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Very interesting--on Sarah Palin

Faster horses

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And yes, I received it in an email

READ TO THE VERY END! VERY ENLIGHTENING!!! AND VERY DISTURBING!!!



My goodness!

By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman..
As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about
Sarah Palin.


The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in
Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national
politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither
side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style,
rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention
the things that I'm about to mention here.


1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because
as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican
and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt
Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing
in State housing and wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by
skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la"
(well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that
has ever done anything similar.

2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect
the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new
system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest
corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the
door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska
residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course,
the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again,
give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done
anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is
she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects,
known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed
them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if
we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured
she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet
because it was extravagant.


Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook
(remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State
vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and
dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I
imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the
names of those other governors.


4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also
managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas
pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in
the history of North America. No one else could do it although they
tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be
unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a
batch of brownies with her other hand.


5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place
called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they
couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an
investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then,
she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out.. They
protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them
that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.


6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for
electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan
for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can
give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and
persona Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's
just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of
other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years.
I won't be holding my breath.


By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election
and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent
screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what
happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning,
it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.


You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media,
along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to
discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers,
dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter
ex-presidents' wives.


If you've read this far ...............................................
First Lady Michelle Obama's Servant List and Pay Scale

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C . (Deputy Assistant to the President and
Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G (Special Assistant to the President
and White House Social Secretary)

4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President
and Director of Communications for the First Lady)

5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and
Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First
Lady)

7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the
First Lady)

8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for
the First Lady)

9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for
the First Lady)

10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social
Secretary)

11.. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social
Secretary)

12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and
Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Dir ector of Advance and Trip
Director for the First Lady)

14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the
First Lady)

15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press
Secretary To The First Lady)

16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and
Traveling Aide To The First Lady)

17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence
For The First Lady)

18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)


19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of
Staff to the First Lady)

20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social
Secretary)

21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of
Correspondence for the First Lady)


(This is community organizing at it's finest.)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has
created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation
of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help,
at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy
one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from
the President's own pocket.


Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and
"First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air
Force One to Europe .



FRIENDS.....THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY
FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000)FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE????? AND WE
ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL....MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT'S OK TO
SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????


Copyright 2009 Canada FreePress.Com


canadafreepress.com/i ndex.php/article/12652

Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA
media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry USA !
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
Palinism
Editorial of The New York Sun | December 2, 2009



A surprising thing is taking place as Sarah Palin starts speaking out on the issues in recent speeches, internet postings, and in the book tour she is now undertaking for her memoir “Going Rogue.” An outline is starting to appear in respect of the substance of her world view — call it “Palinism” — and it is far more substantive than her detractors suggest or than we gained a glimpse of during the campaign. She has been, in a straightforward way, stepping up on certain issues that her fellow Republicans would do well to emulate.

This started to come into view for us when she gave her interview to Barbara Walters and was asked what she thought of Israel’s West Bank settlements. “I disagree with the Obama administration on that,” Palin replied. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don’t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand.”

Her comments ignited something of a kerfuffle on the pro-Israel left, which has long opposed Israel’s settlements. But the formulation by the former Alaska governor struck us as a wonderful statement of an emerging policy. It provides a glimpse of a leader who would respect Israel’s right to establish, democratically, its own strategy in its own sphere and could restore the standing of America’s president in the eyes in the Israelis, among whom it has plunged since President Obama’s speech in Cairo and his out-reach to the non-democratic Arab leaders.

These columns had already perked up to Mrs. Palin’s position in respect of the dollar. This came out in her speech in Hong Kong and in a posting on her Facebook page, where, in sharp contradistinction to other figures in both parties, she warned about the collapse in the value of the greenback, which has now plunged well below a thousandth of an ounce of gold. While the liberal elites mock the former governor of Alaska, Mrs. Palin herself appears to be one of the few leaders who grasp the catastrophe of a weak-dollar policy.

In any event, Mrs. Palin also emerged as sure of foot on the subject of jobs. This struck us during her interview with Greta Van Sustern of Fox News, when she was asked about the 15% unemployment rate among returning veterans. The governor went straight to taxes, saying “job opportunities are going to be created when our federal government will quit taxing those who are creating the jobs, not quit taxing but reduce the taxes, [and] start incentivizing, small business especially, so that this economy can become more robust. We’ll see jobs created, not government doing the creation of it, but the private sector.”

That is not the riff of a lightweight but of someone who has thought about and studied the relationship between high tax rates and high unemployment. This goes all the way back to the Great Depression. The governor went on to describe as “nonsense to most Americans” the idea of a second, trillion-dollar “stimulus” program, which the Democrats are talking about. Instead, she spoke of the need to reduce capital gains taxes, taxes on corporations and small businesses, and on income so that people and companies can do their own prioritizing.

It happens that as we were writing this editorial we had an email from a long-time reader of the Sun who had recently heard Mrs. Palin compared to the young Margaret Thatcher. The comparison was, our correspondent wrote, made by the former editor of the National Review, John O’Sullivan, who was part of the Thatcher brain trust and knows her well. Mr. O’Sullivan compared Sarah Palin “not with the Margaret Thatcher that we all have heard of, but with the emerging Margaret Thatcher” whose “sophistication and ability to articulate issues” were still being honed. And our reader’s impression was that he reckoned Mrs. Palin is more of a “political natural” than her British counterpart.

This newspaper greeted Senator McCain’s choice of Mrs. Palin as a running mate with an editorial that ran under the headline “A Brilliant Pick.” Aside from her display of a deeply held commitment to certain basic principles, she turns out to share with Ronald Reagan a quality that will stand her in good stead for years to come — people keep underestimating her. It is an opposite quality to Mr. Obama, who has been credited with a lot more savvy than he has, at least so far, displayed. It puts Mrs. Palin right where she wants to be as she positions herself for the substantive debate that will be needed to bring our country back.

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/palinism/86894/
 

schnurrbart

Well-known member
I think you should maybe do a little more research on this. You will learn that the number of assistants is far from "unprecedented" as Mrs. Bush had approximately the same number as did Hillary and Jackie had around 40 during her brief stay. As for the salaries, I'm sure that they are paid more than they were years ago but that doesn't matter either.
 

hopalong

Well-known member
schnurrbart said:
I think you should maybe do a little more research on this. You will learn that the number of assistants is far from "unprecedented" as Mrs. Bush had approximately the same number as did Hillary and Jackie had around 40 during her brief stay. As for the salaries, I'm sure that they are paid more than they were years ago but that doesn't matter either.


Seeing as how you have already doene the research would you post the names and positions of Mrs Bush's assistants?
plus the salaries of them?
or can't you????? :wink:
 

Steve

Well-known member
schnurrbart said:
I think you should maybe do a little more research on this. You will learn that the number of assistants is far from "unprecedented" as Mrs. Bush had approximately the same number as did Hillary and Jackie had around 40 during her brief stay. As for the salaries, I'm sure that they are paid more than they were years ago but that doesn't matter either.

in a sense you are right.. at the end of the term after raises ect,.. , Laura Bush's staff was excessive.. and out of line with the duties..

Total White House staff in 2008 - 443

Total White House staff in 2009 - 487



$975,900. (Laura Bush's staffing cost) Figures update from Washington Post, July 24, 2008 a difference of $280,800.

in an era that liberals are complaining of wage suppression, .,.. why the need for additional staff at a higher cost?


ironically in a little reported move, Obama's staff pay raises were front loaded so he could implement a wildly heralded pay wage freeze... which explains part of the leap in staffing costs..


or is it more of the same ol' Washington..
 

schnurrbart

Well-known member
hopalong said:
schnurrbart said:
I think you should maybe do a little more research on this. You will learn that the number of assistants is far from "unprecedented" as Mrs. Bush had approximately the same number as did Hillary and Jackie had around 40 during her brief stay. As for the salaries, I'm sure that they are paid more than they were years ago but that doesn't matter either.


Seeing as how you have already doene the research would you post the names and positions of Mrs Bush's assistants?
plus the salaries of them?
or can't you????? :wink:
If you count them, you will notice that there are 3 less. You can make up all the reasons salaries are higher or lower all you want. I don't know these people or what their qualifications were/are. Could be some of it is just inflation.

McBride, Anita B. Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady $172,200.
Armstrong, Sara Assistant to the President and Duty Chief of Staff to the First Lady $102,000.
Miller, Sonja Marie Duty Chief of Staff to the First Lady $88,500.
Ballard, Deanna M. Director of Scheduling for the First Lady $78,400.
McArthur, Nikki L. Speech Writer for First Lady $63,000.
Knutson, Lindsay Special Asst. and Personal Aide to the First Lady $62,700.
Marshall, Misty C. Director of Correspondence for the First Lady $62,400.
Adams, Julie E. $57,500. Deputy Press Secretary to First Lady $57,500.
Mende, Kirstin M Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady$53,000.
Etter, Marisa Leigh Deputy Director of Scheduling for the First Lady $52,200
King, Kristin N Deputy Director of Advance for the First Lady $52,200
Segura, Millicent Deputy Director of Correspondence for the First Lady $47,000
Miller, Kasdin E. Assistant Press Secretary to the First Lady $43,000
O’Connor, Erin M Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff to the First Lady $41,800
McBride, Anita B. Assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady $168,000.00
Harder, Cherie S. Special asistant to the president for domestic policy and director of project of the first lady $108,000.00
Niemiec, Sally M. Press secretary to the First Lady $90,000.00
Miller, Sonja M. Deputy chief of staff to the first lady $84,700.00
Ballard, Deanna M. Director of scheduling for the First Lady $75,000.00
Marshall, Misty C. Director of correspondence for the first lady $59,700.00
Etter, Marisa L. Deputy director of scheduling for the First Lady $50,000.00
Lineweaver, Lindsey M. Special assistant and personal aide to the first lady $47,500.00
Donoghue , Tarah C. Deputy press secretary to the First Lady $43,000.00
Block, Jonathan F. Assistant press secretary to the First Lady $39,000.00

Here is the site, I got the info from.
http://sroblog.com/2009/08/04/michelle-obamas-paid-staff-laura-bushs-paid-staff-sroblog/
 

Steve

Well-known member
schnurrbart said:
hopalong said:
schnurrbart said:
I think you should maybe do a little more research on this. You will learn that the number of assistants is far from "unprecedented" as Mrs. Bush had approximately the same number as did Hillary and Jackie had around 40 during her brief stay. As for the salaries, I'm sure that they are paid more than they were years ago but that doesn't matter either.


Seeing as how you have already doene the research would you post the names and positions of Mrs Bush's assistants?
plus the salaries of them?
or can't you????? :wink:
If you count them, you will notice that there are 3 less. You can make up all the reasons salaries are higher or lower all you want. I don't know these people or what their qualifications were/are. Could be some of it is just inflation.

1 McBride, Anita B. Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady $172,200.
Armstrong, Sara Assistant to the President and Duty Chief of Staff to the First Lady $102,000.
2 Miller, Sonja Marie Duty Chief of Staff to the First Lady $88,500.
3 Ballard, Deanna M. Director of Scheduling for the First Lady $78,400.
McArthur, Nikki L. Speech Writer for First Lady $63,000.
Knutson, Lindsay Special Asst. and Personal Aide to the First Lady $62,700.
4 Marshall, Misty C. Director of Correspondence for the First Lady $62,400.
Adams, Julie E. $57,500. Deputy Press Secretary to First Lady $57,500.
Mende, Kirstin M Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady$53,000.
5 Etter, Marisa Leigh Deputy Director of Scheduling for the First Lady $52,200
King, Kristin N Deputy Director of Advance for the First Lady $52,200
Segura, Millicent Deputy Director of Correspondence for the First Lady $47,000
Miller, Kasdin E. Assistant Press Secretary to the First Lady $43,000
O’Connor, Erin M Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff to the First Lady $41,800
1 McBride, Anita B. Assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady $168,000.00
Harder, Cherie S. Special asistant to the president for domestic policy and director of project of the first lady $108,000.00
Niemiec, Sally M. Press secretary to the First Lady $90,000.00
2 Miller, Sonja M. Deputy chief of staff to the first lady $84,700.00
3 Ballard, Deanna M. Director of scheduling for the First Lady $75,000.00
4 Marshall, Misty C . Director of correspondence for the first lady $59,700.00
5 Etter, Marisa L. Deputy director of scheduling for the First Lady $50,000.00
Lineweaver, Lindsey M. Special assistant and personal aide to the first lady $47,500.00
Donoghue , Tarah C. Deputy press secretary to the First Lady $43,000.00
Block, Jonathan F. Assistant press secretary to the First Lady $39,000.00

Here is the site, I got the info from.
http://sroblog.com/2009/08/04/michelle-obamas-paid-staff-laura-bushs-paid-staff-sroblog/

an interesting person with the same name...coincidence.. but five of um.. something doesn't add up..

could the list just doesn't "add up" could it be "made up" to look as bad as Mrs Obma's ? the truth is not as it appears....... :wink:
 
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