Posted on 09/14/2008 1:41:23 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
A Friday hearing revealed that an Obama partisan has manipulated an independent investigator’s subpoena list for a controversial inquiry against GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
The investigation is intended to determine whether Palin abused her office by firing Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. Palin says she fired him over budget issues. Her foes believe the firing was due to Monegan’s unwillingness to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law State Trooper Mike Wooten, a man who has admitted to “tasering” his stepson, illegally shooting a moose and has been accused of threatening his former father-in-law with violence and drinking in his police car.
Investigator Steven Branchflower admitted he had ceded control of his subpoena list to Sen. Hollis French (D.) during Alaska’s Joint Judiciary Committee September 12 hearing that was scheduled to approve subpoena requests. [CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO.] French is a partisan who has endorsed Palin’s Democratic presidential ticket rival Barack Obama for president and is actively supporting his candidacy.
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Putting lipstick on Obozo
Democrats have spent weeks accusing Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her pregnancy and accusing her daughter of lying about her pregnancy and attacking Sarah as a bad mother and comparing her to Pontius Pilate, Islamic radicals, a whip-wielding dominatrix and to "lipstick" on a pig. Now Democrats say they're ready to take the gloves off!
After a difficult week for Obama, which followed a difficult week for Obama, Reuters reports that the messiah "fired back" at John McCain with "new ads" mocking McCain as old-fashioned and "out of touch". Obama has been rattled and flustered in the weeks since "out-of-touch" McCain picked young Sarah Palin for VP, eclipsing the messiah's choice of a 66-year-old windbag (whose name escapes me) as his assistant messiah.
Obama campaign honcho David Plouffe, heralding the new ads in a memo sent to "reporters" (or, as I prefer, Democrats with press passes), wrote that "today" was a historic day -- "the first day of the rest of the campaign," in which the effete Ivy League lawyer Obama 'takes off the gloves', which makes this the fourth time this year.
Almost half the voters in a new AP poll say Hussein lacks the proper experience to be president and he now trails McCain in almost every poll despite those Greek columns erected at his Temple coronation, so now his campaign geniuses have come up with another idea -- running ads accusing McCain of not using a computer and not knowing how to e-mail. No doubt this will electrify voters! Accusing someone who can fly fighter jets of being too dumb to use a computer is a real winner.
Plouffe revealed in his memo that the reason they're going after McCain's lack of computer and typing skills is because "this election is too important and the challenges too big to spend the next 54 days talking about trivial non-issues."
But Obama's opposition researchers apparently were so deeply immersed in an even 'bigger issue' -- how long has Bristol been pregnant? -- that they missed the real reason McCain doesn't e-mail or use a keyboard: The barbaric treatment he got at the hands of his Viet Cong captors.
While Obama's oppo A-listers were busy trying to determine the size of Bristol's belly, the Drudge Report on Friday unearthed a Boston Globe article (dated March 4, 2000), which read: "McCain gets emotional at the mere mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan -- Ted Williams is his hero -- but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball." Obama is apparently too dumb to use Google.
Looking at the big picture, meandering from issue to issue aimlessly and tossing laughingly refutable charges against the wall, as Obama's doing, is what happens when your campaign is fully engaged in meltdown mode. And everything keeps backfiring. The dumb, fading celebrity says he wasn't thinking of Gov. Palin when he made his 'lipstick' remark, which got hoots and hollers from his audience. Every major newspaper had "LIPSTICK" in very bold print across its front page the morning after Palin's speech at the convention, but Obama wasn't thinking of Palin at all when he said 'lipstick'! No, no, no -- he was thinking of McCain.
(Back in May, Obambi had a sissy fit because Bush had used the word "appeasement" in a speech before the Israeli Knesset, which Obozo assumed to be an 'attack' on him, even though Bush never mentioned Obama anywhere in his speech. Obama mentioned Palin repeatedly in his speech on 'lipstick' which supposedly was not about Palin.)
At a campaign event in New Hamphire yesterday, Obama had another sissy fit, accusing McCain and Palin of 'distracting' him with lipstick. "They've been talking about lipstick and they've been talking about pigs!", screamed Obama, who can't seem to stop talking about lipstick or talking about pigs.
By week's end, Hussein's lackeys at the New York Times were hard at work investigating Beehive Beauty Shop in Wasilla, which Gov. Palin patronized for the last six years. They're carefully probing and analyzing Palin's hair locks because "hairstyles help answer the voters' throw-down question: 'Who does she think she is?'" (Joe Biden's question: 'Is that her own hair?')
Then the NYT drops this bombshell: "During Palin's appointments, Mrs. Steele [the beauty salon owner], divorced and financially stressed, confided in her client. 'Sarah was always saying that GOD WAS IN CONTROL and to HAVE FAITH THAT THERE IS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING'"!!! And, in even further horror to the NYT, Mrs. Steele said "'We would say it together.'" S c a n d a l o u s! Worse than Palin's war crimes against courageous moose.
Things lately have been going so swimmingly for McCain/Palin, even totally 'unbiased' and 'impartial' Charlie Gibson is frustrated, the poor little thing. Billed as Palin's first solo interview, Palin was so in command that by the end of the thing it looked more like Charlie Gibson's first solo interview, ever. Gibson flubbed the Bush Doctrine, blundered through Palin's past statements, and had not yet found out that Reagan won the Cold War. But! Too scripted; no foreign policy experience; a paltry two years in the current job -- but enough about Charlie Gibson.
The problem with the Democrats' lame-o 'inexperience' meme is that Palin has gobs of executive experience, in contrast to Obama, whose primary qualification for president is that he voted to stack up hospital utility rooms with dead babies who initially survived abortion. Yet another reason why Obama will be giving a concession speech next November.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
How can Palin be any less prepared than the (Democrat-revered) Bill "rent-to-own" Clinton was?
I'd be careful with this one. Remember how bad Clinton screwed up. Ol' Foot-in-mouth Biden might actually use that reference to disqualify Palin.
Typical Chicago goon thuggery.
The problem with the Democrats' lame-o 'inexperience' meme is that Palin has gobs of executive experience, in contrast to Obama
It is not executive experience (i.e., what she may have learned on the job) nearly so much as it is executive track record which Palin has and Obama lacks. Gov. Palin can talk about pushing the reset button on dealings with the oil companies and ultimately cutting a $40 billion deal for the construction of a natural gas pipeline with a different vendor than prior administrations in Juno had considered. Obama can talk about running his presidential election campaign (but isn't about to open to the public his decision making process on that. For all we know, he may have cut ethical corners that we won't find out about until after the election).Manifestly, Gov. Palin knows how to get things done. And Senator Obama knows how to talk about problems. The contrast is stark.
Article 2, Section 20 of the Alaska Constitution sets out the impeachment procedure. Unlike the Federal Constitution, an impeachment originates in the AK Senate and requires 2/3 vote, probably 13 votes. Then it goes on for trial in the state house, with 17 DemonRats and 23 Republicans, where a 2/3 vote is required for conviction.
Why the AK pubbies let this monstrosity go as far as it's gone is beyond me.
This business with the “investigation” into the Wooten stuff is appalling. Why can’t anything be done about an “investigation” that is so obviously tainted?
Palin requested the investigation after the allegations came out, she wants her name cleared and trusts that the real truth will come out. That’s why the investigation wasn’t quashed. Palin has made some Republican enemies as well so there isn’t any incentive for some of them to reign
in the investigation. The revelations that the independent investigator wasn’t so independent in his supeona lists are going to color and perhaps destroy the investigation....but not before a lot of damage is done to Palin. As for impeachment, I don’t think there would be the 2/3rd vote necessary in the Alaska Semate to support it.
Not if they wanted to be reelected, anyway. Alaskans are rooting for Sarah.
Here we have a situation where a private citizen complains to the authorities about a government employee making death threats to his inlaws, and the state legislature decides to subpoena him to an investigation of his wife.
Time for the Dems and Reps up there to back away from this one slowly or they're going to find statehood withdrawn!
We simply cannot tolerate this sort of thing (which is so terribly reminiscent of "Blazing Saddles".)
This sounds like Palin underestimated her opposition or actually thought there would be an impartial investigation. Can anything be done now? Are there any Alaska Freepers who can add to this discussion?
Hats off to Gov. Palin doing a wonderfully professional job of ignoring the Obama media thugs; says much about her and her professional ethics.
The negatives ads on both side are getting down and dirty so maybe it’s time to concentrate on facts and the issues at hand and how the GOP WILL reform the country! Of course there would be nothing wrong with adding a few jabs at the Communistic like “changes” the Obozo wants to make. Someone on the GOP staff should look up comparisons of the changes Obozo would like to make to those of the Soviet Union, Cuba and other Communist countries just prior to their becoming Communist and add those to their GOP ads.
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