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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Corrupt Cronyism Culture</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this article from the New York Times, Sarah Palin offers more of the same, Bush-style politics that have plagued the United States for the last eight years.
Apparently, she appointed a former classmate to direct Alaska&#8217;s Division of Agriculture (a 2 Million Dollar Agency) on the sole basis of a stated &#8220;Childhood love of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leftfair.com%2Funcategorized%2Fpalins-corrupt-cronyism-culture%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leftfair.com%2Funcategorized%2Fpalins-corrupt-cronyism-culture%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>According to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?ex=1379044800&amp;en=ffe5e215b919d693&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink&amp;f=1">this</a> article from the New York Times, Sarah Palin offers more of the same, Bush-style politics that have plagued the United States for the last eight years.</p>
<p>Apparently, she appointed a former classmate to direct Alaska&#8217;s Division of Agriculture (a 2 Million Dollar Agency) on the sole basis of a stated &#8220;Childhood love of Cows&#8221;. I hope for the sake of the Alaska National Guard that none of Sarah Palin&#8217;s friends had a childhood love of G.I.Joe. At best, we can hope that her cronies will do a heck of a job.</p>
<p>Her penchant for injecting personal grudges into political appointments also mirrors that of George Bush. As the Mayor of Wisilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin fired the City Attorney after he put a stop-work order on a builder&#8217;s housing project. No surprise, that builder was one of her campaign supporters.</p>
<p>With Sarah Palin, we ironically risk getting yet another member of the &#8220;Ole Boys Club&#8221;; a hot-headed executive who will hire incompetent friends and fire competent (perceived) &#8220;enemies&#8221;.  That&#8217;s a heckuva change.</p>
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