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RedditEveryone is trying to get the measure of Sarah Palin, the woman who was rocketed from small-state obscurity to the national stage when John McCain selected her as his running-mate on the 2008 Republican ticket.
Republican senators and governors are admitting interviews, as former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, did with me a few minutes ago that: "Most of us don't really know her personally."
Well, Anne Kilkenny does know Sarah Palin.
Kilkenny's a good citizen of Wasilla, Alaska, the city where Palin got her political state as a city council member and then mayor. She's a self-described "housewife" who volunteers as a voter registrar, has been active in the PTA and regularly attends local government meetings.
She is, as well, someone who has clashed with Palin. More than a decade ago, when Palin was campaigning to ban books, Kilkenny says, "I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship."
What's Kilkenney's take?
Here's a letter she has circulated
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months.
She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She's smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative." During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later -- to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's surplus, borrow for needs.
She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated" her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit, exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
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Seems to me that John and the rest of the Nation's editorial board are in that camp of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
Golly, I wonder if Anne Kilkenny is a democrat?
Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:03pm
Sarah sounds like a corporate shill who has learned how to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Posted by lachatte at 09/04/2008 @ 2:04pm
Interesting...
"She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit."
Sounds a lot like what the Right always accused....
BILL CLINTON of, huh?
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:08pm
Well, apparently she's failed. You don't seem to like her.
Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:08pm
How can we get a list of the books she tried to have banned? I think that information would be incredible revealing about what kind of person we're dealing with here.
Posted by RevFlinty at 09/04/2008 @ 2:09pm
The things that are ignored....
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:10pm
Sarah Palin would be an absolute disaster if McCain gets elected and had to step aside for health reasons.
Posted by Metteyya at 09/04/2008 @ 2:11pm
Posted by Metteyya at 09/04/2008 @ 2:11pm
Well, she WOULD be "Dubya in a Dress"...so that'd pretty much assure a continueing Dem Congress!
heheh
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:13pm
freiheit1
dude,
you know mccain will mean even more debt and bigger government than obama.
you should be worried.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 2:14pm
Golly, I wonder if Anne Kilkenny is a democrat? Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:03pm
So what, what she says has no merit because she might be a democrat? I think you should take these types of things seriously because you may be ok with ignoring them but most people won't. Think about it the unfamiliarity is a lot of what has kept people from taking to Obama. Now you have an unfamiliar candidate. People are going to start doing their research about her and if this is all they can find. They aren't going to like her. People are paying attention this election which means things like this are going to get a lot of play.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:15pm
"The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful."
FACTS - TRUTH '08
Cut The Crap.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 2:16pm
you should be worried. Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 2:14pm
The funny thing is Republicans are too gullible to believe that. They believe he is going to lower taxes across the board. He isn't, he is going to lower taxes for the top 5%. Just look at the percentages anyone can see it.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:18pm
1. Palin anti-abortion position is too extreme for America in that she opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest and would FORCE this view on the rest of America.
2. Palin and her husband flirts with succession from the United States as "affiliates" of AIP party.
3. Palin attempts to ban library books she doesn't like and fire the city librarian if she doesn't go along.
4. Palin fires police chief of Wassila because he wants the bars to close at 2am rather than 5am and this upset Palin's bar owner campaign contributors.
5. Palin fires her chief public safety officer, the former police chief of Anchorage, because he doesn't want to be used in her family feud in firing the ex-husband of her sister.
6. Palin's car wash was "involuntarily" shut down after she skipped out of paying her taxes and fees, and failed to file required financial statements.
7. Palin's pastor of 30 years thinks political opponents of Bush won't go to heaven and that Jesus is some kind of war general that kills people that don't believe in him.
8. Palin stripped funds from Passage House, a group that helps teen moms, LIKE HER DAUGHTER, get skills and lead productive lives after pregnancy.
9. Palin hired an Abramoff lobbyist to get earmarks that even McCain objected to
10. Palin SUPPORTED Bridge-to-Nowhere, and only opposed it after public exposure.
11. Palin inflates her foreign policy experience by claiming a refueling stop as a "visit to Ireland".
Posted by Metteyya at 09/04/2008 @ 2:21pm
Golly, I wonder if Anne Kilkenny is a democrat?----Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:03pm
So you completely discounted everything Joe Lieberman said the other night....right?
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:26pm
The thing about this is to Republican's voting for McCain this won't be a big deal. They will brush this off. The problem this election is people want to know who they are voting for. A lot of the coldness for Obama came from a lack of knowledge about who he was and what he stood for. His past has been investigated endlessly. If this is true. If this is Sarah Palin's past it will get out. It will reach far and wide. We have only had a week to start to know her and already it has been scandal after scandal. Once the scandal goes away they will be looking for substantive things and this stuff will be the things that are substantive.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:26pm
" succession"
Secession not succession.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:28pm
Posted by JOMAMMA at 09/04/2008 @ 2:27pm
It has grown by 2 since the last time, and STILL growing...
Stay tuned!
Posted by Metteyya at 09/04/2008 @ 2:29pm
The funny thing is Republicans are too gullible to believe that.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:18pm
republican'ts have been worse on:
deficits.
size of bureaucracy.
debt.
job creation.
they cut taxes and then borrow and/or print more money.
terrible.
FACTS - TRUTH '08
Don't Let Them Fool You.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 2:30pm
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/cognitive-dissonance.html
Great article about her speech.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:30pm
My "I wonder if she's a democrat" comment is directed at her incentives and motivations. Not on her merits, CC.
Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:37pm
Sarah Palin is NOT being underestimated. She is being ridiculously OVERestimated in her ability to appeal to swing voters. Millions of people will find her extremely irritating and offputting, as focus groups and polling are already beginning to show. Palin is nowhere near as good as you think she is.
Posted by dfreyleue at 09/04/2008 @ 2:42pm
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:26pm
Repubs are hoping they can spin Palin's scandals away with "This is a SEXIST attack on poor Sarah"....even when it's on something VERY legitimate like "Why did you fire Walt Monegan?" or "Why did you address an Alaskan separatist group?"
The cheap defense of Hillary ("It's all sexism!")....will become the cheap defense of Palin.
Guarenteed.
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:42pm
My "I wonder if she's a democrat" comment is directed at her incentives and motivations. Not on her merits, CC. Posted by freiheit1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:37pm
But that's my point. The fact that you never bothered asking if the allegations are true is telling. Your are willing to believe every Republican attack on Obama without question yet when a Democrat posts something about a Republican it is automatically meritless.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:48pm
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 2:39pm
METTE, you can shut down FRANK with my Hillary v. Palin question.
"After 4 years as Veep, if Palin were the GOP nominee in 2012....who would be more qualified....Sarah or Hillary?"
He'll stutter, stammer, and do a Ralph Kramden impersonation...if such a thing is possible in text!
heheh
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:48pm
I am sure that Palin is a terrible choice for VP, but attributing this letter to a "housewife" is probably not at all honest. Posted by Zero at 09/04/2008 @ 2:45pm
Why not? They are calling Palin the house wife.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:49pm
>>> Nobody pulls John McCain's strings because he doesn't have any.
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 2:44pm<<<
I think Charles Keating may have a different view concerning MCain's strings, as would Cindy McCain's father. They both pulled on them pretty hard, and John danced to their tune as much as he could.
Now John is dancing to the oil and defense lobbyists yank on his strings, and now I hear AIPAC has got a new string to yank on as well.
Poor John McCain...gets a pass for Keating 5, and now has some new strings yanking him around that are far more troubling.
Posted by Metteyya at 09/04/2008 @ 2:50pm
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:48pm
FREI's another one of those (like my ol' bud MAASCH) who likes to "sound reasonable" and "fair"....
but is straight down the line Repub/conservative...same as HAPP or PONTI.
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 2:50pm
FrankGrits-Last night Sarah Palin could have come on stage,passed some gas, and walked off and you would be on here saying that that was the best speech you ever heard.Of course,had Hillary been the nominee you would be on here telling us what fascists McCain and Palin are and how we need to vote Hillary in order to stop,what you call,the fascist party,the GOP.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 2:51pm
This woman is one breath of fresh air after so many years of the same old same old. She and Mccain will bring true reform to Washington, not just the lip service that Obama's been providing. McCain has done it, Barry talks a good game. Don't forget who's pulling the strings on Obama, the Chicago political bosses. Nobody pulls John McCain's strings because he doesn't have any.
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 2:44pm
This is all you have to read to know Frank has no objectivity. McCain has been in Washington for 30 years, he employs tons of lobbyists in his staff. This is a flat out lie. On top of that her speech is like every other Republican stump speech ever. This is why no one. NO ONE should bother listening to Frank. Like so many others he is only concerned with trashing Obama, not looking at things with objective reality.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 2:51pm
WOW, I just got this from a contact in AK that knows Anne this morning, fresh from the author...
and poof, here is on the internet(s) already.
seems the people that are into Sarah because she is regular folk, don't want to hear from regular folk!
You guys are a hoot squared...
Family values, don't bring up her family, it is verboten.
Experience? no need of it, She can learn on the job
Don't know anything about her? Well, the investigative process is the librool MSM going on a witch hunt to "destroy Sarah Palin". All Palin all day for the last week, and I still hear and read that the MSM is giving Obama a free ride and too much press.
abstinence education? Her experience shows how a policy of abstinence only fails in the real world.
Change to a more bi-partison DC? Nope, she is the pitbull with lipstick. In a dem outfit with the last name Clinton that attitude was derided as "bitchy". McCains idea to get along with "the other side" seems to have gone out the window damn fast.
The cons love book banning, it is a part of the freedoms they claim to love! Corruption only happens to dems and librools, not republicans, no matter how many get caught. Any hint of corruption on Obamas part (buying land of a developer for gods sake!) is cause for alarm. Troopergate II is sour grapes.
she left the city of Wasilla $22 million in debt, but she is a "fiscal conservative"? Just like Chimpy McFlightsuit, I guess.
It does not matter what comes out about this woman, the cons love her on first sight. Much like the cause for war in Iraq, regardless of facts that may come out, they will be resolute in their commitment to a small town mayor with no experience and a pregnant teen. I am sure they would give a democrat the same leeway... right?
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 2:53pm
FrankGrits-You would have to become honest before you can keep others honest.Work on yourself before concerning yourself with others.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 2:57pm
Yeah and Obama smoked crack and never authored a piece of legislation so what's your point? -FRANKGRITS
you left out that he is a Muslim. If you are goiong to spread lies, why stop at the crack?
Obama-Lugar ring any bells with you? Do your comments about Mccain from last year ring any bells with you?
How about GD America? But a secessionist is fine with the neo-cons?
Wait till her preachers words start hitting the airwaves, then once again, the tune from the cons will be a 180 from 2 months ago.
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 2:59pm
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 2:53pm
the heartland is indeed agog over her. Why?
Guns, god and baby killing Obama. That is what I have heard today while travelling through rural Michigan. the crap people believe about him is astounding. but, when we have former democrats like FG as mouthpieces spreading lies about crack smokin, who needs Rove?
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 3:01pm
FrankGrits-Like most everyone else,you know little about the one you call Sarah and are being rather silly with your claims of straight talk.According to you,McCain won't be doing straight talk tonight.You believe that his time as a POW affected him badly,as you have stated on here before.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 3:03pm
The hard Republican Right doesn't care about the absurd and distorted mind set of Sarah Palin. So what if she believes that dinasours roamed the earth with humans 4000 years ago. So what if she believes that Jews are merely a military convenience for the time being. So what if she dismisses the ice shelf the size of Manhattan falling into the sea just north of her State as "life happens." She gives great speech. So did Hitler and so does Castro. The Republicans see her as a tool to extend their rampant capitalistic oligarchy into the next decade. If the Democrats ever needed a call to arms, Sarah Palin has sounded the alarm. Ivan Ladizinsky Delray Beach, FL
Posted by ladizinsky at 09/04/2008 @ 3:03pm
Just look at all the lies she spread last night. Factcheck.org has done a decent job highlighting some of them. Wolf posted some this am on another thread. Look it up. see for yourselves.
Facts mean nothing. Image is all.
god, guns and the ability to field dress a moose.
remember the outrage over the gods and guns comment? then wallah! Like magic, the repubs produce a Stacked and Packed chick right out of G. Gordon Liddys catalague. (look that up too. great vidoes for the kiddies!)
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 3:06pm
I know this is nothing to older white americans who just don't know, but reading faces shows palin to be extremely distrustful and two-faced....anybody from different culture, espec. asian, will immediately recognize that she is not to be trusted....if you don't believe me, ask and asian friend to verify this for you....it is not stereotyping, just a fact....that was obvious right away to me.....I am not Asian, but I have already been told this....it is not any one thing....but put together, she is somebody who would be a backstabber....unfaithful, untrusting...not that this is necessarily important to some people, either....reading faces, mccain would be more straightforward, as would obama, hillary, or biden.....for same reasons....
Posted by jrs112 at 09/04/2008 @ 3:06pm
Pay attention.
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 2:59pm
Actually pay attention to how FRANK will sound like HAPP and LVLIB to get McCain elected...
and how he hopes that we'll all "forget" in 4 years when he comes back as a Democrat and defends Hillary against charges that she'll "tax the rich and the cost will get past onto the consumers"!
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 3:09pm
Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/04/2008 @ 3:04pm
But TELLING, HAPP.
You now embrace all the crap that Hillary's folks used to throw out...mostly unfairly.
Anything to win, huh? Even sound like a Clinton???
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 3:10pm
The problem that the GOP will have with Palin is that she preaches to the choir,but the choir was going to vote for McCain,anyway.They are ignoring moderates and independents in the name of energizing the base and pandering to evangelicals...
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 3:11pm
"Do you think any of her preachers ever uttered the words God damn America? I doubt it. "
Her husband was a member of a secessionist group. Do you knw what that word means? Is it worse to talk about the sins of the past, or decide that you want to leave the US, and take the oil with you?
Wait till the preachers sermons start coming out. Then we will talk, and you will spin like Rove in a Tilt-A-Whirl.
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 3:11pm
FrankGrits-Had Hillary been the nominee you would be agreeing with the post that you said is a bunch of crap.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 3:13pm
Frank, I could be wrong, but I do believe he said he smoked pot and " a little blow". Far different than smokin crack. Palin smoked pot too, does she have adled wits?
You are a piece of work Frank. I have never seen a person switch sides faster than you have in the last couple of months. You belong in the neo-con crowd.
TTFN, gotta go to a productive meeting...hee hee....kill me now....please....
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 3:14pm
FrankGrits-The reason you pretend to ignore people is because we are the ones who have been on here awhile, with you, and know that you are full of it.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 3:15pm
frank,
you are dumber than a lawn ornament.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 3:17pm
Sorry, " did a litle blow"... not smoked it.
Of course, if a white guy does some coke, 2 months in the can...
If a minority smokes crack...throw away the keys...
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 3:17pm
freiheit,
that's a few times you've ignored what i've said about
mccain
debt
deficit
job creation
bureaucracy.
i'd call that denial.
FACTS - TRUTH '08
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 3:19pm
FrankGrits-The one who should take it somewhere else is you.Everyone on here knows that you are having a tantrum, because of Hillary losing, and are busy contradicting yourself.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 3:21pm
"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."
FACTS - TRUTH '08
Try It, You'll Like It!
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 3:22pm
Will McCain stop-loss Franks son?
could be...
who knows...
100 years is a long time. Maybe Franks Grandkids will get their turn.
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 3:24pm
"One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple / By the relief office I saw my people / As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if / This land was made for you and me."
FACTS - TRUTH '08
Where's Your Job?
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 3:25pm
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 3:14pm
Okay, HAPP....maybe YOU can answer the question...
if McCain wins and steps aside in 2012, and Sarah becomes the GOP nominee...
who's more qualified to be President....her or Hillary?
(BTW...I know, rather than risk a fight with your "new best buddy" FRANK....you won't C&P my question...or even answer it...but fun to ask...heheh)
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 3:26pm
FrankGrits-Your obsession with a politician is bizarre,to say the least.A politician controls your entire thought process.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/04/2008 @ 3:31pm
"Barry was sighted shuffling down the street ...."----Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 3:29pm
"shuffling"?
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 3:35pm
WILL, ya know, now that you mentioned it, quagmire just about covers everything republican.
Posted by frankgrits at 08/19/2006 @ 12:04am
enjoy the swamp.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 3:40pm
Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/04/2008 @ 3:26pm
HAPP, how many times in the last 20 years has your mentor Rush said "the MSM is dying....the femi-nazis are dying!"...
yet they aren't.
BTW, PLEASE keep from answering this post-- Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 3:26pm
it proves how desperate you are for any allies, that you'll even take in FRANKGRITS (for another 8 weeks) to have an extra voice for the Repubs!
LOL
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 3:42pm
"No lobbyist can bribe nature. In the end all politicians and everyone else must accept nature's mandates and the consequences of violating them. In that is my optimism."
FACTS - TRUTH '08
Have You Got Oil, Or Does Oil Got You?
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 3:44pm
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 3:40pm
Oh, come on FROSTY, you KNOW FRANK's answer to that...
"That was then, this is now!"
Just like if McCain wins and he turns on him, Palin, and his new buds LVLIB, HAPP, etc.....
Posts from NOW will be "then" and posts THEN (2009+) calling McCain and Palin "fascist scum, not who I thought I was voting for" will be "now"
LOL
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 3:45pm
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 3:27pm
Never attacked your son. I am sure he served with honor. If you get your way, he may get to again. I am attacking you and the new policies you are shilling for. Grow a hide, man. Learn to take a punch or go back home.
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 3:46pm
Barry should have picked Hillary...but too late for should haves. Now we should rally around Barry because la barracuda is dangerous. She can reverse Roe v. Wade, bloat the military even more and continue the same disastrous agendas of 8 years of nitwit Bush.
Posted by nursevic at 09/04/2008 @ 3:53pm
Barry should have picked Hillary...but too late for should haves. Now we should rally around Barry because la barracuda is dangerous. She can reverse Roe v. Wade, bloat the military even more and continue the same disastrous agendas of 8 years of nitwit Bush.
Posted by nursevic at 09/04/2008 @ 3:54pm
In 2005, he co-sponsored the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act" introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) He later added three amendments to the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act", which passed the Senate in May 2006, Lugar-Obama" expands the Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction, Honest Leadership and Open Government Act", which was signed into law in September 2007. Obama also introduced the "Iraq War De-Escalation Act", Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act, provision from the Obama-Hagel bill was passed by Congress in December 2007 as an amendment to the State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill, Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Funny how quickly you can get to the bottom of lies. Frank is an idiot. Will someone post them to him so he can see how much of an idiot he is.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 3:58pm
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 3:58pm
At this point (and he'd be loathe to admit it...maybe), he's getting ALL his talking points from the man he once hated....Rush Limbaugh!
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 4:15pm
Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/04/2008 @ 4:23pm
LOL is right Happy. I am sure biden is quaking in his slippers.
Low expextations will be the keywords for the VP debate. As I have said, all she will have to do is show up and ya'll will declare her Queenie. Biden will have to hit home run after home run. he cannot be soft on her, he cannot appear to "bully" the barracuda or you guys will say he was too hard on a woman. a poor, poor, not from DC woman who isn't used to the rough and tumble world of DC politics.
Just like your "experience" mantra that went out the window last thursday, your stance on bidens attacks on her will morph with the day.
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 4:29pm
Happy, check this one out
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=20601087&sid=aaPr60Ta7B9s&refer=home
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 4:44pm
Happy, check this one out
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=20601087&sid=aaPr60Ta7B9s&refer=home
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 4:44pm
"Yeah and Obama smoked crack and never authored a piece of legislation so what's your point?"
You and the truth are just nodding acquaintance I take it. First, he admitted doing cocaine in high school; there is nothing indicating that he did crack.
Prior posts have already mentioned some legislation that Obama was involved with. Incidentally, can you name one major piece of legislation that she, as a Senator, actually saw though to being a law?
"who's pulling the strings on Obama, the Chicago political bosses."
And you have substantiation for this?
Regarding McCain's "independence", would that explain why he's abandoned most of his "maverick" positions of 2000? The instant article specifically addresses the claims that Palin is a reformer.
"Barry was sighted shuffling down the street"
A black man "shuffling"! Gee, you're not much of a racist.
Posted by brunowe at 09/04/2008 @ 4:46pm
Posted by brunowe at 09/04/2008 @ 4:46pm
Don't you remember FRANK's "painted the robot caddies black" joke?
or "Mulatto"?
(Did I forget some, I know I must...help me out?)
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 4:52pm
Posted by crabwalk at 09/04/2008 @ 4:29pm
Ain't that the truth. She has given one speech and the far right are ready to declare her President.
Posted by Cccomfo1 at 09/04/2008 @ 5:16pm
Shortly after the new con repub convection, Palin will to come out and say she's been a closeted lesbian for the last 1-1/2 years. That she's totally ok with ear-marks, hates the war in Iraq, and can't stand McPOWhowmanyMANSINS per the campaigns corruption; thus resigning.
Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 6:26pm
Another word:
"WASILLA - The Matanuska-Susitna area is the methamphetamine capital of Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers.
In 2003, authorities uncovered nine meth labs in the area. Last year, the number increased to 42, said Kyle Young, an investigator with the troopers who works with the Mat-Su narcotics team.
&&&&&&&
The calls about meth to children's services in Wasilla accounts for as many as 40 percent of the agency's total monthly child protection calls.
The troopers are aggressively going after meth labs, said Capt. Ed Harrington, the supervisor of the state's drug and alcohol enforcement unit."
Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 6:35pm
Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 6:26pm
THAT would be cool....
sadly I think it goes the way of your other predictions!
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 8:18pm
Let's face it, I am not a Republican... I can barely spell the word... what I am, and hope to retain, is being independent, a thinking, reasoning human being. I realize it is difficult to equate the thinking and reasoning with human but I do try. So let us do the research and figure it out. How many oil spills from the pipe-lines, quantity (and it is not negligible), damage to the beautiful biota... perhaps Ms. Palin runs her state on the premise that if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it it makes no sound.... thus, if they have a catastrophic oil spill from the pipeline and no one sees it right away, well it didn't happen until they found it so there wasn't 700,000 gallons spilled onto the ground. So when she says there is no or little impact on the surrounding biota, perhaps the 49,000 gallons they retrieved of snow-melt and oil was all that was spilled, no matter what the independent personnel say. Ummm, sounds like no noise-sense to me. Repubs trying to depict Obama as considering himself egotistical... so does that make McCain have Munchhausen's Syndrome by Proxy? " I was a prisoner of was! Feel sorry for me! see me as a brave warrior, I suffered for everyone!" Christ on a Cross, let's all feel sorry for him... I think throwing up would not be excessive if I hear him say it one more time. And "my Friends"... he's not my friend, I live in a trailer park. I am not one of the top 5% of the elite in this country so he's never going to care if I have the money to buy gas to get to my job, or food... or both at the same time. So together McCain and Palin make a good Barnum & Bailey. "You can fool all of the People some of the time and some of the People all of the time". But that's just a view from my trailer park. MJ Richards
Posted by mcjorich at 09/04/2008 @ 8:20pm
(Did I forget some, I know I must...help me out?)
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 4:52pm | ignore this person | warn this person
Referring to him as "boy".
Posted by brunowe at 09/04/2008 @ 8:40pm
Posted by brunowe at 09/04/2008 @ 8:40pm
Yep...sorry, should have started a file JUST of FRANK's racist remarks.
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 9:11pm
Shortly after the new con repub convection, Palin will to come out and say she's been a closeted lesbian for the last 1-1/2 years. That she's totally ok with ear-marks, hates the war in Iraq, and can't stand McPOWhowmanyMANSINS per the campaigns corruption;
Posted by hsuBfools at 09/04/2008 @ 6:26pm
oh, that's o.k.
everybody makes mistakes.
we still love her.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 9:16pm
MASK:
Sorry wingies but you flunked that test. I'll ask the question more simply. If the right wing , that is RIGHT WING machine thought McCain was unfit to be President in 2000. as evidenced on all the hate talk shows and the Drudge Report, why is he mentally stable now? it's really a simple question. Please don't spin or obfuscate.
Posted by frankgrits at 05/23/2006 @ 5:27pm
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 9:36pm
and this:
I think the tag team of Bill and Hillary Clinton will clean John McCain's clock. Afterall, a lightweight like Dubya did it.
Posted by frankgrits at 05/22/2006 @ 11:27pm
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 9:38pm
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/04/2008 @ 9:38pm
The sum total of FRANK's "reason"- "Get Hillary 2012".
To do that, EVERYTHING he's ever said or believed in the past goes down the "memory hole" (see below). He denies he is being contradictory, and when shown evidence claims "Things have changed"....yes....Hillary is no longer going to be the nominee in 2008 and for her to get her LAST realistic shot at it....she MUST have 2012 open (i.e. No "President Obama" as presumptive nominee)
FRANK will parrot right-wing talking points....cozy up with guys he hates (lile LVLB....Google THOSE two up sometimes pre-2008)....and sound like a Palin conservative (all the while claiming to still be a "Democrat")...
to see to it that McCain is elected.
But there's a problem...Palin. If McCain steps down in 2012, SHE becomes the presumptive nom for the GOP and ACCORDING TO FRANK'S OWN POSTS (of the past few days and weeks to come), Palin will be imminently more qualified to be President than Hillary.
It's why he's been crazier than usual....he knows it. To get McCain elected he has to build up Palin....but in building up Palin he risks 2012 for HRC....but to NOT build up Palin, means Obama wins and HRC has NO shot.
The paradox is driving him insane. And that obvious logic and question ("Who will be more qualified in '12, FRANK...HRC or Palin?")...is why he's using this "I got them on Ignore" to try to come up with SOME "rational answer"....he won't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 9:51pm
Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/04/2008 @ 10:
Well, atleast FRANK is honestly crazy, if a liar to do it.
YOU on the other hand, KNOW FG is going to turn on McCain (if elected) but go around Hi-5'ing with him on the blog like a "regular" right-winger.
And won't say anything against Hillary now, for fear of alienating FRANK, who you need as an ally around here.
You KNOW the game FG is playing, but want to use the poor ol' fool for whatever he's worth until Novmeber 5th.
But you guys DO share some commonalities....just as FRANK gave us "your BOY", "mulatto", "black robots", and "Obama shuffling down the street"....
you give us "Magic _____" and "Half & Half" and "He's half-Kansan/half-Kenyan...what a freak!"
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/04/2008 @ 10:07pm
BTW, after tonight, you're in exile for a week! Your BS is getting too much!
Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/05/2008 @ 12:05am
Well, who does that sound like?
Cowboy up and grow a pair.
Otherwise, you're just a pussy.
Posted by Benchrest at 09/05/2008 @ 12:11am
Sarah Barracuda??? Nah. Sounds to me like "Sarah the Shark." Too bad she didn't have more lofty ambitions at a younger age. Back then, after garnering Miss Alaska second runner-up, she, and in hindsight, our country, would have been better well-served if she had opted for law school.
Posted by bobforer at 09/05/2008 @ 01:28am
Hmmm. she doesn't take positions. Surprise, surpise,surprsie. Her sporting a "Pat Buchanan" button when he visited Wasilla, followed shortly thereafter by her working for the Steve Forbes campaign, sounds very "Palinesque."
Should we be suprised? Heck no. We've all seen it countless times before--The Proverbial Opportunistic Politician.
Posted by bobforer at 09/05/2008 @ 01:34am
pawn/tool '08
Posted by tskinner at 09/05/2008 @ 05:14am
Posted by Benchrest at 09/05/2008 @ 12:11am
I find getting put on Ignore....the last sign that they know I've put them in a box, they can't explain their way out of it, and they hope by "Ignoring" me, it somehow means "he's not really there"....
So I nail FRANK on his contradictions and obsessive desire to see Hillary come back in 2012 (to the point of rejecting everything he once stood for)...
or HAPPY with his subtle (sometimes not so much) racism....
I'm "punished" by them Ignoring me...
sort of like the "Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal" Theory....heheh
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/05/2008 @ 09:24am
well mask,
i put frank on permanent ignore because he's.....
he's.....
he's......
frankly he ruins the blog.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/05/2008 @ 10:03am
this is why i wish not to communicate with frank:
They help keep your sorry ass free so that you can come here and make a fool of yourself.
Posted by frankgrits at 09/05/2008 @ 12:44am
AND
That tape [9/11] is something that people like you should be forced to watch every single day. It is a reminder that the world is a very small place indeed.
Posted by frankgrits at 09/05/2008 @ 12:46am
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/05/2008 @ 10:08am
She sounds like GWB after "gender reassignment"
Posted by leftofcenter at 09/05/2008 @ 12:10pm
Actually, frank does not spoil this blog. He is, after all, a scared child; he is a closeted gay man, I have known him since we were in school. He carries so much guilt, like Sarah- Hide it all! Cover it up! Its out of your control; better censor it all...
Look at his delusions and see for yourself why he rails against the light. H is not a racist, though that is not clear from his choice of words and phrasing. He simply does not have the guts to come out [he even had kids and suffered through a lackluster marriage to cover his shame. Too bad that shame is the price of living a lie. Hey, Nancy Boy Frank- Keep it up, girl. We enjoy your squirming, guilt laden, bullshit. It is, sadly, funny. And revealing. Just like your hero Sarah. Maybe a sex change will help? Oh, thats right, you are now old and wrinkled, sagging man tits and all. Sorry. Nevermind.
Well, I am not sorry, girl. You asked for it and had not the dignity to stand up for the real you. Live with it. Too bad you cannot take a punch like your son; but then, he is not a closet gay.
Posted by kscience at 09/05/2008 @ 11:37pm
Oh, I missed one thing- ever the spoiler, mr. grit wishes he was the powerful woman that Hillary is; Yet he degrades himself now, having supported her as a result of his jealousy, knowing the republitards wanted her to win so her baggage would bury her.
As his would bury him. He loves Bill, though; Bill liked blowjobs. Frank never gave himself the credit he deserves though. It was only your first one, man. It was ok. You tried to give like you liked; some of us take longer, though. Not like you. Your inexperience here was totally revealing; sorry if it shut your closet door farther. I tried to reassure you; you wanted nothing of the sort. Tsk. I tried, girl. You cannot deny that. I tried hard to reassure you.
Posted by kscience at 09/06/2008 @ 12:14am
The article says "Anne Kilkenny clashed with Sarah Palin". Well, as somebody who happens to know a little about Anne (yes. I live in Wasilla) that's not surprising. I have met few people who are as easily offended as Anne, and I'm not surprised that she is so critical of Sarah. I don't think it's anything personal - most other local people would probably be criticised just as harshly if they were selected for public office. Maybe it's jealousy? At least Anne is getting her moment in the spotlight with this e-mail, but I would hate to have that on my conscience.
Posted by alaskan1 at 09/06/2008 @ 03:50am
alaskan1, so now that the RNC has sent you to Wisella to hide up Palin's dirty laundry, you're an "alaskan"? Gimme a break.
Posted by pointus at 09/06/2008 @ 07:28am
alaskan1, so now that the RNC has sent you to Wisella to hide up Palin's dirty laundry, you're an "alaskan"? Gimme a break.
Posted by pointus at 09/06/2008 @ 07:28am
Nobody pulls John McCain's strings because he doesn't have any.
Posted by frankgrits at 09/04/2008 @ 2:44pm
Perhaps you have forgotten that his campaign was run by lobbyists until so noted by the media. It still is, but he just quit paying them. After three decades in Wash., McCain is exactly the opposite of what they say he is. He's an elitest; an insider. He ditched his wife for wealthy, younger woman. He was reckless, just like the man he hopes to follow. If the comments posted by Mr. Nichols are accurate, he is well complimented by Mrs. Palin, a.k.a. Bush-in-a-beehive.
Posted by BobS at 09/06/2008 @ 07:57am
Amazing, The more I read about Sarah, the more I like her. We need this baracuda to wipe out terrorism and bring this country back.
I am switching parties....she is just what we need in DC !!!!!!
Posted by Deminpa at 09/06/2008 @ 11:09am
What a piece of garbage letter... nothing more than a mean spirited piece of garbage. It sounds like sour grapes written by an envious person. Even the compliments are backhanded. If I was a betting person; I would bet that Ms Kilkenny is a democrat (I used to be one - But No More; No Way; No Obama/Biden!).
Sara Palin has an 80% popularity rating in AK ... and I don't think she would have ever made it to the Governor's office if she hadn't made a positive impact in the city of Wasilla.
Remember: it takes a carpenter to build something; but any jacka** can try to knock it down.
Sara Palin and John McCain are carpenters, building a better future for the citizens of the US.
God Bless them... and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Posted by DEMNOMORE at 09/06/2008 @ 8:39pm
It sounds like Anne Kilkenny was an extremely jealous woman to go to such lengths to write such a negative letter. No doubt that because she is 23 years old, immature, that she took a disliking to Sarah Palin. Also being that she is a democrat, no one can honestly say that she is being truthful. Look at all the bad things the media and the liberal left has said about her and her family, even the newborn. It is a smear attempt to get the inexperienced Barack Obama elected. Obama as a note, was against the Iraq war in 1999 because he was told his political career was at stake, then During John Kerry presidency, he was for the war so he didn't go against John Kerry. Politics is ugly, and when someone starts making negative remarks, you must consider motive.
Posted by cupidguy at 09/07/2008 @ 12:28am
Has anyone reported on what books she sought to ban?
Posted by DeDuva at 09/07/2008 @ 10:01am
I am curious as to why the final paragraphs of the Anne Kilkenny were left out of the article. In particular, this one:
"I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are swamped. So I can't verify my numbers." How convenient. For those who wish to see the entire letter, you can find it at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/kilkenny.asp
Please, we all know that The Nation is in the tank for the Marxist candidate. I hope they keep up the good work because the general population is becoming more and more aware of the liberal bias in the media. The backlash has only just begun!
Posted by Joanne600 at 09/07/2008 @ 11:16am
"[L]iberal bias in the media" (Joanne600)?? This is the web-site of "The Nation" .
From Wikipedia: The Nation (ISSN 0027-8378) is a weekly[1] United States periodical devoted to politics and culture, self-described as "the flagship of the left."
You'll find the kind of unbiased coverage you're looking for at FOX.COM or maybe Ralph Reed's site.
Posted by DeDuva at 09/08/2008 @ 10:41am
Re: the book list -- this e-mail came to me today. Can't vouch for validity.....
Sarah Palin's book ban list and Chris Hedges on "American Fascists"
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis, 1935
Below is a list of the books Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla, Alaska Library. When I was in Anchorage two years ago, residents of Wasilla I met described the place as a growing, more-and- more suburban community north of Anchorage. In her speech, Palin called the area "the valley." Mayor Palin would seem to be a strong force in the suburbanization of the village of Wasilla. When the Wasilla librarian refused to trash these books, Mayor Palin tried to have her fired. This caused a stir in Wasilla which then turned into a drive to protect the librarian.
Some of my favorite examples of > American literature are on this list. This is the act of a patriotic > American? No, this is the act of a religious fundamentalist trying > to squeeze herself into the role of a mythic frontier American. The > attempt to ban American literary masterpieces like Catcher In The > Rye, Grapes Of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, Death Of A Salesman, > Leaves Of Grass, As I Lay Dying, Huckleberry Finn, Catch 22 and > Tarzan indicates, flags and Bible citations aside , her ascendance to > national power would be downright un-American.
In the realm of Rovian political marketing and the unfolding effort to win the Presidency not with ideas but with a cult of personality, McCain is the humiliated warrior ready to "go to the gates of hell" to preserve American exceptionalism and Sarah Palin is his fascist "bride," a mythic front
Posted by undecided1 at 09/09/2008 @ 10:14am
by John Grant(cont)
This list is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.
> A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess > A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle > Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden > As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner > Blubber by Judy Blume > Brave New World by Aldous Huxley > Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson > Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer > Carrie by Stephen King > Catch-22 by Joseph Heller > Christine by Stephen King > Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau > Cujo by Stephen King > Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen > Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite > Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck > Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller > Decame ron by Boccaccio > East of Eden by John Steinbeck > Fallen Angels by Walter Myers > Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland > Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes > Forever by Judy Blume > Grendel by John Champlin Gardner > Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam > Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling > Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling > Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling > Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling > Have to Go by Robert Munsch > Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman > How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell > Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain > I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou > Impressions edited by Jack Booth > In the Night Kitchen by MauriceSendak > It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein > James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl > Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence > Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman > Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm > Lord
Posted by undecided1 at 09/09/2008 @ 10:24am
Sorry, not enough space here to list entire e-mail by John Grant (see 2 prior posts)-- again can't vouch for validity. Just trying to add some enlightenment to book question
Posted by undecided1 at 09/09/2008 @ 10:27am