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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (21958)	9/8/2008 2:11:10 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Oh, I'm sure that lots or people are interested in learning about what - up until now - has been a relatively unknown politician on the national scene, not thrust into great prominence. For example, this (admittedly very partisan national commentator), has never-the-less assembled some links to original sources (links in the original hyperlinked article) with some further details about claims that have been made about V.P. selection Palin, and the way that she is being politically positioned: ... She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same. Op-Ed Columnist: Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage By FRANK RICH Published: September 6, 2008 nytimes.com