Palin routinely uses a private Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state business because she believes that personal emails are not subject to subpoena
i just found this about she-chaney Neoconservatives plan Project Sarah Palin to shape future American foreign policy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-to-shape-future-American-foreign-policy.html
After the first day or so, I've mostly stayed away from comments on Sarah Palin. After all she is the Vice Presidential candidate, not President. I found this comment surprising, blunt, and to the point though. It comes from Senator Chuck Hagel. Hagel is retiring. He has had a stalwart conservative voting record for years. He has totally disagreed with Bush on Iraq. He has been and remains close friends with John McCain. In fact there is an interesting similarity between the two. At times in this decade, because of fundamental differences with strongly held positions by the Republican party they have flirted with some sort of alliance, independance, connectivity with Dems. Anyways...Hagel's comments with some commentary from Reuters.
It's amazing how angry people get over a candidate running for office, as if no one is allowed to challenge and ask questions. Why even participate in a thread if you are just looking for a reason to call people names. You can go to the local bar and do that , at least you will get the fight that you are looking for. I still have an idiot sending me threatening emails and insulting me on my blog from a discussion on this thread, no matter how I try to ignore his pathetic ass. He won't go away, although flattered by his fascination with me...it is amazing that some people actually feel that if someone disagrees with them, that they are omnipotent and therefore can just throw out s slew of personal insults to people who disagree with them. It's just a forum discussion people. We are not deciding the fate of the free world, and none of us have the influence to turn our will from opinion to gospel. A closed mind will stay stagnant forever and will eventually die in complete ignorance. It is not that serious. Express your opinions, back up your accusations with documentation, and go out and vote for who you want. Sitting here on a forum and calling people names, sending them emails, and threatening them over a forum thread just shows a serious lack of intelligence and it shows your hand that you have nothing else in your life that matters...or this wouldn't be important enough to give you a coronary.
Just a wind-check, and I suspect I know what the answer is among those supporting the McCain-Palin ticket - but OK, yes, everyone and all, hazarding a guess, would you say the financials fallout is the death knell to the McCain bid?
Sara Palin is going to show us her expertise now. You know she is going to be good because they have both bears and bulls in Alaska. She might have even shot both already. ============================================== is she a NEOCON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr_LZpMHqA I wish G would see this
I Fella, every time you wander back here you start in on your accusations about me. The thread is about Pallin and this election. All the threatening emails came from you, so kindly toddle off or stay on subject. ~ Thanks
The more the economy is in the news the better for Obama. I wouldn't call it a death knell yet. But if it continues, probably. Economic problems are also something that will be hard to upstage in the news. For example, if the lipstick comment had been made a few days later, I don't think it would have gotten nearly as much press, not on the same day that Lehman Bros. is filing for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch is being bought out and AIG basically being nationalized.
So far McCain does not seem to be addressing the issue comfortably. His speeches look as if he is reading flash cards, and there is no real fire when speaking of it, as if he has a full grasp of what to do next. From what I have seen, it has been a lot of, "We'll make them pay !", but not a lot of "we are going to do this." If the polls are any indication, it is hurting him to the tune of 5%. I think it will be especially bad if he continues to let his #2 interrupt him, and answer any questions on this.
http://www.greenberg-art.com/.Toons/.Toons recent/FiscalConservative.html Pretty much sums up McCains economic stand. Anyone else getting nervous yet?
LETS CLEAR THE SMEAR: Here are the alleged threats By the way... since the "threatening emails" and my alleged harrassment of Harold Mansfield has yet again been raised... here are screen shots of both email exchanges. They began because in response to a dare to post on his blog... I posted on his blog. [duh!] His dare was in this thread, and my post on his blog was published by him in this thread as well as quoted by him in his email. Subsequent to posting in his blog I've had two email exchanges and 1 phone call, all initiated on his end. This is simply to set the record straight since the story he's passing is that I am repeatedly sending him threatening emails. Exchange #1 Exchange #2 Who is this mystery man that says "you dont know who I am" ? ADDED FOR CLARITY: same two exchanges less the my highlight/comments showing threats First Exchange: Second Exchange This post is not an attack, it is a defense of my character which HAS been attacked in this thread. Hopefully publishing the emails sets my role in this matter straight. ~ Thanks
After reading the emails, I kept getting confused. Harold's emails actually sound like 2 people arguing because it keeps bringing up stuff I didn't see in your emails to him. Where is this blog that is talked about to see the other comments, that might help clear up what I read. Also, Harold, you are the one threatening in these emails, so Harold if you have copies of other emails, show them here. I would say my thoughts are that Harold uses way too much while listening to "house" music and is now living in his own reality.
Two thumbs up for house music and two down for hijacking a thread with drama. Now lets get back to talking about how close Alaska is to Russia and how hard it is to shoot a bear from a helicopter. Oh and we could use more pant-suits in this thread.
Debunked - The reason it looks disjointed is because the first exchange followed the post i put per his request/dare in his blog. He repeats what I wrote in the blog in the text of the first email, which kinda makes it look like two speakers in one email. That same email is copied at the bottom of his 2nd email. I see why that might look confusing. The second blog entry was put up after he pulled the first one down... even though he was the one that said he'd publish it. The second blog post was similar to the first in that it addressed the topic of the blog, then it mocked him for not posting the first and for threatening me as I recall. It isnt published either. There was also a phone call from the guy that sounds about as sane as his emails. If the highlighting on those is making it harder to follow I could remove that... I highlighted a few of his threats in yellow and made comments about a few of them beside the highlights. {added: In post above I've added the emails without highlights/comments for clarity.} Just wanted to get this stuff out in the open since he keeps coming back to this thread time and again to say I threatened him. I DO want to put a stop to these silly interruptions.
Rob Get lost. I don't have the interest or the time to play who sent what to who first because I am tired of you claiming to be the victim. Lets make a deal. Leave me alone, stop sending me emails, and stop calling me names on my blog. I put you on the ignore list...and you still won't go away. I tag your emails as spam, and you just leave messages on my blog. At least someone around here is smart enough to see that I am responding to emails from you, not initiating them. None of my comments here are directed to you, or at you, and none of them ever were since the beginning...never even noticed your name until you started this up. I'm not posting any more emails because I am the one who gets the infractions...so let Rob be the victim so he can impress all of you, and make me out to all of a sudden be a some crazy who is just picking on him. I've been a member of this forum since 2006, and now all of a sudden I just sanpped and picked on some guy from Texas for no reason. Who the hell has that kind of time ? So as I have asked you many times, just go away. Don't you have something else to do ? A woman ? A business? Something? Like I said, it was fun for a minute, now you are just coming off like some lonely lunatic. So let's make a deal. Stop sending me crap. I am not going to post your insults in my comment section so stop posting them. Your email addresses are spam now because you don't know how to discuss the issue, you just want to get personal, so you are banned. What's left ? Postal Mail? I would like to be able to participate in this forum without the PM's, Emails and then the victim crying, it's like I'm dealing with my little brother, not a grown, supposedly educated, grown 50 year old man. Protecting your character ? Are you serious ? I don't even know you ! And you are damn right if you insult me, and take the time to contact me personally to escalate a disagreement on a forum, I am going to to use some very strong language, and I stand by every single thing and every single one of those emails because you have crossed the line, so who knows what kind of lunatic you are, so you can believe all of it. I mean every single word. It wasn't enough to leave it here, you had to cross into real life, so those are real life words from a real person. So if you want to be the victim, go ahead, I'm crazy and picking on some guy I don't know, for no reason. Fine you win. I'm nuts. So I can expect that I won't hear from you again. . You have protected your forum character. Nice job. All these people that you don't know and have never met are on your side, and I'm the bad guy. Yeah ! Your character in the virtual world of a message board with strangers is saved. You win. Will you go away now?
Everyday there is something new and illegal about Palin. Did she ever do something right and legal???
So let's make a deal. Stop sending me crap. If you mean quit answering your emails... I will when you quit sending 'em. What's left ? Postal Mail? According to your email, what's left includes something about a 2 man team visiting me to prove the world is not that big and I'm very accessible. Did I quote that right? I would like to be able to participate in this forum without the PM's, Emails and then the victim crying, it's like I'm dealing with my little brother, not a grown, supposedly educated, grown 50 year old man. If you mean stop returning the PMs you send, I'm sure the mods can see who initiated those too. And you are damn right if you insult me, and take the time to contact me personally to escalate a disagreement on a forum, I am going to to use some very strong language, You suggested I post on your blog... and there's a difference between "strong" language and "psychotic". Sorry 'bout busting the fantasy where you think you're mysterious and scary. and I stand by every single thing and every single one of those emails because you have crossed the line, so who knows what kind of lunatic you are, so you can believe all of it. I mean every single word. If you mean you'll follow thru on the threats, thanks for publishing the text my lawyer will need afterward. It wasn't enough to leave it here, you had to cross into real life, so those are real life words from a real person. No, you did, and see note above. I have a right to defend myself, and the means. Shall I publish the additional threat you sent today or let everyone assume it's as silly as your others? Buzz off.
Wasn't Hagel supposedly on Obama's short list for VP? Maybe we will never know, but he certainly was the only Republican allowed to travel with the campaign on the Obama world tour. Doesn't that put him on Obama's side? So if Hagel supports Obama, this quote would come as no surprise. Certainly takes the punch out of the "even the Republicans hate Sarah Palin" implications.
Rob, I would recommend not even responding to anything else he does here or elsewhere. I have had to walk away from discussions that were circular before, humbling because you want to defend yourself, yet very unproductive - you end up looking as bad as the perp. So, don't even answer my post on this and let it go. The rest of us can red rep him and report him if necessary.