She Isn't Like You and Me: Sarah Palin's Unpatriotic Associations

A friend of mine who is a lawyer here in Chicago, just sent me a piece he did on a tie Sarah Palin has to an organization which is far more troubling than any ties Obama may have to education professor William Ayers. In this case the association can be labeled seditious. Here's what he says (note also video following).

She Isn't Like You and Me: Sarah Palin's Unpatriotic Associations

by Greg Brownfield

Sarah Palin’s most recent stump speech includes two scathing guilt-by-association riffs. First she says that Obama is “someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists (William Ayers) who attacked their own country.” Second, she suggests sedition with: “this (Obama) is a man that does not see America as you and I see America.”

Apparently Sarah wishes us to forget her association with the Alaskan Independence Party whose convention she endorsed earlier this year. The Alaskan Independence Party sees America as far worse than imperfect. It's so imperfect that their ultimate aim is to secede from the union. Which means that they do not see America as you and I see America. This is clear when you go to the introduction page on their website where you read this from the late founder of their party:

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

Joe Vogler
A quick comparison of the two associations will show how much more troubling Palin's is. When Obama met Ayers the latter was a noted education reformer and professor. Should Obama have checked into his past and made judgments about working with him on that basis? Perhaps. But that's not what brought them together. It was a community organizer meeting a noted education expert. End of story.

On the other hand, when Sarah Palin gave her warm words of support to the Alaskan Independence Party she was well aware that it is what it always has been—a radical secessionist movement. And her husband was a member from 1995 until 2000 (talk about guilt by association).

The bottom line is that it’s clear that there is a radical anti-American candidate in this race. But it’s not Obama. In the well-traveled words of Shakespeare, “the lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

Countdown: Joe Six-Pack, Sarah Palin, is a Millionaire

till the Palin-Biden Debate



Sarah is a Millionaire

Turns out that Sarah Joe Six-Pack Palin, is actually Sarah Champagne Palin. That's according to an article in the Anchorage Daily News which reveals that Todd and Sarah Palin are millionaires; millionaires who also got their cut of the oil revenues paid out to all citizens in the socialist state of Alaska, which last year came to $1,654 for each member of the Palin family.

Yet another anomaly in the mythology being woven around the saga which is Sarah Palin -- a millionaire masquerading as "an everyday, working-class American."

Here's the article:


Estimates show Palin assets top $1 million


By SHARON THEIMER and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
The Associated Press

(10/01/08 16:10:45)

WASILLA - Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalizing on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other ventures to build an above-average lifestyle.

Add up the couple's 2007 income and the estimated value of their property and investments and they appear to be worth at least $1.2 million. That would make the Palins, like Democratic vice presidential rival Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, well-off but not nearly as wealthy as multimillionaire couples John and Cindy McCain and, to a lesser extent, Barack and Michelle Obama.

One measure of financial health: While there is a home loan, Palin reported no personal credit card debt on her most recent financial report as Alaska governor. That compares to average household credit card debt among Americans of $9,840 last year.

A more complete picture will come when Sarah Palin outlines her personal finances in federal paperwork in coming days. It will include details of any mortgage debt and at least rough dollar totals for bank accounts and investments.

Palin this week characterized herself as "an everyday, working-class American" who knows how it feels when the stock market takes a hit.

The Palins' total income last year was split almost evenly between Sarah Palin's white-collar job and her husband's blue-collar work. Sarah Palin's salary as governor was $125,000; Todd Palin took in $46,790 as a part-time oil production operator for BP Alaska in Prudhoe Bay, plus $46,265 in commercial fishing income and $10,500 in Iron Dog snowmachine race winnings. These figures do not include nearly $17,000 in per diem payments Palin received for 312 nights spent in her own home since she was elected governor; she also has received $43,490 to cover travel costs for her husband and children.

In addition, each member of the Palin family received $1,654 in state oil royalties paid to all Alaskans.

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