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Re: Charging rape victims--Palin/Obama/Biden/McCain
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Andy
That's just for starters. We don't know what laws were on the books in Wasilla at the time. We don't know what efforts were made to change them. We don't know how much support there was for changing them. We don't know what statements Palin may have made in other venues or articles that were conveniently omitted to create a controversy to sell newspapers. We don't know much of anything in fact.
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I'm sorry but...what? Maybe you have a low opinion of the citizens of Wasilla, but how on earth would it have been controversial for Palin to push for this law to be changed. We know exactly the kinds of things she pushed hard for, lots of journalists have been scouring her records to see what she pushed for in order to get a sense of her values. If there was evidence that she had made ANY effort to overturn this practice, wouldn't some of the conservative-leaning media out there have found it and used it to quelch this story the SECOND it appeared on the blogs. In fact, wouldn't they have used it to add credence to their claim that the media is trying to "smear" Palin.
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Imperator
How many rapes did indeed occur in wasilla during her tenure and did she in fact sppt. the policy or?
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Her silence on the issue is deafening if you ask me. If she really had no clue that there were rapes in Wasilla and that this was a policy then I'm just a little bit concerned about her oversight ability. This was a town of 9,000. I would suspect that a rape, being a relatively rare crime, would maybe make the local news. It's also a little creepy that Wasilla was the ONLY town in Alaska that did this policy.
Seems there were 10 reported rapes from 2000-2005, there's no stats on this link from 1995-2000 for some reason. Uniform Crime Reports of Wasilla Police and Index from 1985 to 2005
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Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president he’ll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys’ network in Washington.' I’m not making this up. This is somebody been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna take on the old boys' network,” he said. “In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting!- Obama, 9/17/2008
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