Friday, February 20, 2009
Here is some video of Sarah Palin and Franklin Graham before they ride off to rescue the simple native folk of Alaska.
Well according to Governor Sarah all the rural native Alaskans have to do to solve their difficulties is to leave their ancestral homes and run to the big cities just like her husband Todd, who according to Palin worked on the Slope and then "come back to the village after a, one and one, or a two and two, week schedule and still lived a subsistence lifestyle."
Now you know I just hate to disagree with the Governor but when I heard her make this statement I remembered something I had read in that future bestseller "Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin."
In chapter four page 56, of this riveting manuscript I read the following:"When they returned to Anchorage, Todd moved in immediately with the Heath sisters (This was right after their marriage on August 29th, 1989) and shared a room with Sarah. He had applied for an oil-company job on the North Slope and was waiting for an offer. In the meantime, he drove snow-removal trucks in Anchorage, usually working the red eye shift."
"Eight months separate the August 29 wedding day from Track's date of birth, April 20, 1989." (pg. 57)
"Before Track's arrival, Sarah and Todd moved back to Wasilla and bought a modest condo near the high school." (pg. 58)
""In 1989, Todd was hired by British Petroleum. which drastically changed the couples lifestyle." (pg. 58)
So let me see if I understand this correctly. Todd Palin was living a subsistence lifestyle in Wasilla? Really? Were Todd, and Sarah, and little Track subsisting on fish and berries and wild game that they hunted when Todd was not working on the North Slope?
Or does Governor Sarah believe that Todd deciding to walk into the woods and shoot a moose, or go to the Knik river and catch some fish, is a direct correlation with how the rural Alaskans in villages like Emmonak live their lives?
How could somebody who has lived the majority of her life in Alaska, and has served as Governor for three years, still be so completely out of touch with the reality of life in these villages?
Later in the video you see the Governor once again stressing how these people need to get out there and work. I wonder how Nick Tucker feels after listening to his Governor imply that the reason his people suffered so much this winter is because they did not "get out there and work"? Perhaps one of us should call him and ask for his opinion on this topic.
What a circus! I half expected to see trained seals and a tightrope act. I am amazed that they believe this will fool anybody.
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I wonder if Graham realizes he's being punked by the honorable governor of Alaska....
ReplyDeleteShe says Todd left village (Dillingham) after high school and went to work on the slope to "work with his hands." Am I mis-remembering, or didn't I read something about them meeting in high school in Wasilla. I seem to remember a prom picture? Is she lying? Also she seemed like she was on something in that interview.
ReplyDeleteWhat is going to happen out there if their major source of income, fishing, truly collapses for the long term? There might not be another option other than working on the slope, weeks on, weeks off. There has to be some way for people to make money to survive and if the large fishing fleets are decimating salmon returns then that has to be rectified in order for people to make money. If strict rules were put in place for the commercial fleets tomorrow, it would still take years for the salmon to return to viable numbers for small river fisherman to make money.
ReplyDeleteSubsistence can only provide meat; there needs to be an income source to provide for heat and diapers and other supplies that cannot be hunted.
The attitude I took away from watching this video is Sarah and the right winger were saying, "We're going to give you this food this one time, but you are to move to the city in the next 2 weeks, otherwise, no more food for you!".
ReplyDeleteI find this whole charade very creepy. Does not this episode show why the separation of church and state should be in place even at the level of state govt? To see that little group being led in prayer by Mr. Graham and seeing Palin bowing her head......is she or is she not going on this "mission" as the Governor of Alaska?? Too much preaching for my taste. If she's going on this mission, she is going on this mission as governor, therefore she should leave the "faith-based" stuff to the "faith-y" types and she should take care of making sure the GOVERNMENT of Alaska is doing everything that the GOVERNMENT can do and stop blaming it on the natives. You know she IS. Yeah....We'll give you a little handout THIS time, but "you people" better get jobs like the rest of us--this from the hardest working part-time governor-who-bills-her-state-for-living-at-home-and-taking-calls-from-FOX-news--yeah, she works so hard for her money.
ReplyDeleteCreepy, I tell you.....but then, those bible-whackers always kinda creep me out.
And how DARE she bring up the passage about not tooting your own horn while you give alms...she is the exact antithesis of humbleness and discretion.
And comes across as a major beee--atch about this whole thing.
As someone of native American heritage, I am angered beyond words at Palin's phony "johnny come lately" grandstanding, her patronizing attitude towards native culture, her (in)action, and her exploitation of native poverty for the benefit of her own "Christian" political career.
ReplyDeleteAlaskans, PLEASE RECALL OR IMPEACH HER!
Sarah brought up Todd because she always brings up Todd whenever she makes a racist statement. It's her way of reminding everyone, "Yeah, I know what I just said might SOUND racist, but you can't accuse me of being racist because remember, I have a husband who is a (tiny fraction) Native American. So I can say all these dirty Indians are a lazy drunken lot who just need to get off their butts and get a job and quit looking to the government for handouts. Oh, and it would help if they got some Jesus."
ReplyDeleteOn the Sarah Scale of Incoherence, this interview was really, really up there. How can anyone listen to her and still say she's "smart" and "a quick study"? Are they listening, or just looking into her eyes? She's like some kind of snake charmer. Or rather, the snake.
Will some reporter (ADN are you reading this) please pin her down on the details, including exactly what years this nonsense supposedly happened, of Dud's combination income earning/subsistence lifestyle? It is ALL made-up. It can't be too hard to connect her crazy dots to show it never happened.
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ReplyDelete"I don't know where she's going to be. You'll be stuck with me. There will be no glamour, certainly no snappy dressing. I brought my best two pairs of jeans. There's a little bit of a horse shit stain by the knee. But I've been washing that stuff out."
-- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D), quoted by ABC News, ribbing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) for announcing at the last minute that she will not be attending a panel on energy policy that the two governors were scheduled to lead at this weekend's National Governors Association meeting.
When the Dud went to Dillingham to fish, it was not subsistance, it was commercial fishing. Either a set-net site or with a gill net boat. Many people in Anchorage do that, especially teachers who are off in the summer.
ReplyDeleteWe all know that SP makes it up as she goes along. The problem is that the lies catch up with them eventually - they cannot keep up with all of those lies. IF she makes it to the 2012 Republican primaries, she will be eaten alive by her own Party.
ReplyDeleteLurking at C4P, reading these same topics filtered through their wacky right-wing eyes. Wow.
ReplyDeleteScroll down for their version of this evangelical/photo op tour plus some of the other recent stories on Sarah Palin, such as the judgment on her owing taxes on her perhaps-illegally-claimed per-diem, the diss by the Montana Governor for her not showing up to chair her committee at the NGA, etc.
Those characters over at C4P are worse than the bachelorettes on "The Bachelor" for cattiness (the nicest word I could think of).
My favorite thing was when she said during the campaign that she understood minority issues because "we live it," suggesting that Todd Palin has been discriminated against because he is 1/whatever-th Eskimo. (Although honestly, he looks nothing like an eskimo and much more like a redneck from the South to us!) I'm sure that sounded realistic to the only African-American man at her rally asking why there weren't more minorities present.
ReplyDeleteShe couldn't even address the man's question seriously--even an African American's concern becomes all about HER FAMILY. cue violins.....pass the baby....what a dog and pony show.
If she had said she'd been discriminated against because of her lack of knowledge, complete lack of interest in other cultures, and inability to speak English clearly, THAT I would have believed.
My favorite thing was when she said during the campaign that she understood minority issues because "we live it," suggesting that Todd Palin has been discriminated against because he is 1/whatever-th Eskimo. (Although honestly, he looks nothing like an eskimo and much more like a redneck from the South to us!) I'm sure that sounded realistic to the only African-American man at her rally asking why there weren't more minorities present.
ReplyDeleteShe couldn't even address the man's question seriously--even an African American's concern becomes all about HER FAMILY. cue violins.....pass the baby....what a dog and pony show.
If she had said she'd been discriminated against because of her lack of knowledge, complete lack of interest in other cultures, and inability to speak English clearly, THAT I would have believed.
sorry for double post! I thought it was my computer!
ReplyDeleteWell, she is a "minority." Ignorant, hypocritical liars of limited intelligence are, thank God, a minority.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know Todd's heritage...names, blood quantum etc., and the exact laws that give him the native fishing rights the Palins exercise each spring. Could this be ethics complaint #20 or ethnic complaint #1?
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