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Seuss said:

You thought wrong.  Don't feel bad, I do it all the time as well.  (It is the job of an elected official to represent their constituents to the best of their ability.  Look at the mayors of big cities such as Denver, New York, LA, etc... they may represent more people than live in some of the smaller states, and they do what they can to help their city... including getting as much federal money as possible.)

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What would be the point of having congressional delegations if every town of 7,000 people feel it is their responsibility to petition the federal government for apportionment of federal money

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> Media's been pretty pro-Palin from what I've seen.

They attacked her, starting with her family.  It was so bad, even Obama went on camera and asked the media to back off.  Look at Phred's post above.  The media has been pounding her into the ground, relentlessly.  I don't care for her as a candidate, but she has been attacked viciously by the left media.  It makes the swiftboating stuff look like fairly benign.

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zappaisgod said:

The state apportions the state's money, the mayor apportions the towns money.

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Obviously, but I was saying that it is the responsibility of the state's delegation to handle apportionment of federal money. I really fail to comprehend why you would have made this statement.

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Anyway, that's only about $4,000 each.  So, yeah, that sure doesn't seem over high.

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The rest of the country had it's own representatives representing them.  Some of them (cough NY grandstanders cough) did a shitty job.  She did a good job.  What's your problem with her doing a good job for the people she was working for?  Do you think she should have been working for you in wherever you are when she is being paid by the people of Wasilla?  Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

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I have no problem with her doing a better job at receiving federal funds than others did. The issue here is that she is campaigning on a ticket that stands to change Washington, to stand against lobbyists that seek to obtain apportionment of federal funds. At the same time, she actively hired lobbyists to do exactly that. At the same time she is campaigning against Washington and the gravy train, she did her best to get her disproportionate fill. She's a hypocritical career politician, no different than any other, yet a lot of people think she's actually better than the rest.

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Quite a whole pile of crap in one run on sentence.

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You don't even know what a run-on sentence is, do you? A run-on sentence is any sentence that consists of more than one independent clause and doesn't contain the proper utilization of punctuation and conjunctions. Would you like me to deconstruct the sentence to highlight for you why a complex, longer sentence isn't a run-on sentence?

I personally think that there shouldn't be any federal income tax at all, but (Independent Clause, complete with proper punctuation and conjunction)

someone who * used it to receive a disproportionate percentage of it back * definitely fits the standard definition of a career politican to me. (Independent clause, asterisks to denote where a prepositional phrase or dependent clause , complete with proper punctuation, were included within the clause)

,instead of using political influence to stop them from taking it in the first place, (prepositional phrase)

, not to mention endorsing the bridge to nowhere while campaigning for governor, and now runs a national campaign as a reformer who stands against proportioning federal tax money back to pet projects and lies about her support for the most famous pork of them all, Dependent clause

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What kind of political influence to end income tax do you think she had as mayor of Wasilla?

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By some seemingly odd perversion of reason you think that someone who sucks at representing his constituents is better than someone who was good at it.  Twisted.

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  The bridge to nowhere?  When she had the opportunity to spend funds on the bridge to nowhere, did she?  She had all the money, so, when she had the chance to act did she fund it?  No.  Why wouldn't she campaign on getting more money back for Alaska?  It was her job.

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So, she lied about it, or supported it when it was politically convenient to do so (when it wasn't her responsibility and ass on the line). Same old politics of Washington, yet she campaigns as a reformer that stands against this.

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No income tax?  How would you like the federal gummint to confiscate the money for it to operate?  I wouldn't mind it gone either.

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Oh, fucking give it up.  Why can't you see that the jobs are different?  Legislators legislate, executives execute

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Wow, thanks for clearing that one up. Of course, it has no bearing on what I was saying.

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Which is exactly what happens

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Perhaps, but those mayors aren't campaigning for vice president as a reformer who is seeking to change the very act in Washington.

My main point is that she's no different than any of the other hypocritical, do one thing-say another bastards. She's an aggressive old cunt who has some of the most ignorant beliefs imaginable in this day and age in Western Civilization. I really don't care enough about the topic to continue this discussion further.