[mass55th]

"In Office, Bill Clinton Hired Friends and Hit Critics"

[SeaHawkFan]

When Ms. Palin had to cut the 2007 state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

Sure glad Bill never let Hillary help make policy or personnel decisions.

[Gaffer]

Hey NYT, you know what? I don't give a rat's damn if she's hired everyone of her extended family on both sides of the marriage. I just don't care! I know all I need to know about Sarah and nothing you or anyone else will make a whit of a difference.

You (NYT) and your throwback leftist ilk can, in the words of the buxom Pamela Anderson, just "Suck it!"

[AndyJackson]

“her governing style raises a lot of hard questions.”

Dan Rather is that you? We know. It is the seriousness of the charge.

[glorgau]

Where’s that Bill Clinton quote that goes roughly like “I take care of my friends and punish people that mess with me - thats what Presidents do!”

[Starboard]

Its the New York Slimes stock price that taken a gigantic hit! Its nothing more than fish wrap.

[Old Professer]

Chocago Tribune seems to have given voice to Sherry, from a piece on Sept. 1st, we read:

“Sherry Whitstine, a local conservative blogger, was dumbfounded by Palin’s selection, and not in a good way. Palin is “small potatoes,” said Whitstine, who is still struggling to come to grips with McCain’s decision.

“[Trying to make Palin] the VP of our country is probably the worst mistake of his entire life,” Whitstine said.”

Check out her website for Pix of her and hubby.

[calex59]

Oh,yeah, way to go Sarah. Why in the he** would any elected official want to keep enemies(NTslimes calls the critics)working next to you? All elected officials do this, it happens all the time. The media is sh***ing their pants because they haven’t been able to get us to dump Sarah yet. BozObama is losing and losing big. They are going to be supremely surprised on election day, it will be a slaughter.

[RatSlayer]

I heard that when she was elected that her spouse's salary doubled from $150k to $300k and then after she was elected she directed a >$1M contract to her spouse's company.
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Oh wait, my bad, that was Obama not Palin.

[csvset]

Her mother-in-law, Faye Palin, has been asked not to speak to reporters

What about Barry's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham ? For all intents and purposes, she's the woman who raised Barry. She's not giving interviews either.

[Nekman]

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[UB355]

Winner=Spoils

Hillary and the travel office scandal comes to mind

[Jim Noble]

What?

A politician who hired her friends?

AMAZING!

[Krankor]

When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.
Holy mackerel, she cut government spending. And what do they mean she "huddled with her husband"? Do they have photos of it? Did she announce she was going to her husband for advice on the budget? How does the Times know this as a fact?
Mr. Bitney was a high school classmate of the Palins and had worked for Ms. Palin. But she fired Mr. Bitney after learning that he had fallen in love with another longtime friend.
Again, the Times presents the reason for the firing as a "fact". Unless Sarah admitted that was the reason or they have a videotape of the dismissal, how in the world does the Times know this? I mean,isn't there supposed to be some kind of attribution like, "According to Mr. Bitnety, he was fired for this reason"
This article is mind boggling. The reporters go to great lengths to report second hand quotes from her politcal enemies, yet fail to mention the state trooper she allegedly tried to get fired, admitted to tasering his 10 year old step son. And that whole thing with the builder Don Showers doesn't make sense. First the Times writes she engineered the firing of the city attorney. Then they say she actually fired him, then we learn apparently only the city council could fire him. And if this builder was such a big supporter of hers and she did all these favors for him, why is the guy turning on her now? It's beyond belief. I mean, you have a governor who taxed the evil oil companies, who cut government spending and who has an 80% approval rating from the people of the state, which, by the way, I'm sure is the highest approval rating of any governor in the country. And to top it all off, the biggest complainers are other politicians who are pissed off she wouldn't approve their per projects which, if she had, the Times would have denounced her for that! If Barack Obama had a resume half as good as this, the Times would be gushing over him.

[papasmurf]

At 80% support of a population of approx. 700,000, she has about the same number of supporters as the NY Slimes does subscribers.

EIGHTY PERCENT SUPPORT, think about that, N.Y. Slimes!