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Sarah Palin frequently refers to to her religious beliefs as part of her core values, but she has never made it clear just what those beliefs are. Now one casual remark during an interview last week with Barbara Walters may have drawn back the curtain a bit.
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Subject: AN ALASKAN FISHERMAN TELLS IT LIKE SARAH PALIN REALLY IS
You will not see this anywhere in the LameStream Media.
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad
about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in
Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national
politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point:
Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about
persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin
supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats,
because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow
Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the
Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them
packing. Many of them are now residing in State
housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by
skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la
la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this
country that has ever done anything similar.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to
protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and
enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon
(the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them,
"don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They
stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being
filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies
meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in
the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office
is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for
projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them
and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals
know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves..
Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the
previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could
use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking
that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle
issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing
her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that
she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of
those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she
also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a
natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private
construction project in the history of North America. No one else
could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then
you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things
like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a
place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why
they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an
investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started...
This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking
them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and
reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won
again..
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources
for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature
and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We
are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done,
as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound
cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear
from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has
done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national
election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these
adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever
told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a
barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face
off. Should known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media,
along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to
discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers,
dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter
ex-presidents' wives.
So "You go, Girl.." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts,
determination, honesty, and morals.
I would rather believe in something and find out at the end it was nothing but hope, faith, and love, than believe in nothing and find out at the end there IS SOMETHING and have missed it all, all the warm fuzzies, all the satisfactions, all the accomplishments, and an everlasting life. Of course, YMMV, OP.
Thanks for posting this, aveojohn. There are many things there that I did not know about Sarah Palin. Nice to read something positive about her from someone who really knows what goes on in Alaska.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources
for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature
and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We
are already at 25%.
Thats why she wants to drill, drill, and drill some more. No link posted so I call bull.
Read the full story at: Olbermann: Does Palin believe Jews will flock to Israel to set off Apocalypse? | Raw Story (http://rawstory.com/2009/11/olbermann-palin-rapture/ - broken link)
She states her support for jewish settlements in the west bank based on Jewish immigration into Israel and Olbermann extrapolates this?!?!?!
WTF is wrong with you people?!?!?
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