Sarah Palin e-mails: First details emerge

[Gerald]

Critics say the e-mails may damage Palin's presidential chances.

Details are emerging of Sarah Palin's life as governor of Alaska, following the release of 24,000 pages of her e-mails by officials in the US state.

As well as the mundane matters of political office, the correspondence reveals her frustration over rumours about her family and marriage.

Media organisations applied to see the e-mails in 2008 when she was picked as the Republican running mate.

Mrs Palin is widely viewed as a potential 2012 presidential candidate.

Alaska has released 24,199 printed pages of e-mails covering Mrs Palin's first 21 months as governor - from 2006 until she accepted the vice-presidential nomination.
Praise for Obama

Reporters from a number of news organisations descended on the Alaskan capital of Juneau on Friday to sift through the documents, which were only released in paper form.

Some of the correspondence is written in Mrs Palin's trademark folksy manner. The day after she was plucked from relative obscurity in 2008 for the presidential ticket of Republican nominee John McCain, she wrote to an associate: "Can you flippinbelieveit?!"

The e-mails reveal her irritation at the so-called Troopergate affair, when she was accused of pursuing a vendetta against her sister's ex-husband, an Alaska policeman.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13733501

Note: 11 June 2011 Last updated at 09:04 GMT

[Feuer Frei!]

I haven't read all 24 000 pages of her emails but the article Vendor has copy-pasta'd seems to indicate that she is human.
Yep, human.
Why? How?:

As well as the mundane matters of political office, the correspondence reveals her frustration over rumours about her family and marriage.

Some of the correspondence is written in Mrs Palin's trademark folksy manner.

The day after she was plucked from relative obscurity in 2008 for the presidential ticket of Republican nominee John McCain, she wrote to an associate: "Can you flippinbelieveit?!"

Yep, all very damaging stuff indeed.
Ofc i'm a realist, i'm sure there will be more to it than that.
Or will there be? The media will have something to say about that.
As for being human? I guess as a politician, being human and showing human values is something that shouldn't be done.
If you ask the media, or your fellow oposition.
Imo, there isn't enough of that. Human politicians.

[Torplexed]

Sarah Palin is no longer a politician. She ceased being someone anyone had to take seriously the moment she left the office of governor of Alaska two years early and signed up to be the subject of a "reality" show. She's a "celebrity commodity"; she asked the public to consume her "product" and they are. Most of the e-mails released seem pretty banal so far.

I'm sure that any and all publicity Palin gets is exactly what she wants.

[Gerald]

Where I agree with you Torplexed, that she is entitled extremely media obsessed, and I can say that the material, is not controversial as what I had previously.

[AVGWarhawk]

Sadly this woman has had a journalist colonoscopy. Has there ever been anyone vetted as Palins has been? They are still climbing up her butt. For someone who is such a non-entity and as dumb as a box of rocks folks sure do follower here like the proverbal Pied Piper. The entire Palin bashing and investigations is completely anal.

[Feuer Frei!]

So for a non US Citizen to be enlightened, what seems to be the deciding factor(s) for hounding the heck out of this Woman?
I mean, if she is absolutely no threat to any political parties or persons, then why the heck not just leave her alone? Are you Guys (and i mean the Media and Political Editors etc etc) that write about her continuously so bored and in love with her, figuratively speaking, that maybe, just maybe there is other things to write about. Or rather other, more influential and 'real' Presidential hopes.
Just curious.

[AVGWarhawk]

Maybe they are trying to find out if she is really a man. Who knows what drives the media on Palin. Probably the usual...ratings and profit.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

So for a non US Citizen to be enlightened, what seems to be the deciding factor(s) for hounding the heck out of this Woman?
I mean, if she is absolutely no threat to any political parties or persons, then why the heck not just leave her alone? Are you Guys (and i mean the Media and Political Editors etc etc) that write about her continuously so bored and in love with her, figuratively speaking, that maybe, just maybe there is other things to write about. Or rather other, more influential and 'real' Presidential hopes.
Just curious.

It would be easier for the press to leave her alone if, like George Bush, she just retired quietly. Maybe to some corner of Alaska. But she is partly to blame by constantly putting herself in the public eye by making road trips, buying a huge house in Arizona, showing up in states where other Republican presidential candidates are announcing. Going to dinner with Donald Trump, etc. Plus she a biographical movie about her term as governor coming out next week.

She's playing the presidential tease game, and the press are playing along with her.

[MH]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

So for a non US Citizen to be enlightened, what seems to be the deciding factor(s) for hounding the heck out of this Woman?
I mean, if she is absolutely no threat to any political parties or persons, then why the heck not just leave her alone? Are you Guys (and i mean the Media and Political Editors etc etc) that write about her continuously so bored and in love with her, figuratively speaking, that maybe, just maybe there is other things to write about. Or rather other, more influential and 'real' Presidential hopes.
Just curious.

Maybe they tray to radiculate face of conservatives and America through her?

[tater]

i'm not a Palin fan, but this entire exercise by the press is instructive. They press countless reporters into this, and also ask for volunteers in the general public to assist them in reading the emails of someone who at this point is not even a candidate for President.

How many reporters did they press into the effort to even look up the public documents and positions of Obama when he was in his state legislature? How about his legal practice? School records for college?

None, as far as I can tell. Maybe Fox tried with a few.

This is bias. Bias doesn't have to be so obvious in the text of reporting, but in focus. Create a task force to investigate one person's emails, and ignore the entire past of another—OK, ignore is not fair. They all read, and repeated (often breathlessly, perhaps even with a tingle up their leg) whatever Obama wrote in his autobiographies.

[August]

Originally Posted by MH

Maybe they tray to radiculate face of conservatives and America through her?

This ^

It's what people mean when they say that US mainstream media has a liberal bias.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

So for a non US Citizen to be enlightened, what seems to be the deciding factor(s) for hounding the heck out of this Woman?
I mean, if she is absolutely no threat to any political parties or persons, then why the heck not just leave her alone? Are you Guys (and i mean the Media and Political Editors etc etc) that write about her continuously so bored and in love with her, figuratively speaking, that maybe, just maybe there is other things to write about. Or rather other, more influential and 'real' Presidential hopes.
Just curious.

It's nothing personal against Palin as a person. Just take a gander at the course material I've worked up for next year...




...next slide please...

<sermon>
Welcome to

The American Way of Getting Things Done The American Way 101




Here you will learn how to cheat, how to lie, how to obfuscate, how to manipulate and dupe people into voting for one letter or the other. Most preferably you want the people to vote for your letter... *blahblahblah ad naseum* ... and most importantly you want an ace in your sleeve. Take Sarah Palin for example. She's not serious about running for President, but we sure would like the common folk to believe that she is. Why? Welllemme tellya...
</sermon>


Substitute a few loser names and repeat that process over a couple of decades and you begin to get the picture. It's a load of crap, Feuer; just the same as anywhere else in the world.

[Gerald]

Nice picture,

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Critics say the e-mails may damage Palin's presidential chances.

I don't think these E-mails are going to affect people's opinion of Palin. By this time, people have formed their opinion of Palin.

People who like her won't be affected by these E-mails
People who don't like her won't like her less because of these E-mails.

Personally, I think it is cruddy that these E-mails are being released. I know I would hate it if my business E-mails were released to the public.