momcat54's Blog

Sarah Palin has been harping on one string lately, that is her one talent,and the particular tune she is playing currently  is that Obama was a a known associate of a terrorist . Really, when William Ayers was a part of the weathermen Barack Obama was EIGHT. These days Bill Ayers is a respected educator and hasn't buiilt or advocated building a bomb in  years. He and Sen Obama have sat on the same committees and I believe Ayers endorsed him at the beginning of his political career. I've sat on a lot of committees with a lot of people some of whom I really disliked and had nothing in common

But if McCarthy-era guilt-by-association is once again a valid political consideration, Palin, it would seem, has more to lose than Obama. Following her own logic, Palin thinks so little of America's perfection that she continues to "pal around" with a man--her husband, actually--who only recently terminated his seven-year membership in the Alaskan Independence Party. Putting plunder above patriotism, the members of this group aim to break our country into pieces and walk away with Alaska's rich federal oil fields and one-fifth of America's land base--an area three-fourths the size of the Civil War Confederacy.

AIP's charter commits the party "to the ultimate independence of Alaska," from the United States which it refers to as "the colonial bureaucracy in Washington." It proclaims Alaska's 1959 induction as a state "as illegal and in violation of the United Nations charter and international law."

AIP's creation was inspired by the rabidly violent anti-Americanism of its founding father Joe Vogler, "I'm an Alaskan, not an American," reads a favorite Vogler quote on AIP's current website, "I've got no use for America or her d***** institutions." AIP's central purpose was to drive Alaska's secession from the United States. Alaska,Current Chairwoman Lynette Clark, says Alaska "should be an independent nation."

Vogler was murdered in 1993 during an illegal sale of plastic explosives that went bad. Plastic explosives? Aren't they used to make BOMBS? The prior year, he had renounced his allegiance to the United States explaining that, "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government." He cursed the stars and stripes, promising, "I won't be buried under their ****** flag...when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."  Neither Palin has never denounced Vogler or his blatant anti-Americanism.

Palin's husband Todd remained an AIP party member from 1995 to 2002. Sarah can be described in McCarthy-era vernacular as a "fellow traveler." While retaining her Republican registration, she attended the AIP's 1994 convention where the party called for a draft constitution to secede from the United States and create an independent nation of Alaska. The McCain Campaign has reluctantly acknowledged that she also attended AIP's 2000 Convention. She apparently found the experience so inspiring that she agreed to give a keynote address at the AIP's 2006 convention and she recorded a video greeting for this year's 2008 convention. In other words, this is not something that happened when she was eight!

So when Palin accuses Barack of "not seeing the same America as you and me," maybe she is referring to an America without Alaska. In any case, isn't it time the media start giving equal time to Palin's buddy list of anti-American bombers and other radical associates.