Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage

[CatWoman]

We still don’t know a lot about Palin except that she’s better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter’s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction.

She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.

How long before we learn she never shot a moose?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[firedupdem]

1. Its really ridiculous the way he has to parade her around

to throw everyone off track about the real issues. He's the same as Cheney and Bush and she has no business even being in the equation. I wish the media would stop even discussing the idiot other than to say if he kicks the bucket we don't know who would run the country because she certainly wouldn't have what it takes to do it. All the same people who've screwed us the last 8 years would continue to run the country.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. K&R!

Thanks for posting this CatWoman! :hi:

[CatWoman]

3. anytime, WN

:hi:

the entire article is excellent :)

[TwilightGardener]

4. I want my fucking money back from Alaska--why the fuck did they

get to keep the federal money for the never-built bridge? What a fucking scam--like the state isn't wealthy enough.

[NCDem60]

5. Shotgun weddings seem to be a Palin family tradition.