Palin’s Private Tanning Bed in the Alaska Governor’s Mansion

[Obamarulz11]

One of Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin’s First Actions as Alaska Governor Was to Equip the State Building with a Tanning Bed


By Al Giordano and Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
September 15, 2008

The story is familiar: a politician emerges, we are told, from humble roots and pledges to restore America’s small town family values and represent the common man and woman. Late last month, the Republican Party offered the United States just such a leader in Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, or so they said. “Mother. Moose hunter. Maverick,” announced the video with which the GOP introduced this candidate so far unknown to the rest of the nation.

It's the same cinderella story line that Democrat John Edwards had hoped to ride to the top: the son-of-a-mill-worker from the Carolinas, embodiment of and friend to the just-plain-folks, with all-American good looks and a postcard perfect family in tow. He was going to be a contender… until the smallest little fact began to claw at his authenticity: that he paid $400+ per haircut to his Hollywood stylist to maintain the shine in his bouncy mop.

The $400 haircut became emblematic of Edwards’ inauthenticity problem. It fueled suspicion and critique that he wasn’t quite the sincere man of the people that his campaign had projected, and added a “vanity vs. substance” narrative to everything he did and said. Sometimes it’s the small things that unravel the thread on big truths. But can you imagine the surprise had the public learned that Edwards had also installed an expensive tanning bed in his mansion?


Actually, he didn’t.

But guess who did?

The Republican nominee for vice president, Governor Sarah Palin, it turns out, is a pioneer of the Great Indoors:

“The governor did have a tanning bed put in the Governor’s Mansion,” Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska’s Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, confirmed to this newspaper. “It was done shortly after she took office and moved into the mansion.”

The home tanning bed in the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau adds a trivial fact among the many, big and small, coming to light about the right-wing’s latest celebrity, McCain’s gamble to try and wrestle the election away from Democrat Barack Obama, but one that – tug the thread – leads to other questions about elitism, ethics, public health and the insufferable phoniness that plagues politics and politicians.

More at the link:http://www.narconews.com/Issue54/article3191.html

GUESS WHO HAD TO PAY THE BILL:THE ALASKAN TAXPAYERS!!!!!

[denem]

1. What this - about the 4th post on sun beds for today.?

I question your sincerity.

[krkaufman]

2. So is the story true, or not? Has it been refuted? n/t

[Enrique]

3. not true n/t

[leftynyc]

5. Link to debunking? Thanks. (n/t)

[walldude]

4. Well, if hell freezes over and they win, she will single handedly

save the mirror industry. Woo hoo.

[Statistical]

6. If this is the only we got to win then we already lost?

If this is the only we got to win then we already lost?

I have a friend who is a govt employee and he does communication work for the Capital District.
Couple years ago they upgraded all phones in White House. Want to know the cost? He said 8 figures.

Any guesses how much the furniture costs in average govenor's mansion? I would say million easy.

Who cares about a friggin tanning bed!!!!!!!!

Attack her on the issues.

All this crap does it throw up a smoke screen and hide the fact that:

McCain & Palin will be the worse thing possible for this country, not because of a tanning bed but because of their policies.