...Yet she is free with praise, too, albeit of a peculiarly Palinesque variety. "Keep hunting, keep being a true Alaskan," she told her chief of staff Michael Nizich, in a September 2008 email. "We love the mobster in ya." To her aide Ivy Frye, she writes: "Congrats on our first-most-awesome year in office together!" And she is frequently obliging in response to requests from staff and members of the public alike, agreeing not only to change her schedule so as to sign some official documents at short notice ("you bet!") but also to write a tenancy reference for a staff member's landlord – "you bet … yell if you need me!" – and agreeing to chat to three troubled high-school students in need of academic encouragement: "You bet – just set 'em up and I'll talk to them."
The only misinformed part is about her feud with her brother in law: As a feminist who has worked with a lot of victims of spousal abuse, trying to get a spouse beating, child tazering, drunken cop who threatened her relatives with violence a reprimand is not a vendetta but common sense.
Al Jezeerah, after noting the feeding frenzy by the US press notes the only issue that should make a difference:
Some analysts say the emails may shed light on Palin's dealings with the oil and gas sector, including companies such as BP and Exxon Mobil.
Now don't hold your breath: CNN is trying to spin the investigation about the oil company/political corruption, that Palin ran against and that started in 2003, as if she made it up.
That doesn't mean I want her to be president:
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