PALIN CANDIDACY RAISES EYEBROWS FOR ALASKA NATIVES

How about an opinion tag? Also, I'd suggest you use the word "Alaskans" in your headline vs. "Alaska natives." The latter suggests that the indigenous peoples there have something against Palin, and your presentation doesn't support that.

I wouldn't rush to tar her with Bush's brush. I know that's the kneejerk reaction from some, but I think looking into her actual record will disprove that theory.

George Bush is likely the best president ever! Imagine what would happen with Gore the dumb! I will be voting against Marxism! I see we are told what we know! I don't know any of this!

Hate Palin because she is decent and honorable. She stands for everything the Marxist hate! She probably even understands that "global warming" is bs to allow more government control. I love big oil. I am going to buy some gas and chances are it will be at the station. As a poor retired person I am proud that I will have the money even in "this economy"!!!! I will have enough left over to eat steak tonight!

I seem to recall that Sarah Palin has a recent public approval rating in the 80 to 90 percent range among voters in her state.  Seems the NY Post conveniently left that out.

Boy George Bush in a skirt/pants suit/kulots/bikini/evening gown/dress/business suit, but without the string of failed businesses and drinking problem.  However, to make up for those last two, she does already have her own ongoing ethics investigation.

More of the same.

Opinion tag should be added. Phoenixrose, you seem to be from somewhere in europe, yet you state in your first sentence '...the more concerned we should all be that McCain has picked her....', as if you were actually involved in the US election process.

This is your opinion, not just an addition to the news item.

Hi Rene - the USA and who runs it, is a world issue - American foreign policy and in fact internal policy and business affairs (such as the recent mortage / banking problems that have sent ripples out to us for instance in the UK and helped caused our credit crunch problems) directly affects the whole world. So 'we' I think is fine to use for people outside or inside the USA. If a piece is opinion it should marked so wherever it originates from. I'd say that this piece would probably be best labled opinion - I agree - but not because phoenixesrose is reporting from a certain location but just because it is.

This woman is interesting.  (To say the least).  The current investigation, which has her held responsible for firing a state employee, is not the first time this has happened.  According to Wikipedia, Palin was responsible for the firing of another officer back in 1999, but was cleared of wrong doing, citing that she was allowed to fire city employees, even if it was for political reasons.

And the best information to consider yet:  What if she is to become president?  I mean come on!  We have a woman who was mayor of a tiny Alaskan town, to the governor of a state rich in petroleum, albeit a tiny (population wise) state, given the chance to take the reigns of the USA if, god forbid, McCain should pass during his time as President?  Scary.  Not that I beliee McCain can be elected anyway.

Wasilla, AK has some famous residents now!  check this out:

• Vic Kohring, a Wasilla legislator who was tried in the wide-ranging federal VECO corruption probe, and found guilty of bribery, conspiracy, and attempted extortion.[9] He gained notoriety for his lack of verifiable residency, sleeping in his legislative office, and wearing a bulletproof vest. Kohring typically won his elections by a 2-1 margin.
• Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor, 2008 Republican Vice Presidential designate, and a former mayor of Wasilla.
• April Flowers, female porn star and adult model, grew up in Wasilla.[10]
• Chad Carpenter, cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Tundra, which is self-syndicated to 150 newspapers within the United States and, since 2007, has been syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate.

I think this ticket choice is bogus, political, irresponsible, and has very little serious merit for the intelligence of the American People.

Good piece here.

I think the intro to your piece would merit an opinion flag however. You can just go into the 'edit' mode and check the box 'opinion'. It would just give more clarity to the piece in my opinion.

Here's a forum post about the opinion flag if you are interested. Thanks!

Cheney has secretely died and come back as Palin: ya betcha, hockey mom!

Keeping up with Republican traditions, Sarah Palin is poised to remake herself into the new Dick Cheney. Stealing from the American treasures of Alaska is not above Sarah Palin, nor the largesse of casting the crumbs to the Alaskan natives for 30 pieces of silver, I think it amounted to $3000 for their "oil rights" for those starving on the tundra living on caribou, the Inouye Indians. National Geographic did a story called "Fall of the Wild" about Alaska's North Slope. This should give you an idea of how American money has floated the crooks running Alaska. Nor is Palin above paying for Alaskan votes with the oil company money she gouged from them, as one crook to another.

Too bad the fundamentalists don't see paying for votes and lying as somehow "sin".

As for taking on corruption, in fact, she studied it from Stevens who is now being charged and she may well have taken his place, but now she's after bigger fish. Well, hon, you don't ask, you don't get--get it?

The real problem for Palin is the Constitution, as Cheney also had to "rework" the laws of the Constitution to avoid the rights of prisoners so they could be tortured. Palin denigrates the torture as "reading them their rights". Maybe that's how justice is served in Alaska, on American "earmarks" to pay for police brutality. Cheney in disguise as Palin will serve up brutality to American newsmen and call it "security" at the RNC. We paid $50 million bucks to "secure" the Twin Cities, each paid $50 million. How devastating that the money was not spent on Louisiana shelters for the hurricane victims. Ya-betcha-hockey-mom will find a way to tap that Dept of Homeland Security funds run by her fundamentalist supporters who did the same for Swartzenneger in California with secret Blackwater training camps. The real question is, is Palin a better shot than Cheney?