NY Times’ Palin Profile
The New York Times has published an expose on Governor Palin.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
I thought that was the requirement for FEMA director…
In Wasilla, a builder said he complained to Mayor Palin when the city attorney put a stop-work order on his housing project. She responded, he said, by engineering the attorney’s firing.
I suppose Obama should have picked Paul Clark as his running mate.
While Ms. Palin took office promising a more open government, her administration has battled to keep information secret. Her inner circle discussed the benefit of using private e-mail addresses. An assistant told her it appeared that such e-mail messages sent to a private address on a “personal device” like a BlackBerry “would be confidential and not subject to subpoena.”
That is a page right out of the Karl Rove playbook for how to circumvent legality.
Many lawmakers contend that Ms. Palin is overly reliant on a small inner circle that leaves her isolated. Democrats and Republicans alike describe her as often missing in action. Since taking office in 2007, Ms. Palin has spent 312 nights at her Wasilla home, some 600 miles to the north of the governor’s mansion in Juneau, records show.
During the last legislative session, some lawmakers became so frustrated with her absences that they took to wearing “Where’s Sarah?” pins.
This sounds a lot like the first 8 months of GWB. But my favorite quote is this one:
“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”
Both sides will find something to like in Palins record in Alaska. Go read it.
Palin has much foriegn policy experience she only got a passport two years ago!
Palin was only a mayor of Wasilla a town of 5000 people, and McCain thinks this woman could be a “commander in chief”, when she outsourced her commander in chief duties in Alaska to underlinings!
Palin is a bad joke. Republicans – other than David Anderson and other “true believers” – can spin away, but no one is buying their crap. They are appalled by McCain’s pick. So much for country first.
Worse than Bush. God help us all.
“She surrounded herself with people she has known since grade school and members of her church. ”
This is for state government?
Mayberry Machiavellis 2.0, I’m thinking.
Not change we can believe in, my friends.
Just shoot me now.
Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM! Left-wing MSM!
That is a joke, right, Mike?
Pandora- the “political establishment” Republican’s don’t like Palin, but actual voters seem to like her just fine. That goes for Republicans, Independents, and small L libertarians who hate both but simply can’t stomach an Obama/Biden White House.
We should never underestimate the stupidity of the American Voter
“To the victor go the spoils”
The fact that you disapprove of the victor’s choices matters not until you enter the next ballot box opportunity.
Besides, your side can always do something mature like remove the “W” keys on the office keyboards. That was a hoot in 2000.
Maybe you can remove all the Bibles?
Actually, seratonin, I agree to an extent. The catch is that we should understand how those spoils will be selected. It can have influence before the election. In this case, I hope it does.
Besides, your side can always do something mature like remove the “W” keys on the office keyboards. That was a hoot in 2000.
I am heartened any time the right responds to criticism by bringing up the Clintons. It is the political world’s equivalent of the schoolyard “nuh-UH!!”