{"id":1264,"date":"2008-08-29T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2011-05-17T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T14:04:19","slug":"sarah-palin-is-mccains-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/sarah-palin-is-mccains-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin, ex-beauty queen, is McCain’s running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: We will have her astrology profile posted later this afternoon. Please check back. The article below is an overview on Sarah Palin by Rachel Asher. -efc<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

In the wake of Obama’s speech last night at Mile High Stadium and the Democratic National Convention, John McCain has announced his running mate: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, aka McCain’s running mate, aka second-place winner of 1984 Miss Wasilla beauty contest.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

She is 44 years old, born on February 11, 1964 in Idaho<\/a>, and a lifetime member of the NRA according to CNN. She approved TransCanada Corp’s, the nation’s largest pipeline company, plan to build a $27 billion pipeline through the United States’ “<\/span>largest remaining piece of U.S. wilderness, Alaska’s North Slope<\/span>,” according to a National Geographic article<\/a>. But of course she did: her husband has a job drilling in North Slope as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palin is a first-term governor, elected in December 2006, and probably chosen to make McCain seem less old, less boring white male and more appealing to Hillary Clinton supporters. Her staunch conservatism, proven by her “go-ahead” attitude towards drilling in Alaska’s wildlife preservation areas and rumors of corruption<\/a> surrounding the abrupt firing of Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan,<\/a> should jive well with her Bush-loving running mate.<\/p>\n

Her sister was married to state trooper Mike Wooten and went through a bitter divorce, and Palin allegedly used her position to try to have him fired. When Walt Monegan refused to do the deed, he was sacked. The issue is currently under legislative investigation.<\/p>\n

Here is a quote from the Associate Press<\/a> on the matter:<\/p>\n

A legislative panel has launched a $100,000 investigation to determine if Palin dismissed Alaska’s public safety commissioner because he would not fire the trooper, Mike Wooten. Wooten went through a messy divorce from Palin’s sister.<\/p>\n

Palin has denied the commissioner’s dismissal had anything to do with her former brother-in-law. And she denied orchestrating the dozens of telephone calls made by her husband and members of her administration to Wooten’s bosses.<\/p>\n

Palin said she welcomes the investigation: “Hold me accountable.”<\/p>\n

Still, the allegations she abused her office could prove embarrassing for Palin, who got elected in 2006 on an ethics reform platform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To return to the issue of drilling in Alaska, the direct impact on drilling in this vast wilderness area is not an overwhelming headline these days. In this National Geographic image, “Graduate students Kyle Whittinghill, at left, and Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas inspect a soil sample in one of the North Slope’s many thermokarsts, or tundra fractures, caused by melting permafrost,” where Sarah Palin has just agreed to drill. “Thermokarsts on the slope have become more frequent in recent years, due in part to rising temperatures and a loss of insulating ground vegetation.”<\/p>\n

So agreeing to this $26 million job is not going to do Palin any favors in an environmental debate. And, as a note to McCain staff, Hillary Clinton supporters are not looking for just any<\/em> woman: female biology does not guarantee feminist values or feminist appeal, and Palin proves this clearly. She is staunchly anti-choice, according to CNN reports, and to prove her point, knowingly gave birth to a baby with Down syndrome a few months ago.<\/p>\n

The story is still developing, but that’s the long and short of it for now: a young, conservative woman with corruption charges after only two years in a public office. Oh, and apparently, though not importantly, she enjoys a nice, juicy moose burger from time to time.<\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palin is a first-term governor, elected in December 2006, and probably chosen to make McCain seem less old, less boring white male and more appealing to Hillary Clinton supporters. Her staunch conservatism, proven by her “go-ahead” attitude towards drilling in Alaska’s wildlife preservation areas and rumors of corruption surrounding the abrupt firing of Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, should jive well with her Bush-loving running mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[49,111,1],"tags":[36,52,144,117,143],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}