That's some real change Palin's going to bring

When there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, Palin appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.

“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp

When Condi was put up to be Secretary of State, the Republicans said one of her qualifications was that "her name means 'to play sweetly'" and Alberto Gonzales' top qualification to be the Bush Administration's Attorney General was that he considered the Geneva Conventions to be "quaint."

So, what's that thing that McCain and Palin are all about, rhymes with another descriptive word for McCain, "lame," anyone know what it is?

:shrug: