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<p class=MsoPlainText>The Atlantic<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Daily Dish<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Andrew Sullivan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>19 Oct 2008 06:06 pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XVIII: Abuse Of Power<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The legislative report is very
clear. Shall we review its findings in its own language? <a
href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/abuse-of-power.html">Finding
Number One</a>, released Friday afternoon:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:#E9E9E9'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>For the
reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah
Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska
Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides The
legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust,
and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official
action is a violation of that trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Here is what vice-presidential
nominee Sarah Palin <a
href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/palin-denies-abuse-of-authority-in-trooper-case/">said
yesterday</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:#E9E9E9'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>“There
was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.0pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:26.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%;
background:#E9E9E9'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Georgia","serif"'>In fact, remember, Officer Wooten is still an Alaska state
trooper, which is up to the commissioner and the personnel top brass in the
Department of Public Safety that decides who is worthy of a badge and
carryin’ a gun in the state of Alaska. If they think that Trooper Wooten
is worthy of that, that’s their decision. I don’t micromanage my
commissioners and ask them to hire or fire anyone. And thankfully the truth was
revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical
activity on my part.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:15.0pt;
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style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:15.0pt;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>At some
point, the McCain campaign will realize that their veep candidate is a couple
of sandwiches short of a picnic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:15.0pt;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:15.0pt;line-height:150%'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Again:
this is the clear pattern with Palin: she publicly denies reality, insists on
repeating that denial and is unable to deal with real world the way
psychologically healthy people do. That's why I called her lies "<i>odd </i>lies."
They are not the lies of a devious politician. They are much more troubling
than that. They reflect a psyche unable to process fact when it conflicts with
a delusional self-image. She is even worse in this psychotic denialism than
Bush. She is a politician who can only survive in a propaganda state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-odd-lies--4.html#more">http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-odd-lies--4.html#more</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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