Comments on: “Legal Bills Swayed Palin, Official Says”

By: R

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:06:39 +0000

It’s rather easy to figure out what BHO paid for his degree. Just find an old Harvard student handbook. It’ll probably discuss tuition.

By: throckmorton

throckmorton — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:49:55 +0000

zOlOft

Where are the media reports that reveal how Obama paid for his undergrad degree? Where is the media reports that show his birth certificate? Where are the media attacks on the Obama children? We do expect and deserve more.

By: zOlOft

zOlOft — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:21:53 +0000

Fer god’s sake, the lady wanted to be VP of the USA.

When you take on that kind of responsibility, it is the media’s job to go over your past with the veritable fine tooth comb. Would we expect/demand any less?

Of course, when the media went after Hillary, that was fair game to her opposition.

By: W. Rogers Turner, Jr.

W. Rogers Turner, Jr. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:42:58 +0000

I am with the post by John Beaty. I don’t have time to research it, but I am confused why she would have to pay out of her own pocket to defend ethics charges related to her duties as governor. I read the links above, and they don’t really give details. The WSJ LawBlog had not explanation either. If this is the norm, I am amazed that political opponents of all sitting governors/politicians don’t pursue this overlawyered approach.

By: Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:10:11 +0000

Of course there is the possibility that she is simply fed up with the paparazzi, regrets joining the fray, and just wants to get back to the simple life. Kind of late in the game to be coming to that kind of conclusion I suppose. But she strikes me as someone who got in to the game for good and noble reasons and then the game elevated her to a level for which she wasn’t prepared, sprinkle in the perpetual need to fend off investigations (bogus or legit), raise a family – with a special child and an untimely grandchild – and you’ve probably got a little kid asking, “Mommy, what does knocked-up mean?” and she just walked away for good reason.

By: Xmas

Xmas — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:33:30 +0000

Frank,

There is the $500,000 in personal lawyer fees, $2,000,000 that the state has spent on defense fees, and her staff is spending more time handling the paperwork and information requests to defend these charges than they spend on legitimate Alaska business.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:51:39 +0000

Bill Poser, there's this. The source is the Huffington Post, which is only sort of "media," but draws more eye traffic than the Washington Post. I dislike Palin, but her most rabid detractors make me want to like her.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:28:43 +0000

I turned up one attack on Palin’s son Track, a claim that he had been addicted to Oxycontin. The source: the National Enquirer, which is only sort of a “newspaper”.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:23:23 +0000

MF,

The suggestion that the baby with Downs syndrome is Palin’s grand-daughter rather than her daughter is hardly an attack on the baby, nor is the baby’s being used as a pawn, if she was.

I am not aware of the attacks on Palin’s son. If there were some, it seems likely that they didn’t attack much prominence.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:42:11 +0000

You might read this defense of Palin by somebody who will not be voting for her: Palin, Feminists, and Hate