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  • Posted By: sieg6529 @ 09/18/2008 3:18:32 PM

    Wow, this just draws attention to the matter. This is only going to focus the investigation, and I can't wait to see what it digs up.

  • Posted By: valark @ 09/18/2008 3:15:37 PM

    Palin brought the ethics investigation against herself. She has some better attorneys. The firing of the various people have all been supported in a court of law by seated judges. The investigatory commitee did NOT issue a subpoena for Palin, so there is nothing to answer to as of yet.

    Oh, wait, facts...they are hard to swallow while you are spewing.

  • Posted By: trumanwins @ 09/18/2008 2:35:53 PM

    It's worse than that! This guy has commandeered the Department of Law and Department of Health Services (and possibly other departments) to require that Alaska employees of those units refer all calls for information to McCain campaign representatives! This goes for both Alaskans and non-Alaskans! These storm trooper tactics have got to be illegal, on several levels..! What an incredible amount of nerve to interfere with state government this way! This, by the way, was quoted in an AP article yesterday and both Alaskan pols and media people have confirmed these shenanigans! This has got to get out there in a big way!

  • Posted By: trumanwins @ 09/18/2008 2:30:20 PM

    It has gone even farther than this. According to AP reports and media and governmental officicals in Alaska, the McCain campaign has actually taken over certain state functions, with employees of the Alaska Department of Law and the Department of Health Services instructed to refer all calls for information, whether from outsiders or constituents..to..THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN SPOKESPEOPLE! This guy from the NY AG office is running a very tyrannical and, it would seem, illegal little stormtrooper offense here! This has to get out!

  • Posted By: PhDiva @ 09/18/2008 2:25:07 AM

    Sarah Palin is so morally blind that she really didn't think she did anything wrong. She thought she was the Queen of the Tundra with no responsibility to anything but her ambition. Then McCain's lawyers looked the case over and were like "Holy Crap. You're in trouble, lady." And now we have this crazy mess. Can't we just all be honest and say this woman has no business being VP. She needs to get her own house/state in order before she tries to run the white house.

    • Posted By: lingram @ 09/18/2008 2:12:24 PM

      I totally agree with you. She thinks she can do anything-hire friends-get her mad and "off with your head"
      I think McCain finally found out he has a nut case running for his VP. Hopefully, everyone, including those poor misguided women (and I am a woman) and evengelicals who think Palin is so wonderful. I wish someone had a tape of her rolling around the floor at her pentacostal church. If she was with that church 22 years, you bet your butt she was rolling around with the rest of them.

  • Posted By: jwtrotman @ 09/18/2008 1:27:14 PM

    Since when does a STATE matter that does not become an INTERSTATE matter become a NATIONAL MATTER? Last I checked PRESIDENTIAL political campaigns were CONSIDERED TO BE NATIONAL matters by virtue of crossing state jurisdictional lines. Why is it necessary for a national campaign lawyer to intervene into a "state" concern? Perhaps the ONLY reason would be, Alaska DOESN'T HAVE REAL OR QUALIFIED LAWYERS TO LITIGATE ! That in and of itself is not overly surprising. for NEITHER DOES ALASKA HAVE A REAL OR "QUALFIED GOVERNOR!!!

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 09/17/2008 10:32:06 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow a economist named bob proctor who has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown ,and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    Is terrifying. He thinks it could get worse then the great depression.
    Banks in the US are going under one after the other. Country wide the largest morgage bank in the world
    Bear Stearns and Lehman brothers , and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms.
    And now Fanny and Freddy which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The goverment took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.
    If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash
    And we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before
    The future of these companies will fall into the hands of our next president
    Lehman, Merill Lynch, and Bear Sterns have survived for over 150 years and survived even the great depression
    They are important because the are the biggest engines of growth in america and
    they are connected to almost everything.
    The last time the real estate market numbers looked this bad was during
    The great depression and real estate often leads the way into major economic recessions.
    Bush just like Mcain doesn't understand the economy.
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix itHe does not understand exactly what is broken.Its no surprise that he doesnt. The people that make up these securities use complex math models very few people understand.They are basically bundles of thousand of loans some good and some bad that are then given rules based on complex math. It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this, and the same things bush and mcain have done for the last 8 years
    Have not worked so far and wont work in the future.
    if you do what you have always done then you will do get what you have always got
    90 percent of the time they have voted the same.
    Please don't just take my word for it Start to read up on some of this yourself. MSN money, elliot wave and, bloomberg Have tons of articles That prove we are in the heading into one of the worst economies any one has ever seen. So why are the polls even close then ?
    The chairman of mcains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues
    they vote on a personality composite which means. He is trying to sell personality instead of results.He believes people will vote against there own self interests.
    Lets teach him we are smarter then that and elect the ticket that can
    bring us back from the brink of a economic abyss.Mcain admits in the year 2008 he cannot use a computer even to send email.It impossible then that he understands how to help us. its time to wake up now while it will still help
    obama

    • Posted By: concho rose @ 09/18/2008 1:22:50 PM

      Here, here, I agree 100%.. I hope the American people are smart enough to get the facts... and too better yet act on them.. Our country has never been in as bad of shape as we are now, we are in debt beyond belief..we have 2 wars....everything we have has doubled in price...health insurance premiums, gasoline, groceries..utilities.. and the Reps want to be -guiled with a small town "cheerleader" spouting her answerers, and poor, old..apparently senile, out of touch man, that the only thing he has in his corner is he was a POW. We need leaders with goals..repectful of the American people and internationally too. Vote Demo

  • Posted By: Emanuel @ 09/18/2008 1:17:12 PM


    OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 09/18/2008 1:05:21 PM

    Palin got a lawyer (in Newsweek speak: " BLOCK!"), and all she has to do is prepare for the debate with Biden, and hit Obama with some political blows.
    This is a Newsweek diversion (in Newsweek speak: "REPORTING!") and it hasn't stopped Obama's campaing from sputtering since he took Biden as a running mate!
    Obama can only continue his Americans Suck First campaign (Newsweek speak: "WISDOM!").

  • Posted By: cerrojim @ 09/18/2008 10:53:51 AM

    Isn't just like the Bush GOP to do everything they can to disrupt the search for truth and subvert our laws and system of justice. I don't know if Sarah Palin did anything wrong, but if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and, in this case, .... smells like a duck .... its a duck. Here we are seeing the same old Bush flaunting of laws, delay of due process, etc.

    I think this will backfire on the Republicans ... trying to postpone the investigation until after the election. I am a possible ... remotely possible, but possible ... voter for McCain. But, if this issue is quashed or delayed, I will not be able to vote for the ticket.

    • Posted By: concho rose @ 09/18/2008 1:03:25 PM

      It already has backfired...first with picking someone under investigation..says something about McCain's judgment..

  • Posted By: ike2000 @ 09/18/2008 10:54:07 AM

    Does Presidential Immunity ring bells in your ears? Can anyone way-in on the implications here? Is this stone-walling or a big-smoke to buy time? Immunity reads: ... exemption from normal legal duties, penalties, or liabilities, granted to the presidency! (Palin & McCain)

    • Posted By: concho rose @ 09/18/2008 12:59:45 PM

      I agree..just more of the same ole BS, stall, smear, lie, stall, smear.. lie ..reminds me of the "W" reign. Our country can not afford any more of this. There were many qualified Republicans to choose from...yet McCain is running this like she was a Cheerleader...and shows very poor judgment

  • Posted By: JaYxLeE143 @ 09/17/2008 10:44:25 PM

    REPUBLICANS HAVE A PLAN TO KILL ANY REMAINING HUMANS IN THE AFTERLIFE OR POLESHIFT

    SO FOR YOUR OWN SAKE DON'T VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN THIS NOVEMBER BECAUSE POLE SHIFT IS POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT PRESIDENTS TENURE. AND HAVE YOU GUYS WONDER WHY REPUBLICANS BUSH AND NOW MCCAIN WANTING TO CONTINUE
    AND EXPAND THE SPYING PROGRAM? TO SAVE US FROM TERRORISTS?
    I DIDN'T THINK SO BUT TO TAKE CONTROL IN THE AFTERLIFE AND LOOK TO REMOVE ANYONE THREATENING THEM WHICH INCLUDES THE U.S. CITIZENS.

    REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THAT U.S. CITIZENS ARE THE TERRORISTS AND THAT THE TERRORISTS THE MAJORITY OF U.S. CITIZENS BELIEVE IN ARE ACTUALLY BENEFITING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THUS REPUBLICANS ARE A FRIEND TO TERRORISTS WHICH MEANS ONLY ONE THING. YOU ARE CONSIDERED A TERRORIST TO THEM BECAUSE THEY SAY YOU WOULD INTERFERE WITH THEM AFTER THE POLESHIFT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN OR A DEMOCRAT MATTERS NOT. WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE CONTINUTING TO EXPAND THE SPYING PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE THEY KEEP AN EYE ON ANY POTENTIAL THREATS ON U.S. SOIL WHICH INCLUDES THE U.S. CITIZENS. I'LL BET YOU ANYTHING THAT A REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED WHITE HOUSE OR CONGRESS DURING AND AFTER THE POLESHIFT ASSURES YOUR DEATH AND THESE COWARDS GOING TO THEIR BUNKERS WHILE ALL OF YOU SUFFER FROM STARVATION OR FROM DEHYDRATION. OBAMA DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THE COMING POLE SHIFT, HE JUST HEARD RUMORS AND I'M SURE THAT HE HAS NO PLANS TO BETTER HIMSELF AFTER THE POLE SHIFT BUT TO ONLY AID AND ASSIST THOSE IN NEED.

    MCCAIN KNOWS OF THE COMING POLE SHIFT AND THIS MEANS TROUBLE. ITS FUNNY HOW SOME PEOPLE ARE VOTING FOR MCCAIN THIS NOVEMBER BUT THEN THEY INTEND YOUR DEATH AFTER THE POLE SHIFT FOR THOSE REMAINING THAT STILL SURVIVED.
    I HAVE A FAMILY WITH 5 KIDS AND I FEEL LIKE I WILL BE IN DANGER EVEN IF I SURVIVE THE POLE SHIFT BECAUSE OF THE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR SPYING PROGRAM.

    I ACTUALLY HAD A DREAM ABOUT THIS EXACT EVENT LAST NIGHT POTENTIALLY HAPPENING. THIS IS NO ACCIDENT AND IT FELT SO REAL. I WAS ALSO SHOWN JOHN MCCAIN AND PALIN TOGETHER TALKING ABOUT HOW TO CONTROL THE HUMAN POPULATION AND HOW TO WEED THEM OUT THROUGH VARIOUS DISEASES. FOR MY FAMILY AND YOUR FAMILY'S SAKE DON'T VOTE FOR THESE TWO FACE
    IDIOTS. OBAMA IN MY DREAM WAS SHOWN AS A COMPASSIONATE MAN WHO LOOKED TO AID THOSE IN TROUBLE. THIS IS NO LIE.. AND IM NOT SAYING THIS JUST BECAUSE I LIKE ONE CANDIDATE OVER THE OTHER. IT WAS ACTUALLY SHOWN TO ME IN MY DREAM.

    HAS ANY OF YOU HAD SIMILAR EXPERIENCES LIKE THIS IN THEIR DREAMS?

    • Posted By: Davole @ 09/18/2008 12:29:59 AM

      Why do many of the obamabots regularly post their rants more than once on the same discussion board?

      Are they so insecure in their opinion that they think (no, change that word to feel) that if they post the same rant more than once, it will somehow magically gain more validity and importance?

      Do you have any rational reason for posting your 5 identical blogs within a 1 hour interval?

      Are you demonstrating that the attention span of an obamabot is severely limited?

      • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/18/2008 12:31:36 PM

        Attention span? How about the feigned intelligence of one who would use the term obamabot?

    • Posted By: vena45 @ 09/18/2008 2:47:36 AM

      That's what I keep telling everyone else that Palin is a devil in disguise! Why do you keep she's preaching to her choir that this is a task from God, a task to go to war and kill! Now she wants to rule the the country and take over to detroy people's thoughts and mind into her beleifs! She even said it herself to a colleage that she wants to be president!Enter Your Comment

  • Posted By: renewableenergy2 @ 09/18/2008 12:28:20 AM

    Obama???s Experience is not sufficient to be President

    ???What we really need is a good businessman with vast experience to run the USA???

    ???We should put the politicians on commissions based on performance???

    Would you let a first grade teacher teach a class in a graduate school?
    The answer is absolutely not.

    Our political system is complex and full of pitfalls. You must have experience in order to maneuver in Washington politics. (Especially in today???s economic and political crisis).

    In order to accomplish any policy changes, implement campaign promises ??? one must know the political ropes it takes to pass any legislation.

    PS.
    The big issue with Obama???s policy changes; the central question is, ???Who is the real Barack Obama???? I see the recent focus on ???flip-flops??? as misplaced, both because the term isn???t very helpful and because voters aren???t surprised by politicians who change their positions. More importantly, it doesn???t highlight the more damaging question: ???When will Obama change his position again???? That question forces voters to consider the possibility that Obama is an unknown, is dishonest, or lacks the experience to know where he stands on issues. Like a used-car salesmen who tells you a price in the parking lot, only to change it when you sit down at his desk, Obama is similarly trying to find the right sales pitch to get you to commit to him, even if he???s a lemon. Obama's critics need to put the possibility of more Obama policy changes front and center, driving voters to choose the more reliable and consistent McCain over the trendy, untested Obama.

    Many notes that ???the Republican National Committee, in a statement cataloguing some half-dozen recent Obama 'flip-flops,' threw up its hands without offering answers,??? that challenge should quickly be overcome by a campaign that catalogues Obama???s frequent and conflicting policy positions and does so while raising questions such as: ???When will Obama change his position again? On Election Day? In the Oval Office? Or perhaps during unconditional meetings with our enemies? Can Obama, who touts change, be trusted to not change his positions again?" Perhaps most critically, Obama???s critics need to make clear that a political campaign is not the place where America wants its leaders developing their expertise and their positions, and the presidency is not the place for on-the-job training. McCain is experienced, tested, and consistent; Obama is inexperienced, untested and inconsistent. No amount of hope can change those facts.



    Jay Draiman

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/18/2008 12:30:27 PM

      None of anything you say should matter because he's not American. You don't want to come off as sounding scared, petty and untruthful do you?

  • Posted By: renewableenergy2 @ 09/18/2008 12:30:33 AM

    Federal Lawsuit
    Requesting Obama
    Be Removed as a Candidate as he does not meet the
    Qualifications for President
    (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania ??? 08/21/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, [Berg is a
    former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for Governor and
    U.S. Senate in Democratic Primaries; former Chair of the Democratic Party in
    Montgomery County; former member of Democratic State Committee; an attorney with
    offices in Montgomery County, PA and an active practice in Philadelphia, PA, filed a
    lawsuit in Federal Court today, Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083, seeking
    a Declaratory Judgment and an Injunction that Obama does not meet the qualifications to
    Z\\FORMS\PressReleaseObama08212008 2
    be President of the United States. Berg filed this suit for the best interests of the
    Democratic Party and the citizens of the United States.
    Philip J. Berg, Esquire stated in his lawsuit that Senator Obama:
    1. Is not a naturalized citizen; and/or
    2. Lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia; and/or

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/18/2008 12:28:56 PM

      Wow! Is this true? He's not American? Wow? Thanks, we'll call Washington right away. Wow.
      Oh you guys...

  • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/18/2008 12:26:01 PM

    The more they cover up, the more they will seem like they believe they are above the law - like GWB. She said she would be happy to cooperate, and she has nothing to hide. Her words sound hollow.

  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 09/18/2008 12:19:12 PM

    From now revealed facts about Palins leadership style and past performance, we now know she fires anyone who doesn't just cozy up to her.

    Tell me why the ???Troopergate??? firing doesn't fit that exact picture.

    Now, on top of it all, comes OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, justice she recently said she wanted. Obviously she does NOT WANT THE TRUTH to come out.

    This stinks so bad of a cover up. How can anyone except a republican fanatic want to put this woman in office?

    From what I have seen so far, SHE SHOULD NOT EVEN BE IN A GOVERNORS OFFICE LET ALONE THAT OF THE VICE.PRESIDENT.

    • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 09/18/2008 12:24:59 PM

      Obama should not fire Biden even though Biden is dragging down Obama! Democrates prefer to pay for poor preformence no matter what! Fireing people is just down right un-marxist!

  • Posted By: taubekat @ 09/18/2008 12:22:46 PM

    From NBC's Mark Murray
    In an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (R) suggested that Palin doesn't have the foreign-policy experience to be president. "'She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials,' Hagel said in an interview. 'You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything.'"
    Check out this other Hagel line: "'I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, "I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,"' he said. 'That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.'"
    And this one: "'I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States,' Hagel said."

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/18/2008 12:14:46 PM

    Democrats, Florida elections officials criticize GOP mailing

    TALLAHASSEE ??? A new pitch for John McCain's presidential campaign aimed at older Democratic voters is causing complaints by Democrats and concern by elections officials.

    The piece, paid for by the Republican National Committee and authorized by McCain, tells voters it is seeking to double-check their "unconfirmed" party affiliations while asking for money. A letter signed by McCain tells the Democrats: "We have you registered as a Republican."

    "I was a little bit shocked and a little bit surprised," said recipient Bill Smith, 81, of Tampa, who calls himself a lifelong Democrat and has been registered at his current address since 2000. The retired plant engineer is one of about a dozen senior citizens that Democratic Party leaders identified as recipients, all of them longtime Democrats.

    The RNC declined to discuss the mailer, which Democrats said has landed in five counties: Duval, Hillsborough, Collier, Miami-Dade and Escambia.

    "This is simply a fundraising piece," said spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson, adding in an e-mail it was not "worth writing about."

    JUST SHADY !

    link for entire article: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article814237.ece#email

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/18/2008 11:52:54 AM

    McCain Meant To Reject Spain Meeting, Adviser Says

    I found this on Huff and Wash Post. By the way just so everyone is aware Spain and the US are NATO Allies. Here is the first part of the article and the link to the entire article;

    The McCain campaign insisted Thursday morning that the Senator meant what he said when, during an interview on Spanish radio, he refused to commit to a meeting with Spain's prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero.

    "The questioner asked several times about Senator McCain's willingness to meet Zapatero (and id'd him in the question so there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred). Senator McCain refused to commit to a White House meeting with President Zapatero in this interview," the Senator's foreign policy adviser Randy Sheunemann told the Washington Post.

    Sheunemann's answer is likely to be cause deep ripples within the diplomatic community, as it represents a more aggressive and antagonistic approach than that deployed by the Bush administration. It also promises to be hotly contested, as a review of the McCain interview suggests that the Senator was likely confused as to who Zapatero actually was.

    link to Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/mccain-meant-to-reject-sp_n_127449.html

    McCain Slights Spanish Prime Minister

    link to Wash Post article:
    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/18/mccain_slights_spanish_prime_m.html#more

    I guess McCain is Eni meni mini mo ing regarding the next country that we will go to war with. Remember McCain knows how to win wars......... by winning wars! No Palin/McCain are not scary at all !

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 09/18/2008 5:03:45 AM

    Sarah Palin is not a Saint. It would be stupid for her if she did not use her power to somehow influence the authorities to dismiss Wooten. It is normal for people who are in power to weild them to the limits when necessary.

    • Posted By: dsqard @ 09/18/2008 11:35:30 AM

      Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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