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Friday, October 10, 2008
Palin abused her power, inquiry concludes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The investigation of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s behavior in attempting to force the firing of her former brother in law as a state trooper has been released to the public:
“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….
Finding Number Two
I find that, although Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority….
Finding Number Four
The Attorney General’s office has failed to substantially comply with my August 6, 2008 written request to Governor Sarah Palin for information about the case in the form of emails….”
“….I conclude that such claims of fear (of Trooper Wooten) were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the Palins’ real motivation: to get Trooper Wooten fired for personal family related reasons.”
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A touching column by the NYT’s David Brooks…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
… in which a saddened Mr. Brooks slowly comes to the realization that the party he has long favored actually kind of hates his guts.
As he puts it a bit more mildly in his final paragraph:
“And so, politically, the GOP is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission — because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission — by telling members of that class to go away.”
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Obama up in West By God Virginia?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
My father was born and raised in West Virginia, and since I grew up as a military brat always moving from place to place, West Virginia was a kind of home place for us, the closest thing we had to roots.
It’s a conservative place. My grandmother, for example, at first didn’t much cotton to the girl my dad brought home because my mom was raised Catholic. And I won’t even get into my relatives and the race thing.
The state is also strongly pro-military, because for a long time, West Virginia kids had two career paths: the coal mines or the service. It’s still that way to an extent.
All of which is to say that the latest ARG poll out of West Virginia is astonishing. They put Obama up eight in West Virginia, after having him down by four less than a month ago.
If that’s true, it may be getting time to call in the dogs and put out the fire, as folks would say.
UPDATE: For the record, the latest Gallup tracking number puts the spread at 10, down one from the last couple of days. Gallup has also posted its post-debate polling, reporting that 56 percent of those who watched say Obama won, while 23 percent gave the nod to McCain, which confirms the results of earlier snap polls. The venerable polling company says the margin is “one of the more decisive Gallup has measured” in presidential debates.
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Palin’s Troopergate scandal was fabricated by Bill Ayers — really, read it here first!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Palin Troopergate report will be made public later today, once the folks in Alaska wake up.
And no, that’s not a political comment, although I guess it could be.
Now, I know how our conservative friends will respond to that news: “Oh yeah, why don’t you tell the truth about Bill Ayers? How come the mainstream media never write the truth about that, huh!”
Indeed, the right-wing blogs and email networks are all abuzz this morning with the latest theory on that front, the claim that Ayers and Obama are so close that Ayers, not Obama, actually wrote the senator’s best-selling memoir “Dreams From My Father.”
The claim originates here, and it’s based in large part on the notion that the book is too well-written for someone of Obama’s obviously limited talent and intellect:
“The public is asked to believe Obama wrote “Dreams From My Father” on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all. Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put this in perspective, imagine if a friend played a few rounds in the high 90s and then a few years later, without further practice, made the PGA Tour. It doesn’t happen.”
Of course, we in the MSM have known this all along. The fact that Ayers wrote Obama’s autobiography and has masterminded his career was on the top-secret list of things we are never allowed to talk about. I have that list right here, printed on special Dharma Initiative stationary.
However, since the truth is now out and the reporting ban has been breached, I might as well tell you about some other things on the list. If I get fired for this, so be it. Maybe Fox will take me in.
Are you ready? Here goes:
1.) Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. The mysterious Man with the Umbrella was actually William Ayers. And if you look closely in the Zapruder film, you can see a two-year-old black child holding what the FBI has long dismissed as a toy gun. Don’t believe it. That second shot had to come from somewhere — those evil madrassas teach kids to shoot before they’re even potty trained.
If you want more proof, remember who “covered” the JFK assassination for CBS, who just “by coincidence” happened to be nearby when it happened? That’s right — Dan Rather. Need I say more?
2.) You think it’s an accident that the TelePrompter had already been in use for more than 50 years when Barack Obama came along? As his dismal performance in the debates has proved, Obama could never have gotten this far without it. Knowing that, Bill Ayers invented the device back in the ’50s just to throw off suspicion.
How could that be true, since Ayers was himself a child back then? Two words: Time machine.
3.) You know who was responsible for those butterfly ballots down in Florida that got George Bush elected president? Yup. Bill Ayers again. It was all part of the master plan: To elect Obama, they first had to put somebody in as president who would run the country into the ground and thoroughly discredit modern conservatism.
You don’t think this all happened by accident, do you?
There’s more, but I fear I’ve revealed too much already. Those of you who care for the truth should do an immediate screengrab on this post, because it won’t stay long once Ayers gets wind of it.
And if you never hear from me again, you’ll know why.
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