Monday, October 13, 2008

Are we in oppositeland?

It's a surreal thing to see Sarah Palin state that she was cleared of any wrongdoing when the report states very clearly that she violated ethics.

In an interview posted October 11, she stated:
Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.
The surreal interview is available here:
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/132625

In the report, the investigator states:
...I find that Governor Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
A complete article is available here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/palin.investigation/index.html

Even more fun, that article links to a PDF of the 263-page report:
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/11/download.pdf

So, it's one thing when a child states that she didn't eat a cookie as crumbs fall out of her mouth, but this is an adult who is running for Vice President? Does she think that if she says it enough people will believe it. (Sadly, this may be true with an all-too-large percentage of the population.)

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