After she suggested that the youth of the villages leave to find jobs elsewhere, she told a short story about her husband Todd to use as an example of someone who left the bush to get a job and make a better life for his family. Only the whole story was based on a lie.

To praphrase;

Sarah said that Todd was raised in Dillingham and after high school he realized he might have to leave there to get a job and take care of his family. Also, she said that the job allowed him to go back to Dillingham on his down time from his job on the slope and live a subsistence lifestyle. She was pointing him out as a shining example of a kid from the bush who moved away for work and how it helped him with his subsitence life.

The problem is, Todd wasn’t raised in Dillingham. He may have lived there for a while when he was very young, but from what I can gather, he was raised in Glenallen and Wasilla. His father was the Manager of MEA in Wasilla. Not sure what he did in Glenallen. His mother remained in Dillingham and Todd would visit her in the summer and setnet to make money. But he graduated from Wasilla High where he was Sarah’s high school sweetheart. He was long gone from Dillingham when he graduated, but that is not what Sarah implied in her little speech. In fact, When he applied for the slope job, they had just eloped and were living in Anchorage. By the time he was hired, Sarah and Todd had bought a condo in Wasilla and were living there again.

Todd wasn’t making any sacrifices to live in Anchorage and Wasilla, he’d been there for a long time and had friends, family, a wife, and a place to live there. He also had money from his commercial fishing and whatever else he was doing. He went to the Bush to visit family and make money. Ironic since Sarah suggested others should leave the bush to make money.

All that is quite different from what the average young person in the bush would have if they tried to go to the big city and find a job. They would be alone in a strange place filled with strange people with little or no money and where would they be living? Life would also be going along at a faster pace, with lots of distractions and no family or friends around for a support group. That’s a pretty scary thought for a youngster raised in the bush.

But to watch the whole story roll off of Sarah’s tongue left me flabbergasted. I realized then just how easy it was for her to make things up to make a point. And as you pointed out, not necessarily a valid point.

She stinks…and the more I smell her, the more she stinks…

I learned many years ago about talking;

“WHAT COMES UP DOESN’T HAVE TO COME OUT”
In other words, every thought that flows through your mind is not necessarily worthy
of words.

Sarah Palin really needs to learn this little ‘tid bit.’

Someone, somewhere pointed out that in the very odd ‘election eve’ letter supposedly released / approved by the good doctor CBJ, there was a mention of Sarah’s liver enzyme levels (of all things) and that they had not been tested.
An Alert Reader (Be a Lert, the world needs more Lerts) wondered WHY that little item was in there at all. Turns out, SSRI antidepressants affect liver enzymes ! Was CBJ giving us a clue ?

I have a cousin on Zoloft. She swears that she will be on it for the rest of her life (she is in her forties) and that it is god’s gift to humans. (Well, okay).
The thing is, she acts very much like SP. She has stayed with us. When she gets up in the morning she stumbles around like a zombie until she takes her little magic pill. Then it’s like zowie wowie, she’s speeding until midnite or so. I finally told her she acted like she was on speed. She was horrified, so proud of the fact that she has NEVER done illegal drugs. (I suggested that she might want to try a popular, mild one). But the pattern of absolute confidence in herself no matter what gibberish she was saying and the endless energy is the same as SP. (The cousin told me one time that she tried to take Zoloft in the evening but it had her ‘bouncing off the walls all night’ . . . I asked her ‘what does that tell you about this drug?’ but she didn’t get it.)

I’m starting to think that SP’s god comes in a little bottle and that CBJ was trying to clue us into that with the liver enzyme reference.

And yes, when this sort loses it, they totally lose it but then something turns over in their minds and it’s like their tantrum never even happened. Weird.