Palin Slashed Funding To Help Teenage Mothers. Earlier this year, Palin used a line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. Funding for Covenant House Alaska, which provides transitional housing for teen mothers, was cut by 20 percent from $5 million to $3.9 million. [Washington Post, 9/3/08] OOPSEY - WHO KNEW? GOOD THING THEIR FAMILY HAS MONEY OR HER DAUGHTER MIGHT BE UP THE CREEK.
Palin Left Wasilla $20 Million In Debt. As mayor of Wasilla, Palin cut taxes while simultaneously expanding the towns operating budget by almost $2 million. She ended her term in 2002 with Wasilla $20 million in debt. [Anchorage Daily News 10/23/06; the Politico, 8/29] MY CO-WORKER STANDS FIRM THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY A BUDGET SURPLUS. CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO HER THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'DEBT' AND 'SURPLUS'?
Palin Didnt Have A Passport Until 2007. Palin first obtained a passport in July 2007 for her trip to Kuwait and Germany to visit Alaska National Guard troops. Her only other trip outside of the United States was to Canada. A Palin spokeswoman had previously said that Palin had also been to Ireland, although it was actually just a refueling stop on her Germany/Kuwait trip. [New York Times, 8/29/08; Politico, 9/2/08] EVEN I HAD A PASSPORT BEFORE HER.
Palin Supported The Bridge To Nowhere. During her unveiling as McCains running mate, Palin claimed that she said, Thanks, but no thanks to federal funding for the Bridge to Nowhere. But in her 2006 campaign for governor, Palin repeatedly expressed support for the bridge project, saying Alaska should take advantage of earmarks while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist. [Anchorage Daily News, 10/22/06; Ketchikan Daily News, 8/9/06, 11/21/06] SHE CHANGED HER MIND ONCE EVERYONE LAUGHED AT WHAT A STUPID WASTE IT WOULD BE.
Palin Believes It Is Gods Will To Build A Natural Gas Pipeline. Speaking to the Wasilla Assembly of God church in June, Palin said, I think Gods will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that, referring to a $30 billion national gas pipeline project. [Huffington Post, 9/2/08] PLEASE TELL ME YOUR ****TING ME. GOD'S WILL WILL BUILD A GAS LINE? LEMME SQUEEZE MY EYES SHUT AND PRAY FOR LOWER GAS PRICES. NOPE, DIDN'T WORK.
Palin Supports Teaching Creationism In Public Schools. In a 2006 gubernatorial debate, Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the states public classrooms. [Anchorage Daily News, 10/27/06] MORE GOD $HIT. PLEASE DON'T CLUTTER CHILDREN HEADS WITH NONSENSICAL FICTION.
Palin Believes That The Iraq War Is A Task From God. Speaking at the Wasilla Assembly of God church in June, Palin said that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. [Huffington Post, 9/2/08] PLEASE STOP - I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.
Palin Supports Abstinence-Only Policies. In 2006, the Eagle Forum Alaska asked Palin whether she would support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education. Palin replied, Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support. [Politico, 9/1/08] LOOKS LIKE SHE SHOULD HAVE SUPPORTED THE EXPLICIT SEX-ED PROGRAMS BECAUSE ABSTINENCE UNTIL MARRIAGE DIDN'T WORK FOR HER DAUGHTER.
Palin Fired Police Chief For Not Fully Supporting Her. After becoming Mayor of Wasilla, Palin fired the citys police chief, Irl Stambaugh, writing, I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I intend to terminate your employment. Stambaugh charged that Palin fired him because he stepped on the toes of Palins campaign contributors, including bar owners and the National Rifle Association. [Anchorage Daily News, 2/1/97; ABC News, 9/3/08]
Ousted Former State Official Accused Palin Of Pressuring Him To Fire Trooper. Palin allegedly tried to get a state trooper fired and she then fired the troopers boss because he wouldnt act on her request. Palins sister was involved in a bitter child custody battle with the trooper. [Anchorage Daily News, 7/18/08] REPEAT AFTER ME... "YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT...." NOT EVERYONE WILL LIKE YOU. GROW UP!!!
Palin Used Mayoral Office Resources For Campaigning. During her 2002 campaign for lieutenant governor, Palin ordered campaign materials from City Hall, had them delivered there, and used city employees on city-aid time to arrange campaign events. According to the Anchorage Daily News, there was no indication she repaid the city for the incidental expenses the city incurred. [Anchorage Daily News, 7/21/06] WHAT A GOOD USE OF CITY RESOURCES!
Palin Believes The Founding Fathers Wrote The Pledge Of Allegiance. In 2006, when asked by the Eagle Forum Alaska if she found the phrase Under God in the Pledge of Allegiance offensive, Palin replied, Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me. But the words Under God didnt appear in the Pledge until 1954. The Pledge itself wasnt written until 1892. [Huffington Post, 9/1/08; Slate, 6/28/02] WHERE DID SHE GO TO SCHOOL??!?!?! (NO COMMENT SCOTT ON HER MAJOR)
ENLIGHTEN ME PLEASE AS TO WHY PEOPLE THINK SHE IS THE GREATEST THING EVER? IF HER AND MCCAIN ARE ELECTED, WE ARE SO SCREWED!
BUFWINGS! I don't think they will win. I don't think there are that many crazy-assed Evangelicals in the country. The masses can't be that ignorant. The crazy religious ideations ("God's War" etc.) **** is annoying though, I agree. Hate it! Hate HER!!!! I am right there with you. My bf doesn't understand why I get so upset.
The only thing I can do to make myself not shoot myself is to, well, drink a lot, and when she speaks, close my eyes, and picture her as Francis McDormand's character in "Fargo." That insanely annoying voice!!!! Ah, GAHWD! Where's that wood chipper when we need it?
I'm going to go and buy one of those little fish with legs on it!!!
Did you know that GEORGE BUSH's former speech writer wrote that piece of crap speech? Yup.
She just sounds so...smug, so self-righteous. My mom says that she just heard that her minister from her Bible-Believin' Kool-Aid drinking church makes Reverend Wright look like Pat Boone!!!!
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BUFWINGS! I don't think they will win. I don't think there are that many crazy-assed Evangelicals in the country. The masses can't be that ignorant.
I hope not but I wonder all the time how Bush got re-elected. Oh wait, I know, everyone I know voted for him. WTF?!
What burns me up the most I think is how perfect my co-workers think she is. Like she is a saint here to save us. She has done no wrong. I can site source after source (about how much she $ucks) and all I hear is how my source is wrong and what an amazing woman she is. They gushed for an hour today about what a great speech she gave last night. Blech.
Palin is an unqualified candidate. Every indicator shows that she was a last resort, last minute choice. She wasn't vetted, and they're spinning in circles trying to justify her every flaw.
So here is my thing...She is like this big, pro-life person, and yet she promotes aerial hunting, and supports and allows stuff like the following....
You might have heard last summer about Mitt Romney's strapping his dog to his roof on family vacations, which created a bit of a kerfuffle in the primary campaign. But we haven't heard too much about Sarah Palin's cruel streak, which makes Romney's Irish Setter's unpleasant travel pale in comparison.
As if this wasn't enough, now Palin's administration is allowing its "Department of Wildlife Conservation" to enter into wolf dens and slaughter wolf pups; in July, her employees went to retrieve adult wolf carcasses they had shot a month earlier from a helicopter and then found the wolves' pups in their den and so dispatched them one-by-one with pistol shots to the head. They then tried to conceal their actions from the public. When they were exposed, they said they had tried to place the orphaned wolves with zoos. Then the zoos said no one had contacted them.
Sorry? How is THIS the compassionate Conservative? Can someone remind me?
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