+1 on the idiot queen sign though, that’s fantastic. :)

This could be true, but true of anyone in that case.

She managed to use her post in Alaska to benefit herself and others, do it well enough to continue to do it. She is very good as developing relationships with the right people to do what she needs to do, and knows how to harness a lot of people to follow her.

For that part of her life, she is very good at implementing a successful way. She doesn’t seem to be self-defeating, and she is not very counter-productive. She seemed mentally competent to hold her Alaskan job, and walk around being a VP candidate.

I don’t believe ‘idiot’ is the right abuse term to describe her accurately.

But it is very hard to know really if the ‘I read all of the newspapers’ type comments which look dumb – are real expressions of her inner mental state, or ………. a PR strategy. If we were to get hold of confidential economic negotiations over mining, oil or such, and she carries on like “gee whiz, wowie zowie, ‘gonna dig dem oils eh, oh look teehee there’s Russia, my toe hurts” to executives of major oil companies, then …. idiot may be appropriate, but I don’t think so.

Such is a way of politicing these days. Seems to work enough to be successful across the anglo world. Present Idiocy® to enough people to laugh or ignore, and do the real adult money deals behind the doors while people chuckle at your ‘is the children learning?”‘s on the internets.

I blame the helicopter parents.

“Cougar” has always referred to an older woman who is sexually interested in younger men, but no matter how it was used, it was an inappropriate sexual innuendo. So was the comment that Palin is “cheap” as in “inexpensive,” (unlike the printing costs of the documents). Do we need to argue about what it means to call a woman “cheap” now?

Also, as the photo indicates, she’s an “idiot queen.”

None of these personal attacks have anything to do with the release of e-mails and that is the point made by some of the comments.

Palin is a public figure and is fair game for harsh criticism, both personally and professionally, but calling her an idiot and a cheap cougar lowers the standard of discourse to childish bullying and name-calling. It’s disappointing to see it on boingboing.

Not exactly holding my breath waiting for that to happen.

I suppose that we should feel fortunate that everyone in the media doesn’t have to take any time away from reviewing Obama’s, Pelosi’s, Kerry’s, Reid’s, or Biden’s emails, and therefore have plenty of time available to comb through Palin’s.

Cougar means an older woman who looks for younger men. If you don’t believe me, check urbandictionary.com.

Sarah, yahoo to the core.

While there may be “forensics and privacy” concerns with electronic documents, those concerns are well trod ground for any major law firm. In complex commercial litigation it is common for a law firm to review hundreds of thousands of documents (not a mere 13K), withhold/redact/produce them as appropriate, and then provide them to the opposing side (or gov’t agency) in electronic form. There are whole companies built around assisting in the document review/production process (see, EvidenceExchange).

Also, it took them over two years? That’s simply incompetent. 13K emails should take a week.

Maybe she’s not as much of an idiot as some of you claim? How many of you haven’t got an embarrassing e-mail or two in your e-mail archive?

Yeah yeah, I know. :)

“Todd – A lady called with a contact name/number for an item (Moose Turd Cake) that Piper had bid upon at the Go Red for Women Luncheon (but not get the bid). The lady thought maybe that Piper would like
to order one.

Cathy Rogers

What people think!! P.S. I had security cancel your Fairbanks trip this weekend. Janice”

I’m curious to see if anyone finds anything there that’s non-trivial.

The photo belongs in a post about Palin’s publicity tour or about her legion of fans.

The way it’s used here is just a petty insult. It degrades all of us.

The Watergate tapes spelled the end for the recording of phone conversations by presidents, and that might one day have been important for historians. Some might say getting Nixon was worth it. Can you say the same thing if this example spells the end of politicians’ casual use of email?

Demanding the emails, and not finding anything, is going to bite us in the ass.

If you’re not spending the entire weekend reading these files then you might as well count that as a donation to SarahPAC.