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Palin Spread Lies About Opponent's Religion And Marriage

huffingtonpost.com — Even though Palin knew that Stein is a Protestant Christian, from a Pennsylvania Dutch background, her campaign circulated the lie that she would be "Wasilla's first Christian mayor." ...Her campaign also started a vicious whisper campaign, spreading the lie that Stein and his wife, who had chosen to keep her own last name, were not legally married

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  • MotherGinSling, on 09/23/2008, -4/+81Ughly.
    • grlykool, on 09/23/2008, -1/+15Yea and God don't like ugly.
      • coltrane68, on 09/24/2008, -1/+10I don't claim to know what God likes (unlike that scumbag Palin).
      • bobbyi, on 09/24/2008, -1/+4Then why did he make so much of it?
      • TrueXtremeIcon, on 09/24/2008, -1/+1Dugg for Atmosphere reference.
    • PabloHungry, on 09/24/2008, -1/+5Well said.
    • jamaph, on 09/24/2008, -8/+2Nah you ain't ugly, your not fugly either, not even pugly, your just pugfugly.

      I don't know I was very drunk at the time
    • streak, on 09/24/2008, -1/+3Palin should wear a burka. After all, she is the U.S. version of the Taliban.
  • augiegram, on 09/23/2008, -3/+83Sounds like she fits right into this national campaign.
    • vanguardanon, on 09/24/2008, -0/+4She could combat these rumors if she wasn't hiding from the press.
  • rewinn, on 09/23/2008, -3/+153Doesn't Christianity have some sort of Commandment against lying?
    • Olon97, on 09/23/2008, -0/+49It's so far down the list most Christians can't remember it.

      eg. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-vi ...
      • aussiejan, on 09/24/2008, -0/+13But it is in the top 10.
      • Codee, on 09/24/2008, -0/+18Colbert just destroyed every bit of credibility this guy thought he had. I know the Republicans are shameless fools but that guy falls about 150ft. UNDERNEATH that description.
    • Me1000, on 09/24/2008, -2/+14So do Jews, and Muslims...
    • Berkana, on 09/24/2008, -0/+26Solomon's recommendation for false witnesses and lying:

      Proverbs 21:28-29
      A false witness will perish,
      and whoever listens to him will be destroyed forever.
      A wicked man puts up a bold front,
      but an upright man gives thought to his ways.

      So far, one candidate has been putting forward false witness and a very bold front (like recommending that the head of the SEC be fired and other gimmicks like having his inexperienced VP have an inconsequential meeting with world leaders), and the other has been thoughtful, collected, and careful in his ways.
    • PhoenixCE, on 09/24/2008, -0/+19Didn't you hear...those "Commandments" and/or "Christian Principles" only apply when they want them too.
      • oldgal, on 09/24/2008, -0/+10A retired Lutheran minister explained to me that with the fundamentalists its all about what you can get away with without getting caught. Now that they have included the Book of Karl Rove, they don't even have to worry about getting caught - they know how to handle that as well.
      • tsf5000, on 09/24/2008, -0/+7Actually, they only apply to other people.
      • Cuchanu, on 09/24/2008, -0/+4Yeah, you ever notice that greed is the one they seem to pretend doesn't exist, sometimes even promote as a good thing. Oh, wait. Does killing people for oil count as murder? That's another one. And thou shalt not commit adultery doesn't apply to 'a man to man quicky' in the bathroom as long as they hate gay people. They cancel each other out.
    • Suricou, on 09/24/2008, -0/+13Knowing how fundamentalists (Of which Palin is one) think, I'm not sure she would consider it lying. It's quite likely she thought that her opponent *wasn't* a christian, because fundamentalists tend to define christianity very narrowly. If a church isn't creationist, or doesn't get involved in anti-abortion or anti-gay campaigning, or embraces Catholic rituals, or fails to support Israel politically, or uses an unusual translation... you get the idea. If it isn't fundamentalist-like enough, the fundamentalists simply refuse to recognise it as a valid christian church, instead saying it has turned away from God's Word or, worse, corrupted it.

      I've seen one church-published survey that said only 16% of the US population were Christian, because of the narrowness of the definition they used.
    • hoisonsauce, on 09/24/2008, -0/+4I thought most people don't lie because it's against their own morals, not because a really old book told them not to.
    • streak, on 09/24/2008, -0/+9Conclusion: Palin isn't a Christian; she's just a liar.
    • banido, on 09/24/2008, -0/+2"Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate"
  • MediaWeasel, on 09/23/2008, -5/+76Not that I'm a Christian, but seeing that McCain and palin are self confessed Christians, I thought the following might be appropriate:

    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

    Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

    Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

    Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

    Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

    Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.

    Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

    Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
    • magus_melchior, on 09/24/2008, -0/+24Don't forget the similar sermon in Luke, where he includes some rebukes:

      But woe to you who are rich,
      For you have received your consolation.
      Woe to you who are full,
      For you shall hunger.
      Woe to you who laugh now,
      For you shall mourn and weep.
    • HoratioHellpop, on 09/24/2008, -13/+0Um, couldn't all of those also apply to Obama/Biden? Jesus wasn't directing those comments at a particular group.
      • MediaWeasel, on 09/24/2008, -0/+8I used the Beatitudes to illustrate the fact that despite McCain and Palin being self-confessed Christians, they are lying and spreading slander, libel and malicious rumours. Hardly Christian. If they profess to being fundamentalist Christians they don't appear to be setting a particularly good example.

        OK so there should be separation of Church and State. But I think their behaviour rather illustrates their character - or lack of it.
    • Andromaton, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3you forgot "Blessed are the *****, for they shall receive fruit baskets."

      I'm pretty sure it's in there somewhere.
    • salinger, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3blessed are the cheesemakers?
    • Gutterpunk, on 09/24/2008, -1/+1"Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

      See? From the Republican's point of view, especially the ones on Digg, they have all earned the keys to heaven!
  • jackieblu, on 09/23/2008, -6/+45What a bitch, oh yeah she already verified that -a Pit Bull, she's a ***** bitch.
    • Codee, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3Holy Oxford!.

      I feel like I've been staring at one of those pictures for 15 minutes and totally missed the fact that it was a Unicorn.

  • aliengoods, on 09/23/2008, -2/+17NO *****!
  • 5celery, on 09/23/2008, -3/+33Hopefully this election season will not only expose her nationwide for what a tyrannical monster she's been in Alaska, but will also see that she never works in politics again.
    • Cuchanu, on 09/24/2008, -0/+4I hope when McCain loses the election she goes back to being Gov. and loses her re-election then goes back to Wasilla to be mayor and wins. She'll be happy, the big fish in the small pond. She belongs there not in the Gov. mansion and especially not in the white house.
      • ThoughtfulWi, on 09/25/2008, -1/+5I hope she goes back to Alaska, and is eaten by polar bears.
      • kayala, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3Don't wish death upon her. Wish an ignominious defeat upon her instead!
      • Squidwalk, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3The polar bears need food, they've been cannibalizing. Then again, Palin isn't a very good meal. I wish she is politically defeated, then goes back to Alaska to establish conservationist policy toward hungry polar bears.
  • avataros, on 09/23/2008, -3/+42Her campaign slogan was "Holier than thou"
  • TruthinessHurts, on 09/23/2008, -4/+31FTA
    "Even though Palin knew that Stein is a Protestant Christian, from a Pennsylvania Dutch background, her campaign began circulating the word that she would be "Wasilla's first Christian mayor." ...

    The Palin campaign also started another vicious whisper campaign, spreading the word that Stein and his wife -- who had chosen to keep her own last name when they were married -- were not legally wed. Again, Palin knew the truth, Stein said, but chose to muddy the waters. "We actually had to produce our marriage certificate," recalled Stein, whose wife died of breast cancer in 2005 without ever reconciling with Palin. "
    • TheSabre, on 09/24/2008, -15/+7Congratulations. You have +6 for just copy and pasting from the article? I think most Diggers are intelligent enough to understand how to read. If you're not going to make some type of comment on the article, why bother posting a comment at all?
      • smacksaw, on 09/24/2008, -1/+9Because that was the salient point, and for those blessed in the characteristic of brevity, they know it simply says it all.
      • paulhlusko, on 09/24/2008, -1/+5blessed with brevity, cursed with redundancy.
      • voyetra8, on 09/24/2008, -1/+5"If you're not going to make some type of comment on the article, why bother posting a comment at all?"

        Try heeding your own advice, jackass.

      • TheSabre, on 09/25/2008, -1/+1Yes. Calling someone a jackass is so mature. Go back to YouTube.
  • poprocksandsoda, on 09/24/2008, -39/+10Huffington can't possibly do anything but admire Palin if she really is spreading lies, since that's all Huffington does.

    Huffington is the sweaty taint of the blog world and I just wish it would go away.
    • Wakkyweed, on 09/24/2008, -3/+14Hey, we've got Huffpo, you've got Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, The Drudge Report, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, and about 150 other lying conservative pieces of ***** polluting our airwaves.

      I think you've got the advantage over us a little bit when it comes to spreading innuendo and slander.
      • Optiks, on 09/24/2008, -3/+7I'd bury those too, if they ever made the front page, that is. Funny thing is, I've never gotten the secret password for the hidden site where I can access those submissions. Do you know what it is so I can help the cause?
      • AmericanParty, on 09/24/2008, -12/+6Just like a liberal douche you twist the truth once again. Don't forget my douchy friend you also have: DailyKos, Moveon, thinkprogress, Keith Olbermann, Dan Rather, CNN, CBS, Alan Colmes, Micheal Moore(talk about pollution), Rosie O'Donnell (lol)

        Air America just didn't work out for Liberals. Why? Because they are too elitist to listen to that simple ole radio us conservative folk listen to.
      • Cavemonster, on 09/24/2008, -5/+6You're right. There clearly aren't any liberals listening to NPR on simple ole radios.
      • jeebodon, on 09/24/2008, -8/+7Advantage? Are you kidding me? What about DailyKos, MoveOn, HuffingtonPost, Politico, MediaMatters, ThinkProgress...and conservatives aren't linking stories from Rush, BillO, Hannity, Coulter, etc.

        Buried for a horrible comparison
      • cocainxbluez, on 09/24/2008, -1/+6How about you ass hats stop fighting with each other about who lies more et cetera. It's this factious team ***** that has us in such trouble in the first place. You're on different sides of the same coin. What we really need is a new coin. I'm so tired of everyone acting like this is a god damn football game!
    • smacksaw, on 09/24/2008, -1/+19There's a difference between "lies" and "stuff I don't like/agree with."

      Considering most articles have actual video clips as evidence to back up what they are reporting, if you can't accept the facts in front of your face, colour yourself delusional.

      The fate of our nation rests upon ignorant hayseeds such as yourself being able to discern between the two when exercising your duty to vote.
      • amoirae, on 09/24/2008, -1/+3And if one is delusional, ignoring evidence that contradicts the delusion and it's a day ending in 'Y' it has to be a contemporary Republican.
    • HypocriteDigg, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5Aaah, someone hates facts, how cute.
    • PokerGigolo, on 09/24/2008, -0/+0Actually, the article is from Salon, I'm not sure why the poster decided to link to a summary, which then has a link to the actual article. Some people are lazy, I guess.

      In any case, it's not a Huffington Post article. Try again.
    • kismetropolis, on 09/24/2008, -0/+1Original article location: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/23/palin ...
  • azAZ09, on 09/24/2008, -3/+23Her dominionist cult considers non-members non-christians?
    • normlsparky, on 09/24/2008, -1/+16If all the Christians who have called other Christians “not really a Christian” were to vanish, there would be no Christians left.
      • DownIsTheNewUp, on 09/24/2008, -0/+17Good riddance.
      • driver3108, on 09/24/2008, -4/+0Which would be true because those called "not really a Christian" are actually not really Christians.
    • Suricou, on 09/24/2008, -0/+9This seems quite possible to me. Many fundamentalists refuse to recognise non-fundamentalists as real christians, and actively call on their members to convert members of other churches to the 'true faith'.
      • normlsparky, on 09/25/2008, -0/+3converting more members to their churches also benefits them financially when the collection plate is passed.
  • noupsell, on 09/24/2008, -2/+19The longer she sticks around the more this Mayberry, AK ***** is going to surface. Small town, small state, small person
  • lweissberg, on 09/24/2008, -1/+25I guess she was "Wasilla's first Christian mayor" the same way that Cindy McCain is an only child.
  • adk4200, on 09/24/2008, -18/+3anyone else getting sick of the same stories just worded differently? I mean, palins retarded, mccain is a retard, why do we have to have 7564875895042 stories about how dumb they are???
    • FamousAnus, on 09/24/2008, -10/+3Because the retards calling them retards want to feel less retarded about themselves respectively.
    • smacksaw, on 09/24/2008, -1/+11Well, to be fair, it's not the same exact articles about her. It's just that she is such a political abortion, problems keep extending themselves while new things are constantly uncovered.
  • charm803, on 09/24/2008, -2/+39As women, we have to fight the stereotypes of being catty and gossips, and here is Palin, sending us back!


    • infiniphunk, on 09/24/2008, -2/+22There's no misogynist like a woman.
  • algaeturd, on 09/24/2008, -5/+33Isn't it amazing how much lying comes out of 'christians.' I'd venture to say that if the majority of republicans are christians, it definitely makes sense as to why they do all of the lying to the American people. They even lie to themselves.
    When I saw this headline, I thought, 'OMFG! She actually SPOKE to the press and made a comment!"
    Not so. The republican shield is still in place and she's still wearing the cloak of invisibility. HOW IN THE ***** CAN AMERICANS SUPPORT A CANDIDATE WHO WON'T EVEN ANSWER THE MOST BASIC, SIMPLE QUESTIONS? Are you that ***** dumb? Honestly. I want to know. Someone who supports this unqualified candidate TELL me. Please. How in the ***** you support a candidate who hides from the press, hides from media, won't answer questions, only poses for photos. How do you not get that she is a wooden stooge, chosen to stand in photos, keep her mouth shut and just try to look good in her $3,000 blouses?
    • renastar23, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5Because she's a christian hockey mom....


      It's ridiculous!
    • captainhorseboy, on 09/24/2008, -0/+6yeah... like the woman in the 3,000 dollar blouse is gonna talk to the people who dont make that in a MONTH? come on!

    • sb66, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5A lot of republicans would support anyone against a black man or a democrat...anyone.
    • getabrain, on 09/24/2008, -1/+1Wow! Democrats must be even better liars than Republicans if you think the Republicans are the ones doing ALL the lying to the American people. I hate to tell ya, but they ALL lie, Democrats included.
  • Wakkyweed, on 09/24/2008, -2/+30Wouldn't it be easier if the media just reported when McCain and Palin were NOT lying? Then we'd only have to read about those ***** once a month.
    • magus_melchior, on 09/24/2008, -1/+8One would hope that their campaign would swallow their pride long enough to do that.

      Even so, they are stonewalling Palin from the media. I think the media should respond with a short and pointed story about the stonewalling, and cease any stories about them until Palin gets some actual press conferences.

      McCain reacted to Obama's silent refusal to join his rigged town halls with the worst political ads in the history of election politics, brought to us by the same guys who brutally attacked McCain himself. I think the media cold shoulder is fair for a campaign who has decided that the only way to win is to cheat.
  • abajaj2280, on 09/24/2008, -10/+12Marriage?
    She's the sex-crazy whore that had 5 kids.

    Religion?
    There's such thing as religion in Alaska?
    • gaqua, on 09/24/2008, -1/+14I think calling a candidate for the VP of the United States a "whore" is a bit much, yeah?

      I mean, why do we have to resort to character assassination when there are so many holes in her non-existent platform?

      She doesn't answer questions from the press.
      She doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is.
      She'd never met a foreign head of state.
      She thinks "being able to see Russia" is equivalent to foreign policy experience.
      She doesn't like evolution.
      She doesn't support free rape kits for rape victims.
      She's wholly inexperienced and unremarkable aside from her appearance.

      There are plenty of good reasons to denigrate her - platform - let's not resort to namecalling. Let's not sink to their level.

      We're better than that.

      • smacksaw, on 09/24/2008, -0/+9If someone of her background and credentials accepting the nomination from McCain isn't whoring, I don't know what is.

        I think I saw this campaign before in theatres. It was called Pretty Woman, and McCain was played by Richard Gere. Also starring Sean Hannity as "The Gerbil"...
      • Hillsfar, on 09/24/2008, -0/+6Now she can say in her debates, "When I met the President of Afghanistan..."

        And say anything she wants to say and there's no proof as to whether they talked about what she says they talked about. Notice she's only talked to the people beholden to the Republicans? Like Columbia's Uribe, who's pushing some trade pact talks similar to NAFTA.
      • PokerGigolo, on 09/24/2008, -0/+1@Phucked: ok, I looked it up, read all about it, seems like it exists. Can I digg you down now?
    • buddysystem, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5Bush and Cheney are whores.
      • amoirae, on 09/24/2008, -0/+2They've got helium heels for the oil industry.
    • Suricou, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5"She's the sex-crazy whore that had 5 kids."

      No, only one partner. The large number of kids is due to her conviction that all children are a blessing from the lord, and it is her womanly duty to have as many as possible.
    • Gutterpunk, on 09/24/2008, -1/+2Why the ***** isn't that post buried to death...

      No point, nothing to add to the debate, and inflammatory. Stay classy Liberals, the Republicans are just waiting for you to slip up (because they have nothing else to make their point with)
  • gospe1337, on 09/24/2008, -2/+20It's okay guys, the GOP told us to vote on character not the issues or stances on issues.

    Oh, wait. *****, maybe that wasn't...
  • infiniphunk, on 09/24/2008, -2/+22USA needs to wake up and smell the Folgers now and take religion out of politics and government. Hands down the vast majority of Americans calling themselves 'christian' have NO IDEA what being christian is all about. "Jesusland" indeed.
    • SuperVepr308, on 09/24/2008, -1/+1Well, since you are apparently the expert, could you inform the unwashed masses on what being a Christian is all about? I would like to compare your notes to my parents and grandparents who have been in the church for decades.
      • reconsldr74d, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1And we all know how wonderful churches in this country teach people about there own religion. /s
  • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -18/+6Who is the source of this story? Naomi Tigner, a friend of the Steins.
    What do you expect from a friend of the Steins?

    Was Sarah asked for comments about this ?

    • Wartyboskfapped, on 09/24/2008, -2/+18WTF are you talking about, the bitch won't talk to the press!
      • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -10/+2Assuming that is true, Huffington can say anything it wants right?
        Nice nice!
      • tharju, on 09/24/2008, -0/+7this is what you can do digguser--how about find that out for us? tha'd be great...
      • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -4/+1Yes that would be great! The truth would be out then!
    • hellspossession, on 09/24/2008, -1/+10when has she ever agreed to an interview for ***** sake! they had to change the format of the freaking vp debate because she doesn't interview well and doesn't have much experience in open questioning.
    • heystoopid, on 09/24/2008, -1/+4So you just want to listen more lies upon the previous lies she told in the past .

      Say what part or letter of the word "truth" are you afraid of ?
      • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -2/+1The part where "you" get to choose what passes of as "truth"?
    • smacksaw, on 09/24/2008, -1/+8Exactly. Who better to ask than someone with firsthand knowledge? If someone robs my house and they catch the accused thief, who should be called in to testify against him? My neighbour from down the street?
      • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -3/+1There are two sides to every story.
        All I am asking is to withhold judgment until proven guilty.
  • rancidpony, on 09/24/2008, -17/+5And this digg article is different from Palin's whispering campaign how?
  • Vorphlack, on 09/24/2008, -4/+29Palin's Perfect Portrait (SFW)

    http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8107/sarahpalinhu ...
    • hanielperigueux, on 09/24/2008, -1/+8GOOD ONE! GREAT IMAGE!
    • snotrokit, on 09/24/2008, -0/+2Great image, too bad there is a Beaver in it, damn best plane ever built. Sad to associate it with her.
    • illinoise89, on 09/24/2008, -0/+2That's unsettling. So is the thought of her being vice president, however.
  • RhinoTuna, on 09/24/2008, -5/+13What a dirty bitch.
  • VinnieDaMac, on 09/24/2008, -3/+10Palin? Lie? No way....
  • magus_melchior, on 09/24/2008, -0/+7I think we see why McCain chose her as his running mate. I also think she's the one behind the sex education ad (if not the concept, then the push to broadcast it).

    Still, the Heavy (Palin) should be Biden's focus, not ours, especially with an upcoming debate. Every story about her misdeeds we promote distracts us from the Medic (McCain) healing her. Keep the people focused on Obama's plans and how they will help the people.
    • tharju, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3i thought like that before as you said "till, the Heavy (Palin) should be Biden's focus, not ours, especially with an upcoming debate. Every story about her misdeeds we promote distracts us from the Medic (McCain) healing her" -- but the more you find out about her the harder to ignore about her. She is a joke...!!!!!!!!!and McCain made a one of the stupid mistake he ever made picking her as VP. that mistake may not cause him to become a president..but that sure gonna cost this country dearly if they ever got elected.
    • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -4/+1Thank god it doesn't matter what you think!
    • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -4/+1Thank god it doesn't matter what you think!
  • Trooper77, on 09/24/2008, -30/+11Huffpo = auto bury
  • Sfenton, on 09/24/2008, -20/+11"Even though Palin knew that Stein is a Protestant Christian, from a Pennsylvania Dutch background, her campaign began circulating the word that she would be "Wasilla's first Christian mayor." ..."

    I actually took the time to read this Huffingtonpost garbage and they couldn't even cite a source for this. If they link the people who support Palin with the term Campaigners then Huffingtonpost should be considered a "campaigner" for Obama. Shouldn't we all be getting mad that Huffingtonpost and Dailykos supported the conspiracy that Sarah Palin's husband impregnated his own daughter?

    Firefox keeps underlining huffintonpost for a misspelling, you know that they suggested the correct spelling was?

    Inaccurate
    • Sfenton, on 09/24/2008, -7/+4To all the people who are burying me.
      Please provide a counter claim to my argument.

      I dare you.
    • andyrross, on 09/24/2008, -0/+12Um, did you take the time to see that was actually a Salon.com article?
  • dxgg, on 09/24/2008, -4/+2Lipstick.
  • steinAK, on 09/24/2008, -4/+18I'm one of John Stein's 4 sons. I also digg.

    Would you like to ask me a question? I'll answer any reasonable one in this thread - caveat is that I don't know everything about my father, I was living my own life by then.
    • Krisgi, on 09/24/2008, -0/+8Here´s a reasonable one: what do you think about Sarah Palin as a VP choice..? Personal stuff aside.
      • steinAK, on 09/24/2008, -0/+8Terrible.

        From beginning to end, for regular Alaskans, SP hasn't improved anything she has touched, managed or controlled. My opinion is that would continue in the White House with absolutely awful results.
      • Krisgi, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2Thank you for your answer. Here´s hoping we don´t have to deal with SP after November 4th. Sorry about the hurt she caused your parents. Take care.
    • fani, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5How do your views on the important issues match up with those of Palin and her Republicans. ?
      Do you see our country improving under Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin ? Why ?
      • steinAK, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5My views, for the most part, do not match up. The problem is - that the Palin/Republican "view" is completely different from the Palin/Republican action. Destroyed trust is earned back the hard way and in my opinion they made it hard on themselves.

        Yes, improvement under Obama/Biden is my expectation and my demand as an American. When it comes to a Presidential Administration, it behooves a Democrat to prove his/her worth to the nation. In my experience, Republican Administrations run a personal agenda spilling with power. IMHO, that is the fundamental difference in the two parties at that political level.
    • katyslp, on 09/24/2008, -0/+4Is the article legit? Did she really say she'd be the first Christian mayor and question Stein's marriage? How did she respond to people opposing these tactics?
      • steinAK, on 09/24/2008, -0/+5Absolutely true. Archives from Wasilla's newspaper The Frontiersman and recently, through an interview with my father, a few applicable quotes relating to the Article dugg above are easily found in articles from the online news outlets. Here is a popular one:

        --“Sarah comes in with all this ideological stuff, and I was like, ‘Whoa,’ ” said Mr. Stein, who lost the election. “But that got her elected: abortion, gun rights, term limits and the religious born-again thing. I’m not a churchgoing guy, and that was another issue: ‘We will have our first Christian mayor.’ ”

        --“I thought: ‘Holy cow, what’s happening here? Does that mean she thinks I’m Jewish or Islamic?’ ” recalled Mr. Stein, who was raised Lutheran, and later went to work as the administrator for the city of Sitka in southeast Alaska. “The point was that she was a born-again Christian.”

        Sarah has historically responded like this "Either you are with me or you are against me" and acted accordingly.
      • ObamAmerican48, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3Thank you for being willing to speak to this issue.
    • mtjohnson, on 09/24/2008, -0/+4I agree with you on Palin... my question is, why are her approval ratings so high in Alaska? Are most of you crazy?
      • steinAK, on 09/24/2008, -0/+4First you have to understand that Sarah Palin beat one of our worst (and we've only had a handful) Governors - Frank Murkowski, who won his election while a sitting US Senator, then appointed his daughter to his US Senate seat then proceeded to administrate (meaning royally screw around and mess things up) the state while some of the worst corruption in Alaska state/federal politics was turning it up to 11.
        Second, Alaska's population centers are few. Mainly Anchorage, with over half of the state's population and somewhere in the mid 300,000, has many, many Republicans. Just half an hour North of Anchorage there is the Mat-Su valley, which includes the little town of Wasilla, with Sarah Palin as their homegrown superstar.
        With the density of voters in such a close proximity and considering the density of registered Republicans, it is my unscientific opinion that the polling mechanisms will favor Palin because:
        1: the polls tend to be tiny. like under a 100 people. or 200 people. I've never gotten polled about Palin.
        2: the polls seem to be taken in Southcentral (Anchorage, Wasilla, Palmer, Eagle River) - Palin country
        3: the polls should be hitting areas like Southeast (Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Haines), Bethel, Nome, Kotzebue, Kodiak, etc. to hear from people on the other side, i.e. 'the people that, since they aren't in Palin country, don't deserve her attention'
        4: you may or may not have noticed that residents have learned: that if they speak up about Palin, crushing efforts are used to demonize and lambaste the poor soul. It sometimes feels like they would tar and feather every non-believer out of Alaska if they could.
        Again, unscientific and my personal view. I will add that, in Alaska, there is too much power in religion. I shudder at the numbers of strip-mall churches in Wasilla. Before coffee shops, opening a church was the bonanza. When a large part of the population is subject to political hints or outright directives coming from the podium, it doesn't feel like freedom.
      • mtjohnson, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3Wow... thank you for the informative reply. Probably, like most American's, I didn't know much about Alaska or what the political climate is like up there before a few weeks ago... Also had no idea it was so religious... your post definitely some things up I was wondering about.

        I'm from Tulsa OK, (aka buckle of the bible belt) so I have some experience with what you're saying... I was also raised in an Assembly of God church, so a lot of the things I'm hearing about Palin bring up bad memories.

        That 'first christian mayor' line is a such concise metaphor for that whole AoG way of thinking.
  • mbraynard, on 09/24/2008, -6/+3Sort of like getting your incumbent opponent kicked off the ballot for questioning the validity of signatures.
  • hellspossession, on 09/24/2008, -2/+7This SKUNT had the nerve to compare herself to a pitbull....I had a pitbull and let me just say the bitch has no right to put herself in the same class as any loyal and loving creature. She is a beast and this just proves it. Too bad dictatorship isn't a religion, she'd be the ***** messiah.....
    • hanielperigueux, on 09/24/2008, -0/+7Amen!

      I too own a pit bull and she (the dog) is still upset over that comparison!

      The only thing they have in common is that they are both bitches.
    • sandersdamnit, on 09/24/2008, -0/+2i prefer slunt
  • hanielperigueux, on 09/24/2008, -4/+7UUUUUUUUUGH!!!

    When is this bitch going to go away?!
  • LarcenIII, on 09/24/2008, -12/+1Wow so no one likes Palin? What a shocker....

    I really thought that she was smart, funny, inteligent...

    Oh wait, the VP canadate? I thought you were talking about a street hooker....
  • aklaxman, on 09/24/2008, -1/+5The same people tat spread the lies about Stein are probably the same ones hanging posters from the foot bridges over one of Anchorages main roads today. The signs were smears of Senator Obama and I will not post the smear here since it should not be spread. I will say it hinted at an Obama Presidency would mean a change in our laws which is totally irrational and basically impossible.
  • lowjeep, on 09/24/2008, -19/+8Buried for ***** huffpost heresay and lies.
  • Mujokan, on 09/24/2008, -4/+6Has anyone seen Cheney lately? And did anyone really see Sarah Palin in the flesh until recently? I heard she worked from home in Alaska. And she won't talk to the press, only letting them in for 29 seconds of her Karzai meeting.

    Plastic surgery really is amazing.

    The rest of that meeting must have been: "Hamid! It's me, Dick! No, really, remember our secret handshake? Calm down, everything will be just like before. The continuity plan is in place. McCain will be toast in six months. I know it's radical, but this is the only way I could get elected."
  • batboydiesfirst, on 09/24/2008, -3/+6This woman makes me cringe with every bit of news I hear about her. More so when she declines to answer questions (which has been in pretty much every article I've ever read on the woman). The only attractive thing about this woman appears to be that she is a woman, and even so, she barely seems to be one at that. The only good that I can see coming out of her being vp, or even a nominated vp is that 1.) she will most likely never see a day in office. and 2.) this will ensure even MORE democratic support.
  • bioncinola, on 09/24/2008, -5/+3girls who look like Palin should Never Be Trusted !

    • digguser1357, on 09/24/2008, -2/+3talk about generalities!
      Buried for a stupid remark!
    • SuperVepr308, on 09/24/2008, -0/+2I doubt "girls that look like Palin" would be of any bother to you.
  • djdedeo0, on 09/24/2008, -15/+8God I love how you Far left kooks are on a Palin attack in about every other article on digg. The more you hacks dislike here the more we know we chose the right person.
    • AtraNoxVII, on 09/24/2008, -1/+9So that explains the 2004 election.
      You choose the idiot because you think, "Everyone hates him so he must be good."

      • WraTH017, on 09/24/2008, -2/+3Don't try to reason with them. They may have rabies.

      • djdedeo0, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2He won the election so I'm not the only one that chose him. The choice was clear really. Bush or Kerry. Even as a silly liberal, can you imagine Kerry as president?
  • mitch77, on 09/24/2008, -18/+6ANOTHER CASE OF PDS!!! IT'S AN EPIDEMIC!

    Hysterical accusations against Alaska governor Sarah Palin have been flying since the day John McCain announced he had selected her as his vice-presidential running mate. Indeed, some of the most bizarre things ever said about any candidate for major office, came out even before most people even began learning her record, personality etc. The only thing these rants have in common, is the utter lack of evidence produced to support them, and a blind eye turned to people who repeatedly debunk them. Yet on they come, a neverending parade of desperation and paranoia.

    The left is plainly running scared. Possibly more scared than they have ever been. Will they be able to pull themselves together enough to at least run a coherent campaign? Or will they simply keep shaking and spewing desperate lies about her and McCain, hoping that someone will believe them in time to affect the ouutcome of the election?

    ----------------------------------------------------

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/22/br ...

    BREITBART: Enough is enough

    Andrew Breitbart Monday, September 22, 2008 ANALYSIS/OPINION:

    With George Bush off the front pages for much of the last few months, the political pathology known as Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) took an unexpected summer hiatus.

    BDS sufferers - liberal Democrats seething over successive presidential election losses and hamstrung by a Republican president confidently wielding wartime authority - failed to transfer their enmity to Sen. John McCain, largely because they couldn't bust his "maverick" brand, but to a larger extent because they assumed Sen. Barack Obama was going to win in a laugher.

    That presumption ended when Mr. McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Before Charlie Gibson could even grill the Alaska governor over her "hubris" in accepting Mr. McCain's historic invitation, the raw rage that focused for eight years on the 43rd president of the United States transferred in a flash to a former "Miss Congeniality" and Anchorage suburban mother of five who immediately swung the momentum to Mr. McCain's side.

    Palin Derangement Syndrome, a more irrational variant of the Bush contagion, doesn't require sufferers to know anything about the subject of their hatred. Anonymous, unsourced rumors fuel the fire (book banning, speaking in tongues, creationism, etc.). Lovely family photos hacked from a personal e-mail account displayed on commercial Web sites push more buttons. Asterisks from Mrs. Palin's biographical sketch - "moose hunter," "small-town mayor," "wife of champion snow machine racer" - cause excessive sweating and irregular heartbeats. She even fired a guy who Tased a 10-year-old. (Oh wait, she didn't.)

    What will happen when they find out she shops at Wal-Mart?

    Predictably, the celebrity left - ridiculous enough to form a strong opinion based on unreliable data points and narcissistic enough to broadcast it - has taken to stage, television, newsprint and blogs to express its extreme ire at the Thrilla from Wasilla.

    Sandra Bernhard celebrated the 20th anniversary of her career-ending one-woman show, "Without You I'm Nothing," warning that if Mrs. Palin were to go to Manhattan she'd be "gang-raped by [her] big black brothers." The lipstick-on-a-pig lesbian also called Mrs. Palin a "bitch" and an "Uncle Woman."

    Joyless niche comedian Margaret Cho blogged, "She is evil," fantasized about having hateful sex with Mrs. Palin and attacked a multitude of her supporters: "If you were truly Christians, you would let gays get married, and send them #$%ng presents from Bed Bath and Beyond!"

    Everything-aholic Lindsay Lohan ("Mean Girls") joined the Sapphic pile-on by issuing a joint diatribe with her putative partner, disc jockey Samantha Ronson: "Is our country so divided that the Republicans' best hope is a narrow-minded, media-obsessed homophobe?"

    "Media obsessed?" Those cameras follow Mrs. Palin because she's running for vice president. Not because she's going to the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf - like some people we know.

    Not since Rosie O'Donnell & Co. manhandled Elizabeth Hasselbeck weekdays on "The View" have liberals been so gleeful to watch a bitter lesbian tear down a confident and beautiful conservative Republican woman. Unresolved high school lust and angst at well-adjusted cheerleaders and popular prom queens should be left for medical professionals, not for midmorning television gabfests.

    For many, gay marriage is a key issue.

    Yet none of these gilded-ghetto living haters point out that their savior, Mr. Obama, stands against gay marriage, too. Is that change Melissa Etheridge can believe in?

    Like President Clinton, who supported regressive anti-gay-rights legislation such as "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act, Mr. Obama gets a massive pass from the activist gay left and their stenographers in the mainstream media.

    The never-reported political reality is that both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama understand that key components of the Democratic Party - the black and Hispanic blocs - hold views that Brad Pitt would deem "homophobic."

    For these minority groups, and for many other religious Democrats, gay marriage is a nonstarter.

    Yet liberal celebrities and activist journalists never hurl epithets at these coddled groups no matter how retrograde their ideas. President Bush correctly pegged this phenomenon as "the soft bigotry of lowered expectations." Political correctness, the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media, ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

    Clumsy on her lesbian training wheels, Miss Lohan and Miss Cho, Miss Bernhard and Miss O'Donnell, are granted immunity for their outrageous rhetoric because they are party girls - Democrats through and through - and creatures of the media. And because of this protection racket, none will be forced to attend sensitivity training for crossing the line last week against Mrs. Palin.

    It's also why few will know that the Alaska governor vetoed legislation that would have prevented gays from getting marriagelike benefits. It's also why the media made Republicans Mark Foley and Larry Craig the butts of jokes that would be considered homophobic if hurled at liberal Democrats.

    Not since the drubbing of Clarence Thomas during his 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings have liberals in Hollywood and the elite media so openly conspired to deny a minority the right to free thought and free expression of political ideals. Now Sarah Palin is exposing the Democratic Media Complex to a new generation, many of them open-minded women.

    Perhaps if he wins in November, the eminently tolerant John McCain will pick an openly gay person to serve high in his administration.

    That's when the real Democratic Party derangement will begin.

    • Andrew Breitbart is the founder of the news Web site breitbart.com
    • OuijaCat, on 09/24/2008, -1/+2Voted for it - before I voted against it: Could have been a good post, but Buried for Over-Verbosity (sometimes I wish there were no such thing as "Copy & Paste")
    • tsf5000, on 09/24/2008, -0/+1Too long, didn't read.
  • demsthebreaks, on 09/24/2008, -10/+2The difference between a hockey mom and pit bull? The pit bull enjoys licking its own nuts.
  • bigfruitbasket, on 09/24/2008, -3/+7"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed," Adolf Hitler. I can't add much to this quote. Sums up Palin pretty accurately, I think.
    • lowjeep, on 09/24/2008, -1/+1It also sums up the liberally biased media and most diggers.
      • leesonis, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1there is a LIBERTARIAN bias of diggers, not a LIBERAL. most people on this site actually share the same goals and ideas, but some have been told the worst thing you can be is a liberal.

        step back off the mccain vs obama argument, examine your ideas. now, ask yourself, why is it a "liberal bias" to point out truths? i'm not talking about this article, this article is stupid, except that it brings up the topic of religion, more accurately it brings up the fact that palin brings up the topic of religion.

        The particular religion of a candidate should never be seen as an appropriate selling point or downside. it does not matter if stein was protestant or christian or jewish, embedded in our constitution is the sentence "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

        This goes for the Obama as well. we know for a fact that he is not a Muslim, but it doesn't matter. He was painted as a muslim not to shed light on his philosophy of being, but to associate him with the enemies of America, someone that no red blooded american could vote for.

        Remember that it is unamerican to obey without question, to believe without thinking.

        When McCain suspended his campaign, why did he not simply turn it over to Palin?
  • ProUSADigger, on 09/24/2008, -12/+5Ok, now I'm beginning to believe that the huffingtonpost and liberals are insanely obsessed with Sara Palin.

    Buried.
  • ptemple, on 09/24/2008, -1/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

    Phillip.
  • Krisgi, on 09/24/2008, -3/+4Hockey mom.. there is no way that a person could have such a meteoric rise to power without having done a lot of nonethical things. Or else this IS a really bad Disney movie.
  • GordonFree, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3People talk about their religious stand like it's their favorite baseball team.

    And I don't think that's a coincidence.
  • nfury8ing, on 09/24/2008, -11/+1Typical ***** woman.
  • sincerelysarah, on 09/24/2008, -3/+5She's a Pit Bull alright, but her motivations, vindictive wake, tyrant policies, and communist practices are not what need in a leader for this country. She certainly doesn't practice politics in a Christian manner.
    • lowjeep, on 09/24/2008, -1/+1Communist practices? Your spewing complete and utter BS! Do you have any idea what communism is? Ah! Zip! Ah! Zip it! It was a rhetorical question. If you did have any idea you wouldn't have typed it. Try wiki or google. Communist practices are what Senator Obama preaches with his Socialist agenda.
      • reconsldr74d, on 09/25/2008, -1/+1lol I was with you there until you started saying that Obama is socialist or communistic. Way to stick your own foot in your mouth on a correction.

      • lowjeep, on 09/25/2008, -1/+1So your saying I'm wrong about Obama's Socialist agenda? Then I'm guessing you either A. Don't know much about Socialism, Communism, or Marxism or B. Have not looked at his Social and/or Economic policies. Universal Healthcare anyone? Try googling Obama + Marxism. After you sift through the BS you'd be amazed at the great information you can find out about the man and his Marxist Principles.
      • reconsldr74d, on 09/25/2008, -0/+1Actually I know quite a bit about all three of those political agendas. In fact I avidly support them all as well. Obama can't be socialist, he, like McCain and others in the government, only want to protect the interests of the wealthy. That's not how communism works. Many aspects of the US government are close to Marxist principles but that doesn't make our country Marxist. Same goes for political candidates.
        If you can tell me one true principle of Marxism I'll be surprised honestly. I don't know many people who understand the ideas behind it who think that they're bad.
        These ideas are some of the most misunderstood in this country. I don't expect people who reference them to really know what they're talking about.
  • Digg413, on 09/24/2008, -5/+2All you Diggers hate God and religion anyway, so why do you care?!
    • CSheikh, on 09/24/2008, -0/+3Correction, we can dislike religion, but we don't God. God is infallible, while religion is a bunch of stories written by people to justify their viewpoint. No one is perfect, and people lie (intentionally or not), which is why anyone who takes religious scripture literally is not seen as intelligent.

      That is unless your religion is based on text / scripture written directly by God. And if it is please let me know as I have always wanted to read some of God's works. I hear He/She can write a mad haiku.
    • azAZ09, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1Not true.
      I Digg, and I don't hate literary characters that don't exist, and I don't hate other people for believing they do exists. I do not hate the belief, the people who share it, their historical sources, or their weekly meetings and rituals. Reconciling that many ethical principles may have originally been derived from religious literary sources does not bother me.

      Having any belief I don't share imposed upon me Is something I do not agree with on a from a moral standpoint. And by moral I mean real morality--secular philosophical morality having withstood question and analysis and debate--- not a hypothetical morality with unconditional belief at its core.

      Question Authority--question beliefs--think critically.
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