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LEFT WING LOONS Title: 'I'm at breaking point... it's not worth it': Emails reveal Sarah Palin almost quit early over affair claims and family life intrusion A fascinating email exchange has revealed how Sarah Palin almost resigned from her job as Alaska Governor thanks to constant intrusion into her family life and rumours about an affair. She described herself as ‘at the breaking point’ from ‘hurtful gossip’ about her family life by Wasilla blogger Sherry Whitstine - before an aide encouraged her to ‘hang in there’. The 47-year-old was coming under fire at the time in July 2008 from the blogger, known as ‘syrin’, and was clearly feeling the strain of the job, saying: ‘Many days I feel like it's not worth it’. The messages were found as reporters and critics scoured for scandal in 24,000 pages of her personal emails during her time as Alaska Governor published for the first time today. Her long-time friend and aide Ivy Frye forwarded her an email sent to the Anchorage Daily News newspaper that claimed the blogger’s comments ‘are never on topic, nor are they civil’. Ms Whitstine, whom Mrs Palin refers to as ‘Sherry’, ‘accuses the governor of having an affair or makes hateful comments about her young children’, the message said. This prompted Mrs Palin to say: ‘Guys, I may be pretty wimpy about this family stuff, but I feel like I'm at the breaking point with the hurtful gossip about my family that Sherry and others get away with. ‘Bear with me. I hate this part of the job and many days I feel like it's not worth it when they have to put up with the hate that spews from people like Sherry, and there are others.’ That emotional email prompted an exchange with aide Rosanne Hughes, who said: ‘Governor, do you know how loved you are? These four or five bitter people are so not representative.’ A response came minutes later from Mrs Palin’s daughter Bristol, who wrote while her mother was driving that they ‘were just praying about the hurt and anger that comes with her job’. Mrs Palin eventually resigned from her post as Alaska Governor around a year later in July 2009. Other correspondence from Palin’s time as governor appears to show a woman far more concerned about the pigment of her skin than about the nuances of office. Scroll down for email transcripts Mad scramble: Reporters load the thousands of documents from Sarah Palin's time as governor of Alaska From attempting secretly to install a tanning bed in the governor's mansion, to complaining that her hair looked like a mullet, the emails offer an intimate portrait of a politician constantly concerned about image. Far from being the natural ‘hockey mom’ she would like us all to believe she is, the Tea Party darling comes across as concerned about her media portrayal as the archetypal politician. The huge dossier of emails from her inauguration as the first female governor in 2006 through to 2008, when she was plucked from obscurity to become the Republican vice- presidential candidate, chart the rise of the self-proclaimed 'Mama Grizzly'. The emails revealed: Palin praised Barack Obama for giving a 'great speech' just weeks before she joined John McCain on the Republican ticket Referred to George W. Bush as 'prez' and didn't see the need to travel to Washington D.C. just to hear him speak Paranoid about her media image, not being able to monitor every piece of coverage and receiving death threats Linked Bill Allen, a key figure in a politically-damaging corruption scandal, to her defeated predecessor Frank Murkowski Emails littered with colourful phrases such as 'holy moly', 'shindig', 'right on', 'I'm game' and 'holy flippin crap' She got lost on the way to a Christmas party and had to email aides for help She suffered from computer problems, such as losing two weeks of messages and finding her machine would not turn on In a remarkable display of vanity, Mrs Palin had a tanning bed installed in the Alaska Governor’s Mansion and did her best to try to cover up the purchase, the emails confirmed. Despite taking time to install because of the power required, her aides worked diligently after she requested they get it up and running. They were told not to tell anyone about what they were doing in case the information became public. In one email, one of her staffers asks: 'Did Gail at the AK club say that she'd be discreet about your purchase?' In a response to an aide, Mrs Palin says she wants the machine but appears more concerned about how the purchase will be viewed by the media. She wrote: 'The press from the ADN (Anchorage Daily News) just called about the sun bed. Any idea where this would have come from?' Family: This photo taken around the time she was thinking about quitting. From left (back row): son Track and husband Todd, (second row) daughter Willow, Mrs Palin, daughter Bristol, (at front) daughter Piper After the work was finally completed, aide Erika Fagerstrom, who coordinated the effort, wrote to the governor: ‘On a day like today -I wish the bed was ready to go for you to use right away!!’ The bill for the tanning machine, which is estimated to have cost about $35,000, is not thought to have been footed by the taxpayer. Mrs Palin's concern about her image runs throughout the emails and in one exchange she displays anger at how press materials are presenting her husband, snowmachine champion Todd. 'Todd asked the picture to be changed a couple of months ago. They're still using an old snowmachine picture of his,' she wrote, adding that at a national meeting of state governors, 'the other spouses have professional photos and updated bios'. Reporters today frantically pored over the tens of thousands of pages of the emails, which have been released under Freedom of Information laws after years of campaigning. 24,199 pages of emails were released by the Alaskan Governor's office, but they also withheld 2,275 pages. 'I'M AT BREAKING POINT': The emails that show when Sarah Palin almost quit From: Rosanne Hughes Sent: 9 July 2008 6:44pm To: Sarah Palin Subject: Re: please send this email to adn and bcc me on it - thanks!! Thanks, Bristol. I love you guys, too. -- From: Sarah Palin Sent: 9 July 2008 5:34pm To: Rosanne Hughes Subject: Re: please send this email to adn and bcc me on it - thanks!! This is Bristol my moms driving, we say thank you so much and mom and I were just praying about the hurt and anger that comes with her job. Thank you for your faith in God. We share it and we love you! Bristol -- From: Rosanne Hughes Sent: 9 July 2008 5:00pm -0800 To: Sarah Palin Subject: Re: please send this email to adn and bcc me on it - thanks!! Governor, do you know how loved you are? These four or five bitter people are so NOT representative. You are so, so loved. The enemy is trying to discourage you. Hang I there! You are doing such an awesome job. You are an amazing lady and the Lord is your defender. He knows the truth and He is going to vindicate you. It hurts my heart to hear these horrible people are bringing you down. We forgive them, Lord. Help theses people come to know You. -- From: Sarah Palin Sent: 9 July 2008 4:40pm To: Ivy Frye, Frank Bailey, Kris Perry, Sharon Leighow, Rosanne Hughes Subject: Re: please send this email to adn and bcc me on it - thanks!! Guys, I may be pretty wimpy about this family stuff, but I feel like I'm at the breaking point with the hurtful gossip about my family that Sherry and others get away with. Bear with me. I hate this part of the job and many days I feel like it's not worth it when they have to put up with the hate that spews from people like Sherry, and there are others. -- From: Ivy Frye Sent: 9 July 2008 5:24pm -0700 To: Sarah Palin Subject: Fw: please send this email to adn and bcc me on it - thanks!! Below is the email Don sent to ADN. It's not much, but we were trying to bring there attention to this ongoing and very frustrating situation. Her comments are downright libelous. You're right - she's a crazy hater. -- From: Ivy Frye Sent: 8 July 2008 9:24pm To: Donny Benson Subject: please send this email to adn and bcc me on it - thanks!! Hey, Cut the body of this email and paste into a new email and sent to content@adn.com Dear Sir or Madam, I'm writing to bring your attention to the increasingly inapropriate comments posted by the blogger syrin. Every day she posts comments that have absolutely no bearing on policy. For example, today the ADN posted a positive story on the national press Governor Palin is receiving, yet syrin accuses the governor of having an affair or makes hateful comments about her young children. I don't often feel compelled to write, but syrin's comments are never on topic, nor are they civil as is stated in the terms of use. Thank you for your time. The former governor repeatedly wrote 'holy moly' in many of the colloquial emails, along with other trademarks, such as, 'ugh', 'thank the lord' and 'unflippinbelievable'. In the emails, Mrs Palin admits she finds it difficult to monitor coverage across every newspaper, radio and television – and said she needed her team to ‘counter comments to the misinformation that’s being spread out there’. In one email she described a letter writer’s ‘goofy comments’ and in another talked about ‘totally false’ allegations that she had banned all staffers from talking to the press. ‘I’ll clarify again what has already been expressed by me as my desire to see you all have the freedom to communicate with the public and the press in any and all manner you deem appropriate,’ she wrote. More... 'President Palin sounds better': Emails show Sarah wanted to run for vice-president MONTHS before she was asked by McCain Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sarah Palin 'stop speaking as their friendship turns to open warfare' Ouch! Tea Party darlings get their claws out as Bachmann's camp says Palin 'is not serious' 'Disorganised, no direction and Newt didn't want to do the hard work': Former Gingrich aides speak out 'Obama's right on': Palin backed Barack just weeks before she joined Presidential race, as emails reveal her shock and joy at being picked by John McCain In another email, written just weeks before she became John McCain's vice-presidential candidate, she praised Barack Obama for his energy policy. She wrote: 'He gave a great speech this morn in Michigan – mentioned Alaska. Stole ou[r] Energy Rebate $1,000 check idea, stole our TC-Alaska gasline talking points, etc. So .... we need to take advantage of this a[nd] write a statement saying he's right on.' The correspondence includes a collection of gushing congratulatory emails she received after being named as John McCain’s running mate. Told by an aide she had 'knocked their socks off!', Mrs Palin replied: 'Can you believe it!....Pray! I love you.' Heavy load: The emails released Friday were first requested during the 2008 White House race by citizens and news organis While Mrs Palin often criticises Obama for using teleprompters, the emails reveal she once arranged a highly staged interview around a per-prepared speech. Aides arranging the TV interview on energy issues insisted answers were taped before the questions were added later. The emails also reveal the strain she was under over the so-called Troopergate scandal after she fired a police chief after he refused to sack a state trooper who had been through a fractious divorce with Mrs Palin’s sister. 'I do apologise if I sound frustrated with this one,' she wrote to an advisor. 'It’s killing me to realise how misinformed leggies [legislators], reporters and others are on this issue.' The emails also revealed a darker side to Mrs Palin's fame when she was selected to be John McCain's running mate - she received several vicious death threats, which she swiftly forwarded to aides without comment. Reporters and photographers crowded into a small office today to pick up boxes of containing hundreds of pounds of paper and began poring over them. Aides for the publicity hungry potential presidential candidate played down the significance of the release in a statement. 'The thousands upon thousands of emails released today show a very engaged Gov. Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state,' said the treasurer of SarahPAC, Tim Crawford. 'The emails detail a governor hard at work. Everyone should read them.' The files include emails from Mrs Palin's official gubernatorial account as well as two private Yahoo accounts she used to conduct state business, a practice that critics said circumvented Alaska's open-records law. Mrs Palin said she was not bothered by the release of emails, saying there are no more rocks that could be turned over about her life or time as governor. But she stressed that “a lot of those emails obviously weren’t meant for public consumption” and that she expected people might seek to take some of the messages 'out of context'. THE SARAH PALIN EMAILS The emails include a range of topics from her times as governor of Alaska. -- ON BEING A HUNTER From: govpalin@yahoo.com Sent: 2 January 2007 6:32pm To: Meghan Stapleton Subject: Re: FW: McNeil story add Thanks Meg. The Game Board will be addressing the issue, evidently. I am a hunter. I grew up hunting - some of my best memories growing up are of hunting with my dad to help feel our freezer... I want Alaskans to have access to wildlife... -- WHO'S GOING TO TRIM MY HAIR? From: sp@hslak.com Sent: 10 September 2008 10:34am To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV), Kris Perry (GOV) Subject: Barber Do u remember who the barber is who's going to trim my hair? -- From: Ivy Frye Sent: 30 December 2007 7:50pm To: Governor Sarah Palin; Todd Palin Subject: Commercial I love the commercial you guys are in! Lookin good! Have fun at the cabin... happy new year. From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com To: Frye, Ivy; Todd Palin Sent: 30 December 2007 7:51pm Subject: Re: Commercial Piper and I just finally saw it - piper said I locked like I had a mullet! -- SOME GUY NAMED OBAMA From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com Sent: 19 February 2007 11:31pm To: Christopher Clark; 'Michael A Tibbles' Cc: John Katz; 'John Bitney' Subject: Re: Pete Rouse: someone in D.C. worth meeting I'm game to meet him Christopher Clark wrote: Mike- When you and the Governor are in Washington, D.C., Jerry Reinwand recommends that you hook up with a guy named Pete Rouse. Rouse was once chief-of-staff for then-Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller. He's now chief-of- staff for a guy named Barack Obama. -- HOLY MOLY From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com Sent: 28 September 2007 6:45pm To: Rutherford; Marty K; Tibbles, Michael A (GOV): Balash, Joseph R; Leschper, Beth (GOV) Re: Cook Inlet LNG Press Conference update Holy moly- what a line up! Thanks so much. Very glad the team will be there. They get to do the talking. .. you guys did all the work and succeeded on this! -- OFFICIALS ARE BAFFLED BY MY ACTIONS From: govpalin@yahoo.com Sent: 31 January 2007 8:31am To: Michael A Tibbles; Frye; Ivy J (GOV); Meghan N Stapleton; John W Bitney Subject: Fwd: #2 Wev on Gen. Joe Ralston Holy Moly... I had no idea this one would be so sensitive... did anyone else get any sense that this appointment was not going over well? I've also heard that Lisa M. and other high ranking officials are baffled by my action on this one. -- U WEARING YOUR KUSPUCK? From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV) Sent: Wednesday, January 02 2008 6:09pm Subject: FW Skatehood celebration remarks U wearing your kuspuck tomorrow?! sent from my Blackberry* device from Cellular One -- MY COMPUTER.. IT WON'T TURN ON From: Palin, Sarah Sent: 12 January 2008 8:30pm To: Fagerstrom, Erika Subject: Re: Clear and Concise? Erika- we just landed. I need to get on my pc to work on and print state of state speech, but looks like my computer was moved or something changed... it won't turn on. I'll either need it asap, or will need to get on your computer downstairs. ??? Thanks -- I'M LOOKING FOR THIS CHRISTMAS PARTY From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) To: Mason, Janice L (GOV) Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:51am Subgect: Ag I'm looking for this ag Christmas party. So far no luck- any more info on location? From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) To: Mason, Janice L (GOV) Governor - just spoke to them. Go out Old Glen - Go 7-9 miles and you will come to Yellow Blinking Lt. turn Right - continue approx. 3-4 miles and you will come to Spur Rd - small sign probably covered in snow - there is a gate there. Let me know and I can call you to walk you through also. Janice -- SUPPORT THE GASLINE! Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...rah-Palin-emails-Dossier- reveals-obsession-hair-hunting.html#ixzz1P6PvAy9V Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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Did you ever notice that when libTURDS and the rest of these PDS insane wingnuts have nothing to say that they use reams of "paper" not to say it? Being frothing at the mouth PDS insane is no way to live. LOSERS. LOL!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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