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Palin Derangement Fever
Manipulated Insanity? Does anything around
Palin have anything to do with what we might
be taking about if she were not on the Ticket?
The Manipulated Instanity of the American Mind:
That is why I imagine Sarah Palin is on the Ticket now.
Date: 9/7/2008 7:05:53 AM ( 16 y ) ... viewed 1468 times
September 7, 08
5 AM
I, Leslie Goldman, Wanting to be of sound Mind and Sanity,
promise to Only Pay Attention to the News once a day.
This Article is a good summary of why
I only will gift myself listening to the Manipulated
Insanity Once at day.
The International Press:
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Some US commentators have held up the example of Bristol's teen pregnancy to say Mr McCain had not vetted [*See Note for explaination of this word] Mrs Palin and her family circumstances properly before appointing her as his running mate.
Mr McCain reportedly met Mrs Palin only once before offering her the job as vice-presidential nominee.
* Vetted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetting
To vet was originally a horse-racing term, referring to the requirement that a horse be checked for health and soundness by a veterinarian before being allowed to race. Thus, it has taken the general meaning "to check." It's a figurative contraction of veterinarian—the fancy word for animal doctor originated in the mid-17th century. The colloquial abbreviation dates to the 1860s; the verb form of the word, meaning "to treat an animal," came a few decades later—according to the Oxford English Dictionary the earliest known usage is 1891—and was applied primarily in a horse-racing context. ("He vetted the stallion before the race," "you should vet that horse before he races," etc.) By the early 1900s, vet had begun to be used as a synonym for evaluate, especially in the context of searching for flaws. [1]
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Political selection
In the United States, a party's presidential nominee must choose a vice-presidential candidate to accompany him or her on the ticket. Prospective vice-presidential candidates must undergo thorough evaluation by a team of advisers acting on behalf of the nominee.[2] In later stages of the vetting process, the team will examine such items as a prospective vice-presidential candidate's finances, personal conduct, and previous coverage in the media.[2]
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Meanwhile, the New York magazine has credited Mrs Palin with helping to make politics funny again.
"Last week Jon Stewart addressed the issue of whether Obama and McCain were giving enough material to comedians ... Well, now that we've got a former-beauty-pageant-contestant vice-presidential candidate who was a small-town mayor three years ago, and who has a pregnant, unmarried 17-year-old daughter, do we all know what's funny?"
In a satirical vox-pop about Mrs Palin's nomination on humorous news site The Onion, everyday American "Scott Wise", a line cook, said: "Finally, somebody who can pull in the Alaskan/pro-life/moose-hunting/woman vote."
- with AP
http://www.smh.com.au/news/us-election/palin-derangement-syndrome--ba-hrefhtt...
Related Plant Your Dream Blog:
National Soap Opera:
McCain's Poor Judgement:
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1252324
More Palin Jokes:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/09/sarah_palin_jokes_is_mccains_v.html
Drudge Report (conservative):
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Guradian, UK:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/07/uselections2008.sarahpalin1
But her selection also has risks. Palin is a little-known political quantity and there has already been a flood of stories about her private and political life as governor of Alaska. She is also waging a ferocious legal campaign to block a bipartisan state investigation into claims she pursued a personal vendetta against a former family member. The dispute, inevitably called 'Troopergate', threatens to dog Palin as she hits the campaign trail. The complex case is looking at allegations that she dismissed the head of the Alaskan police service, safety commissioner Walt Monegan, because he refused to bow to pressure and sack Palin's former brother-in-law from the police force.
Trooper Mike Wooten was involved in an acrimonious divorce from Palin's sister before the governor took up her post. Palin denies any impropriety, though she has acknowledged that more than 20 approaches were made to the commissioner by her husband Todd and her closest aides urging him to take disciplinary action against Wooten.
Last week she appointed a private lawyer to represent her interests. Thomas Van Flein is an Anchorage attorney with a tough reputation who specialises in employment law. He has moved swiftly to put spokes in the wheel of Stephen Branchflower, a former state prosecutor appointed by the legislature to conduct the investigation. Seven key witnesses who had previously agreed to co-operate with Branchflower have now retracted the offer. Two other witnesses were last week interviewed by Van Flein - a spoiling technique that for legal reasons could make it more difficult for Branchflower to quiz them.
As Palin's lawyer fights aggressively to contain one forest fire, another appears to be flaring up. New allegations have surfaced that potentially criminal acts were committed in snooping into Wooten's personal employment files. A taped telephone conversation between one of Palin's staff and a senior manager in the police department, in which complaints were made about Wooten, suggested that he had lied on an official form claiming compensation for injury at work. Wooten's union, the Public Safety Employees Association, has issued its own legal proceedings that allege such information could only have been obtained in breach of the trooper's right to confidentiality - a potential crime.
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