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Palin's Troopergate
The Washington Post reports, “Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is an ethics reformer under an ethics investigation that is plowing through private domestic matters. Palin is under investigation to determine whether she pressured and then fired the state police chief in July because he refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law. At the time, the governor's younger sister was involved in a bitter divorce and child custody dispute with the ...
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Comment on Offensive Line-Crossing by Kevin T. Keith
Comments for Lean Left — ... ourselves about people’s judgment. Their judgment in purely personal matters ought to be purely personal. I’m also not sure how much it should matter: if there’s no better evidence of poor judgment in their public life, that in itself is evidence of how little the personal issue matters, and if there is public evidence of poor public performance, that evidence should be the focus of discussion. (Note that, in Palin’s case, there is plenty of evidence of poor judgment in her public life.) I agree that the ...

BREAKING: Palin's Daughter Preggers...Again? Palin's Lies, McCains Gambling Problem, and The Big Brother Backdoor Strategy....
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... an emergency landing? Is it right to expose her unborn special needs kid to the bacteria involved in all of that travel? Finally, is it ,medically possible to break your water and yet show no signs of pregnancy or labor over the hours spent travelling? Possibly....but unlikely. The whole explanation shows poor judgement in the best case scenario and a real tendency to lie (with the possibility of insurance fraud and endangering airline safety) in the worst. Then there is Troopergate...but I'm in a hurry this morning. 87% of Alaskans believe she lied about it and I ...

Sarah Palin's lies
Citizen Crain — ... The second lie relates to her attempt to get her brother in law, a state trooper going through an ugly divorce with Palin's sister, fired , using her influence as governor. She initially denied any involvement of her office in the incident, that is until tapes surfaced linking in her office to the attempt.The whole episode is under investigation and a full report is expected a few days before the November election. Of note, is that Palin fired the state police chief after he refused to summarily dismiss her brother in law. In my mind this is a real abuse of power. Finally, ...

An Honest Question
Balloon Juice — ... 4.) She is embroiled in an abuse of power scandal, in which it is alleged that she fired someone for not firing a trooper who used to be an inlaw, and then replaced that person with a high school buddy. ...

Campaign Promotes Epic Stupidity: Attack the Media
Firedoglake — ... You're asking for a job which will give you not just enormous (and largely unaccountable) power, but effective control over the investigative and prosecutorial arms of the federal government. You're joined at the hip with the incumbent president whose misuse of all those powers got us into this mess. Both of ...

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