Posts by Russell Brown
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Puzzled punters may find this useful.
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"After complaints by the Palin family in 2005 Mr Wooten was suspended briefly for shooting a moose illegally, and using a Taser gun on his 10-year-old stepson."
Wooten's clearly a jerk, although it's probably worth making clear that he didn't shoot the kid with a taser, he put the electrodes on the boy's skin and briefly turned it on -- at the kid's request. Which hardly makes it a sensible thing to do.
But Wooten was investigated on all allegations and given a 10-day suspension, reduced to five on appeal.
Palin subsequently used the office of Governor (and its officials) to pursue what seems like a family feud. Even her husband called Walter Monegan, the Public Safety Chief, demanding that he sack Wooten. When he didn't oblige, she sacked Monegan and hired a guy who was forced out by a sexual harassment scandal (one she knew about) two weeks later.
What claims, exactly, were you making for her judgement?
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She is anti pork & anti corruption in her own party.
Actually, she was a director of 527 group called (hilariously) Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service that channelled corporate donations to Stevens and others. She was endorsed by Stevens and they made a campaign commercial together.
She canned the infamous bridge to nowhere.
Actually, that's a myth, based on her lying in her first speech with McCain.
She campaign in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform and strongly defended the project. Even after Congress moved to end the embarrassment and deny the project, her administration kept some of the money and actually carried on the boondoggle.
McCain met her only once and made a decision. That speaks volumes about both of them. decisiveness is one.
That's. Just. Silly.
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Because otherwise you've got someone who is blithely prepared to give birth to a premature special needs child on a commercial airliner. Which raises questions about her judgement under pressure... or makes her the most fervent home(state)birther I've ever heard of! (Plus, cervix of steel, yo!)
It's quite a relief to see you say so. I've been scorned as the scum of the earth on the other thread for suggesting her actions were odd and risky.
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When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered.
You mean she's been to France?
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Your whole social outlook is a womans right to choose. And yet you are such taking a self-righteous attitude.
Well, perhaps I am, and perhaps I wouldn't do so had the moral dimensions of Palin's pregnancy not been such an integral part of the sales pitch.
I'm judgin'. I read up on it and I thought her behavior was bloody risky (so did this doctor). It's an angle that was canvassed in her own newspaper in April, when it happened. The ADN story quotes an obstetrician saying, basically, WTF?
And I confess did think when I read in the other ADN story about her being back at work three days after giving birth: couldn't you have spent a week with your new little special-needs baby?
Perhaps that's unfair of me, and I wish I'd never bothered saying so, but it is what I thought.
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Good NYT story on a Wikipedia user called YoungTrigg (Trig is the name of Palin's baby son) who carried out extensive -- and competent, too, it seems -- edits to the Palin profile shortly before the announcement. He subsequently admitted to being a McCain campaign volunteer.
Hardly a scandal, but it's good that there happened to be another editor there to whittle it down. Wikipedia in real time.
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Surely, if she's anti-abortion, seeking praise for not aborting her disabled child is like seeking praise for not stabbing your flatmate for leaving the dirty dishes around - the temptation is comprehensible, but the action is patently unthinkable, and no sane person would do it anyway.
I was trying to work out a way of saying that.
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I have just read the whole thread and frankly I think (hope) there will be a time when you will remember this as a low point of your blogging life.
I don't apologise for being interested in this. As Andrew Sullivan put it:
Here's why this isn't off-limits. The McCain campaign has made the existence of this child a central part of its PR rollout of Palin, in particular highlighting the fact that Palin chose not to abort the child even though she knew the baby had Down Syndrome.
The campaign has made the entire story of this pregnancy and birth a part of its narrative to portray Palin as a morally superior being who is therefore deserving of the second-highest office in the land.
Under the masthead of The Atlantic , Andrew Sullivan is alleging "a serious possibility that this narrative is completely false, that, in fact, Palin's daughter became pregnant".
I think not. Apart from anything else, this photo from the Kos story wasn't taken when the Kos story said it was. It's the picture of the daughter, which makes it use in that article all the more egregious.
But reading news reports of things that happened this year isn't "digging for dirt". And I'm struck by the way she's being hailed by people who, as Craig noted, would have probably have been condemning her as a monster if she was a Democratic candidate.
(Actually, that Sullivan post is a cut-and-paste from a reader
This is his actual post on the story and his follow-up concluding the rumour isn't true.)
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