The Word From Up North

In doing some internetting today regarding Gov Palin, I went ahead a dropped a comment on the webpage of the Anchorage Daily News. Many of the other comments seemed to be supportive of her - maybe half - and I just noted to them that if they were so fond of her we just couldn't live with ourselves if we took her away, so we would do all we could to make certain she got to stay in Alaska. It was a smartass thing to say, but what the hell. It raised some hackles. One particularly offended reader noted that I was from "unamerica" before opening his discussion about the color of Obama's skin.

We in the lower 48 don't have the advantage of knowing the ins and outs of politics on the ground up there. We just get the news - very little of it. The place is so far removed from us geographically and so unnoticed most of the time that we are more culturally distanced from it than, say Kentucky is from Wyoming. So it helps to see things through their eyes. Here is one other reader's response to my comment...

August 30, 2008 - 1:29pm c_staatsburg
Believe me, we don't want her either. Any one with a brain here knows that her popularity "spin" has come from her PR campaign firm from Boston. Most business owners, entrepreneurs, and local conservatively minded citizens of means and independence want her to get out of town. In 1996, it was the bar hounds, needy types, those who admired her sexuality, and entitlement seekers who put her into office as mayor of Wasilla because she promised to keep the locals bars open until 5 am when other cities in the state were moving to close the bars at 2am. Nothing has changed. The article forgets to note that she has promoted herself as the "Hot" governor. In a state that leads the nation in rapes and violence against woman, Palin is clueless as she panders and sells whatever cheap trick will get her votes and popularity. Champion for woman? Give me a break!

There are apparently a few Alaskans who don't buy into her crap either.