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McCain Chooses Alaska Governor Palin as Running Mate + Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil

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By Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writers
washingtonpost.com
Friday, August 29, 2008; 12:49 PM

Palin Will Be the First Woman Nominated to the Ticket by the Republican Party

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain selects Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Palin, originally from Idaho, was elected the first female governor of Alaska in 2006 after defeating incumbent Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Gov. Tony Knowles in the general election.

DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 29 — Republican presumptive presidential nominee John McCain announced today that he has chosen first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, saying she has an “outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies.”

McCain Chooses Alaska Governor Palin as Running Mate – washingtonpost.com.

h/t: CLG

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Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor

Tim Reid in Washington
May 23, 2008

The polar bear should be removed from the endangered species list because its protected status will hamper drilling for oil and gas in Alaska, the state’s Republican Governor has demanded.

Sarah Palin is suing the Bush Administration over its decision last week to place the animal under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, claiming that climate models predicting the continued loss of sea ice – the main habitat of polar bears – are unreliable.

Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor – Times Online.

h/t: CLG

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US government sued over failure to protect polar bears

7 thoughts on “McCain Chooses Alaska Governor Palin as Running Mate + Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil”

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  2. Thanks for the link, Natureboy, good commentary. The fact that she allows for wolves to be killed in her state is enough for me to not want her as VP (possibly prez).

  3. Re: Plyler,

    Hope this link works for you (or that you can comprehend the farce and atrocity of your greedmongering, wormongering selfish gluttonous gun-totin’, god-given ghouish ideology– i.e. you don’t have to be a ‘liberal’ nor your typical maniacle evangelical brain-twisted psychotic born-again ‘McBomb them all & let god sort ’em out’ miscreant to believe in life on earth):

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  6. I realize that it is hard for liberals and environmentalists to deal with, but the FACT is that there ARE more polar bears now than at any tim in the last 50 years, their numbers are increasing, and their listing on the endangered list was purely political.

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