Posted on 06/11/2011 6:02:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
She was hands-on and averse to partisan politics. She championed openness in government and had normal relations with the media. She was a little starstruck by her interactions with national politicians but unafraid to do battle with the chief executives of the world’s largest oil companies
The emails from her governorship, released Friday, brought back the memory of a long-lost Palin: the popular, charismatic, competent woman of the people.
Far from being a knee-jerk partisan, she praises then-Sen. Barack Obama for his energy ideas — “pretty cool,” even though he is the “wrong candidate.” She derides the Republican establishment just weeks before being picked for the ticket, writing, “we need to remember the GOP, for the most part … especially the AK machine … has not had any support or assistance provided our administration so our time and efforts will continue to be spent on serving Alaskans, not party politics.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
NOPE.
Troll , you ‘ve been reported.
I am tired of the Rat troll hit and run comments here.
“Together with the newly released, pro-Palin documentary “The Undefeated,” which focuses on her rise to the spotlight, the emails are reminders of a sympathetic figure who was not yet the brittle, divisive caricature Palin has become.”
Wow. “Brittle, divisive caricature”? That would be 0bama!!!
Palin ‘12!!!
So this is your “big finding,” MSM... that Palin is more partisan and bitter than before... that she no longer gets along with the media? Gosh ya don`t think it could be in any way related to the sh!t you`ve flung about her and her family, would it?
The small silver lining in all this is the MSM`s giving up of all pretenses toward unbiased reporting. Their actions here firmly place them in the category of propaganda ministry.
0bama can put them on the federal payroll now. No need to launder their pay through other parties anymore.
What?
No Pithy reply rob777?
Nothing to rebut?
Have the facts shut up your PDS nonsense?
Absolutely with you there.
thanks for clarifying the “global warming” stuff. especially the great research in #31.
...a Governor isn’t a scientist. back then, the MSM was harping that ALL true scientists “knew” AGW was real, instead of the Hoax we now know it is, after the Hadley CRU climategate with “hide the decline”, etc.
So back then, it would have been irresponsible to ignore it without any study. but, as you point out, even on that, her instincts were correct, and she was way ahead of the curve on the AGW Hoax.
...i’m also grateful to the MSM. the more they dig, the more i learn about her, and the more i like her.
(...gee. maybe if they did the same to Barry Soetoro, i’d like him more...?)
If critics were hoping to see Palin revealed as a hypocrite, they’re out of luck. Her private statements are in line with her public ones when it comes to issues like Troopergate, the ethics scandal in which she was accused of abusing her authority to punish her sister’s ex-husband. Her emails on the matter fulminate against what she insists are false accusations, maintaining the same consistent defense — that Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was fired for performance, not personal, reasons.
Palin comes across as neither an airhead nor a prima donna. She is warm and supportive with her staff, who are loyal to her in turn. She frequently misspells in haste or phonetically (“nonsensicle” for “nonsensical”), but her writing is fluent and grammatical.
Nor is she a figurehead. She is active in guiding policy, a self-assured politician who knows where she stands. When she feels she’s been left out of the loop on responding to a disaster, she’s adamant — “someone from Homeland Security/Emergency Management needs to call me and inform me on things like this … I insist on being informed during any situation where the public would feel any person could be in danger.”
That's pretty much what I expected to come out of this witch-hunt, unless they planted lies in the database.
These people are utterly shameless.
Ah, the media longing for the long-ago Palin. The good old days. They loved her sooooo much back then.
Long ago and far away, all these AP reporters used to crap in their pants. The difference is, they’re still doing it.
These idiots just keep making bigger fools of themselves.
A line of twisted logic worthy of a KGB propaganda campaign.
DIfference is, now they’re going to be eating it.
What utter crap!
In that same email she stated that Obama had stolen Alaska policy in how it relates to the speech he was giving.
You’re right. This line of analysis just helps her, though that’s the last thing they want to do.
Has anyone bothered to check back to what Obama said in that energy speech?
no she did not. the email was about how Obama’s speech was good BECAUSE he stoled HER ideas. Obama was stealing Palin’s energy ideas and she said yeah it was a good speech and we need to use this. the MSM making crap up again...
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