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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Sarah Palin sharpshooter and ex-beauty queen
September 3, 2008
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Sarah Palin has opened up more than a can of worms. The things she has said, done, or are continuing to do are akin to eruptions--not the "bimbo" eruptions that Bill Clinton's former chief of staff described. Sarah Palin seems to be able to eviscerate her enemies and not draw blood. She double crosses long-time allies, lies, or fires those with whom she disagrees, or who will not carry her water.
Palin's bubbly upbeat personality can easily distract the voters who might think she is an overly friendly
self-described hockey Mom. But not be fooled. If we don't defeat her and John McCain in November, our country will be in very serious trouble.
She has a simple-minded view of the world where black and white are the only colors that matter. Her fundamentalist Assemblies of God sanctified, holiness church has helped to shape her views of the world. She really believes the War in Iraq is guided by God. She actually said that in a speech she gave in her church earlier this year as she spoke to a group of soldiers on their way to Iraq.
She and her husband were once members of a group that advocates Alaskan independence from the U. S. Her husband was involved in the group for longer than the record shows she was involved. Of course, the McCain sweepers have attempted to sanitize her involvement and now saw she was never a member. It is hard to stay one step ahead of this street sweeping crew as they remove everything they can find on the
Internet that would be embarrassing to John McCain.
It is still unclear to many as to whether she is a Babymama or a Baby grandmama. A lot of things about her story doesn't add up. For one, how could her water break while she was in Texas, then she said she hopped a plane, didn't tell the flight crew, flew for eight hours with a change of planes in Seattle, arrive back in Alaska, drive past two hospitals, and settle on one in her tiny hometown that, by the way, does not have a neonatal unit.
Then, she went back to work three days later--after she gave birth to a little boy with Down's Syndrome. If your mind is in a dizzying state, mine is too. This is the explanation she gave to the doubters back in Alaska who had already questioned why she waited until she was seven months pregnant to tell anyone including her office staff. Add to that the fact that she didn't look pregnant. This was a news story long before she was nominated by John
McCain.
Her mother in law ran for mayor when Palin was stepping down. The one problem: she supported a woman's right to choose. Palin supported her mother-in-law's opponent who is anti-choice. Maybe that's why her mother-in-law told US magazine that she will probably vote for Barack Obama.
Sarah Palin is milking her daughter, Bristol's pregnancy for all its worth. What self-respecting mother who loves her daughter would expose her vulnerabilities to the world? Why isn't she more concerned about the impact this is having, and will have on her child? She can't possibly think that a "shotgun" wedding for her seventeen year old with her eighteen year old boyfriend is the best option.
She is also milking her Down's Syndrome infant son for all its worth as well. The far-right wing Republicans see her bringing this baby to term, and her daughter's out of wedlock pregnancy as a "message from God." I wouldn't hazard to guess what God thinks
about this. Also, why is her pregnant daughter schlepping this infant around everyplace the family goes? Most people would have kept the baby in a hotel room where he could get his nap, eat, etc. This is no environment for an infant, and Sarah Palin knows it isn't. Ditto for parading her pregnant daughter everyplace.
Today, Levi Johnston, the sperm donor who impregnated Bristol Palin arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stay tuned folks for I am sure the media will put its spotlight on this high school senior who has a shotgun stuck to his head to ensure he marries poor Bristol. There should be a law against people like Sarah Palin.
And, I haven't even gotten to her firing the head of the state police because he wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law. This sordid mess is something to behold. Stay tuned because there's a lot more. Wagers are being taken on how long she will last in the campaign. What do you think?
Monday, September 1, 2008
The Skeletons in Sarah Palin's Closet
Wasilla, Alaska City Hall where Sarah Palin was mayor. CNN Democratic strategist James Carville said it is the size of a bakery in the Louisiana backwater. I think it looks like my neighborhood 7-Eleven.
The problem with the far right is they set the bar so high for moral standards and hold the rest of us to them, then use their so-called high standards to hammer us over the head as sinners. But when they are caught in their sinful ways (sin is the word they use) they try to switch gears and convince us that they are still favored by God and we are not.
Sarah Palin is a member of a right wing Christian fundamentalist church. That is her right but she shouldn't prevent sex education from being taught to the children of others.
Sarah Palin, who is John McCain's running mate, is touted as having loads of experiences because she was mayor of the tiny hamlet of Wasulla with a population of 7,000 people. She was elected on promises of reform from the crooked incumbent Governor. Little did we know that she would be selected to run for Vice President with a year and nine months of experience as governor.
John McCain's decision to name Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP running mate is horrendous, and it demonstrates his poor decision-making ability. Today, two new revelations about her family emerged.
The first is that her seventeen year old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and is expected to marry the baby daddy.
The second revelation is that her husband was arrested twenty years
ago for driving while under the influence. This was a long time ago and I wouldn't hold it against him today. It occurred before they were married as well.
The problem is that the pregnancy of the daughter represents the kinds of bombshell a campaign tries to take care of in the vetting process. Governor Palin does not believe in contraceptives or sex education. Her abstinence until marriage belief is a roll of the dice insofar as a teenager's behavior is concerned.
If one follows the logic of Sarah Paley, a pregnancy should lead to marriage. A seventeen year old is a poor candidate for a long-term marriage. I would hope that Paley is not using one of the shotguns she wields so masterfully to force her daughter and the boy, Levi (she didn't give his last name or his age) , are entering the marriage willingly. It would be a shame if the marriage is occurring solely because Sarah Palin is running for Vice President.
Is Sarah Palin the Baby Mama or the Baby Grandmama?
Daily Kos
BabyGate: Explosive New Details
by ArcXIX
Sun Aug 31, 2008
Yesterday, the nation at large was introduced to Sarah Palin's fraudulent claims of maternity by numerous photographs, video, and a timeline that made even those accepting of the 'official' story turn their heads in confusion.
The revelation that had been whispered among the Alaskan legislature was explosive. Sarah Palin is not the mother of Trig Palin. Her daughter is the mother. Scarce if any refutations to the contrary have come forward, and now damning
incidents and evidence has come to light.
Mothers of the world have reeled back in disgust and horror at Sarah's dangerous and possibly fatal story of flying 4000 miles even as she was supposedly in the process of entering labor a month early. Sarah needs to honestly answer for her lies, promptly.
ArcXIX's diary :: ::
As evidenced in the original diary, Sarah has been photographed during her surprise 'pregnancy' as trim, fit, and altogether non-pregnant. Once again presenting Sarah at seven months 'pregnant':
The disparity is shocking. Any mother of more than one child will tell you that a female body does not become fitter with each pregnancy, but instead the exact opposite, gaining more and more weight quickly with each successive pregnancy (in Sarah's case, four). Sarah is a perfectly healthy woman, but is far from a petite size, and would not be able to hide a second trimester pregnancy from anyone with a set of
eyeballs.
bloggerinterrupted has culled together news videos from the time of the original announcement (seven months into the surprise 'pregnancy'), which reveals no protruding belly line, and the total shock of fellow Alaskans:
Of note, the Newsweek conference at the end was entitled "Newsweek: Women & Leadership". Sarah would issue the statement on her pregnancy the next day (she didn't mention pregnancy once during the presentation), and Newsweek host Karen Breslau was as surprised as anyone:
At the time, I didn't know that Palin, clad in a loose, dark dress, was seven months pregnant with her fifth child. An aide called me the next day to tell me that Palin would be announcing the pregnancy at home in Alaska and that she had wanted me to know as a courtesy. She was sorry she hadn't mentioned it the night before.
A convenient reasoning, allowing Sarah to deftly avoid questioning of any sort before, during, or
after the presentation in Los Angeles. This isn't the first time Sarah has fooled someone on video.
In yesterday's diary, a video of Sarah hiking around Juneau, Alaska (and standing in high heels at six months 'pregnant') was presented by Alaska HDTV. They have since issued a statement:
Regarding her pregnancy, all I can say is that it was not obvious to the three of us who were there during the filming. At this time she would be somewhere in her 7th month of pregnancy, which could be hidden with clever clothing, jackets, etc.
In addition, these videos also mark stark contrasts toanother video of Sarah's career as a Sports News Journalist, taped here when she was pregnant with child in 1989. Her facial features are altered, a common effect of pregnancy that Sarah miraculously avoided during her fifth with Trig.
Fast forward to the alleged 'pregnancy' itself, an obstetrician commented at Talking Points Memo that he has serious
issues with Palin's decisions:
She claims she flew from Texas to Anchorage after she was having contractions and leaking amniotic fluid. This simply doesn't make sense.
I am a physician and I deliver babies (my last delivery was about 36 hours ago).
There is very little chance that a 44 year old woman who was pregnant with her fifth child would last 8 hours with ruptured membranes and contractions. Especially when the baby was approximately 4 weeks early; She would have delivered this baby on the plane.
Playing the back seat doctor here, my advice would have been get in the car and go to the nearest hospital with a maternity ward. This is called Premature Preterm Rupture of Membranes (PPROM) and it is dangerous.
10:30pm - Palin arrives in Anchorage (approximately 22 hours after membranes ruptured, you start to get worried at 12 hours).
11:30pm - Palin checks into Mat-Su regional in Wasilla, Alaska. (It seems
kind of strange that she wouldn't have gone to Providence in Anchorage which has the highest level maternity care in the state. You would want a child with genetic defects to be delivered in a bigger place with more services available.)
If she knew her child had this disorder and got on a plane with leaking amniotic fluid, then she shows incredibly poor judgment.
Mentioned below the statement, is the revelation that after landing in Anchorage, Sarah drove past both Providence and Anchorage Regional, facilities ideal for premature deliveries, as both are equipped with neonatal intensive care units (NCIU). The doctor who supposedly approved of Sarah taking such risks, and later delivered Trig? Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, who has since been scrubbed from the Mt-Su Regional Medical Center website. Web Archive naturally shows her at the top of the scrubbed list. Sarah's relationship with Cathy has formed over the years, and in 2002(then Mayor)
Sarah named her Family Physician of the Year. In May 2007, (then Governor) Sarah appointed Cathy to the Alaska Health Care Strategies Planning Council, as evidenced by this scrubbed State Press Release. Special connections for special friends.
Mat-Su Regional, the hospital where Trig Palin was delivered, surprisingly does not list Trig on their own list of babies born in that facility for that day of April 18th. A peculiar oddity, as hospitals are usually proud when a local celebrity gives birth within their facility.
Which brings us back to Bristol Palin, the rightful mother of Trig Palin. Over the course of seven months, Bristol had three separate driving offenses, one to carry insurance, one for speeding, and another one for a collision. As a sixteen year-old driver, incidents such as these happen all the time. This is noteworthy, however, due to her being out of school at the time due to the family excuse of 'having infectious
mononucleosis' for a period of five to eight months. The police statement reads:
Wasilla Police Department
On February 8, 2008, at 1737 hours, Wasilla Police responded to two vehicle collision at Seward Meridian Parkway and Fireweed Drive. Investigation revealed that Bristol Palin, age 17 of Wasilla, was driving a 4-door sedan and attempted to turn into a business when she struck a 2-door sedan driven by Joshua Moffet, age 19, of Wasilla. Palin was issued a citation for Failing to Use Due Care to Avoid a Collision. Moffet was issued a citation for an expired registration and no proof of insurance.
Out of school, and in a fender-bender located in front a Medical Family Center. Not good.
Back to contrasts, we see here Bristol at Sarah's Governor inauguration:
As flat of a stomach as any. And now later during Bristol's pregnancy:
Bristol & Trig have been pushed backstage or elsewhere in McCain/Palin appearances
already, as evidenced by the Washington, PA campaign stop in which Sarah stated Trig was napping while Bristol was watching over him. In any regard, they looked wonderful together at the initial Vice-Presidential unveiling in Dayton, Ohio on Friday:
Sarah? Not so interested.
Tearing apart a mother from her child in the public's eye for political points is the lowest of the low. Bristol Palin deserves the truth from Sarah, delivered to the public, immediately. This charade on the national stage is pathetic, and needs to end promptly.
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