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Thread #114954   Message #2461332
Posted By: Alice
09-Oct-08 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Palin
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Palin
Palin is living in a glass house, throwing faux stones.
You would think she would realize her own recent connections to the anti-American Alaska Independence Party (whom she, as governor, told to keep up the good work) would eventually come to the awareness of the rest of the country.
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"My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand."
The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. ("Keep up the good work," Palin told AIP members. "And God bless you.")

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Vogler wasn't just a blowhard either. He put his secessionist ideas into action, working to build AIP membership to 20,000 — an impressive figure by Alaska standards — and to elect party member Walter Hickel as governor in 1990.

Vogler's greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States "tyranny" before the entire world and to demand Alaska's freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.

That's right … Iran. The Islamic dictatorship. The taker of American hostages. The rogue nation that McCain and Palin have excoriated Obama for suggesting we diplomatically engage. That Iran."

Olberman, msnbc

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Also an article on this subject from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today, Alaskan Independance Party, the last refuge of a scoudrel