Palin refuses to cooperate with abuse-of-power investigation

There is one America for the elites, and another one for the rest of us. They follow the rule of by any means necessary to get away with what they want!

What a load of crap.

Martha Stewart came clean and she wasn't vindicated...she was indicted.

Let's not pretend that reality is TV and that those that tell the truth who are famous are going to get a pat on the back and not the OMG I TOLD YOU SHE WAS VILE treatment.

People already have what they want to hear from her in their head. If she says something different, even if it is the truth, they'll claim liar because that's not what they have in their mind of what she was suppose to say or admit to.

I've only seen a sliver of the attacks on her on this site and it's enough for me to state that she made a good, but still damaging, choice.

There is no win here. No total win. This is already politics and it's more about perception than truth.

Martha Stewart was guilty. You analogy makes no sense.

Yes it does. What reason was there to get her in trouble than her being famous? You'll pull up what she allegedly did but where's the proof? The only proof they have is her statement nothing that would actually point to her physically doing it. It's all about who said what and when and had she not stated what she stated in a statement she wouldn't be in nearly as much trouble.

The point is that she spoke and she was not given any better treatment for telling the truth. The better treatment was because she was famous, but famous people deserve that for the crap people put them through with the paparazzi. It is the price of being famous.

dude what planet do you live in. famous people get treated so much better than regular folks in terms of well everything.
Martha stewart was sent to prison for of obstructing justice and lying to investigators during an insider trading probe into why she sold ImClone Systems Inc. (IMCL: Research, Estimates) stock in late 2001.
Granted I agree with you that Palin has gotten some negative media for her family and all. but as a voter as a person who believes in issues does this justify the reason she won't take interviews answer question corporate with the investigations. I mean come on, This is politics, you are bound to be hammered by negative press it is part of the job but she needs to answer questions , she needs to tell people where she stands on issues , she needs to address the people who want answers. I don't want a vp who is cool to hang out with or who is average I want a vp who is brilliant , who can make judgment calls against the president if she has a disagreement with him. why is she so tightly controlled from the media . okay you'll say that the media is biased McCain , Biden ,even Clinton had to go through this crap and she has to go through it to its politics and its the American way. so if she is clean and if she can tough it out like Clinton , Like McCain , like Obama let her talk for herself. let her make her case. because the more she is controlled the more people have questions let her go out and take interviews, let her take questions . imagine if you had questions of Biden and he was tightly controlled and you had no answers to his questions or Michelle obama was tightly controlled didn;t go out and talked to the media you would be angry and upset to. she is the vp let her speak for herself just like I can't know if she is guilty you can't know if she is innocent until she speaks for herself

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/05/stewart.main/

Stewart was found guilty by a jury. Your analogy only works if you assume Palin is guilty of something too. Of course making that assumption is easier now because she's trying to block the investigation and hide from the charges. See...that's what guilty people do. Spin all you want...but this looks very shady.

You wonder why Republicans don't listen to you when you might have a good stance? Because you use fear of OH NO....not another Bush...when that's not even the case. People are different from one another. This isn't Russia where someone steps down and that one that stepped down puppets the next because he just can't let go.

Where in history has that happened with a President?

America breeds single minded thinking. People want to be an individual here. There's not a lot of love for people that think like a crows and I highly doubt McCain and Palin are that stupid to be anything like Bush.

now they'll be similar because they are from the same party but to state they are the same is to try and use fear instead of using reason. Now are you not against using the fear of the war to elect someone? Why then are you using fear of sameness?

Don't tell people to not use war fear and then use same person fear in your next breath.

Except I'm not using fear. I'm simply pointing out that Palin is acting just like Bush has when investigated for abuse of power. Refusing to cooperate and hiding behind lawyers. And all this after she claimed that she had nothing to hide. How is this any different than the situation with the fired justices? Or the torture memo?

Exactly how are you NOT using fear? You are banking on people not wanting to have another Bush for 4 more years and is that not using fear of what is past to not reoccur?

It is.

You're better off, as are everyone else who wants Obama, to just state why their policies are not going to work than to state OMG let's not have another Bush. Because that's trying to instill fear not reason. You're giving someone fish to eat for dinner instead of teaching them to fish so they can feed themselves.

I guess you can't answer the questions I asked. Stating a fact isn't resorting to fear. If the fact that she's acting just like Bush scares you...then that is your problem.

Rather than complaining about my factual comparison, why don't you call on the candidate to live up to what she says she is. If she is a reformer and is for more transparency in government, then this is her opportunity to prove it. Go before the investigative committee and prove your case. Go before the press and answer the questions. It's as simple as that. But if you don't, you really don't have a leg to stand on when the questions continue.

The complaint of fear mongering by our government is based mostly on the fact that the fear mongering isnt based on facts, calling the McCain/Palin ticket the same as bush isnt fear mongering, its a good reason to be afraid. To tell you the truth Im afraid of Obama/Biden as well. Neither of the two parties will do much to change what is going on within our foreign policy or economy.

So it could be twisted by people like you?

Smart to not do that. She stopped it, most likely, because of the massive amount of press she's getting now. Even if she talked people would spin it.

Didn't you see the hate for her interview she gave after so many wanted her to talk? It mattered not what she said or how she stated it for the hate was already preplanned in many people's heads.

It was lose/lose no matter.

As is now...but at least she decides how she's going to lose it just like Clinton. She decided not to show up at an event. Showing up not showing up....lose/lose. But she decided to lose that way because it was better for her and how she wanted things to pan out.

She said she would cooperate with the investigation before she accepted the nomination and suddenly now that she's the VP candidate the investigation is tainted? Sorry Jammer, but that looks shady as hell. She has every right to plead the 5th, as you say, but we have every right to question what that means and what she's trying to cover up. She said she didn't have anything to hide...then why is she hiding?

Why does she have 95% of the current articles that popped up world wide let alone on Current within the FIRST WEEK she was nominated?

Biden didn't even come close to that.

You think people are fair minded after the VP nod? ha. Come on and get with it. Do you read what the articles are about and how they attack her for sneezing? She's not even a Presidential nod...she's a VP. I am not complaining for her on the attacks, but I'm stating is that now she's so drilled with all this "hate" that now going along with the investigation is a poor choice.

Why is that so hard to understand?

That's like Martha Stewart. She most likely didn't do anything that no other "man" had done in her position but because she was a famous woman they had to make an example of her for no other reason other than because they wanted to.

Had she pleaded the FIFTH instead of being "open" she would never have been in much trouble as she was. It's not the same for famous people. You are tried and judged before any truth is even seen.

You're proof enough of that.

It's not always the crime, but it's the cover up that counts. And I'm not sure comparing her to Martha Stewart is doing her any favors. Martha broke the law...plain and simple.

Yes she is under intense media scrutiny. And the reason for that is because nobody knew who she was...Biden has been in the national spot light for decades. Once again the republicans want it both ways...we should admire her because she "didn't blink" when asked to serve, but we should all feel sorry for her because she's a victim of such harsh scrutiny. Sorry, but that's moose sh*t.

Either cooperate with the investigation or accept the questions that come with trying to block it. Everything else is just spin.

Uh you didn't even read what I was stating.

Again that's why she made the right choice.

Uh...yes I read what you stated. I just disagree with it. She is keeping this story alive every times she or her lawyers block a subpoena and when they try to control the investigation. If she has nothing to hide, as she claimed, then she would answer the charges and put it to rest. Dragging this out only makes her look like she's hiding something, which she probably is. She's continuing the story and it's really starting to take it's toll. Have you seen her poll numbers lately?