Sarah Palin Loves Big Oil

Robery Kennedy Jr has an op-ed in the LA Times about walking disaster Sarah Palin's love of big oil and how it has shaped her:

"Palin's enthusiastic embrace of Big Oil's agenda (if not always Big Oil itself) has been the platform of her hasty rise in Alaskan politics. In that sense she is as much a product of the oil industry as the current president and his vice president. Palin, whose husband is a production operator for BP on Alaska's North Slope, has sued the federal government over its listing of the polar bear as an endangered species threatened by global warming, and she has fought to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's coast to oil drilling.

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I guess the only difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney is ... lipstick."

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