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Subject: These events say little about Sarah Palin ... and lots about Team McCain ...

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Ed Tracey

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Date Posted: Mon, September 01, 2008 8:13:50
In reply to: Mercedes 's message, "Are you kidding me??? Are you absolutely kidding me???" on Fri, August 29, 2008 4:51:52

... and how - with a full six months from the time he clinched the nomination to now - it seems that he didn't do his homework:

(a) It's difficult to have a a "Country First" platform - when it seems that Palin was a member of an Alaska Secessionist Party. I have no opinion one way or another on that - it's up to Alaskans, and I would back them if they were to vote to do so. But "Country First" now seems awkward.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

(b) It appears that a group of citizens sought to recall her as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska - the original 1997 Anchorage Daily News story is behind a subscription wall, but it stems from her firing the city's police chief and library director without warning due to "not fully supporting her efforts to govern". (Dick Cheney revisited).
http://theforvm.org/diary/bill-white/sarah-palins-record-mayor-and-she-a-pentecostal

(c) She was "for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it" - telling Ketchican residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." Then, when the heat was on, backed off in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines. Flip-flop, eh?
http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/511471.html

(d) She has now lawyered-up: hiring an attorney over "Trooper-Gate" - firing her public safety commissioner Walt Monegan after he refused to fire a state trooper who had divorced Palin's sister, and now facing a state ethics panel. (Again, a worthy successor to Dick Cheney in style).
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/sep/01/palin-hires-attorney-troopergate-investigation/

(e) For all of the "battling corruption" label - she was a director of a 2003 independent political group organized by the (now indicted) Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. Old news? Didn't know how corrupt he was back then? Well, she held a news conference with him in July (just before he was indicted) to make clear she had not abandoned him politically.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html

(f) And after all of the above: McCain's team dispatched a dozen operatives and lawyers to Alaska, fueling speculation that a comprehensive examination of her past was incomplete and being done only after she was placed on the ticket.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrhFOsVwX9jtDyUhy3zKCBVms8tgD92U8KEG0

Notice that I haven't touched any of the family issues; I agree that they are not relevant. What is relevant is that the supposed "experienced political team" was blindsided by all of this; yet they're telling me that the Obama-Biden ticket is the "risky" one, that's "inexperienced"?

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