Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”
Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.
Articles by Charley James:
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- From a Dog Named Checkers to the Wholesale Looting of America
- Thanks, GOP, for Ruining Our Country So Your Friends Could Get Wealthy
- The End Is Near For The Richest Poor Nation On Earth,
- Interview Sarah Palin: “Not in the Campaign’s Interest”
- Sarah Palin and Me
- Alaskans Speak (In a Frightened Whisper): PalinIs “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, and Mean”
- “Bush Lied, They Died” Draws a Drunken Punch
- Placid Lake Woebegon Begets a Nasty Police State
- Edwards The Confessor vs. McCain’s Ongoing Philandering
- UPDATE: Sarah Palin on Oprah Promoting New Book Nov 2009
Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.
But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.
No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one.
Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin – especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a recording told me that “all circuits are busy” or numbers just wouldn’t ring. I should think a state that’s been made richer than God by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.
On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.
“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”
“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that inner circle.”
Like most other people interviewed, he didn’t want his name used out of fear of retribution. Maybe it’s the long winter nights where you don’t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they’re under constant danger from “the authorities.” As I interviewed residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See nothing that’s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.
Alright, that’s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But there’s ample evidence of Palin’s vindictive willingness to destroy people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.
Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a recall campaign.
“People who fought her attempt to oust the librarian are on her enemies list to this day,” states Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla resident and one of the few Alaskans willing to speak on-the-record, for attribution, about Palin. In fact, Kilkenny actually circulated an e-mail letter about Palin that was verified and printed by The Nation.
For good measure, Palin booted the Wasilla police chief from office because, she told a local newspaper, he “intimidated” her.
Running on Extreme Fringe Evangelical Views
Sarah Palin drew early attention from state GOP apparatchiks when, during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her extreme fringe evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state capitol, state Republicans tossed some money behind her campaign.
Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything but.
“She’s doesn’t like different opinions and she refuses to compromise,” Kilkenny notes. “When she was mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t hers. Worse, ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits but on the basis of who proposed them.”
Sound familiar? Palin may well be Dick Cheney’s reincarnate.
Something else has a familiar Republican ring to it: Her tax policies, and a “refund surpluses but borrow for the future” attitude.
According to Kilkenny and others in Wasilla as well as Juneau, Palin reduced progressive property taxes for businesses while mayor and increased a regressive sales tax which even hits necessities such as food. The tax cuts she promoted in her St. Paul speech actually benefited large corporate property owners far more than they benefited residents. Indeed, Kilkenny insists that many Wasilla home owners actually saw their tax bill skyrocket to make up for the shortfall. Two other Wasillian’s with whom I spoke said property taxes on their modest, three bedroom homes rose during the Palin regime.
To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with $22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor – especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the city’s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer’s money on, if not fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?
For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a matter of fact.
Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original estimated price of the facility.
She also worked hard to get voters approval of a $5.5 million bond proposal for roads that could have been built without borrowing. Anchorage may not be the center of the financial universe but, like good Republicans everywhere, Sarah Palin knows how to please Alaskan bankers and bond dealers.
For good measure, she turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots.
Sarah Barracuda
En route to the governor’s igloo, Palin managed to land what Anne Kilkenny
says is the plumb political appointment in the state: Chair of Alaska’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), a $122,400 per year patronage slot with no real authority to do anything other than hold meetings. She took the job despite having no background in energy issues and, as it turned out, not liking the work.
“She hated the job,” an OGCC staff member who is not authorized to speak with the news media told me. “She hated the hours and she hated what little work there was to do. But she couldn’t figure out a way to get out of the thing without offending Gov. Murkowski” and the state Republican Party regulars, some of whom were pissed off they didn’t get appointed.
But ever the opportunist, Palin quickly concocted a way. First, she waged a campaign with the local news media claiming that the position was overpaid and should be abolished – despite the fact that she lobbied Murkowski hard to get it. Then, mounting what she saw as a white horse, Palin raised a cloud of dust by resigning from the OGCC and riding away with an undeserved reputation as a “reformer.”
But when a local reporter dared to suggest that the reformer Empress has no clothes, Palin tried to get her fired.
“She came at me like I was trying to steal her kids,” said the targeted reporter, who now works for an oil company in Anchorage. “I heard she had a wild temper and vicious mean streak but it’s nothing like you can imagine until she turns it on you.”
Not surprising since some of her high school classmates still openly call her “Sarah Barracuda,” Kilkenny insists.
Still, as a Republican Party hack Palin managed to get herself elected running under the false flag of a “reformer.”
And what did she bring to the job? No legislative experience other than a city council of a village of 5,000 people, which is smaller than some high schools in Chicago. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; after all, she needed to hire a city administrator to run Wasilla. No executive experience, except for almost being recalled as mayor. A philosophy of setting public policy based on one word: No.
And what has she done since winning the job?
According to Kilkenny, nothing. Well, nothing other than suggesting the state’s multi-multi-million dollar, oil-generated surplus be distributed to residents and finance future state needs by borrowing money. Gee, doesn’t that sound precisely what George Bush did with the surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton in 2001 and we all know in what great shape Bush’s economic policies left the nation.
It may explain why, when asked by reporters, including me, what she thought about Palin being picked to be McCain’s running mate, her mother-in-law replied with a sardonic, “What has Sarah done to qualify her to be vice president?” Of course, when the woman – said by many I spoke with to be well-respected in Wasilla – was running to succeed Palin as mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her, so that may explain the family tension.
As Governor, Palin gave the legislature no direction and budget guidelines, according to the chair of a legislative committee. But then she staged a huge grandstand play of line-item vetoing countless projects, calling them pork. “They were restored because of public outcry and legislative action,” the aide said. “She vetoed them mostly because she had no idea what they were or why they were important.”
But it was enough to get the McCain, who is mostly unobservant of the world around him anyway, to think Palin has a reputation as being “anti-pork”.
In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.
As for being “ready on day one” to be commander in chief, despite the repeated public claims she’s made, the Alaska National Guard commander said that, “she has made no command decisions, other than sending some troops to help fight a few brush fires and march in parades at county fairs.”
“Sambo Beat the Bitch”
“Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,” someone who thinks these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin’s tenure in Alaska state and local politics.
“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,” is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.
“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”
“Sambo beat the bitch” may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it – and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public – should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.
by Charley James
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Charley James is an American journalist, author and essayist who lives in Toronto.
Reprinted with permission from The Progressive Curmudgeon
Earlier articles by Charley:
- “Bush Lied, They Died” Draws a Drunken Punch
- Placid Lake Woebegon Begets a Nasty Police State
- Edwards The Confessor vs. McCain’s Ongoing Philandering
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I thought I’d heard it all when I learned she wanted to ban TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD but this in-depth article has it all. She’s toast.
I was raised in Alaska and my family still lives there. I will admit that Alaska is a remote wild place filled with people who march to their own beat, but to say that “everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way” is a ridiculous claim. Yes, many Alaskans are a bit rough around the edges, that is what draws many of them to that untamed land, but that doesn’t mean they are all uneducated, racist or bigoted.
The only reason people talk that way is because those of us who know better don’t call them on it.
Rejected the bridge but kept the money. Reformer my eye. Cynical opportunist.
I do believe she is a ruthless and nasty political climber who retaliates against all who do not share her views, but the Palin family does have some documented Native American ancestry. Although it sounds like the quotes would be in character for her, she and the GOP can probably defend against the Alaskan Arab thing, unless there is some pretty well documented proof she said that.
The press has to keep digging. She is definately a life-long liar and a hypocrite, so there is a ton of dirt around her. She brings to mind those high school girls who never grow out of being socially manipulative and power crazed back-stabbers. No matter how scared of her retaliation the locals may be, a friendly enough reporter with a tape recorder and the bucks to buy a few beers will have a field day in the bars.
The future of this country could depend upon independent journalists to do all of the real investigating of this unvetted and scary fraud.
your description of her is exactly what i was thinking. just had not put it in the words that you chose. she does seem like a manipulative person. her non-verbal language is so loud and clear. very arrogant and such an opportunist. fraud is what i call her. someone sent me a lot of pictures of her that were somewhat embarassing to think that she might be a vp.
What a load of crap! A bunch of totally ridiculous allegations, virtually all made by unnamed (and probably invented) characters. This isn’t journalism…it hardly even rises to the level of blogism!
I would worry more about Sarah Palin’s lies.
This is status quo for the Republican Neocon Fascist Party.
I was raised in Alaska and my family still lives there. It is true, Alaska is filled with people who are “rough around the edges” and march to the beat of their own drummer. But to say that “everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian talks that way” is absurd. Alaskans may be wild and untamed, much like the state they live in, but they are not all racist, bigoted or uneducated.
Some interesting facts, unfortunately sprinkled with left-wing nonsense.
I love this one:
“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here”
HAH! What the hell do you think the definition of government IS?!?!
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I love Ron Paul.
The rest are the same.
So, my point is, who cares?
Obama or McCain, makes no difference. Neither one is good.
The lessor of two evils, is still evil.
They all work for the same people, except for Ron Paul.
Look how the GOP treated the delegates for Ron Paul. Just google it, it is sad to see our entire democratic system taken over, this way. Don’t worry whether she is a whatever. She is. So is he. So is the other guy. So is that other guy. They are covering up 9/11.
They know better.
I like Ron Paul’s honesty and class, BUT Ron Paul is not willing to be honest about his connections with white supremacist groups. And some of them are not bad but I just wish they would spend more time emphasizing education.
I’m AA and I think the rhetoric of JJ kept blacks down. I feel as though some of the white supremacist are doing the same thing to their people. That’s the part I don’t like.
You wrote:
“The lessor of two evils, is still evil.”
What about the renter of two evils?
I can attest to the barely post-neanderthal attitudes of Alaskans, their racism and the good-old-boy networks that run everything, having once lived there 8 years myself. I even worked as a temp for VECO after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Even then, VECO was said to stand for “Vastly Entrenched Criminal Organization.”
Anyway, I just want to to add, it’s no surprise Palin is in favor of drilling ANWR, and she definitely seems OK with drilling Bristol.
Yep, and as an escapee of North Dakota, I’ll say it’s the same way there too… And North Dakota is about to start pumping some of the biggest oil reserves in the world, so the madness has just begun.
ZOMG! Must be true! Lucille the Waitress has never steered me wrong before!
all this is … is an opinion and thats all.
Uhm Charley,
Much as I’d love to see teh Caribou Barbie sent back to the frozen north, her hubby is 1/8th y’upik – which makes her kids 1/16th “Artic Arab”- so I’m thinking something is fishy somewhere.
Please do not mistake the act of marrying outside your race as proof of anything. My co-worker is married to an Asian woman and he has plenty of negative things to say about Asians. My brother was married to a Caucasian woman who referred to African-Americans as the “N” word.
It should be noted that both of the aforementioned people had children with their spouses.
This is more ridiculous left wing loon lies. Nobody with a lick of sense will believe it.
The white man is soon to be extinct anyways. The world nightmare is almost over.
Is this just from a unhappy waitress who doesn’t like Palin. If you go to Illinois and look around you will find the same type of people talking about Obama also.
Well, you are talking about a man who has finally found his soul mate. Both Palin and Mcsame hate women. Just ask Cindy.
Now, since you’re so good at publishing stories from people who refuse to give their real names… which in my mind equals BS, maybe you can interview some of Obama’s friends from the old days. You know the ones he went to school with, the ones he was in law school with, the ones in the IL legislature. Not only won’t they give their last names, they won’t even open their mouths. That is what I call FEAR!
I’d love to hear from the guy he spent time with in Pakistan. How about it?
A waitress repeating a story she may or may not have heard… not important!
Wow. If any of this is true– and if some brave people in Alaksa are willing to come forward– then Palin is toast.
Very nice work. If you’re prepared to stand by it publicly you might want to shop it around to Rachel Maddow, Thom Hartmann or Keith Olbermann.
I am literally sick to my stomach. People like this are a cancer on society.
Doesn’t Alaskan oil belong to everyone in the United States. Why do only Alaskan residents share the profits?
Because the state owns the mineral rights to the land the oil was found on and decided to use some of the profits to start the permanent fund for permanent residents of the state. Any oil found on federally owned land would certainly belong to everyone in the US.
I’ve sent this story to everone I know. It’s just unbelievable that someone like this could be win the nomination of a major US party in this day and age, and most of the media promotes the deception.
Sound like another Bush / Cheney ticket.
Dumb a… and the man in control with the gun…
Who knows if the “Sambo – bitch” comment and others like it can be sourced by other individuals? She does speak for a large percentage of the population if she did say it. It might hurt her in the eyes of a few Republican-leaning well-to-do suburban white women who wish to believe that they are not even a little bit racist, but only concerned about lowering taxes.
I daresay she will be kept away from unscripted events with television present, so that the “open mike moment” doesn’t occur.
Isn’t Todd Palin, her husband, one quarter Eskimo?
This is ridiculous and it scares me that people who actually show up and vote based on the uncorroborated eye witness account of a mysterious “waitress.”
Wow! Palin is almost making Cheney look good. This needs to be flashed on all news channels. How can McCain call for an open Government when he is trying to silence the Media regarding this women. We have a right to ask questions about an unknown person. People have sure asked enough questions about Obama.
Isn’t Palin’s husband part Alaskan native? Why would she talk that way, then? THe reason MSM probably won’t report on Palin’s alleged remark re: Obama’s victory over Clinton: journalistic standard of confirmation by 2 independent sources. According to the account given by the waitress (who is park Alaskan native), everyone sitting at Palin’s table roared with gales of hilarity at her racist remark. Thus it will be “she said” vs. “she said.” This is an explosive story, though.
HILTER RETURNS AS A WOMAN – We need to mobilize and educate and donate. The German people buried their heads in the sand and millions of Jews were killed. Obama and Biden are working hard get the message out about whta’s at stake here. We need to work together and beat the BEAST back with information, mobilization, and resources. In other words, we need to be on the ground and virtual community organizers.
Hi~
I hope that you try to follow up on this story in order to confirm what the waitress is alleging. Did you find anyone else in the room that will confirm the story? Repeating a story as serious as this is fraught with danger: if it proves to be untrue, it makes the rest of us look stupid and mean. Again, please follow up. Furthermore, if you find that story is false, please report that too.
God Speed,
David
Hell, I’m the most conservative person I know and I can tell you that McCain has alienated the entire backbone of his party. Most of my fellow evangelical Republicans (and myself) are voting Obama because we don’t want a woman in the white house, godly or no. I thought we made that clear when Hilary was running. I guess not.
I spent some time stationed in Alaska and I approve that many white people are Racist. But there are also just as many who are not. Her husband is a mixed blood so why in the heck is she saying things about his people? She had better cleanup her act before she loses everything she has got. She should resign and do the American people a big favor.
Thank You
I don’t have all the answers, but here is one verifiable item that is a fact in this article: that she was for the bridge before she was against it. What this means is that from day one, she and the McCain campaign has lied outright about her having opposed the bridge from day one. Now I don’t know about you all, but I like my politicians to at try to lie convincingly, when they lie to my face. Read it for yourselves in the pages of the Oct 22, 2006 Anchorage Daily News, Alaska’s most widely read paper (item#5):
http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510378.html
Palin obviously represents the far right wing of the GOP and the centuries old attitude of ‘ root, hog or die’. the term ‘compassionate conservative’ is a oxymoron, just look at the last 8 years of the Bush Whitehouse. the real losers in this election will be the millions of poor, the un-insured, the helpless, the homeless etc. i can still recall Bush’s comment to some fundraiser that he was happy to be with ‘the haves and the have more’s’ McCain and Palin are a perfect duo to continue the Bush/Cheney policies. go Obama/Biden in 2008 and 2012!
After the speech she gave Wednesday night, I absolutely believe the article is at least 75% true. I have found other websites with other people interviewed that comfirm her management style – my way or the highway. I listened in amazement Wednesday night that a woman that was never on the National radar could introduce herself with a 45 minute diatribe about herself and the faults of Obama. No humility, no warmness. She licked her lips after each negative comment like she was hungry for more. I didn’t consider what she did a speech. Halfway through it I thought I was at comedy central listening to a stand up comic. The snippets of their time in Wisconsin and Michigan showed her using exactly the same lines. She may be pretty and they may call her a barracuda but this isn’t someone I want representing us around the world. Those mean, snarky barbs don’t work with world leaders and I’m sure they are currently laughing at her as a potential VP choice. Then again, maybe not. They would eat her alive and maybe she needs to come down a peg or two. She isn’t the kind of woman I want to be the first female heading our country. I didn’t like her kind when I was younger and I like them even less now. There are bitches and then there are bitches. She isn’t the good kind.
EVERYONE is racist in this world except one group, the dumbed-downed, indoctrinated White-Guilt ridden morons who’ve had their brains manipulated by twenty years of fluoride, aspartame and failed public schools.
And of course the ONLY group which is NOT allowed to be racist are White people! Every other group, Jews especially, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, you name them, are allowed to celebrate their uniqueness, and more importantly present a unified front for the purposes of economic and political gain.
I have had ENOUGH of multiculturalism. I can’t take it anymore. I want to live in a Jew-free, minority-free country with ONLY White people. I have had enough of this crap and I am ready to kill or die to obtain Liberty for myself and my people!
The U.S. is RACIST and biased against White people, and I will no longer pay my taxes, nor support this despicable nation! The U.S. can go to hell. I demand a new White-only nation.
Bob, Your are joking right?
I don’t like rap much either and I’m africian-american. This country is still led mostly by “white” people. Yes, most of our US athletes are “black”, and yes the top two US women tennis players are “black”, and yes the world’s top sprinters are “black”. So what…there are still a lot of great “white” athletes – but why do you focus so much on color – are we not all Americans? Yes even though the world’s greatest golfer is half black, and now yes the best choice for president is half black, one is half asian and the other is also half white.
Your problem is that you want to separate the human race into colors, ethnic groups and maybe nationalities. In fact, mitochondrial DNA proves that all humans on earth are descended from 1 of only 33 different women. The whole concept of “race” is an 1800’s fallacy. The human species is all descended from the first humans who came from the great rift valley of eastern Africa. I have more in common genetically with my blond haired-blue eyed “white” cousins from Europe than with a black haired-brown eyed “black” native Australian. Distance from Africa is the key.
That all being said – let’s just stick to the issues in this election. John McCain – who I voted for in the 2000 California primary – is a great American. Barack Obama – who is also a man who loves his country, is potentially a great American. I am voting for Barack this time because we need new leadership and new direction. The republicans have had power under Bush and control of congress for 6 of the past 8 years. They have lost all sense of fiscal responsibility – we are fighting a war on borrowed money. This policy alone is insane, and if it continues will bankrupt our nation. Clinton and the republican congress got it right when they slightly raised taxes on the wealthy and by balancing our budget gave us the surpluses that Bush/Chenny squandered. We could have gone to Mars, used the money to reinvigorate our education system and fully funded our k-12 schools like we did in 1950/60’s. I think we also should have invested in renewable energy projects for our schools and government infrastructure. We can no longer run a modern nation without well funded schools, health care for all, etc… We also need to remove the burden of paying for health care off of our businesses and place it in the hands of government so we can be competitive to business in other countries. Health care in not free.
I’ll give you that we do need to control our borders, and we do need to eliminate wasteful programs. I completely trust a new generational leader like Obama to take us in these new directions we need to go – we do not need any more happy talk like I saw at the republican convention. Our nation needs to return to paying our bills on time with a balanced budget. We need to grow up as a country and be the world leader in more than just our military power. We need to set an example for the rest of the world by being financial adults our children and grandchildren can respect. We need to balance our budget by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share and start now. If our young heroes can fight this war, then those who can afford it need to step up and buy the bullets. Iraq has the money to pay for it’s own defense. We won this battle in the war on terror – let’s move on to Afghanistan, and let the Iraqis take care of Iraq.
If this isn’t hilarious leftist propaganda! Great you guys are keeping up the sophomoric style of propagandization favored by the old Soviet Union. An article full of hearsay and unnamed sources which say scary things in accordance with leftist party line about your political enemies? Only the stupids already in the mentally dead orbit of the political left would take this garbage seriously and be upset by it. Look at the herd animals fall in line and express their shock!! “Oh my! I’m giving this article to everyone I know!” GOD you people are daft! This piece isn’t even worthy of publication in the National Enquirer!
bwahahahahaaahahaha!
You lefty loons are absolutely hilarious!!!
Anne Kilkenny appeared on NPR radio today backing her letter and story. She has been receiving media calls one after the other in the last days. You are likely to hear more about this soon…
I’m sending this to every large newspaper and blog I can think of.This is a disgrace. This woman cannot represent our country. We’ll be laughing stocks of the whole world.
Bad news! A waitress called “Jenny” just told me that Obama is a Muslim terrorist!
Here is a good reason why you don’t see this on the MSM…….Its “Hearsay”!!!!!! By a bunch of posters who have nothing better to do……Learn time management….Have a nice day
Wow, what a claim! You better have some solid backup with charges like that. I do have to protest however that the GOP is being painted with a broad brush as racist. I have news for you, I’ve been Republican Conservative since I first voted for Reagan and I have personally put my job on the line against my boss (who was from India) because he didn’t want to hire a black man at our company. I judge people by the content of their character and their work ethic, not by their color (I think more Republicans may have learned this lesson from MLK than some of the losers on this posting). So cut the crap with stereotyping and making claims that might not be true.
P.S. Leave it to the left to start dropping the “Race Card” when it looks as though their Messianic Star might not pull off the biggest fraud in politics in generations.
So, it’s not racism as long as you’re talking about white folks? That how it works? Hmmm …
Exactly. And I saw plenty of non-white faces in the audience.
Regardless of whether you believe that wealth should be redistributed and the US become even more of a welfare state, with absolutely no reward or incentive for hard work or ingenuity, ignorant generalizations about entire groups are in no way helpful to the discussion.
I suspect few here will understand the reference, but glimpses of Obama’s ideas about social policy have it ringing in my ears: Who was John Galt?
How many leftists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
10… 1 to screw in the bulb and the other 9 to complain that the bulb is too white.
she is 44 years old, no one below 70 years old would use the term “sambo”
She would if she was raised hearing it the home
I’m Alaskan, and I severely dislike Palin, and can’t bear the thought of a McCain/Palin administration, but this article is complete bullsh*t. Has the author ever been to Alaska? Alaskans are some of the most candid people on the face of the planet, and I’ve never, in my entire life, met another Alaskan afraid of the political establishment. I have several loud discussions about Palin everyday – and no one I know seems to whisper or leave in fear. My family suffered under the Soviet Union – this is the opposite end of the spectrum. Does the author not also know that Alaska is a fiercely libertarian state (left and right), and that not even an “evil” Palin administration would’ve wielded enough power to establish a dictatorial regime? Also, Alaskans know about the corruption, and turn a blind-eye, not because we’re afraid, but because it brings us money! The politicians steal from the lower 48 and make get rich off their sweetheart deals, but overall the average Alaskan gets rich off it. We’re not afraid, we’re complicit!!! Oh, and the bit about the rampant racism – grossly overstated. There are bigots here, as there are everywhere, but it’s most certainly not a culture of bigotry. We celebrate our Native and non-native cultures proudly.
Please send to the media.
I’m an Alaskan who hate Palin, but I have to say that this article is bullsh*t, written by someone who has no knowledge of Alaska. If Alaskans whisper, it’s because we benefit from the corruption of our politicians. We’re certainly not afraid. Alaskans are some of the most candid people in the world. Hell, when I went the grocery store the day McCain announced, the cashier was asking each person what he/she thought about the news, and there was a wide range of answers, none whispered. Does that sound like a populous in fear. This is political reporting at its worst. I want to see Palin defeated perhaps more strongly than the author, but this type of garbage is no help. This is on the same level as “Obama is a muslim.”
What a bunch of BS! Where did you get this stuff? I’ve live in Alaska for 30 years an NO ONE here uses the term Aboriginal to describe Natives. Certainly Alaskan Natives don’t use it to describe themselves. Lucille can’t be from here if she thinks that Wasilla is near the North Pole.
Racist? Are you kidding me? Her husband is ‘Aboriginal”… “mukluks’ a\is a derogatory term? That one is new to me and all of us here! If you need to make stuff up, at least interview someone that uses the local lingo so you don’t look like a complete idiot!
Part of the GOP inner circle in Alaska? I don’t think so…Didn’t you see Lisa Murkowski bitting her lip while she had to talk up Palin to the national media(Palin being the Governor that beat Lisa’s incumbent Daddy in the Republican Primary for Gov)?
Can’t say anything about Sarah because the ‘authorities’ will get you? Wait a minute, I thought she was on the Troopers BAD list for cutting their top guy because he wouldn’t cut his budget? Can’t have it both ways!
The only real person is the article is KilKenny, who now has her name in the news. Isn’t that cute? I believe that was the point!
Charly James…oh, his picture is there too…isn’t that cute? Are they popular now, almost like a beauty queen or point guard or something? Do they get to move from the nerd table for lunch?
The only facts in the article are highlighted in blue.
FYI, I love Sarah, but disagree with her ’stand’ on several issues and am afraid of what McCain might add to the Supreme Court…so will be voting for Obama.
I’m commenting on your statement that “The only facts in the article are highlighted in blue.”
There is one fact that isn’t in blue – Palin was for the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before she was against it. And since she, McCain, and all the GOP talking points are that she was always opposed to it, this amounts to a bald faced lie.
Here is the paragraph from the article I’m referring to:
In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.
Here is the newspaper article (Anchorage Daily News, Oct 22, 2006) with (then candidate for governor) Palin, in her own words (item #5):
http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510378.html
Shouting Alaskan, I’m thinking more that the people who have something on Palin or the gov’t probably have to whisper, or folks that have to deal with her/them. I didn’t get the impression they meant (necessarily) the basic population.