An Alaska BI-PARTISAN committee found Caribou Barbie guilty of usurpation of power. How can you ever trust someone to be a part of the leadership of our country, when they have been found guilty of abusing power in previous leadership positions?
It seems that some people, as of late (who should definitely know better) claim that even talking about Palin's TROOPERGATE scandal is equivalent to making a victim of or defending her ex-brother-in-law. That is tremendously absurd!
You see… the thing is that we rely on our elected officials to lead with the fundamentals of moral understanding and misuse the power of public office to pursue personal agendas or vendettas. It's simply an ethical violation of an abuse of power.
Yesterday’s ruling stated that there was ample evidence that Palin misused her gubernatorial power to have her ex-brother-in-law fired. When his boss refused to fire him, she fired him. She first denied Monegan's assertion of intimidation & pressure to fire Wooten and then had to revise her account when evidence proved otherwise. The available proof now suggests that she:
1) Tried to have an ex-relative fired from his job for personal reasons, which is clearly an ethics violation, and perhaps illegal, though possibly understandable in human terms.
2) Fired a state official for not himself acting inappropriately by firing the relative.
3) Lied to the public about what happened.
4) And continues to lie about what happened.
With this kind of abuse of power and erratic examples of leadership… IF these 2 were SOMEHOW elected to lead this country… we could all pretty much assume that they rule much the same as Bush & Co. So... if you want another 4 years of no accountability and a reckless, deplorable sense of reality toward simple, common moral issues... by all means... please vote for John W. McSame.
But if you truly want positive change in this world, to build a stronger foundation for ethics in this new millennium and a better future for our children, then please vote for Barack Obama on Nov. 4th!
…Here are a few articles on the ruling that Caribou Barbie abused her powers as Governor of Alaska:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Palin-Troopergate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7662820.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/palin.investigation/index.html
2 comments:
"Caribou Barbie"... That's great. Did you come up with that?
Anyway, I haven't had CNN on as much as usual... I'm going to turn it on right now to stay up-to-date on all this stuff. Thanks for the heads-up.
Thanks! But, that's not to say CNN (or any of the major 24 hr news cycles) is the best source for your news. You're better off using mulitple sources to help cut down the slanted, biased rhetoric. But the most important thing is that we all stay informed, so we don't get duked into a situation like this ever again.
BTW - I wish i could take credit for the name "Caribou Barbie", but it was coined by progressive radio host, Stephanie Miller. Very entertaining! www.stephaniemiller.com
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