Wrong Kind of Buzz?

Reuters.com has a very interesting article labeled: "McCain's Palin Pick: Wrong kind of buzz". They go in and try to make a play on the background of Governor Palin in conjunction with her fired-up acceptance speech. Go here to read the whole article with follow-on comments.

My favorite comment of them all is the following:

"Many countries governed by powerful women, such as Margaret Thatcher, President Mary McAleese of Ireland, and President Michelle Bachelet of Chile, have raised their children during their time in office, what is the big deal? While watching C-Span this morning, they had an open phone session; the session concerned Sarah Palin's ability to lead and her experience in government. A woman from Atlanta, GA, had brought up the point that she feared Sarah would not have any clout in the Middle East due to the lack of credibility Muslim’s place on women in their society. The reality is, Bangladesh, Turkey, India, and Indonesia are run by women, and coincidentally they all happen to have large Muslim populations. Otherwise, Condoleezza Rice has held audiences with the powers that be in most every Muslim country without a lack of credibility. This argument is as invalid as the circumstances surrounding Palin’s firing Monegan. It is a governor’s prerogative to hire and fire those in her cabinet at her will. These attacks on her character are nothing more than fear mongering.The liberal media has launched an offensive against McCain's vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin. The New York Times suggested Palin wasn't properly vetted. ABC News' Matt Dowd is saying that Republican delegates are turning on Palin. I doubt that very much--it appears that just the opposite is happening--Republicans are rallying around Palin. The perpetrators of these controversies are the liberal media.Let's take a look at the left's bill of particulars against Sarah Palin, gleaned from The New York Times: 1) Her seventeen year-old daughter is pregnant. Even Obama agrees that this is being dwelled on by the media is shameful. It is blight on the credibility and reliability of those who have reported on it. Carolyn Russell and Kate Linthicum of the LA Times are so biased the will not even let you post a comment in their editorials if it goes against the grain of their liberal views . . . this I have experienced first hand. 2) Palin's husband was arrested for DUI 22 years ago. That this is brought up is merely a joke. How many members of Congress have gotten DUIs? And this happened when Mr. Palin was in his early twenties. The liberal left is definitely frightened if they are bringing up issues that old. 3) Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party for two years in the mid-90's, and they support a vote on whether Alaska should secede from the Union. Alaska isn’t New York City or Los Angeles, and the politics there are much different than they are in the lower 48. I can only imagine how those who are truly living on the Last Frontier feel about being bossed around by people like Nancy Pelosi; I’d want to flip the US the bird too. If anything, California should do the US a favor and succeed; I’m certain the notion would get rave reviews from the other 49 states. Nonetheless and ironically, her voter’s registration card was released and this was proven to be just another rumor cooked up by the liberals to stain the reputation of Sarah Palin. 4) Palin has hired a private lawyer to defend her "in an Alaska legislative ethics investigation into whether she abused her power in dismissing the state’s public safety commissioner." (That is another quote from the liberal and biased reporting at the New York Times.) Regardless of all the other misrepresentations made by the deceptions of the liberal media, on the surface this last one appears to be the most serious charge against Palin, but Palin’s firing Monegan because he didn’t fire Wooten, as ALLEGED, it also falls apart even under mild scrutiny. The essence of this matter is that Palin's staff is alleged to have pressured Alaska's Department of Public Safety Commissioner to fire a state trooper, and ultimately fired the Public Safety Commissioner when he did not do so. This state trooper was involved in a nasty custody fight with the Governor's sister. In the first instance this "ethics" investigation is being led by Senator Hollis French, a Democrat and a Massachusetts born, Cornell educated lawyer who advocates socialized medicine. The other thing you won't get from the liberal media is that this Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was appointed by Palin and according to the Anchorage Daily News, "she had a right to fire him for any reason." This will shock you, but that important detail was left out of the Times story. But if this is an investigation into whether Palin abused her power by firing Monegan, as the Times says, the investigation should be over already--she had the legal right to do what she did. Hollis French, as a liberal lawyer, should know this. That the investigation continues shows that it is nothing but a partisan witch hunt. "

posted by gett5114 on 04SEP08 at 11:01 PM

I love it!