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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 14, 2008 - 12:52pm PT
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"Largo,
Obama is nothing more than a cult of personality . . . "
Nothing more? Wasn't he a former editor of the Harvard Law Review?
The bigger question is: do his detractors have the countries best interests in mind, or would thy like to see their new president fail, along with the rest of us? Without some sustained effort from all, hbow can we possibly succeed? Obama can't do it alone, but we've got to give the brother a fighting chance.
JL
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Nov 14, 2008 - 12:57pm PT
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Fatty- The election is over. You can stop with the propaganda that nobody with an IQ over 80 could possibly believe. Your guy lost and he won't be running again. Give it a rest.
LEB- If you think posting an image is "effort" then you need to learn more about the interwebs. It's not just a dump truck you know. It's a series of tubes.
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Nov 14, 2008 - 01:06pm PT
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From today's electoral-vote.com:
If Begich does win, Palin will be stuck in Alaska, which will make it much harder for her to campaign for President. Just the logistics will be daunting. Although the state capital is Juneau, she actually lives in Wasilla, which is 45 minutes north of Anchorage, AK. The states she would want to campaign in are Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. There are two reasonable ways to get to New Hampshire from Anchorage. First, she could fly to Chicago and then get a flight to Manchester, NH (total time: 10:35). Or second, she could fly to Minneapolis and then catch a flight to Logan in Boston (total time: 9:35) and then drive an hour to Manchester or 75 minutes to Concord. To campaign in Iowa, she could fly to Minneapolis and then catch a flight to Des Moines (total time: 7:53). To campaign in Charleston, she could go via Chicago and get to Charleston in 10:01. No matter how she does it, it takes a day to get there and a day to get back. Going to any of the states to give a speech at some event in the middle of the day will cost her three days. In contrast, Mitt Romney lives in Massachusetts, so New Hampshire is just a short drive away and Charleston and Des Moines are reachable in under 5 hours.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 14, 2008 - 02:18pm PT
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"I'd rather be ruled by the first hundred names from the Bronx phone book than the entire faculty at Harvard"
W.F. Buckley
RIP
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 14, 2008 - 02:24pm PT
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With Palin, Buckley's wish sorta-almost came true.
Though even his son recognized what a huge mistake her nomination was.
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 14, 2008 - 05:01pm PT
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 14, 2008 - 05:14pm PT
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"Charisma without substance is a dangerous thing"
Said by a former Canadian prime minister about one of her opponents, who was somewhat reminiscent of Palin. Popular with his base, cute, incompetent, supposed maverick with big corporate backing, eventually disgraced for corruption.
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dirtbag
climber
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Nov 14, 2008 - 10:42pm PT
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LOL!
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Trooper, union say politics delayed Johnston drug case
A Mat-Su drug investigator and the union representing Alaska State Troopers are alleging political meddling in the Sherry Johnston drug case, including a delay in serving the search warrant because of the November election.
Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, who became nationally known in September when Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, announced their daughter, Bristol, was pregnant and he was the father. Palin was running for vice president while Sherry Johnston was under investigation.
Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Joe Masters and troopers director Col. Audie Holloway vigorously dispute that there was anything irregular in how this case was handled.
"We worked very hard to make sure we conducted it just as fairly and as normally as any other investigation," Holloway said.
That's not what Kyle Young, a troopers drug investigator who was involved in the case, wrote in an e-mail last week to all members of the Public Safety Employees Association, the union that represents troopers and other law enforcement officers around the state.
Young wrote that after it became clear who Johnston is, "this case became anything but normal."
"It was not allowed to progress in a normal fashion, the search warrant service WAS delayed because of the pending election and the Mat Su Drug Unit and the case officer were not the ones calling the shots," Young wrote.
Sherry Johnston was arrested Dec. 18 on charges of selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin, the same day the warrant was served.
Young, speaking through union officials, declined to comment for this story. But John Cyr, executive director of the union, said it's clear to him that the investigation was handled differently because of who Johnston is.
"This really does smack of political favoritism. And if that be the case, it's another example of the Palin administration's direct influence on the public safety unit," Cyr said.
Tension between the governor and the public safety employees union is not new. The union and Palin battled over the governor's July removal of Walt Monegan as public safety commissioner, and the allegations she pressured public safety officials to fire a trooper who was her ex-brother-in-law. Palin appointed Masters as the public safety commissioner in September.
Cyr said the union is confident Young's version of what happened is true. That's because the union verified it in discussions "with the entire drug unit, with all of our members," he said.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Levi Johnston quits oil field job
Levi Johnston, the Wasilla teenager planning to marry Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to participate in an electrical apprenticeship program, Johnston's father said today.
Palin, in an interview today, denied helping Levi Johnston get the job and called Fagan's column "a political pot shot taken at me."
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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I've climbed with people, who have climbed with people, who claim to have climbed with Largo, or at least knew someone who watched him climb.
Nobody Ever admits to having climbed with Palin. does she exist? Or was she an Idoru, kind of deal?
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