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Palin on Personnel: Sometimes It Gets Personal, Sometimes It Gets Political
Here at TPMmuckraker, we've been closely following Sarah Palin's various personnel decisions from her time as governor of Alaska for quite a while, but we had no idea how tough those decisions had been until we heard it from Sarah herself.
In an interview with Greta van Susteren, Palin called personnel decisions her most "agonizing" work as governor and quipped: "Sometimes it gets personal, sometimes it gets political."
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
Transcript after the jump.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Let me make one last sort of -- of question sort of like that, but what's the most agonizing decision that you had to make as governor, the one that's toughest for you?
PALIN: Whenever an issue has to deal with personnel, whether to keep someone on or whether to ask them to step aside so someone else can come in and take their place because, you know, sometimes it gets personal, sometimes it gets political. But replacing someone in a cabinet, sometimes that's agonizing, but you got to do what you got to do. Putting the people who hired you first, you got to make sure you have the right team around you so that you can best serve.
Josh
Zachary
Cindy McCain calls Obama's the "dirtiest campain in history".
Obama may have bought a $3 million projector.
But McCain is married to a $100 million projector.
Now...
Let us reflect on the gift that Sarah Palin has given us all:
http://thetruthburns.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/maybe-i-aint-no-genius-but-is-sure-is-smartern-her/
October 9, 2008 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm starting to think John McCain was right about Cindy....
October 9, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Ms Palin. Do the right thing and step aside. America and Alaska require you to quit.
October 9, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, like sometimes you got to appoint former members of your junior high school band to statewide positions, but then they date someone else in the government who is separated but not yet divorced and you got to fire 'em!
And that former brother-in-law of mine who shot the moose. Yeah, Todd and I and his dad skinned and ate the moose, but HE shot it!
And that police chief who supported the former mayor in the election that I won! Well, I had ta show him what bein' on the team means.
October 9, 2008 9:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, gee, there's couple others I just remembered. How could I forget the entire Dairy Board? See, I appointed my friend to run the state dairy farm, but the Dairy Board voted to shut it down 'cause it was losing money (so they said), and I told 'em, "Now I don't wanna do that!", and they just wanted to do it anyway, and the commission that appointed them wouldn't fire the Board, so I had ta appoint a whole new commission, and they fired the Board, but the dairy kept losin' money, and it got near a million bucks, so we shut it down. But I showed 'em all what it meant to be on my team!
And the real estate agent that I appointed to be the state Agriculure Commissioner. She's still doin' a great job!
October 9, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
One of the biggest problems this woman has is a lack of boundaries. An inability to draw lines between the personal and the professional. This kind of problem leads to endless ethical lapses. And probably legal ones as well. It is one of the reaons this woman is so manifestly unfit for office of any type. We have seen this problem of hers over and over in every office she has held.
Sarah, the game is up. You are no politician. You are a charlatan, plain and simple!
October 9, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
"one of the reasons"
October 9, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
i really think that she just doesn't even understand why what she did was wrong. she's cut from the same cloth as monica goodling - rabid right-wing christers who don't know the difference between righteousness and SELF-righteousness and who don't know where politics ends and governance has to begin. bad enough that as government employees they don't understand basic civics, as christians they don't understand basic ethics.
October 9, 2008 10:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well said.
October 9, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
NY Times has nice prequel to tomorrows report.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/10trooper.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
October 9, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sometimes Personal
Sometimes Political
But NEVER, under any circumstances, Professional.
October 10, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
TheraP is absolutely right.
Sarah Plain acts as if she has been given a blank check to run the state of Alaska as she pleases just because some people voted for her.
Just another alumna of the G.W. Bush School of Government!
October 10, 2008 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is Palin ever going to do another interview that's not on FOX ever again?
October 10, 2008 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink