Urban Legends and Sarah Palin

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You're right as rain.

A politician wouldn't hesitate to swipe his Grandmother's gold fillings if he thought he's get away with it.

Honest politicians usually finish last.

Hook 'em up to a lie detector and you better have someone keeping an eye on the roll of paper lest the politician swipe it to make campaign handouts with.

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I understand that politicians are about their personal agendas.
I used the term "misuse."
Perhaps I should have said "in regard to doing something immoral or illegal."

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Newsweek is hardly a McCain/Palin supporter yet this is what they have up on their web site. Go figure.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/output/print

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There isn't a politician alive, or dead for that matter that doesn't/didn't have a personal agenda. They are all self-serving hypocrites strutting around with a silly grin painted on their faces like Bozo the Clown glad handing everyone in sight, pretending that you are the most important person they know as they try to lift your wallet.

Go into your Congressman's office and look around on the wall. They have more 8x10's hanging on the wall than the Butler Institute of American Art. Go to their web sites and there's more.

When he or she meets you on the street, do they call you by name? Heck no, unless you are one of those that sponsored a fund raiser, or can advance their career.

For my part, I take the advice of an old friend of mine, Clingan Jackson ... you can trust a stray dog further than you can trust a politician. They are all Polecats so you better watch out when they turn their backs to you. The spray can be very nasty.

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My concerns aren't in regard to  her beliefs, but in regard to a possible misuse of a public office to promote a personal agenda.

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In the spirit of fairness I post these links from The Anchorage Daily News and the Juneau Empire

The Anchorage Daily News

Nation examines Palin's beliefs
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/518514.html

Palin pressured Wasilla librarian
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html

Palin tries new tactic to unload hated jet
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/background/story/203814.html

Palin's leadership
http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/518451.html

Trooper Wooten tells CNN he made mistakes
http://www.adn.com/troopergate/story/517685.html

Troopergate
http://www.adn.com/monegan/
On this link are audio and video clips as well as text.

Juneau Empire
9/8/08

Analysis: Nation's image of Palin differs from Alaskans'
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090808/sta_329827273.shtml

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CNN sent a whole team up to Alaska to dig up dirt on Palin ... about her ... her husband ... her kids ... her family ... her religion ... her political life as Mayor and Governor in the sincere hope of digging up as much dirt against her as they could find.

Take Troopergate ... it turns out that her ex-Brother-in-law trooper did tazer his son, and shoot a Moose illegally and when interviewed on CNN admitted it.

Coming up on CNN will be a special about her based on what the CNN team dug up.

In the meantime, why would Abbi Tatton CNN Internet Reporter downplay the story? If there is any meat on the bone, it would make her look like a complete fool and I'm sure that "THE BEST POLITICAL TEAM ON TELEVISION" would not stand for that.

As you well know, there has been a running issue about public libraries and pornography for years, and as you also know, the courts have consistently ruled in favor of the libraries.

Right here in Mahoning County this matter was brought up on a number of occasions, so its not unusual.

Do people have the right to read smut? Absolutely. So long as it doesn't involve child pornography, and so long as children aren't given access to it, so be it. Live and let live.

Back during the Flask and Hunter administration stores selling pornographic books and magazines were raided on a regular basis. When Hunter went on to run for Congress. it wasn't even an issue, yet now with Palin running for VP as part of the media's attack on her religion, this is being made an issue.

Since as VP she has no power to advance legislation, how could she possably advance anti-pornography laws?

Even if she did, it would be struck down by the Supreme Court. Through both liberal and conservative courts, the First Amendment trumped censorship. The case of Hustler magazine, Playboy magazine and Penthouse magazine being cases in point.

Through the Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, all the anti-pornographic materials centered around the Internet, and you can't deny the fact that children can and do view smut web sites.

What it comes down to is not so much pornography but Palin's religious beliefs. The media is spending more time on that than they are about censorship.

It seems that in order to run for public office a politician is suppose to turn his or her back on their faith, and deny their faith and God.

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From the Wasilla Frontiersman
The article from 1996 has been reposted due to so many inquiries
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2008/09/05/breaking_news/doc48c1c8a60d6d9379155484.txt

After these conversations and the article publication, the librarian was sent a letter dismissing her because she did not "support" Palin.  The librarian was reinstated due to public outcry.

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The list at snopes might be a fraud but the the link I put in the other post didn't have a list... said only that she fired the librarian because the librarian said no to removal of books.  There is no record of  books being banned because it never came to pass that doesn't make a request to have them removed any less controversial if it did in fact happen.

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A number of the books on the list had not even been written when the list was drawn up.

SITUATION ROOM
9/8/08

EXERPT

BLITZER: All right, Carol. Thank you.

On our "Political Ticker," the election certainly has been dogged by Internet rumors. The latest hoax circulating online alleges that Sarah Palin tried to ban a number of books, including Harry Potter. The rumor is false.

And our Internet reporter, Abbi Tatton, is standing by.

She's getting ready to set the story straight. All right, what do we know -- Abbi?

ABBI TATTON, CNN INTERNET REPORTER: Wolf, the e-mail has been traveling at lightning speed. It claims that then-Wasilla mayor, Sarah Palin, wanted to ban some 90 books -- there's a whole list here -- from her local library, including classics like "The Catcher in the Rye," various books by Judy Blume and an assortment of Harry Potter novels, as well.

This e-mail is a hoax. It looks like this list was lifted straight from a Web site and sites like Snokes.com (ph) have debunked it.

In fact, the City of Wasilla's Web site has a statement saying we have no records of any books being banned ever.

What is out there is an "Anchorage Daily News" report that in 1996, Mayor Palin asked the city librarian if she would ever be all right with censoring books and was told no.

But CNN's investigative team says there's nothing to indicate any more.

A McCain spokesman calls the e-mail "transparently false" and he points out that some of these books weren't even written in 1996 -- Wolf.

BLITZER: Thanks, Abbi, for that correction and that update.

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According to the link in the other thread.  She asked for books to be banned and then fired the librarian for not  doing so and then the librarian was reinstated due to public intervention.
The books were left alone. Supposedly a first hand account from one of the town's people.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/08/mccain-palin-fires-back-over-book-ban-rumor/