Some Reactions From Alaskan Newspapers

[dtotire]

Reactions from some Alaska newspapers:
(From the Daily Kos)


An editorial in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:

She has never publicly demonstrated the kind of interest, much less expertise, in federal issues and foreign affairs that should mark a candidate for the second-highest office in the land. Republicans rightfully have criticized the Democratic nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, for his lack of experience, but Palin is a neophyte in comparison; how will Republicans reconcile the criticism of Obama with the obligatory cheering for Palin?...Most people would acknowledge that, regardless of her charm and good intentions, Palin is not ready for the top job. McCain seems to have put his political interests ahead of the nation's when he created the possibility that she might fill it. It's clear that McCain picked Palin for reasons of image, not substance.

The Anchorage Daily News samples some state politician reaction:

"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? said . "Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"

And the News-Miner again, in round-up local reaction story:

Lately her reputation within the state has been bit by allegations of mixing political and family business, and by mistreating one of the state's premier marine mammals. Palin's catch-phrase of "openness and transparency" has been tarnished by revelations that staff members tried to have Palin's former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper. Also, the governor of the only state with polar bears has adamantly opposed listing the animals as a threatened species, despite strong evidence that global warming has devastated their sea ice environment off Alaska's coast. Dermot Cole, a longtime columnist for Alaska's second largest newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, called McCain's choice of Palin "reckless" and questioned her credentials. "Sarah Palin's chief qualification for being elected governor was that she was not Frank Murkowski," Cole said of her enormously unpopular predecessor, who lost favor with Alaskans in part because of unpopular budget cuts. "She was not elected because she was a conservative. She was not elected because of her grasp of issues or because of her track record as the mayor of Wasilla."

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[Midlodemocrat]

1. Wow. That is very damning.

:thumbsup:

[Nikki Stone1]

2. Yep/

http://community.adn.com/node/127769

[stillcool]

3. This is such a bizzarre choice...

where my logic takes me is someplace I don't want to go. We're in high school.

[200overcast]

7. I keep asking myself "So what's the REST of this story?"

We are overlooking something.

[stillcool]

8. yeah I know...

The story is just wrong somehow.

Palin has cited her mayoral work as a central part of her qualification to serve as governor. But at the beginning of her term, asked by the local newspaper how she would run the city without experienced department heads, she made the job sound like no big deal: "It's not rocket science. It's $6 million and 53 employees."
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/v-printer/story/8334949p-8231037c.html

[200overcast]

9. $6M and 53 employees. Sounds like the Forever Stamp design task force.

:eyes:

[catgirl]

4. 5th rec!!

[billyoc]

5. K&R, Palin: Wrong for Alaska, wrong for America.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Shades of 2000.

She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice-president or president? Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?

Just insert dubya's name and you have the last 8 years. He screwed up Texas and then proceeded to do the same to the nation.

[marauding liberal]

10. I am still stunned by the whole thing.

[annabanana]

11. Gee. . No one on TV has talked to any of those people...

On MSNBC there was a phone interview at about 6pm Eastern with a couple of Alaskans who thought she was just great!

One woman made a point of mentioning her "special needs" baby and how she "walked the walk for Pro-Life"

I swear.. if these creeps insist on making that baby a political point I am going to hollar "It's her GRANDBABY" until it busts through the corpomedia cone of silence. . .

[FatDave]

12. How funny would it be if she lost Alaska for McCain? (nt)