On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Adam Churvis < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 2. As Mayor she cut her own salary and cut property taxes by 60%. > > Both were artificially inflated when she took office. To her credit, she > burst that bubble, but it was an obvious bubble to break -- especially > since > it was one of the promises on which she ran for office. > IMO, shouldn't diminish the fact that she took those actions. First off... she made a promise while campaigning and actually kept it. Second... I'd imagine 'artificially inflated" is a subjective viewpoint. I think most of the oil companies profits are artificially inflated, but I don't see any of their CEOs rushing to slash their salaries. Artificially inflated or not... whatever the salary was was the "going rate" and she stepped up and made a change. Not seeing a downside here. > > 3. While I am pro-choice I really admire the fact that she carried to > > term her latest son knowing he had issues. > > I will bet my bottom dollar on this: she's lying. It's her daughter's > baby, > not hers, and it suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which is a disease > caused by irresponsible mothers, not Downs Syndrome, which is an innocent > disease for which you can't blame anyone. This is the extent to which she > will lie about something relatively unimportant. What will she do to cover > up something of substance to the American people? > I simply can't believe that this is true. If it does come to light later that it is, I'll be the first to apologize... but for now, I just do not believe it. When I first heard the story I thought it was broken by the Enquirer or some other such reputable outlet :) > > 4. She is a true outsider. > > You don't want an inexperienced person at the helm of the most powerful > position on the entire planet (well, at least for now). You need someone > with the ability to do seemingly happy business with another person whom > they know is corrupt to the core -- if that person can do them some measure > of good. While the republican ticket has a relatively inexperienced person being a heartbeat away from the most powerful position on the planet, the dem ticket has a relatively inexperienced person being a majority vote away from the most powerful position on the planet. The relative amount of inexperience on both tickets is worrisome to me. > > She came to power in AK by nailing corrupt republicans in her state, > these > were members of her own party. > > Low-hanging fruit. Easy pickings. Wasn't very hard to do, though I'll > grant her the will to do it. > Well, you made the point yourself. Maybe low-hanging fruit (but again, i'd argue that's a subjective perspective), but it still would have been much easier for her to look the other way. For what it's worth, I'm not trying to suggest that she's the "best our country has to offer"... but boy I can't remember ever walking in to vote feeling like I was voting for the "best our country has to offer" as much as I was voting for the person or ticket that I disliked the least. Not trying to come off as a Palin apologist or insinuate that she's the perfect candidate. I just don't think she's completely evil incarnate :) -- I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:267870 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
