Yahoo! News: Palin has never ordered Alaska National Guard to do anything. RATE THIS UP!

[Obamarama]

I know this news item on Yahoo is from yesterday, but it's only got 600 some odd votes. Help rate this up on DU:


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — When presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate last Friday, the Arizona senator emphasized her role as the commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard .

Later, when questions were raised about Palin's lack of experience in national and international affairs, the McCain campaign pointed again to her military command experience as governor. Some reporters have tried to follow up.

"Can you tell me one decision that she made as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard ?" CNN journalist Campbell Brown asked Monday while interviewing McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds . "Just one?"

However, the governor has no command authority overseas or anywhere in the United States other than Alaska , said Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell , the service commander of the Alaska National Guard.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080903/pl_mcclatchy/3035478

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Ian David]

2. Explains why 400 Germans landed undetected in her state on her watch

Sarah Palin allowed 400 Germans to land undetected in Barrow, Alaska
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6901754&mesg_id=6901754

[bigtree]

3. I hear she wanted Alaska to succeed

and become part of Russia

[malaise]

5. NOt sure it will succeed but she wanted to

secede.

[chill_wind]

4. Let's hear if for McClatchy News. K & R. n/t

[moondust]

6. Just as I thought.

CNN had Barbara Starr (Pentagon reporter) on yesterday telling Woof about all the things governors CAN do with their National Guard. She can do this with the National Guard...she can do that with the National Guard... I can see them trying to confuse viewers by suggesting that what she CAN do as governor is the same as what she has ACTUALLY DONE.