I think that you need to see this (http://syndicated.livejournal.com/makinglight/482665.html).
Frankly, I don't care how she "holds herself." I care about what she DOES. First she fired Monagan and then:
1) Initially refused to say why she fired him; 2) Then later came up with reasons that didn't make sense:
a) Claimed she wanted to take the department in a new direction. (It took her a week to state what the direction WAS. So I'd say that this reason was invalid.) b) Claimed Monagan was not adequately filling state trooper vacancies. (She dropped this one. Alaska's police academy is about to graduate its largest class ever. Reason--invalid.) c) Claimed Monagan was not doing enough to fight alcohol abuse problems. (This raises the question--why did she then offer him a state job as Executive Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board? If he wasn't fighting alcohol abuse in one position, why would he fight it in another?) d) Claimed he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues." (Vague. No way to tell what that means. And not agreeing with your boss on the budget isn't an issue to get fired over.)
And Monagan should have heard about any issues his boss had with him BEFORE he was fired. They shouldn't have come as a shock to him AFTER he was fired.
Oh, and Palin has said repeatedly that she didn't fire Monagan because he wouldn't respond to her pressure to fire her former brother-in-law. Yeah. Suuuuuuuuuuure.
Now, to me, this says a lot about what we can expect from Palin.
First, her behavior. She didn't fire him because he wasn't doing his job; she lashed out and fired him because she was mad and she wasn't getting her own way. It was the political equivalent of a temper tantrum.
Call me crazy, but I don't trust her because of this. I want a person in the executive branch who believes in the law and who follows procedure, even in firing people. I don't want ANYONE in the boss's chair who thinks that they have the right to fire people because they're angry and not getting their own way. A world leader with a sense of entitlement, especially such a strong sense of entitlement, could be extremely dangerous.
Second, she hasn't even bothered to keep her story straight. She came up with a bunch of scattershot reasons for the firing AFTER the firing. The fact that at least two are contradicted by Monagan's and her actions didn't seem to occur to her. She came up with a reason, and she expected people to just believe it without question.
The fact that she told stories that were illogical in the extreme makes me wonder if she isn't a pathological liar, incapable of telling the truth from a lie.
Also, I keep noticing in the stories about her that she keeps blaming others. The media misreported something. A librarian misunderstood what she said. Over and over again. Not once has she taken responsibility for even the smallest mistake.
I don't trust her. I don't trust her to do a good job, to be a responsible Vice-President (or President), to tell the truth at any time, to follow the law or to support the Constitution. And I consider all these things to be deal-breaking flaws. I would not vote for George Washington if I felt as uneasy about him as I do about Palin.
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Date: 2008-09-22 08:12 pm (UTC)Frankly, I don't care how she "holds herself." I care about what she DOES. First she fired Monagan and then:
1) Initially refused to say why she fired him;
2) Then later came up with reasons that didn't make sense:
a) Claimed she wanted to take the department in a new direction. (It took her a week to state what the direction WAS. So I'd say that this reason was invalid.)
b) Claimed Monagan was not adequately filling state trooper vacancies. (She dropped this one. Alaska's police academy is about to graduate its largest class ever. Reason--invalid.)
c) Claimed Monagan was not doing enough to fight alcohol abuse problems. (This raises the question--why did she then offer him a state job as Executive Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board? If he wasn't fighting alcohol abuse in one position, why would he fight it in another?)
d) Claimed he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues." (Vague. No way to tell what that means. And not agreeing with your boss on the budget isn't an issue to get fired over.)
And Monagan should have heard about any issues his boss had with him BEFORE he was fired. They shouldn't have come as a shock to him AFTER he was fired.
Oh, and Palin has said repeatedly that she didn't fire Monagan because he wouldn't respond to her pressure to fire her former brother-in-law. Yeah. Suuuuuuuuuuure.
Now, to me, this says a lot about what we can expect from Palin.
First, her behavior. She didn't fire him because he wasn't doing his job; she lashed out and fired him because she was mad and she wasn't getting her own way. It was the political equivalent of a temper tantrum.
Call me crazy, but I don't trust her because of this. I want a person in the executive branch who believes in the law and who follows procedure, even in firing people. I don't want ANYONE in the boss's chair who thinks that they have the right to fire people because they're angry and not getting their own way. A world leader with a sense of entitlement, especially such a strong sense of entitlement, could be extremely dangerous.
Second, she hasn't even bothered to keep her story straight. She came up with a bunch of scattershot reasons for the firing AFTER the firing. The fact that at least two are contradicted by Monagan's and her actions didn't seem to occur to her. She came up with a reason, and she expected people to just believe it without question.
The fact that she told stories that were illogical in the extreme makes me wonder if she isn't a pathological liar, incapable of telling the truth from a lie.
Also, I keep noticing in the stories about her that she keeps blaming others. The media misreported something. A librarian misunderstood what she said. Over and over again. Not once has she taken responsibility for even the smallest mistake.
I don't trust her. I don't trust her to do a good job, to be a responsible Vice-President (or President), to tell the truth at any time, to follow the law or to support the Constitution. And I consider all these things to be deal-breaking flaws. I would not vote for George Washington if I felt as uneasy about him as I do about Palin.