Time magazine has a new profile of Palin out and it includes several
quotes from John Stein, a mayor of Wasilla before Palin.
The whole story can be found at.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html?imw=Y

One of the scarier parts of the story:
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs
into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about
banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate
language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker,
couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that
Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the
mayor.

*curmudgeon*
"The best read illiterate in the country"

On Sep 4, 11:38 pm, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:

curmudgeon wrote:

Most Americans would go along with book bans. It is the "intellectual
elites" who machinate to overcome the will of the common. And the common
know it, resent it, and would love to have a leader as stupid as they
are. It's perfect democracy, perfect death.

On Sep 5, 8:30 am, John J wrote:

"The chancellor has insisted it is his duty to be straight with the
public, after telling a newspaper the UK faces its worst economic
crisis in 60 years.

Alistair Darling told the Guardian the downturn would be more
"profound and long-lasting" than most had feared.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne said Mr Darling had "let the cat out
of the bag" about the state of the economy.