# Sarah Palin and Alaska Separatists. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 22, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130 "2008-10-22T21:40:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130/21 "2008-10-23T20:56:06Z")
> [@dmatsch](#): > > Not recently? > This video shows a date earlier this year > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l\_7its](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its) My mistake. **Tuckerfan** : It’s really sickening to listen to the local yabos piss and moan about the government while drawing a paycheck from them and retiring on the taxpayer’s dime. Government contracts are a huge industry here. In addition, they certainly don’t turn down the oil royalty check that’s handed to them every year by the state. It’s too bad in a way that the Obama campaign didn’t make a bigger deal about the Palin affiliation with a group that is probably under FBI surveillance. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130/22 "2008-10-23T21:00:43Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > Hatred for the American government isn’t the same as hatred for America. It is when you’re accusing a liberal or a Democrat of hating America. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130/23 "2008-10-23T21:39:40Z")
Interesting that, with the background of supporting a secessionist organization, she has the gall to suggest that “real” America is small town rural… implying that large urban centers and people who vote for Democrats are not “real” Americans. But these secessionists, they’re “real” Americans. [soapbox]Regardless of the Obama/McCain choice, I think this woman is a danger and a serious threat.[/soapbox] ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130/24 "2008-10-23T23:07:40Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **Tuckerfan** : It’s really sickening to listen to the local yabos piss and moan about the government while drawing a paycheck from them and retiring on the taxpayer’s dime. Government contracts are a huge industry here. In addition, they certainly don’t turn down the oil royalty check that’s handed to them every year by the state. It’s too bad in a way that the Obama campaign didn’t make a bigger deal about the Palin affiliation with a group that is probably under FBI surveillance. I hear ya, brother. I know plenty of people who claim “the government never did anything” for them, yet they’re happy to drive on the roads paved by government money, work jobs that rely on government funding for at least part of their salary, and on and on. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130/25 "2008-10-23T23:48:56Z")
\ Sorry. This is about as close to a Great Debate as anything else currently in there. Moved. GQ \> GD \ ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130/26 "2008-10-23T23:53:28Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > This is about as close to a Great Debate as anything else currently in there. Hey, I resemble that remark! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-and-alaska-separatists/469130.md?page=1)