who speaks her mind.So refreshing.

    • Posted By: Only us @ 09/15/2008 6:21:12 AM

      I don't know know what part of the Country you are from,, but where I live, in Nevada, women are not classifed as fools and idiots. As a matterof fact there are many women in powerful positions. The strong-willed women in Nevada do, in fact speak their minds, and are respected as well. I thought it very interesting that Palin only would visit the small northern towns in Nevada, and not it cities, where she would be laughed out of. The general consesus is that she was mayor of a town that had a population less than the number of our college students in one college. She has executive experience? Sure,, so do our college Presidents. Does that mean one of them should run for Vice President of our Country? I asked this question to several of them. They laughed and asked if I were kidding.. I was bothered by other things

      I saw on CNN. I thought it odd that her daughter held her baby, instead of her husband. Her daughter had


      a LONG blanket over her. I understand that babies spit up and one would want to protect their clothes,

      however babies don't spit down only up. HUMM. I also noticed that when she and her 6 year daughter took


      the national spotlight stage, she NEVER took her daughter's hand. Odd, don't you think? Palin may score big with the "country girls", but not with the City women. We City women, watched the body language and her behavior, as well as her second appearance with McCain in a tight blouse with BIG cheap looking hoop earring.s. She DOES NOT represent intelligent women, she is an insu;t.

    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 09/14/2008 7:27:09 PM

      Palin is a strong-willed woman with a teensy weensy brain and a flapping big tongue. Perfect for fools and idiots.

    • Posted By: insiderone @ 09/14/2008 1:44:57 PM

      go ahead in vote for McCain/Palin, but i guarantee that you are in for a big suprise. I can not wait for you to see what's ahead. you have no idea what you are in for.

  • Posted By: rockye @ 09/15/2008 3:36:18 AM

    A PERSON MAY PROFESS AGAINST WRONG DOING ALL DAY LONG, JUST LIKE PLAIN SARA DOES IN HER EFFORT TO REFLECT ETHICAL CONDUCT, BUT THEY ARE THE FIRST ONE TO COMMIT WRONGFUL ACTS, AND THE LAST ONES TO ADMIT IT. EVENTUALLY THEY HAVE TO LIE LIKE A FLY TO SURVIVE. THAT IS A WRONGFUL ACT! IS SARA, A LIER? IS SARA A TYRANT? IS SARA WRONG IN USING HER GOBERNATORIAL POWERS TO INTERVENE IN HER SISTER'S DIVORCE? IS SARA WRONG IN FIRING PEOPLE LABLED AS "HATERS" AND PLACING HER FRIENDS IN OFFCIE?
    LET ME JUST CLOSE BY SAYING: HELL NO, SARA NO!...HELL NO, SARA NO!

  • Posted By: worrisome @ 09/13/2008 7:43:11 PM

    It takes a stronger personal character to terminate someone for poor job performance, it's much easier to turn your back and ignore the problem. Palin mentioned in her acceptance speech she cleaned up the "good ole boy" net, and got rid of the corruption that went with it.
    If the forty groupies sent to Alaska by Obama to dig up all the dirt on Palin they could find, and found only this.
    They have just put another feather in her cap. You'll never find anything like this on Obama, he's never supervised personnel, managed a budget, or even had any kind of documented responsibility
    Way to go Palin!!!!

    • Posted By: RealityReallyBites @ 09/15/2008 2:41:33 AM

      Yeah she fought the Ole boys network, then she put the ole womans network in, all her incompetent friends and relatives. Just another lying loser on some infantile power trip. She is inept at everything she does unless you count charging rape victims for the rape kit.. Give me a break, do some research, it doesn't take Einstein to figure out she doesn't have a clue. Not a %$## clue. She couldn't run a bake sale.

    • Posted By: midwestgrlstl @ 09/13/2008 10:26:26 PM

      SO YOU *** CROYNISM, LIES, FALSEHOODS,, DISTORTIONS, LIES....TELL METHIS DO YOU MAKE UNDER $250,000 A YEAR, B/C IF YOU DO PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL GIVE YOU A TAX CUT. pRESIDENT mCcCANT WILL NOT. WHO WILL DO THE MOST TO HELP YOU oBAMA, THINK OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES INTERESTS , DUMMY

  • Posted By: Spinnaker @ 09/13/2008 10:34:03 PM

    The woman cannot be all that bright a politician to have all of these scandals in the past. Interesting that they all seem to revolve around abuse of power or giving her big contributors favor over the citizens. She sounds like George W. Bush in a dress. It seems like a real dicotomy that she considers herself a religious person but allies herself with keeping bars open late and opposes discouraging drunken snowmobiling.

    • Posted By: RealityReallyBites @ 09/15/2008 2:32:30 AM

      Drunk Snowmobiling is a good thing... it sorts out the stupid from the smart.
      Having grown up around snowmobiles and the unforgiving wilderness, I don't have a problem with idiots to dumb to know better eradicating themselves. It helps the Gene pool immensely.

  • Posted By: alosh @ 09/15/2008 2:30:09 AM

    Palin has a history of hiring underqualified friends so it figures when she is mad at them they get fired.

  • Posted By: ChicoCDM @ 09/14/2008 8:21:05 PM

    Just goes to show - hiring an firing is a tought job/ A JOB OBAMA HAS NEVER DONE!!! He has not been responsible for anything worht mentioning. If you have lead a horse to water you have lead more than Obama. All this stuff is just nit picky non-sense from democratic interest. People often sue or aledge improper firing. Palin is an obvious tough leader who isn't afraid to fire people.

    • Posted By: mmadden55 @ 09/14/2008 10:52:51 PM

      This is not really about the firing of the Commissioner. This concerns the illegal looking at someone's personnel record. And according to the tapes it appears that her hubby Todd is in the think of it. He is getting subpoenaed.

      • Posted By: alosh @ 09/15/2008 2:28:03 AM

        Because Obama does not hire his friends but qualified people. I suggest you watch the news and listen.

    • Posted By: OBWan @ 09/14/2008 8:45:31 PM

      Yep! Firing is a tough job done it several times myself - lawsuits = 0.

      You just do not get to fire someone just because you do not like them, especially in a political setting.

  • Posted By: Belker @ 09/14/2008 9:05:38 PM

    It is obvious that Newsweek staffers are members of chauvins for Obama and will do anything thye can to get their glorious leader elected president. Newsweek trashed Hillary and now Palin.

    Newsweek has not done any hard investigation into Obama. If fact, like NBC,MSNBC, Washington Post and others in the media intoxicatede on Obama's snake oil, the collective you ave given him a free pass.

    So now you take the warped views of fired employees. I'll bet there are fired Newsweek staffer out there who would have nasty opinions of Newsweek. Are you going to do an article on them?

    You should change the color of Newsweek to yellow and retitle it to: The Weekly World News according to Newsweek. Such would better reflect how low Newsweek has sunk!

    • Posted By: hicktick @ 09/14/2008 10:00:21 PM

      Belker the same story is on the front page of the new york times and the washington post boy you McCainaddics are in denial

      • Posted By: alosh @ 09/15/2008 2:25:45 AM

        As usual when the news is inconvienient for Palin it is biased.

  • Posted By: othoschild @ 09/15/2008 12:52:05 AM

    I guess Newsweek is trying to take the title of most Libber-al rag away from the NY Times, or the overall Bolshevik media championship from NBC (National Barack Central). Another smear job on Sarah Palin, the most refreshing breeze, the brightest light to hit the American political scene is a long time. Literally, a female Jefferson Smith. Nothing must stand in the way of the false messiah, the annointed one, and hero of the mainstream media, OBUMMER. Funny how Newsweek mentions nothing about Kahlid al-Manour's mentor relationship with a young Nobama..He also mentored Bobby Seale and Huey Newton of the Black Panthers, and is a fervent black nationalist and Israel hater..just like Reverend Wright (Wrong)...Hmmmmm...And no stores about Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia bankrolling the Chosen One's Harvard education. Not to even consider a top 10 FBI'er list terrorist, the Weatherman Ayers....Well, to hell with you Newsweek and your liberal army. We will fight you tooth and nail every inch of the way, no way we surrender. This is no longer a campaign, it's a crusade.
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    • Posted By: alosh @ 09/15/2008 2:18:17 AM

      That breeze stinks and lets look at Palin's church. A bunch of nuts who think they will form a committee with god to take over the world. According to Palin they are working on Iraq by killing thousands right now. Give it up man we are tired of the spin.

  • Posted By: Maduinneag @ 09/15/2008 2:01:20 AM

    Why didn't you include in this story the enormously important details about the man Palin hired to replace Stambaugh as police chief--Charlie Fannon. Fannon forced rape victims to pay for their own medical exams, conducted to obtain evidence for prosecution of the rapist. Female victimes--or their insurance companies--were billed $300-$1200 for the rape kits used in the exams. The state legislature had to step in and pass legislation aimed solely at Wasilla to make it illegal to charge rape victims for rape kits. How can Palin possibly present herself as a feminist and role model for women when she allowed her police chief to treat rape victims so horribly. Would you want your teenaged daughter, sister, or wife to be humiliated in this way!!!

  • Posted By: ihateeveryoneincludingyou @ 09/14/2008 2:38:44 PM

    So, she fired someone she didn't like, and it was all legal according to a judge. Why is this news?

    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 09/14/2008 4:20:52 PM

      The Alaska State Legislature has unanimously agreed that Palin be investigated for allegations of abusing the powers of her office as governor. That isn't newsworthy?

      How about Palin's twisted belief that females impregnated through rape or incest just get on with it and have the baby because that is God's will?

      'Thanks, but No Thanks, to Palin's Taliban-inspired, loopy interpretation of Christianity.

      • Posted By: ihateeveryoneincludingyou @ 09/15/2008 1:18:58 AM

        Did you even READ this story? It has to do with her firing the police chief of Wasilla, not any of the things you mentioned. Please stay on topic, m'kay? Or am I asking too much?

  • Posted By: MChieco @ 09/14/2008 11:20:10 PM

    You cant blink Charlie. Just go with your gut like George Bush,

  • Posted By: Newsie @ 09/14/2008 11:13:10 PM

    Sarah Palin frightens me. Seriously. I think she might be the best thing that's happened to Obama's campaign.

  • Posted By: Marquette70 @ 09/14/2008 10:28:42 PM

    There apprears to be "No controllling interest" in this. Leaders lead, winers wine. If you don't like who the leaders are or you think they have done something against their office impeach them, don't vote for them or recall them. Don't wine when you don't get your way and don't make a case of this.

    • Posted By: OBWan @ 09/14/2008 11:07:43 PM

      BTW - what kind of wine is that? Burgundy, Merlot, Sangria....

    • Posted By: OBWan @ 09/14/2008 11:03:19 PM

      Marquette70 - Too bad you can not recall a president, only impeach.

  • Posted By: Iowa-jay @ 09/14/2008 11:06:28 PM

    Which is the bigger Palin story: Anti-American Alaska First Support, the Lies, or the Corruption?

    The serial liar Palin claims she did not support sucessionist party ''Alaska First'' -- watch youtube to see her support speech at their convention. Todd Palin a member 1995-2002. She attends their conventions...

    Joe Vogler, founder of the AIP once said, "The fires of Hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American Government, and I won''t be buried under their damned flag!" Listen for yourself palintruth (dot) org.

    Then there is the Palin foreign experience.

    Claimed she visited Iraq. Oops, Army records show she was only in Kuwait. Same difference. Then her ''visit'' to Ireland turns out to be a refueling...

    But, at least she is funny: When questioned on foreign policy experience? She says 17 times..."I won''t blink!" -- But, when pressed notes mostly that she has seen the Russian coast from Alaska. Ha, ha, ha...

    Does she call the ''lower 48'' a foreign country like the rest of the Alaska First crackpots...

    Then there is the Anti-Semitism in her church (they *can* be saved)...the book banning (and lies about it)... and, ms earmark queen was for the bridge to nowhere (on video) before she was against it (and took the money)...

    What about the corruption. Subpoenas are coming.
    -- Illegal access to personel files
    -- Secret private email system
    -- Sounds like someone made threats by phone and denied it (until the tape recordings surfaced).
    -- Can we say vendetta?

    What about cronyism and corruption. Unqualified Palin friends and church members appointed to high paying jobs. Gvt paid babysitter? Paid herself a 'travel stipend' to stay home 350+ days. Personal and religious business on paid gvt time...

    Maybe the Lies and Anti-American Alaska first support are just the tip of the iceberg.

    Better for republicans if she resigns now...
    Hmmm...

  • Posted By: Belker @ 09/14/2008 9:11:16 PM



    I see the results of your slanted Obama is the second coming stance. You attract Obama's internet thugs. Obama's internet thugs are more vile and vicious liars than the swift boaters.

    The lie and then quote each other's lies as if quoting them make them truth. Joe Goebbels would be so proud of Obama and his supporters.

    • Posted By: mmadden55 @ 09/14/2008 10:48:16 PM

      You Repubs must be really in LOVE with this floozy to keep insisting that this some leftist plot to ruin your little girl. Admit it she screwed up and she may get caught yet.

    • Posted By: Iowa-jay @ 09/14/2008 9:21:17 PM

      Republican strategy appears to be reduced to repetition of bald lies and personal insults.

      Try to argue for/against any of the facts noted below...

      Palin puts the Repubs in a very rough position. I predict she will resign shortly...

      This one is the big story:

      The serial liar Palin claims she did not support sucessionist party ''Alaska First'' -- watch youtube to see her support speech at their convention. Todd Palin a member 1995-2002. She attends their conventions...

      Joe Vogler, founder of the AIP once said, "The fires of Hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American Government, and I won''t be buried under their damned flag!" Listen for yourself palintruth (dot) org.

      Then there is the Palin foreign experience.

      Claimed she visited Iraq. Oops, Army records show she was only in Kuwait. Same difference. Then her ''visit'' to Ireland turns out to be a refueling...

      But, at least she is funny: When questioned on foreign policy experience? She says 17 times..."I won''t blink!" -- But, when pressed notes mostly that she has seen the Russian coast from Alaska. Ha, ha, ha...

      She probably calls the ''lower 48'' a foreign country like the rest of the Alaska First crackpots...

      Then there is the Anti-Semitism in her church (they *can* be saved)...the book banning (and lies about it)... and, ms earmark queen was for the bridge to nowhere (on video) before she was against it (and took the money)...

      The extent of her lies is astounding. Does she actually believe what she says? Does she have any sense of decency?

  • Posted By: Belker @ 09/14/2008 9:19:04 PM

    If this had been a real issue, Tony Knowles, Palin's Democratic opponent in the 2006 governor's race would have made it an issue.

    The very liberal Anchorage Daily News would have long since ran the story.

    If neither of these went with this BS, you should know it is total BS and an attempt by Newsweek to smear Palin and McCain.

    Isikoff & Hosenball will have to go out and buy some new pants. Liars, liars, pants on fire....

    • Posted By: mmadden55 @ 09/14/2008 10:45:25 PM

      You know that if she has a history of firing people who stand up to her it will get her in trouble in Washington. She has still to answer the Troopergate firing. When are you Palin supporters going to take your blinders off and realize that your little girl is actually something bad?

    • Posted By: Iowa-jay @ 09/14/2008 9:33:30 PM

      Subpoenas are coming...

      -- Illegal access to personel files
      -- Secret private email system
      -- Sounds like someone made threats by phone and denied it (until the tape recordings surface.
      -- Can we say vendetta?

      What about cronyism and corruption.

      Maybe the Lies and Anti-American Alaska first support is the tip of the iceberg.

      Better for republicans if she resigns now...

  • Posted By: a brighter America 08 @ 09/14/2008 1:58:37 AM

    Pilan's belief in abstinance as the ONLY way to prevent pregnancies didn't reach Bristol's brain. Some peope beleive Trig is Bristol's baby because she supposedly looked very pregnant when her mom was "supposed" to be pregnant! What leads me to believe this might hold truth is the fact that Sarah Pilan NEVER looked pregnant and did not announce "her" pregnance until the 7th month. Then, her water "breaks" in Texas, and she flies back to Alaska "in labor" yet, NOBODY SAW any signs of labor distress in Pilan, NOR did they see any sign of Sarah Pilan's pregnancy!! IF Bristol is Trig's mommy (Trig was born in April), then Bristol went out and got herself knocked up in late April - early May to be FIVE months pregnant in near mid September!! The Pilans pulled Bristol out of school for a long period of time before Trig was born---they claim she had meningitis?? You see, with Sarah Pilan telling so many whoppers, it is very easy to believe she is telling a whopper about who really is Trig's mommy!! Sarah Palin expects women to abstain from having sex; evidently she did not expect the same from her own daughter!! Let's remember the girl got pregnant at age 16 although she s now 17 and five months into her pregnancy. Perhaps Sarah was far too busy to have that mother-daughter talk with her.

    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 09/14/2008 10:31:05 PM

      Sarah Palin didn't expect herself to abstain either. She married on August 29, 1988 and had a baby on April 20, 1989. In her 40s she put her sexual pleasure ahead of a baby's health.

      Sarah Palin has earned herself a place in the evangelical hypocrites gallery next to Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard.

  • Posted By: Bearbull @ 09/13/2008 7:58:44 PM

    The ex brother in law state trooper is accused of drinking and driving, poaching, and making death threats against Palin's family. Also, the Director of Public Safety Walt Moneghan who was fired foor poor job performance has now recanted and withdrawn his complaint. In other words, he was lying when he accused Palin of firing him for not firing her ex brother in law trooper. Nice of Newsweek to once again fairly report both sides of a story. Another liberally biased story by Newsweek.

    • Posted By: RealityReallyBites @ 09/14/2008 10:11:03 PM

      Both sides of the story???????????? Rebubbalicans don't like to read the story unless they have made up both sides of it.

      Face it.. Repugnantcans are the most despicable traitors so far found on Earth.
      Their followers being among the most stupid in the known universe.

  • Posted By: cognac @ 09/13/2008 8:33:27 PM

    Newsweek seems to be as biased as usual. Either the director was lying before or was not. If he has recounted, then he was lying. I personally think that tthe ticket of Obama and Biden will fail in its attempt to gain the Presidency and V.P. At lease they will win without my vote and as many others as I can influence. History is going to be made either way. A black presidece or a lady Vice President. If I had been to the border of Iraq and Kuait and someone said that I had not been to Iraq, then That is too nitpicking. You all keep talking about Ms. Palin and she will bring retroubution to you when she gets to be the Vice President of the USA.

    • Posted By: RealityReallyBites @ 09/14/2008 10:04:19 PM

      More threats from the traitors that are murdering Americans everyday in a liars war.
      What's it like to support the traitors party??????? You are the America haters.
      You kill Americans everyday by your parties traitorous acts and you stupid retards that support them.
      Palin will find retribution goes both ways........

  • Posted By: arrowman2317 @ 09/14/2008 9:58:58 PM

    Sounds like Palin is getting rid of the good old boy network...That literally has crippled this country and kept us all at the mercy of politics at its worse.

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