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Considering Republican Presidents have appointed 7 of the current 9 Supreme Court Justices, 5 of the last 7 Presidents have been Republicans, and until 2 years ago, controlled both houses of congress, I understand why Michigan voters feel the Republican Party represents their interests. With all the prosperity the Republicans have brought to Michigan and Ohio for that matter, I don't blame them for sticking with what they see as the party that represents their values. Personally, I drive an overpriced German car and made just under 100K in salary last year. Even though my heart is with the Democrats, I do better financially under the Republicans (liberal east coast "elitist" with a Masters Degree). I offer a heart-felt good luck to the citizens who continue to believe the Republicans have their interest at heart. In spite of all evidence to the contrary, you continue to vote Republican under a belief they share your values. I guess when the last factory has closed, home repossessed, bank failed,...., no I take that back. You will still vote Republican.

Sarah Palin is a strong woman who has actually CHANGED Alaska, Actual REFORM. She gets my vote.

Here are a few more thoughts: As G. Gutfeld said, SO how can one person create so much bile among folks who claim to be the most tolerant in the universe? I mean, liberals are the good people: They're open-minded, caring and of course, fair.

But somehow, a Republican lady in her 40s is exempt from this treatment. Perhaps, she truly is the devil in a dress, a ghoul that eats children and pollutes the planet and possibly beats Barack Obama, the patron saint of every customer buying wheat germ in bulk at GNC.

But I know the real reason why every single elitist media type is terrified of her. They've never met her. And by "her," I don't mean Sarah Palin. I mean "her", an actual normal woman with a bunch of kids, an average husband and no desire to watch "The L Word."

She's scary to these folks the way Wal-Mart is scary to them: Both are alien to someone who blogs about their chakras. They won't go there, because they've never been there.

To them, hating Sarah Palin is a symptom of larger bigotry against the rest of us, the normal. If they saw her at a party, they would wonder how she got in. She's the anti-Obama, the anti-New York Times, the anti-everything that Tim Robbins loves, which is why I love her ??? and you should too

HarleyisHere, the more you talk the more stupid you sound. Go back and troll in the Hillary Forums you twit!

The article is interesting in the fact it points out Palins vision or the lack of it.
Zoning laws while there is always some to protest loudly, do in fact greatly improve the quality of life in any community.
With out them it is possible even likely you could build your dream house only to have some on build a tire shop. Service station or even a junk yard next door.
Mexico lacks zoning enforcement and anyone who has been to Tijuana or even Mexico City knows what that means.
Palin must have missed that on her visit to Mexico, These Republicans are going to turn this country into a third world look alike yet.

I think its "new kind of politics". and you know its Politic every thing its dump....

Pallisor: No candidate (certainly not in this election) can claim any executive experience (both are legislators) and in any case, the position of President of the US is so much different than anything else that we should just consider who has the apparent capability to do so. Ms. Palin, is not that kind of person. If looking at the Russian coast counts as foreign affairs experience, any neighbor living across the street from a hospital can be truste to do brain surgery.

I notice that no one is denying the main points of the article. Could they be true. As always we find it easier to attack the media for reporting inconvenient truths we cannot defend than to defend the people we so admire.

Besmirch is certainly an excellent word for this article. The 2008 election campaign will provide material for many years in many classrooms to demonstrate the misognist press and their unfairness towards the women in this election. The election will also tell the story of how the Democratic party lost their women voters.

Why have the media chosen to ignore the fact that NObama's resume is far slimmer than Sarah Palins?
Why have the media chosen to ignore NObama's so-called community work?

Youtube presented Pastor Wright, NObama's shady real estate deals, NObama's lack of judgement and his "present" votes, and now the media are attacking Sarah Palin while giving NObama advice on how to win this election,

What a shame that Newsweek has to besmirch a fine little community in an attempt to advance their anti Sarah Palin political agenda. I'm a Californian who spent 3 or 4 days in Wasilla in the summer of 2007 and found it to be a very nice place with wonderful people. Sure, there are some areas along the Parks Highway that are not the prettiest but there are also lots of areas with new subdivisions on large wooded lots with expensive homes. Every community has some problems and if that's all you're looking for you can find it. I can assure all of you who've never been to Wasilla that this article is rife with exaggerations and negative distortions meant solely to taint Sarah Palin. It's no wonder that Middle America has little tolerance for the left leaning media and the condescending limousine liberals.




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"She told a reporter in 1996, after winning her race for mayor, that the "turning point in my life" was winning a high-school basketball game." It was only the state championship game in a state where sports for women aren't exactly plentiful. Amanda Coyne obviously has an axe to grind, and shame on Newsweek running such a biased piece.

As an Angeleno, who is constantly trashed by the likes of Sarah Palin, for living in some sort of Sodom and Gomorra, I appreciate Ms. Coyne???s revelation that Alaska is ??? consistently in the top 10 of the nation's most violent per capita, Wasilla has among the highest per capita violent- and property-crime rates in Alaska.???

However, she should have interviewed Anne Kilkenny, a life-long Wasilla resident, who circulated an email about her first-hand knowledge of Sarah Palin
Since Kilkenny has attended city council meetings very regularly, Kilkenny notes that during Palin???s tenure as mayor ??? most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.??? (Quote from Kilkenny???s email.)

In addition, according to Kilkenny, ???During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. ??? Kilkenny also notices that Palin cut ???progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefitted large corporate property owners way more than they benefitted residents.???
When Palin tooik over, the city with zero debt, but left it $22 dollars in debt.
In addition, instead of being a maverick, Palin hired a lobbyist closely connected with disgraced Senator Ted Stevens to lobby for $ 27 million of federal earmarks. According to Kilkenny, instead of using these funds to build a much-needed sewage treatment planet, she spent $1 million for a park and about $15 million for a multi-use sports complex. Kilkenny also notes that, ???While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her
office redecorated more than once.???
For a recent article that I read in the Los Angeles Times (I think it was September 12), when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, rape victims were billed $ 300 to $ 1200 for rape treatment kits. Wasilla had the was the only town in Alaska to do such a thing. Sarah Palin did not end this practice. The state legislature did in the year 2000.
McCain brags about being a straight talking Maverick. However, from the evidence I keep getting, we are getting everything but straight talk, especially about Palin. Of course, her hard-core followers will insist that everything I???ve revealed here is not true, but then Evita???s followers idolized her. For real, there wasn???t a Fascist dictator Evita didn???t like: Hitler, Franco, Musolini, they were all welcome in Argentina. So were ex-Nazi war criminals. While the crowds were mesmerized by something like ???Don???t cry for me Argentina??? she and her husband Juan Peron set up a dictator ship that robbed the country blind.
I hope history does not repe

One thing the article doesn't mention is that Palin fired the director of the Wasilla Historical Society when she became mayor, slashed its budget, and told the four other employees that they could decide which of them should be fired (they all quit in solidarity). Instead of saving the money for the people of Wasilla, Palin kept it to use for a new position, her own deputy. A family friend of ours who is from the Wasilla area says that planning in the town is so poor that houses burn to the ground while the fire department searches for the address.

Radio commentator Mario Moreno, citing sources close to Biden, said that the Senator will withdraw from the race later this week. Mr. Biden will feign a medical illness and enter the Milstein Pavilion at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.

Bottom Line: McCain is ahead in the polls. The senior citizen is kicking the wonder child's butt.