Sarah Palin by Ann Kilkenny

Hey, when you can't get Sarah to sit down
and speak honestly for herself, let someone who's
known her for years do so.

A note to all by Anne Kilkenny
Dear friends,

So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .

Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks. :)

You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .

Thanks,
Anne

ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".


She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated” her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper.

Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.

However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.

Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008


So there you have it in a nutshell. She's a nut. She's in a shell.
She's a bully, a hypocrite and a liar. Do you really want her running the country?

Sarah Palin as President... the odds are one in five.

This is a variation on a blog going around about SP. Kudos to the artist who photoshopped the vogue picture to our left. Good work.
Just some bullet points about our next President, Sarah Palin.

Enough is enough. I'm frankly, tired of this same old nonsense of the country lying our way into and out of trouble. I think its hilarious that John McCain has picked a rock star of the right wing to be his running mate, and is now tied up in her skirts, only appearing when she appears. I wonder if she'll be onstage when he debates. Either way, I wish her well and a nice retirement back in her home state where she's sorely missed.

I think its hilarious that women are calling the media sexist for asking her questions. The media savaged and trounced on Hillary for years, and only recently did anyone cry 'sexism.' But when you run for President you should be able to answer any question thrown at you - whether it's what the heck the Bush doctrine is, or why you call the Iraq debacle "God's War", where we invade a secular country (which by the way, means "non muslim" or at least "non muslim by decree" as opposed to what Saudi Arabia is, and our other non secular allies represent) and deposed its ruler, and now will spend our children's future on paying for this mistake, to why she can get away with the lie that she was against the "bridge to nowhere." If Joe Biden or Barack Obama say something stupid, they should be raked over the coals for it. But McCain picked her, and since she's a half a heartbeat away from the most powerful office on Earth, she'd damned well better be up to the task. And if she's not, he deserves to be soundly defeated.

Pound away America! If she survives it unscathed, then what the heck, maybe she is the right choice. But just based on the crap that's already come to light in a week since she was introduced, I think I'd prefer to have people in the White House that aren't such complete cyphers that we don't know what they'll do until they actually do it. Enough is enough.