Palin's pastor, Rev. Kalnins, believes Americans will migrate to Alaska "in the final days." From the pulpit, Palin has expressed her belief that what comes from her church has great destiny with regard to Alaska, a church which just several weeks ago embraced the message of David Bricker, the founder of Jews for Jesus, who explained for them that the terrorist attacks on Israelis was God's "judgment of unbelief" on Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.
With Palin's strong religious background, it was shocking to many that she would giggle and laugh repeatedly over crude remarks coming from a far-right wing shock jock about a highly respected Alaskan State Senator, especially with Palin being aware Senator Green is a cancer survivor.
Oddsmakers take everything, every detail they can locate, every whiff of scandal into consideration when setting odds that determine how much money they make. They will be now following a story involving racist remarks reported to have been made by Sarah Palin and directed towards Senator Obama and Senator Clinton which, if true, will not only change the online betting odds dramatically as to whether John McCain will dump Sarah Palin as his running mate but will further change McCain's own odds for now winning the presidency even if he drops Palin, given the increasing evidence of his lack of judgment.
Combined with Palin's fits of inappropriate laughter, along with other remarks and scandals involving Palin now being reported by the press on the ground in Wasilla, if the additional scandal of these extremely insensitive derogatory racist and sexist remarks toward both Democratic candidates holds true, Palin may have confirmed what many Americans in the 'Lower 48' are beginning to believe and what many in Alaska are now saying they knew all along.
Lucille, a resident of Wasilla, has come forward with the information that Governor Palin and friends were enjoying a meal in a local Wasilla restaurant, discussing the result of the Democratic party's primary election between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton when Palin created the most recent scandal to hit the news by declaring loudly and seemingly without a care as to who heard “So Sambo beat the b*tch!”
Lucille, the waitress for Palin's table, further stated that Governor Palin, after making her crude racist and sexist remark burst out laughing at her own wit and the five or six friends sharing her table joined in with their own laughter as well. Other residents from the small town of Wasilla were in the restaurant at the time and witness to this event but have not been willing to come forward. Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, will not give her last name to the general press out of fear of facing the recrimination that often comes with taking a stand in a small town, but she did tell a reporter about the incident over the phone stating "It was kind of disgusting.” Lucille further told the reporter that she was frightened that she would be discovered telling the press about Palin's actions. Lucille's fear of speaking out is not only understandable, it is commonsense given that the the small town of Wasilla and many parts of Alaska to this day hold racist attitudes just as harsh as those held for many years in the deep south of the Lower 48.
This is the first major incident of racist remarks by Palin reported to date, however, as more and more residents in Wasilla have private access to the outside reporters now converging on the the town of Wasilla after McCain announced Palin as his VP pick, more and more personal stories about Governor Palin are hitting the news grabbing the attention of not only the bookmakers following this election, but the American people as well. Many Alaskans are refusing to be interviewed, some out of fear. Some of those who do consent to an interview want the protection of privacy out of fear of retribution before they will express their views while others state their name as they give their opinion or tell their story. One such person already left the state and this may have led to him being a bit more direct with the reporter who interviewed him:
“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar ... Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else. These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.” Arnold Gerstheimer, businessman and long term Alaskan resident until two years ago, now a resident of Idaho
Some residents in the small town, hard-core Republican stronghold of Wasilla think highly of Sarah Palin while others feel the last corrupt good old boy oil network in Alaska was simply replaced with a good old girl working for a different set of good old boys whose own network is just as corrupt. Some residents feel that Palin has control issues which affected many decisions in her earliest days of office as Mayor of Wasilla.
Lucy, an Alaskan resident and librarian, had this to say:
"[I] have worked in Alaskan libraries for 20 years and can assure you that the story about Mary Ellen Emmons is true. After Palin was elected she did her darndest to work with her but the pressure to censor materials got to be too much and Mary Ellen resigned and moved across the state where she rebuilt her life and continues to work in a library. She is reluctant to bring up that part of her past. We all wish she would make a statement to the press, but you forget that Palin is still our Governor and she is one mean, small minded woman and we may need her support for our libraries in the future.
"There is SB119 waiting for funding right now, which would provide matching funds for new library construction and $$$ for our school libraries, for instance. Once you cross Ms. Sarah, she keeps you on her list for life."
The firing of Emmons took place within a polarizing radical political environment for the small town of Wasilla, one wherein Palin, during her very first days in office, asserted her newfound authority by instituting a mandate requiring all department heads obtain her direct permission before talking with any reporter on any subject at any time.
"She put a gag order on those people, something that you'd expect to find in the big city, not here." [The Frontiersman]
The New York Times, in reporting on the town's early effort to recall Mayor Palin over her firing of the Director of the Wasilla Public Library, Mary Ellen Emmons (now Baker), spoke with one resident who stated Palin's first few months were "so jarring -- and so alienating -- that an effort was made to force a recall."
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