Sarah Palin - pros & cons

[Seeking Penance]

Re: Sarah Palin - pros & cons

I have respect for anyone willing to face the intrusive spotlight of politics. Doesn't mean they'd get my vote, mind you. In order to do that, they would need to be the candidate who most closely reflects my values and beliefs. In recent years, that has not been the candidates put forward by the Republican Party. The Democratic ones have been moving farther away from my "tastes" as well - but they are usually still closer on the scale, at least on the national level. Locally, there have been many non-Democrat candidates I've supported.

respecting your views and opinions leo

mahalo

[LikaNui]

Re: Sarah Palin - pros & cons

DVRs rock!

They do indeed. I was just now watching the DVR of David Letterman's show from Friday night, and Tina Fey was his first guest! Obviously most of the conversation was about her Sarah Palin impersonations. Tina said that the first time she realized she really does look like Palin was when Palin appeared in a TV ad and Tina's child said "There's mommy!"

[tutusue]

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I saw her in the opening bit (she got to say the "Live from New York..." bit). She did appear with Lorne Michaels and Alec Baldwin in the beginning (I didn't watch the rest of it so I dunno if she appeared elsewhere).

After realizing I fell asleep during the musical act last night, I just viewed the part of SNL that I slept thru! Yes, Palin appeared in 'Weekend Update', refusing to do the skit that was written for her! So, Amy Poehler did a very funny rap routine while Seth and Sarah rocked out to the beat! Cute...but I can't imagine the VERY hapai Amy will make it to next Thursday!

[anapuni808]

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Wish I had DVR! I must have missed the first few minutes of the show - I thought I turned to it at the very beginning but now realize that I must have been a couple minutes late. Ah well, I'll try to see it eventually online.

[Ron Whitfield]

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Don't worry, you didn't miss much.

That Palin would go on and then nix doing a skit is par for her style of course.
Loser.

[tutusue]

Re: Sarah Palin - pros & cons

Don't worry, you didn't miss much.

That Palin would go on and then nix doing a skit is par for her style of course.
Loser.

I did see the entire skit and it appeared to me that Palin nixing a part of the skit was actually a part of the skit! It was scripted that way; a parody on her nixing just about everything else involved with the media. Personally, I found it funny!

[Peshkwe]

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Here are the two skits Palin was in on this past SNL:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_135887.html

[Peshkwe]

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Was there any mention of the movie based on Sarah Palin by Larry Flynt on SNL?

And just for you......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_136020.html

[Ron Whitfield]

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TS, I believe there was one she wouldn't agree to, and the one shown is a take-off on that.
Maybe not...

But it was fun watching her twist in the wind in the Michaels/Brolin piece.

[Ron Whitfield]

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Sarah just can't keep her foot out of her mouth.
Now she's genuflecting towards the pro-American part's of the country.

It's a toss up as to who McCain will shoot 1st if he get's ahold of a gun, himself, or her. He was completely bummed during his media appearences this last Sunday, speaking in a very tired monotone that ignored questions and conversation and simply plowed thru the old messages. A few times it sounded as tho he would break into tears.
Go home, John, Cindy's got dinner on. Better take your taster...

[tutusue]

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TS, I believe there was one she wouldn't agree to, and the one shown is a take-off on that.
Maybe not...[...]

Ron...your perception was just confirmed on the news and on ET. Apparently SNL wrote the 'rap' part for Palin and she refused. Amy Poehler did it instead.

[Ron Whitfield]

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Now, there has been an AP investigation into Palin padding her Alaskan Governor's travel roster, which is specifically intended for those 'conducting official business' only, with her children, at tax payer's expense, and then(!), re-writing the language after the fact to make it apprear it was OK.

Forget the knee high's, with this endlessly growing vat of crap, we need full suit diver's gear, complete with hard hat, to survive drowning in this woman's enormous pile of BS. Her and Lingle, 2 peas in a pod.

[LikaNui]

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The whole story is at this link, but here are some interesting excerpts:

Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.
In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.
Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor's children. The law allows for payment of expenses for anyone conducting official state business.
As governor, Palin justified having the state pay for the travel of her daughters — Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7 — by noting on travel forms that the girls had been invited to attend or participate in events on the governor's schedule.
But some organizers of these events said they were surprised when the Palin children showed up uninvited, or said they agreed to a request by the governor to allow the children to attend.
(...)
After Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin his running mate and reporters asked for the records, Palin ordered changes to previously filed expense reports for her daughters' travel.
In the amended reports, Palin added phrases such as "First Family attending" and "First Family invited" to explain the girls' attendance.
(...)
When Palin released her family's tax records as part of her vice presidential campaign, some tax experts questioned why she did not report the children's state travel reimbursements as income.
(...)
In October 2007, Palin brought daughter Bristol along on a trip to New York for a women's leadership conference. Plane tickets from Anchorage to La Guardia Airport for $1,385.11 were billed to the state, records show, and mother and daughter shared a room for four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House hotel, which overlooks Central Park.
The event's organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her daughter.
(...)
In January, the governor, Willow and Piper showed up at the Alaska Symphony of Seafood Buffet, an Anchorage gala to announce winners of an earlier seafood competition.
"She was just there," said James Browning, executive director of Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, which runs the event. Griffin said the governor's office received an invitation that was not specifically addressed to anyone.
When Palin amended her children's expense reports, she listed a role for the two girls at the function — "to draw two separate raffle tickets."
(...)
In July, the governor charged the state $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. The girls had their own room for five nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for $215.46 a night, expense records show.
Expense forms describe the girls' official purpose as "NGA Governor's Youth Programs and family activities." But those programs were activities designed to keep children busy, a service provided by the NGA to accommodate governors and their families, NGA spokeswoman Jodi Omear said.
(...)
The organizer of an American Heart Association luncheon on Feb. 15 in Fairbanks said Palin asked to bring daughter Piper to the event, and the organizer said she was surprised when Palin showed up with daughter Willow and Bristol as well.
The three Palin daughters shared a room separate from their mother at the Princess Lodge in Fairbanks for two nights, at a cost to the state of $129 per night.
The luncheon took place before Palin's husband, Todd, finished fourth in the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race, also in Fairbanks. The family greeted him at the finish line.
When Palin showed up at the luncheon with not just Piper but also Willow and Bristol, organizers had to scramble to make room at the main table, said Janet Bartels, who set up the event.
(...)
The state is already reviewing nearly $17,000 in per diem payments to Palin for more than 300 nights she slept at her own home, 40 miles from her satellite office in Anchorage.
Tony Knowles, a Democratic former governor of Alaska who lost to Palin in a 2006 bid to reclaim the job, said he never charged the state for his three children's commercial flights or claimed their travel as official state business.
Knowles, who was governor from 1994 to 2002, is the only other recent Alaska governor who had school-age children while in office.
(...)
In February 2007, the three girls flew from Juneau to Anchorage on Alaska Airlines. Palin charged the state for the $519.30 round-trip ticket for each girl, and noted on the expense form that the daughters accompanied her to "open the start of the Iron Dog race."
The children and their mother then watched as Todd Palin and other racers started the competition, which Todd won that year. Palin later had the relevant expense forms changed to describe the girls' business as "First Family official starter for the start of the Iron Dog race."

Hmmmmmmmmm.

[Peshkwe]

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Hoooo....

The party line of anti-americanisim is causing a few republicans to self immolate:


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the...l?nav=rss_blog

http://features.csmonitor.com/politi...cans-run-wild/

[Frankie's Market]

Re: Sarah Palin - pros & cons

Now, there has been an AP investigation into Palin padding her Alaskan Governor's travel roster, which is specifically intended for those 'conducting official business' only, with her children, at tax payer's expense, and then(!), re-writing the language after the fact to make it apprear it was OK.

Looking at the big picture of the campaign, I don't this story will make much of an impact, other than it being another unwelcome distraction for McCain/Palin over the next couple of days. If that is the case and the McCain campaign has to go off-message to address these allegations, then the GOP ticket will have squandered whatever advantage they might have had with Obama leaving the campaign trail to visit his ill grandmother.