Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report (brought to our attention by a concerned tipster, Yomi) outlines a smear campaign, potentially by employees of a PR firm linked to Obama, that has the capability of devastating Obama’s campaign.
Check this out–this is going to be getting media attention over the course of this campaign. If you thought ‘Troopergate’ was big, wait until this investigation gets into swing.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported earlier today that Governor Sarah Palin has filed a complaint with the Personnel Board, which handles ethics complaints against government officials in Alaska. This comes after a $100,000 investigation was authorized by the Governor and the Legislature to investigate allegations that Governor Palin used improper influence to have her ex-brother-in-law fired from his position as a state trooper.
I think this is an encouraging sign. Where the Democratic investigation in the Alaska legislature is likely to drag on and on and continue to affect the Presidential election, an impartial investigation by a board that is empowered to do these kinds of investigations will be seen as less partisan and, therefore, the results will be more accurate.
Will this stop irresponsible speculation on Governor Palin’s actions? No. But it shows (just as all her other actions have) that the Governor is forthright and honest about her record.
According to a post at Fox News’ Election HQ that quotes Senator Obama, the Senator thinks that running for President qualifies him to be President.
Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years
-Barack Obama
If we’re going by experience, then, doesn’t that mean that McCain’s decades of experience, plus running for President, outstrip Obama’s experience?
All other issues aside, I’m not sure that having a president who claims ‘running for president’ as executive experience is such a good idea. Senator Obama, you should fire whoever gave you that talking point.
But while Barack Obama was running for president (and purportedly gaining all this magnificent experience), Sarah Palin was working for the people who elected her. In 2007, while Obama was making the rounds to benefit his candidacy, Governor Palin was tending to a state of emergency in Alaska. In 2008, while Obama was raging against McCain with misleading statistics, Governor Palin was helping to manage an emergency situation in Alaska.
Which experience would you trust?
I won’t like to the site, but suffice it to say that DailyKos is once against spreading its own brand of vicious, hateful slander about Governor Palin. The premise of the innuendo-filled story is that it was Governor Palin’s daughter, not the Governor herself, who gave birth to Trig Palin. But have no fear, certainly DailyKos wouldn’t allow such a thing to be posted without airtight evidence, right? Wrong.
DailyKos’ evidence for this slander includes: photographs in which Governor Palin isn’t showing. No, seriously. However, in every photo they cite there is either an obstruction of some kind (desk, table, other person), or the photo is taken from an angle that the viewer simply can’t see whether she’s showing, or she is wearing a bulky jacket that obstructs her torso. Other ‘evidence’: Bristol was chubby before leaving school for upwards of five months due to an infection of mono.
Needless to say, the unsupported innuendo is being revelled in by the lowlifes at DailyKos, save for the responsible few who call this post what it really is: dishonest, unhelpful, and dirty.
The left has had a cult of personality around Obama for so long that screaming crowds for anyone else are seen as a warning sign, and that person must be destroyed in the most brutal and personal way possible.
