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Obama rewards Troopergate Chairman
Boston Herald ^ | March 8th, 2009

Posted on 03/08/2009 5:37:52 PM PDT by redk

Surprise. Surprise. President Barack Obama has done a nationwide search and appointed the Chairman of the Troopergate investigation as Director of Alaskan Affairs at the Interior Department. Is this a case of political payback for a smear job well done on Governor Sarah Palin??? Yes!

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; bho2009; democrats; obama; palin; tasergate
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To: Fred Nerks
I think I wish I were where you are ....... ;(


41 posted on 03/08/2009 6:45:27 PM PDT by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: Fred Nerks

I cannot stomach entering sites like that...


42 posted on 03/08/2009 6:46:42 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: STARWISE

Believe me, those scumbags wouldn’t last five minutes with the Australian public. Nancy Pelosi would have been laughed out of town the moment they laid eyes on her...and as for Obama, as Aussies don’t go for the cult of personallity in any shape or form, he would be no-where. It’s interesting, that since the US election, our (LABOR) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has NOT MENTIONED obama by name ONCE.

Prime Minister Rudd is to visit the US this month. Rudd’s background is in diplomacy. He will see the thug in obama up close very quickly.


43 posted on 03/08/2009 7:00:21 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: rlmorel

I simply Googled ‘Democratic parties around the world’ and that came up. Every marxist government and/or dictatorship seems to proudly use the word ‘democratic’ in its title.


44 posted on 03/08/2009 7:02:48 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: OCC
Does the Alaska Governor have any say in this, as far as clearing her name?

If I'm not mistaken, Sarah didn't cooperate with THIS investigation, because it wasn't the correct venue for the question. She knew it was going to be a political witch-hunt.

She cooperated with the investigation done by the Personnel Board, which IS the group that's supposed to handle these issues. This group found that she did NOTHING wrong. Of course, that decision didn't receive the coverage that the one issued by the legislative panel did. I think they also found that she didn't break any laws, but what she did sure stunk, so she's baaaad! ;o)

45 posted on 03/08/2009 7:03:32 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
so she's baaaad!

Yes, she is!

46 posted on 03/08/2009 7:07:18 PM PDT by OCC
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To: redk
Hey, Troopergate Dude...do you know anything about Treasury operations?

Timmy Geithner needs some help...OK? Please?

47 posted on 03/08/2009 7:09:12 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: TomasUSMC
Here is another, thank you for your service , and bless you. I worship the ground Marines walk on.


48 posted on 03/08/2009 7:10:00 PM PDT by Candor7 (I love Lucy : http://www.fiftiesweb.com/lucy.htm ( Those were better days))
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To: Candor7

I known for 2 years that Obama was a complete sleeze but everyday I feel that I’ve underestimated how radical and low he could go.


49 posted on 03/08/2009 7:19:11 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: redk

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052008/loc_280981445.shtml

Superdelegate from Juneau backs Obama
Juneau Empire (AK) - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Author: Pat Forgey ; JUNEAU EMPIRE
Alaska’s last two uncommitted Democratic superdelegates announced Monday they were backing Barack Obama for president.

Juneau’s Cindy Spanyers said the Illinois senator has the ability to carry Alaska in the November general election.

“He has a streak of independence that Alaskans like,” she said.

Joining Spanyers in making a long-awaited commitment was Blake Johnson of Kenai. Alaska’s two other superdelegates, University of Alaska Fairbanks’ John Davies and Democratic Party Chairwoman Patti Higgins, have already committed, to Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., respectively.

Monday’s announcements mean Alaska’s superdelegates have backed Obama by a 3-1 ratio, closely mirroring his lead over Clinton in the February Alaska caucuses.

The move in favor of Obama comes at a time when he has built a commanding lead over Clinton to win the Democratic nomination, but still needs additional delegates for an outright victory.

State Sen. Kim Elton , D-Juneau, a prominent Obama supporter, said it was important that Alaska’s superdelegates committed while their support mattered.

“This is a very good time,” he said. Delegates that commit after Obama has the nomination sewn up would lose their chance to win support for Alaska issues, he said.

“I think the Alaska superdelegates are going to commit to the people they believe in,” he said, “but it is very good to commit when the commitment still means something for the state of Alaska.”

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50 posted on 03/08/2009 7:20:19 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Not at all. Guess he thought no one would notice..... or report it.


51 posted on 03/08/2009 7:27:52 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: bluedressman
Just the usual political payback for Chicago.

I pity the peasants

52 posted on 03/08/2009 7:29:18 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: STARWISE

Elton is close to Pete Rouse, who was Obama’s chief of staff in the U.S. Senate and is now a special adviser to the president. Rouse and Elton worked together in Juneau in the late 1970s on the staff of Alaska Republican Lt. Gov. Terry Miller.

Elton said he was initially offered the job in mid-January but demurred, saying he wanted to sit down with Interior officials first. Elton said he wanted the choice on both sides to be based on “what we know about each other rather than what we may have heard about each other.” He attended Obama’s inauguration, staying with Rouse, and met with the officials. The talks turned into a vetting process ending Friday with the job offered and accepted.

http://www.adn.com/front/story/708481.html

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Alaska ties - Rouse ‘s deep-rooted links to state make him a key connection FROM JUNEAU TO OBAMA’S WEST WING
Anchorage Daily News (AK) - Sunday, February 22, 2009
Author: TOM KIZZIA

He once helped run state government in Juneau, played shortstop in a local softball league, and he still votes as an Alaska resident.

But these days, Pete Rouse works in the White House, two doors from his close friend, President Barack Obama.

For 25 years as the consummate Democratic insider in the U.S. Senate, Rouse played a quiet role as the backdoor connection for Alaska’s all-Republican delegation to the other side of the aisle in Congress. He was the longtime chief of staff for Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., the one-time Senate majority leader, and starting in 2004 Rouse took on the same job for a promising young freshman senator from Illinois.

Today, as special adviser to Obama, Rouse is in the innermost circle of the West Wing. His office sits between chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and communications director David Axelrod (for fans of “The West Wing” television series, that would be Josh Lyman’s physical office).

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53 posted on 03/08/2009 7:30:36 PM PDT by maggief
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To: NewHampshireDuo
Same Here. I woke up in January of 2007 after analyzing Obama's work with Odinga and the Orange Party in Kenya. That was Obama's test run.His neo colonial nationalist black power Chicago politics led to tribal genocide in Kenya. And if you think Obama is low now, you have seen nothing yet.

Obama is a destructive fascist, bent on subjugating America by using its own system of government and economy against the people.

Its already begun on all fronts, political, social and economic.

Watch him ramp up Acorn and his civilian defence force, which will not be opposed by our military, because they cannot act inside the USA on domestic issues. We have no federal force to occupy that field either, just national state guards seconded from each state according to need and agreement. National Guards are about to be replaced by Obama's national civilian defence force, and populated with Obama thugs.

And how will we fight them? Well, we will have to step up and form a league of Patriots and Sons of Liberty.It will not be an easy task, but we will likely have to do it.

The NRA is the only viable organization of national standing to bring it about, and Obama will try to isolate or outlaw it.

Just as he is trying to do with Rush Limbaugh.

That is why Obama must lose his battle with Limbaugh, it is only the first of many to come.

54 posted on 03/08/2009 7:31:24 PM PDT by Candor7 (I love Lucy : http://www.fiftiesweb.com/lucy.htm ( Those were better days))
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To: bluedressman

The zero is taking crooked Chicago politics nationwide. Each day I think I can get no more disgusted with the people who vote for this total fool and every day I am proven wrong.


55 posted on 03/08/2009 7:31:46 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: maggief

The bums land everywhere, don’t they? Perfectly, purposely
placed for activation when needed.


56 posted on 03/08/2009 7:33:15 PM PDT by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: maggief

Yeah .. like sleeper cells.


57 posted on 03/08/2009 7:33:36 PM PDT by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: redk
Now Kim Elton will have the unlimited power of the federal government to make sure Governor Sarah Palin fails in her work for the people of Alaska, her effort to make the United States energy independent, and her political pursuits for this nation and our freedoms.
58 posted on 03/08/2009 7:36:14 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: STARWISE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601446_pf.html

The Outsider’s Insider - After three decades in Washington, Pete Rouse is a voice of experience for Sen. Barack Obama .
Washington Post, The (DC) - Monday, August 27, 2007
Author: Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post Staff Writer

EXCERPT

By last fall, two years after he was elected to the Senate, Obama had a second best-selling book, received invitations to speak even in conservative states such as Nebraska and was starting to seriously consider a run for the White House, far sooner than he — or Rouse — had anticipated.

Rouse , who organized a presidential operation in 2002 for Daschle before the South Dakotan decided not to run, swung into action. In September, when Obama decided to travel to Iowa to test the waters, Rouse called Steve Hildebrand, an old friend from the Daschle operation who ran Al Gore’s Iowa campaign in 2000, to show him around the state, even though the pair had never met.

“I thought, let’s have a little fun with this. I wanted to create a little buzz,” Rouse said. And he did.

Three other campaigns quickly called Hildebrand, wanting to hire him before Obama formally decided to enter the race.

In November, when more than a dozen advisers met with Obama in Axelrod’s Chicago office to discuss running, it was Rouse who had prepared the memos detailing how Obama could win and the pros and cons of running in 2008 versus waiting.


59 posted on 03/08/2009 7:48:00 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Al B.
"Kertulla is the one who drives by the Governor's mansion to check if the lights are on and reports back to the local press.

Why is Kertulla doing this? Is this done to alert the press that Governor Palin has left and they need to search to find out where Governor Palin went? Once they find out where Palin is, is my suspicion correct that they are doing dirt on her?

60 posted on 03/08/2009 7:50:19 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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