She’s Sarah Palin and she approves hating America
October 10, 2008 by William K. Wolfrum
Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert have a great investigative report about Sarah Palin’s extensive ties with the Alaskan Independence Party.
The Alaskan Independence Party is not at all shy about what they want – they want Alaska to secede from the union. On the front page of their Web site:
The Alaskan Independence Party can be summed up in just two words:
ALASKA FIRST! Until we as Alaskans receive our Ultimate Goal, the AIP will continue to strive to make Alaska a better place to live with less government interference in our everyday lives.
The Alaskan Independence Party’s goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:
1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.The call for this vote is in furtherance of the dream of the Alaskan Independence Party’s founding father, Joe Vogler, which was for Alaskans to achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people, promoting a peaceful and lawful means of resolving differences.
Vogler has famously said this: “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
It all leads to one big question: Who is Sarah Palin?
HT Crooks and Liars (and congratulations to C&L for landing Neiwert as their Managing Editor.)
–WKW
Sarah Palin is paling around with secessionist rebels, doggone it.
Just saw this on HuffPo (in an article by Sam Stein entitled “McCain Walks it Back”):
John McCain sought to walk back some of the hostility that he and his crowds have projected towards Barack Obama in recent days, saying he wanted to run a respectful campaign and urging his supporters to think of Obama as a decent person.
After an attendee at his town hall said he was concerned about bringing up a child under a president who “cohorts with domestic terrorists such as [Bill] Ayers,” McCain didn’t take the bait. Rather, he sought to calm the questioner’s obviously emotional tone.
“[Senator Obama] is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States,” he said, before adding: “If I didn’t think I would be one heck of a better president I wouldn’t be running.”
McCain was subsequently booed.
Jeez. That’s leadership we can believe in. McCain has let it get totally out of control. the Rage Virus is ou of the box now. Where will things be 28 Days Later?
Yey. Movie reference.
McCain has surrounded himself with the wrong kind of folks, and now maybe he is coming to realize this. If he puts a stop to it now, maybe he can keep a little dignity and self respect.
D, here’s McCain, via Crooks and Liars:
So it’s come to this. At a town hall meeting in Minnesota Friday night, John McCain was loudly booed after he defended Obama as a “decent man” that his supporters shouldn’t be afraid of. The answer came in response to two questions from audience members, one by a man who said he’s afraid of raising his unborn first child in Barack Obama’s America, and another one from an older woman, who McCain had to yank the mic away from, after she called him “an Arab” that she “couldn’t trust.”
“He is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States. If I didn’t think I would be one heck of a better president I wouldn’t be running.”
Older Woman: “I have read about him. He’s an Arab”.
“No, ma’am. No, ma’am. He’s a decent, family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign is all about.”
For McCain, his legacy rests on the next three weeks. Country first. We’ll see. It’s all up to McCain.