by Damozel | This New York Times article---In Office, Palin Hired Friends and Hit Critics---
is fraught with interest. It confirms many of the rumors about Palin's personal view about what political power is for and shows that she shares a number of characteristics with Bush besides inattention to anything outside her own back door.
Different people will find different parts of the article of greater or less import. But the following bit is, hands down, my favorite. It's an interesting insight into how her enablers and cronies---much like Bush's at, say, the DoJ---view the propounders of political views they do not share. But Palin's people, it seems, get right down to brass tacks.
[F]our months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.
“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!” (NYT)
Of course, that's not all. The article further states:
Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials. (NYT)
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hey, mrs. skippy says that to me several times a week.
Posted by: skippy | September 17, 2008 at 03:04 AM