Palin Opposed Sudan Protest She Claims To Support

ABC News:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country's brutal regime from the state's multi-billion-dollar investment fund, she claimed during Thursday's vice presidential debate.

Not quite, according to a review of the public record - and according to the recollections of a legislator and others who pushed a measure to divest Alaskan holdings in Sudan-linked investments.

"The [Palin] administration killed our bill," said Alaska state representative Les Gara, D-Anchorage. Gara and state Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, co-sponsored a resolution early this year to force the Alaska Permanent Fund - a $40 billion investment fund, a portion of whose dividends are distributed annually to state residents - to divest millions of dollars in holdings tied to the Sudanese government.

Read the whole story: ABC News

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[mrJJ]

Victory impossible in Afghanistan: senior British commander

Source: CBC News

Western forces in Afghanistan will never be able to win the war against insurgents and may need to include the Taliban in any long-term solution, Britain's senior commander in the country says in a report.

An absolute military victory in Afghanistan is impossible, Brig.-Gen. Mark Carleton-Smith told England's Sunday Times newspaper.

What foreign forces must now come to grips with, he said, is reducing the level of insurgency so that it can be managed by Afghan forces and no longer poses a major threat.

"We may well leave with there still being a low but steady ebb of rural insurgency … I don’t think we should expect that when we go there won’t be roaming bands of armed men in this part of the world," Carleton-Smith was quoted as saying.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/10/04/afghan-war.html

[Richard22]

Palin is not just BAD, she is DESPICABLE:

BAD = Doing nothing about Sudan -- i.e. not even divesting assets (as 41 states have already done)

DESPICABLE = Doing nothing in the face of genocide and then taking credit as if you had.

[grantlingel]

Palin has no idea what she has gotten herself into... luckily it'll all be over soon.
http://grantlingel.blogspot.com

[robeson]

test

[Mahi Joe]

She speaketh with forked tongue.

[plknightb]

She's a lying machine!!!!

[BigSurf]

And McSame claimed she was fully vetted.

Vetting questions:
1) Were you ever a beauty contestant?
If, yes go to question 2.
2) Will you be my VP running mate?

Your vetting is now complete.

[KarateKid]

Their strategy seems to be, let's lie about everything, make the dummies sort it out, and they'll get so confused they'll start believing our palaver. We see evidence in these forums of those who have given up and allowed themselves to be deluded and manpulated.

The next month will be very interesting, to see how low they will stoop to try to steal yet another election. I'll bet they'll step up playing the race card and hurl every kind of insult and lie imaginable. Obama must go on the offensive and not let them get away with it. I guarantee you, the Republicans won't go quietly. They already know they are way behind, they are acting like it, and the shrill scare and hate mongering tactics will begin any day now. They have nothing to lose by doing it. Their contempt for the American people is palpable.

[robeson]

How does our political system come up with trash like GW Bush and Palin? Why are they promoted as leaders? Well for some promoters there's money to be had, trillions these past eight years. And for those out of the money, fears and prejudices are soothed. Gosh darn, I betcha there are better, more qualified people to lead this great nation.
And there they were in front of me, on PBS Bill Moyers Journal, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Brooke Gladstone, and Emma Coleman Jordan, all intelligent, articulate, concerned, knowledgeable, and patriotic. But we'll never see them on a ballot. Joseph Stalin had it right, vote as often as you want, as long as I choose the candidates.
Golly gee, that's it. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and others, don't let Joseph Stalin, Karl Rove or Rupert Murdoch pick our candidates. Get involved all you Joes and Janets, vote in primaries, throw out the garbage early before it stinks up the nation.

[grantlingel]

big surprise! unbelievable... it's astonishing they are allowed to get away with lies like this.
http://grantlingel.blogspot.com

[glorysong]

Sarah Palin is a great big lie. She need to write I Love to Lie on her fore head. This need to be geting this lie out to every new center you can find. She needs to be stopped. And fast.

[loax]

Man, this woamn lies with such ease it is incredible! As far as the pipeline, it is not being built. It has gotten some state financing but not the balance. Even if they do get funding, it will be 10 years before you get any fuel. Ah, yes, Grasshopper, you are learning well at the knee of the Master, McCain!

[montag1]

Uh, the headline should read "...according to Democrat legislator", because the Republican co-sponsor of the bill disputes the claim. So, as usual, Brian Ross--for whom Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko are too obscure to write a single article about--comes up with yet another Sarah Palin hit piece, based only upon the Democrat side.

Yet his blog claims that "Brian Ross is one of the most honored and respected journalists in the country". Respected by the DNC, to be sure. But who else?

[UCSD101]

SARAH............. People in Alaska are protesting you. Or did you not now this?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six Alaska lawmakers filed an emergency appeal Friday asking the state's Supreme Court to halt an investigation into abuse-of-power allegations against Gov. Sarah Palin before the findings are released next week.

These are the four Republicans that are attempting to circumvent the lawful Legislative investigation into Governor Palin's abuse of her Office. Give them a call and tell them what you think about their attempt to prevent you learning the truth.

Pass their contact info along please...



Unless you think it's OK in the United States of America for a politician who is accused of ethics violations to only submit to an investigation by those they can fire and demand that even the results of that tainted investigation be kept secret.



Alaska State Representative Bob Lynn
District 31 - Anchorage

716 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 330
Anchorage, AK 99501-2133
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Alaska State Representative Carl Gatto
District 13 - Palmer

600 E. Railroad Ave.
Wasilla, AK 99654
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Alaska State Senator Thomas Wagoner
District Q - Kenai 

145 Main St. Loop Suite 226
Kenai, Alaska 99611
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Alaska State Senator Fred Dyson
District I - Eagle River

10928 Eagle River Rd., Suite 238
Eagle River, AK 99577
Phone: [phone]
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OBAMA- BIDEN 2008 & 2012

[mysterygirl18]

I'm telling you- what makes her scary is that she doesn't see her faults. She still thinks that she's superior in intellect to all of us. She's never going to stop...

http://www.myspace.com/wakeupnowpeople