♫♫ [Heatbeat thumping away] ♫♫
"My Hatred for the American Government."
"I’ve got no use for America."
There are quotes from the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party.
Sarah Palin and her husband were members of this anti-American organization that supported separation of their state from the United States.
"I’m Governor Sarah Palin, and I am delighted to welcome you to the 2008 Alaskan Independence Party convention."
Does this represent your view? Your America?
Sarah Palin, a heartbeat away from the presidency.
► Let's remember until recently, Palin's husband was a card carrying Secessionist, and just a few months ago, she herself appeared at the annual Secessionist party convention. Turncoats!
► A sitting Governor addresses a secessionist convention and THIS disgrace wants to be a 72 year-old heartbeat from the presidency.
Lincoln on Secession
Soon after Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency in November 1860, seven southern states seceded from the Union. In March 1861, after he was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States, four more followed.
The secessionists claimed that according to the Constitution every state had the right to leave the Union. Lincoln claimed that they did not have that right. He opposed secession for these reasons:
1. Physically the states cannot separate.
2. Secession is unlawful.
3. A government that allows secession will disintegrate into anarchy.
4. That Americans are not enemies, but friends.
5. Secession would destroy the world's only existing democracy, and prove for all time, to future Americans and to the world, that a government of the people cannot survive.
National Parks Service
As for McCain and Keating:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) recently paid back $13,433 to the failed company of Arizona executive Charles H. Keating Jr. for nine corporate and charter jet flights McCain and his family took from 1984 to 1986 but which McCain failed to disclose as required. [sound familiar]
McCain, a House member at the time of the trips, was elected to the Senate in 1986 and was one of five senators who intervened with federal savings and loan regulators on Keating's behalf in 1987. He also received more than $100,000 in campaign donations over the years from Keating, Keating's family and business associates.
McCain said he met Keating in 1981 and "we became good social friends."
Each August for three years McCain and his wife, Cindy, flew on Keating corporate planes for short vacations at Keating's home in Cat Cay in the Bahamas. McCain's wife and babysitter also took flights on Keating corporate jets, according to records released by the senator's office.
The Arizona Republic also disclosed that McCain's wife and father-in-law, a wealthy Arizona beer distributor, invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center partnership in 1986.
McCain said he was aware of the investment but did not believe it created a conflict of interest for him. He said that he and his wife file separate tax returns and that he did not benefit from the investment.
Washington Post
October 12, 1989
► What a effen joke.
In addition, Sen. McCain last week disclosed that he belatedly had paid $13,433 to American Continental as reimbursement for trips he and his family took aboard the corporate jet to Mr. Keating's vacation home at Cat Cay, the Bahamas, from 1984 through 1986. Sen. McCain said he had meant to pay for the trips at the time but that the matter "fell between the cracks."
The Wall Street Journal
October 16, 1989
► Hey, it could happen to any of us. I mean, who doesn't forget to pay a $13 thousand bill. It happens to me all the time.