‘Suburban mom’ who took on her own party

[emeraldkity4]

<p>another instance of Palin fighting the Republican admin
[Alaska’s</a> Palin misrepresented state’s polar bear findings - Nation & World - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington](<a href=“http://www.theolympian.com/nationworld/story/565969.html]Alaska’s”>http://www.theolympian.com/nationworld/story/565969.html)

A newly released e-mail from last fall shows that Alaska’s own biologists were at odds with the administration of Gov. Sarah Palin, which has consistently opposed any new federal protections for polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.

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[parent2noles]

<p>Seems as though Palin supports the workers of Alaska over the polar bears. The topic of polar bears may play well in blue states, but what about red?</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>but how do the Alaskans feel about it?</p>

<p>*Indeed, packed houses at community meetings helped slow the six-year negotiation to a crawl, and time may now be running out for Bush administration officials who support the deal.</p>

<p>Gwichin Indian leaders say they are worried about pollution from oil spills in the vast wetland basin. They also fear changes to their hunting and fishing territory that would come with a road connection to the outside world.*</p>

<p>[what does a V.P. do anyway?](<a href=“http://kodiakkonfidential.blogspot.com/”>http://kodiakkonfidential.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

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Palin a first-term governor of a state with more reindeer than people, will have to put on a few pounds just to be a lightweight. Her personal story is impressive: former fisherman, mother of five. But that hardly qualifies her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.</p>

<p>For a man who is 72 years old and has had four bouts with cancer to have chosen someone so completely unqualified to become president is shockingly irresponsible. Suddenly, McCain’s age and health become central issues in the campaign, as does his judgment.

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<p>[Commentary:</a> Is McCain out of his mind? - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/begala.palin/index.html]Commentary:”>Commentary: Is McCain out of his mind? - CNN.com)</p>

[MarinMom]

<p>I don’t buy the courageous label, at least about the bridge to nowhere. She was originally supportive of it, but when she finally nixed it, Alaska needed to find an additional $329 million to fund it, and the federal government had already told Alaska that they could take the earmarked bridge money and instead put it into their general highway fund. So she upset the residents of one small town, big deal. Alaska got a nice bump to the highway fund.</p>

<p>I find the polar bear issue very troubling, and not because I think they’re cute and fuzzy. It’s Bush redux - let’s ignore or quash the scientific evidence if it happens to conflict with our economic self-interest.</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>oh I got it now-
McCain picked Palin as a ploy to get us to pray for his health.</p>

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In stark contrast with Senator Barack Obama’s energy policy, which he described last night calling for millions of new green jobs, improved national security, and reduced global warming pollution, John McCain today announced that his running mate, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, doesn’t believe in anthropogenic climate change or evolution. Combine all of this with the fact that Ms. Palin’s husband works for British Petroleum drilling in North Alaska, that she doesn’t believe that climate change science is clear or that the changes are caused by mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions and the fact that she wants to drill in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to guarantee our energy security rather than pursuing renewable energies, and you’ve got one of the worst climate candidates yet! Even John McCain has spoken vocally to protect ANWR, so his selection of one of the nation’s biggest supporters for drilling there has been a major blow,

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