30 Sep 2008
Radio description of Palin's activities prior to the November 4th election
She's running for VP with Senator John McCain
Palin is already following in the footsteps of George Bush, abusing her powers, lying to the public to make her ethical failures seem like strengths, using her office to block government investigations into her wrongdoings, hiding personal information from the public that public law requires she provide.
Palin is the only candidate who hasn't released her tax information to the public. She promised to provide it twice before, but is again postponing the release date, till after the televised debates.
During the ongoing government investigation into charges Palin abused her powers, tried to fire the police chief because he dumped her sister, ten (10) witnesses were ordered by the courts to testify. Palin's office defied the courts, shielded witnesses and said they don't have to appear. Palin is exactly like Bush, who claimed his staffers can ignore Congressional subpoenas.
Palin is being kept in a protective bubble, like George Bush during his campaigns. Just as the White House press corps is now hand-picked to keep out reporters who confront him with hard questions, reporters are being kept away from Palin on the campaign trail.
Palin is making very rare public appearances, one a day or fewer. And reporters complain they aren't even allowed within shouting distance (they can't even yell questions at her). Palin claims in her speeches she is out there to "get our message out to everyone" but no one is allowed to ask about the message.
When making public appearances, Palin isn't even giving access to local reporters at the events she stages. Her speeches are all for political show.
While giving these carefully choreographed public speeches, she keeps recycling the highly successful speech someone wrote for her at the Republican convention. Nothing new has been added, but two very big pieces are missing:
(1) She no longer brags about stopping the "bridge to nowhere" - that pork barrel project her administration used to get its hands on federal funds - a $100 million waste of tax money. Palin quit bragging about stopping the project because it is now commonly known she supported the bridge until Congress and the national media made a stink about it for months.
(2) She no longer brags about putting the former Governor's plane on e-bay. It turns out no one bought the plane, so she gave it to one of her campaign contributors as a gift.
This doesn't mean Palin has given up on grabbing federal money for her state and business cronies. She managed to move forward with a $40 billion natural gas pipeline that would go through Alaska. That's a ton of construction money.
That protective bubble keeps the public from seeing how completely unprepared she is to run this country. It even shields her during staged events, those made up photo ops to convince people how competent she is. When Palin was rushed into a United Nations photo op, to counter her pathetic lack of exposure to foreign affairs, the media was only allowed 29 seconds to see her talking to a foreign head of state! The only ones allowed in the room were photographers to make that photo op happen, and a news producer for CNN. No reporters were allowed.
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