Independent UK: Palin: the real scandal

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/palin-the-real-scandal-920803.html

Palin: the real scandal

By Leonard Doyle in Anchorage
Saturday, 6 September 2008


Seen from the air, Sarah Palin's state is an environmental wonderland. From Anchorage to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, there is a vast landscape of snow-capped peaks, fjords, crystal glaciers, coastal lagoons, wide river deltas and tundra.

The guardian of this wilderness – and Governor of Alaska – has, this week, become one of the most recognisable faces in the world. But behind her beaming smile and wholesome family values is a woman aligned with the big oil and coal firms that are racing to exploit Alaska's vast energy reserves. In the short term, that has bought her popularity at home.

"I love the woman," the pilot on our flight shouts over the noise of the engine, "especially what she wants to do with oil, we just have to drill more, there is no alternative. What's the point of leaving it all in the ground?"

It is a stance that guaranteed John McCain's new running mate a rapturous reception at the Republican convention this week where the response to the coming energy crisis was a chant of "drill, baby, drill".

But the woman who could soon be a 72-year-old's heartbeat away from the United States presidency has an environmental policy so toxic it would make the incumbent, George Bush, blush.

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[gateley]

1. K&R! nt

[G_j]

2. warning graphic!

Big game hunters are happy to pay lots of money to shoot wolves and bears from the air. They also chase them across the snow to the point of exhaustion and then land the planes on skis, shooting them from point-blank range. The animals are considered endangered across the "lower 48" states of America, but not Alaska. The hunters keep and sell the animals' pelts.

Last year, Mrs Palin proposed offering a bounty of $150 per wolf, as long as the hunter provided the wolf's foreleg as proof of the kill. The measure did not pass. She even spent $400,000 on a state-funded campaign to block attempts to end the hunt.

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[jazzjunkysue]

3. Polluter Palin: tripled the toxic waste dumped into Cook inlet in alaska.

That's the meme: Polluter Palin.

[roody]

7. Polluter Palin, puppy-killer.

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4. If Obama and Biden don't jump on this stuff with both feet WE ARE FUCKED.

This woman is what's propping up McAnus' campaign. Like it or not, the Dems ignore her appeal at their peril.

Showing the viewing public that your opponent is LYING is NOT NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING.

WAKE UP OBAMA CAMP!!!

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5. This is a "celeb" impersonator, but whom is she impersonating?

[G_j]

6. good match

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