(PIC) Downtown Wasilla LOL!, -Palin's Mayoral Home.

Good Blog from Alaska here, asking WTF?

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/

“Is this a joke?” That seemed to be the question du jour when my phone started ringing off the hook at 6:45am here in Alaska. I mean, we’re sort of excited that our humble state has gotten some kind of national ‘nod’….but seriously? Sarah Palin for Vice President? Yes, she’s a popular governor. Her all time high approval rating hovered around 90% at one point. But bear in mind that the 90% approval rating came from one of the most conservative, and reddest-of-the-red states out there. And that approval rating came before a series of events that have lead many Alaskans to question the governor’s once pristine image.

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So seeing our governor out there in the national spotlight accepting the nomination for Vice Presidential candidate is just downright surreal. Just months ago, when rumors surfaced that she was on the long version of the short list, she was questioned if she’d be interested in the position. She said she couldn’t answer “until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day. I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here….”

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* Palin is currently in the middle of a controversial gas pipeline project in Alaska. She’s favored the ‘Trans Canada’ proposal that will run the pipeline through Canada, in effect shipping US jobs over the border. Many Alaskans, including former governors, have favored the “All Alaska Route”.
* She is also sueing the federal government over listing the polar bears as a threatened species. The science was even compelling enough to convince the Secretery of the Interior that the bears needed to be listed. But acknowlegement of this issue, and the potential disruption to development on Alaska’s oil-rich north slope spurred Palin to attempt to stop the listing.
* Does she want to open ANWR? Yes. Every politician in Alaska wants to open ANWR. It’s basically a requirement if you ever hope to get elected for anything. Even Mark Begich, the progressive Democrat running against the indicted Senator and Alaskan institution Ted Stevens, is pro-drilling. That’s the sea we swim in up here. There are a few anti-drilling folks, but you have to look hard to find them, and work hard to have them admit it.

:rofl:

Complete with satellite dish!

at the Mug-Shot Saloon"!

errrr...I think.

So if she's VP this helps her drive the TransCanada pipeline through, promoting Alberta jobs, although actually there's already so much work here we could absorb another million workers into the economy without a blink.

I'm confused. :shrug:

And this is the city council

I really think we've got to stop ridiculing rural America. I get the point, Mayor of a bar is not experience, but there's got to be a better way to make it.

This was her job just 2 years ago, and now she is running to be the next in line for President. I'm not making fun of rural America, just her experience. It is laughable.

Than posting pictures that obviously ridicule small towns and humble beginnings.

There's a whole lot of Wasilla pics at Flickr -- the search is http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wasilla.

And I don't think we're making fun of the town -- it looks like a really pretty place. The point is to ask how Palin could go from mayoring in a place like that to the vice-president's office with less than a two year pit-stop as Alaska governor.