Posted on 10/04/2008 6:29:13 PM PDT by Krankor
Sarah Palin may be the heroine of the religious right, but Rev. Gene Straatmeyer vividly recalls a public run-in he once had with the now Republican vice presidential candidate over clergy support for a crackdown on bars. It was August 1996, just weeks before Palin's election as mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska. And Straatmeyer, a local Presbyterian minister and head of two church coalitions, testified at a City Council hearing for a measure to shorten the traditional 5 a.m. last call by a few hours.
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The liberal media just doesn’t really have a clue. Now they expect her to rally against bars? That’s not who she is. She’s normal, and they don’t understand normal.
That is an idea the left just cannot grasp.
Darn, you beat me to it. Actually, the Left believes the opposite--they want to impose their preferences on us.
The horror the horror the horror. She kept the bars open.
The woman has no shame!! /S She has my vote!
‘A dry martini,’ he said. ‘One. In a deep champagne goblet.’ ‘Oui, monsieur.’
‘Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?’
‘Certainly monsieur.’ The barman seemed pleased with the idea
What was Obama doing in 1996?
He was SUEING CITIBANK FOR NOT GIVING MORE LOANS TO PEOPLE With BAD CREDIT - Really.
Can't you just hear the Chicago Trib editor saying, "Hey, I know this piece amounts to nothing, but we have to do SOMETHING to damage Caribou Barbie's reputation with her feeble minded Jesus-freak followers."
The best part is the money spent to acquire such importanat information.
Bet you learned that here on Free Republic and not in the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post or the NYT? Not much delving into the Chicago records of one Barack Hussein Obama from the liberal media, is there. It’s like the media all want to be the counter to conservative talk radio instead of maintaining their professional journalistic integrity.
I am willing to bet you that Sarah Palin would sit down and have a beer with you on an NFL Sunday.
This is new attack, try to separate McCain and Palin form the base.
I am from the hills of Southeastern Ohio. We are all Reagan Democrats. Most of us have Christian beliefs. ....and most of us drink.
LOL
The Chicago Tribune is so out of touch.
“Never been to AK but 5:00 am is late by Los Angles standards!”
I imagine that when it gets sorta’ dark in Anchorage around 3 am in the summer it might make a bit more sense. Lots of folks up there will say “Sleep? I’ll sleep this winter!”
That have had 30 Lawyers up there digging for a month. and this is the only sh*t they can come up with ?
Sarah Palin refused to shut down a bar ?
That would make her a HERO in Southern Ohio !
We have a PRESIDENTIAL candidate with ties to radical terrorists like William Ayers, we have Tony Rezko who did his deals with the Dem governor. We have the Rev. Wright and his “black liberation theology” and a church that Barack attended for 20 years, and they want to talk about a dispute about the hours a bar was open for business in Alaska. This is just unbelievable. And she is NOT running for President! I am appalled at the Obama media machine that has absolutely NO INTEREST in the things that should concern them about Barack Obama and yet they fall all over themselves over a silly story like this.
Only if the morons at The Trib think McCain/Palin’s base is a bunch of anal retentive Nanny-Staters!
Given the extreme changes in sunlight in Alaska over the year I am left wondering what the point of moving a closing time would be. To her this might be less of a religious or drunk driving issue than an Alaskan issue.
The nights may be short but their centre is still midnight
3AM the Sun is on the way up.
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