According to Sarah Palin, the Branchflower Report (see Oct. 11 post below) actually clears her of “any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity”!!! Check out her dizzying claims on Mudflats, a blog that takes you “tiptoeing through the muck of Alaskan politics.”
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Sarah Says She’s Been Cleared!
October 13, 2008It’s Official! Sarah Palin’s Abuse of Power
October 11, 2008From the Branchflower Report on Sarah Palin’s ethics:
Finding Number One
For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides
The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.
Read more and download the report on the Alaska Politics Blog. (Thanks to Jerry Weinstein.)
From Her Lips to Your Ears: the Palin-McCain Administration
September 19, 2008In my last post, I wondered why Sarah Palin was running against Barack Obama. Hear her tell it like she thinks it is: the Palin-McCain administration, courtesy of the Huffington Post.
Why Is Sarah Palin Running against Barack Obama?
September 18, 2008In her September 17 New York Times column, Maureen Dowd quotes a Wasilla “Wal-Mart mom” who said that Obama “gives [her] the creeps” – he “seems snotty and he looks weaselly”, whereas Sarah Palin is “down home”.
This is exactly why the Republicans are once again asserting the politics of identity—in which wealthy candidates pose as down-home types (clearing brush, shooting moose), thus inducing ordinary people to feel comfortable with them. Read the rest…
Back to the 50’s with Sarah Palin
September 13, 2008It’s particularly depressing to contemplate Sarah Palin as a 21st-centruy avatar of 1950’s sexual ideology.
Already this year we’ve had the Mormon-Stepford wives in their identical 19th-century drag and creepy hairdos. Now we have a vice-presidential candidate who is using her own daughter—not to mention her Down-syndrome infant—to further her political career, and being praised for her family values! (Not to worry, she assured us during the convention, the baby is on the bus, being cared for by his big sister.) Read more…
Beyond the Zeitgeist 