馬侃前幾天震驚了美國政壇，選了阿拉斯加的女州長，培林，當他的副手。這選擇有許多讓人匪夷所思的地方:
1. 阿拉斯加已經是共和黨的大本營了。難道馬侃不想拉攏一些中間選民嗎?
2. 馬侃最喜歡講歐巴馬缺少經驗。他卻選擇了一位比歐巴馬還沒有經驗的人當副手。才當州長兩年，之前是做一位人口不到9000的州長。他以後想要用什麼來攻擊歐巴馬?
3. 培林被懷疑濫用職權目前正在接受調查。這故事在這裡:
Sarah Palin’s sister Molly married a guy named Mike Wooten who is an Alaska State Trooper. Mike and Molly had a rocky marriage. When the marriage broke up, there was a bitter custody fight that is still ongoing. During the custody investigation, all sorts of things were brought up about Wooten including the fact that he had illegally shot a moose (yes folks this is Alaska), driven drunk, and used a taser (on the test setting, he reminds us) on his 11-year old stepson, who supposedly had asked to see what it felt like. While Wooten has turned out to be a less than stellar figure, the fact that Palin’s father accompanied him on the infamous moose hunt, and that many of the dozens of charges brought up by the Palin family happened long before they were ever reported smacked of desperate custody fight. Wooten’s story is that he was
basically stalked by the family.
After all this, Wooten was investigated and disciplined on two counts and allowed to kept his position with the troopers. Enter Walt Monegan, Palin’s appointed new chief of the Department of Public Safety and head of the troopers. Monegan was beloved by the troopers, did a bang-up job with minimal funding and suddenly got axed. Palin was out of town and Monegan got "offered another job” (aka fired) with no explanation to Alaskans. Pressure was put on the governor to give details, because rumors started to swirl around the fact that the highly respected Monegan was fired because he refused to fire the aforementioned Mike Wooten. Palin vehemently denied ever talking to Monegan or pressuring Monegan in any way to fire Wooten, or that anyone on her staff did. Over the weeks it has come out that not only was pressure applied, there were literally dozens of conversations in which pressure was applied to fire him. Monegan has testified to this fact, spurring an ongoing investigation by the Alaska state legislature. But, before this investigation got underway, Palin sent the Alaska State Attorney General out to do some investigative work of his own so she could find out in advance what the real investigation was going to find. (No, I’m not making this up). The AG interviewed several people, unbeknownst to the actual appointed investigator or the Legislature! Palin’s investigation of herself uncovered a recorded phone call retained by the Alaska State Troopers from Frank Bailey, a Palin underling, putting pressure on a trooper about the Wooten non-firing. Todd Palin (governor’s husband) even talked to Monegan himself in Palin’s office while she was away. Bailey is now on paid administrative leave.
As if this weren’t enough, Monegan’s appointed replacement Chuck Kopp, turns out to have been the center of his own little scandal. He received a letter of reprimand and was reassigned after sexual harrassment allegations by a former coworker who didn’t like all the unwanted kissing and hugging in the office. Was he vetted? Obviously not. When he was questioned about all this, his comment was that no one had asked him and he thought they all knew. Kopp, defiant, still claimed to have done nothing wrong and said to the press that there was no way he was stepping down from his new position. Twenty four hours later, he stepped down. Later it was uncovered that he received a $10,000 severance package for his two weeks on the job from Palin. Monegan got nothing.
馬侃選她有一個原因是因為她沒有長期待在華府，有她在，馬侃的改革決心看起來會比較有說服力。但是，看樣子培林跟一般的政客也沒有差多少。所以選她當副手馬侃真能說服大家，這個組合能夠給美國帶來重大的改革嗎?
4. 更恐怖的是，馬侃在選她之前只有跟培林見過一次面:
McCain really doesn't know that much about Palin, either. He met her once in February. He interviewed her as part of the vetting process...and that's it. He never worked with her.
而且她不知道培林正在接少調查!!!!
A very reliable source overheard Republican spokesperson McHugh Pierre state TODAY that he had spoken to the McCain Campaign. They are coming to Alaska tomorrow to check out the "Troopergate" investigation.
In other words, THEY DID NOT DO SO PROPERLY AHEAD OF TIME.
喔天阿! 馬侃到底在想什麼阿!?
總結以上的一些疑問，我們可以發現兩件事: 1)馬侃現在很緊張，想要用一個女的副手拉一些人氣。2)馬侃的判斷有問題。沒有看過所有的證據在做決定，也沒有跟其他人先討論。
從馬侃這一次選副手的表現來看，她以前批評歐巴馬簡直是 "一百步笑五十步"。這選舉已經提前結束了!
No comments:
Post a Comment