About Sara Palin

[Jo McDonald]

 I received this from a friend - and the message is from her Grand Daughter....I felt the  need to post this on this forum.
  Jo McDonald

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Sara Palin

Hey guys..
Wanted to pass along this amazing email from one of the leaders of the BURNING KONA crew out in Hawaii launching the Fire and Fragrance school Jan 09. Amy who wrote this below has had a personal encounter with Sara and actually prophesied that she would end up in the white house one day!!! Its worth the read to get a little better insight on this godly woman being raised up to run with John McCain!!


Good stuff!! Be encouraged!! God still has an amazing plan for our nation!!


Hello, I am writing today with much excitement. As many of you I am sure experienced waking up yesterday morning to the news and front pages of newspapers declaring that Republican presidential candidate John McCain had chosen a woman and the Governor of Alaska Sara Palin as his Vice President running mate.  I cannot tell you the surprise and excitement I felt as I read the news. I felt the smile of the Lord once again.  I want to write to you today to tell you a little of what I know of Sara Palin.

As most of you know I am from Alaska and I lived in Wasilla, Alaska for about 6 years. During this time Sara Palin was our mayor. I would see her at Christian youth events opening in prayer and many community wide services. She was present and stood for way more then just politics. Then one day before she chose to run for Governor of Alaska our ministry had the great honor of praying and prophesying over her.  She came humbly to our little school of ministry and sat in front of the class as our students prayed and told her what they felt the Lord was saying. We had  recorded it all on tape for her. One of the words I gave her was that I one day saw her in Washington DC. Well it looks like that day could be approaching.  Not long after that time with Sara she decided to run for Governor.  On the day of the primary elections I went to vote and I as I did I felt the Lord's smile on her and then He began to speak to me about her again. Before I moved out of Alaska and right before she was elected governor I met with Sara privately. She and I sat together as I spoke some things to her that I felt the Lord wanted me to say. She told me that she listens to those words we gave her and refers to them often. I have kept track of things since her becoming governor. I know she is not perfect but I do know she loves Jesus and stands for morality, and justice. I believe with all my heart she is an Esther in this time.  Though I don't know how the outcome of this race I know God will use her in amazing ways no matter what.

Many of you know about a movement called "The Call" with a man named Lou Engle. There was a gathering in Washington DC on the mall on Aug. 16th where over  70,000 peoples fasted and prayed for God to end abortion and bring revival to America. We prayed for a shift in our government. I truly believe that Sara Palin is answer to part of our prayers. There will be another gathering in San Diego on Nov. 1 with over 100,000 to pray and fast again before the elections.

I know politics can be a touchy subject for a lot of people. So I write this today to inform you about Sara and that I believe the John McCain is responding to God's heart in choosing her.  I feel the mandate of heaven to let people know that Sara is a real Christian that stands for life and believes in the word of the Lord. Please pray for Sara and her family.  Please forward this e-mail to as many people as you can.

Amy Sollars


blessings...

[dnalexander]

I support Sarah Palin and think she can handle all the criticism. Since none of the Obama\Biden supporters posted this I thought I would in honor of the "equal time" doctrine.

What follows is an open letter written by a resident of Wasilla, Alaska named Anne Kilkenny.

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months. She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby. She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit. Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans. Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters. She's smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents. During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once. These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city. As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's surplus, borrow for needs.

She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideasor compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated" her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job.

In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit, exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".

She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.

They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked toglobal warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar bears as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President. There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she. However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.

CLAIM VS FACT

•"Hockey mom": true for a few years
•"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since
•"NRA supporter": absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
•"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation
•"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla's history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn't make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that's life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship.

Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

CAVEATS

I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.

You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.

[sixdogsmom]

OUCH!!!

[Teresa]

It's gonna take a full blown Barracuda to deal with what's in Washington.
I hope she rattles their cages till the hinges come loose.

[Teresa]

Here is what I am sure is but a small amount of the Barracuda Sarah Palin fighting for her state against liberals.

A year ago, Congressman George Miller (D - Kalifonia) propsed a bill to ban predator control from the air in Alaska.  From the story, he didn't consult with the folks in Alaska ... much less the Constitution.

My understanding the bill will die a slow death in committee.

Interesting read.

http://ushuntingtoday.com/palinletter.pdf

[frawin]

There is something very strange going on here, someone is posting and using my Nephews forum name, I refuse to believe that David Neil Alexander posted the post that shows his name and has all that #$*%^$ about Hussein Obama. David, tell me it is not so that it wasn't you.

[Teresa]

In regards to Anne Kikinney "opinion" .........

In media reports, Kilkenny has been painted as someone who wasn't looking for all this attention, who really only intended to help family and friends know more about Sarah Palin.

    Kilkenny is now a significant voice in the national discussion of the presidential election, but she began with a modest goal. She merely wanted to answer out-of-town friends who asked: "You're from Wasilla, what's Sarah Palin like?"

    Kilkenny, 57, has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times. She has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, four British papers, L'Express from France and Der Speigel from Germany, to name just a few. She has gone on TV with ABC and NBC and CNN, which spent four hours at her house yesterday. She has spoken with National Public Radio.

Let's just be honest here. Kilkenny may say she did this for honorable reasons, that she isn't angry or jealous... but methinks the lady doth protest too much.
in one little sentence, Kilkenny demeans an entire town. Really? In the entire town there is not one other person not under Palin's power... not one other person with the guts or courage to say something other than Kilkenny? My my my..........................................
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and you can read the whole article here.

http://www.zimbio.com/pilot?ZURL=%2FAnne%2BKilkenny%2Farticles%2F52%2FAnne%2BKilkenny%2BJealous%2BSarah%2BPalin%2Bdecide&URL=http%3A%2F%2Ffraccers.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fanne-kilkennys-email-about-sarah-palin-photos%2F

[dnalexander]

I am not afraid to post criticism of Sarah Palin I know she can handle the negative comments. I was sure that someone who supported Obama\Biden would have already posted it here. After searching the forum and seeing no one had I figured I would help out a little. I was hoping that all my Democratic Party friends here in California will let me hang around if I helped them out a little even though I support McCain\Palin. I don't want to get mugged next time I walk by Pelosi's house in Pacific Heights.

David

[Teresa]

I was hoping that all my Democratic Party friends here in California will let me hang around if I helped them out a little even though I support McCain\Palin. I don't want to get mugged next time I walk by Pelosi's house in Pacific Heights.

David

[Catwoman]

First of all, the Gov doesn't appear to have a need for anyone's approval.  She appears to be a real 'Sarah'...an extremely strong woman who can be just real abrasive if you're not a fan already.  I've known many Sarahs in my life...and they've all been very interesting people who shouldn't be discounted...in fact, they bear watching, on the whole.  However, I have stated previously my opinion that if you're going to elect someone to go into that barrel of snakes, you'd better elect the biggest snake possible.  If the previous letter is actually the truth (and not just someone -or a group of someones who needed a spokesperson- who has a vested interest in making sure the Demo's are still influencing public opinion), then so be it.  It is interesting that Sarah Palin is being castigated for traits that other people take for granted in men...and sometimes even applaud men for having...yet, as a woman, she's held to a different standard.  Hell, people...she's a POLITICIAN.  'Nuf said!