newsweek.com— Sarah Palin's promise for a new era of government openness as the reform governor of Alaska started to crack even before Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign built a wall of protectiveness around her.
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"But her administration has claimed broad exceptions to Alaska's freedom of information rules to keep government e-mails secret, and it's shown reluctance to disclose documents about sensitive topics, ranging from polar bears to policy issues. And her state's online checkbook is limited in its detail."Disclosures about private e-mail accounts used by Palin and her top aides have raised questions about whether they were trying to evade disclosure under the state's public records law."You know, it's actually important that we find out all we can about Palin, and never, ever, ever let up in pursuit of the truth about her. Because she'll be back.
Anybody but me getting a strange sense of deja vu about Palin? Haven't we seen all this before?The radical right trots out a photogenic, charismatic, ideological, right-wing candidate who is woefully unqualified to run the country and who can barely manage a coherent thought that isn't written down. Neocon handlers give the candidate a script of talking points (outsider, reach across the aisle, God, taxes, abortion, and elitists) to gin up the conservative base. Right-wing deal makers know that the candidate will be malleable once in office.At this point, there is a much better chance for an Obama landslide than a narrow McCain victory, but Sarah Palin is being groomed for a run in 2012. So here we have the second coming of George W. Bush - Carribou Barbie version.
truthfightsbackOct 8, 2008
"But her administration has claimed broad exceptions to Alaska's freedom of information rules to keep government e-mails secret, and it's shown reluctance to disclose documents about sensitive topics, ranging from polar bears to policy issues. And her state's online checkbook is limited in its detail."Disclosures about private e-mail accounts used by Palin and her top aides have raised questions about whether they were trying to evade disclosure under the state's public records law."You know, it's actually important that we find out all we can about Palin, and never, ever, ever let up in pursuit of the truth about her. Because she'll be back.
klooperOct 8, 2008
Anybody but me getting a strange sense of deja vu about Palin? Haven't we seen all this before?The radical right trots out a photogenic, charismatic, ideological, right-wing candidate who is woefully unqualified to run the country and who can barely manage a coherent thought that isn't written down. Neocon handlers give the candidate a script of talking points (outsider, reach across the aisle, God, taxes, abortion, and elitists) to gin up the conservative base. Right-wing deal makers know that the candidate will be malleable once in office.At this point, there is a much better chance for an Obama landslide than a narrow McCain victory, but Sarah Palin is being groomed for a run in 2012. So here we have the second coming of George W. Bush - Carribou Barbie version.