Republican’s VP pick supports Pebble Mine
Mining may well become a hot issue in the presidential election. With the choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, McCain has introduced into the action an avidly pro-mining candidate from a pro-mining state.
Just last night, having heard Obama, I had concluded things could get no more exciting. Grant him a magnificent speech. Grant that it is absolutely clear the difference between him an McCain is: (a) abortion & jail; (b) gay rights & marriage; (c) more Scalias and Thomases on the Supreme Court; and (d) months versus centuries in Iraq. And of course the right to dream.
But this morning all those stark differences between the candidates no longer seem top reasons for voting one way or the other. Now as mining-afficianodos, we must also think about a female vice-president with five kids, who carries a gun, believes in global warming, and supports mining.
I can hardly wait to see Alaska’s Palin and Anglo’s Carroll signing the Pebble accord. Or see the line up at the Johannesburg and Vancouver airports for flights to remote mining towns in Alaska. Can you see Palin lecturing the governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer on mining rights? Or the beautiful people sailing around new oil rigs off Huntington Beach? What about Palin teaching Jared Polis about cyanide?
Stand by. This is about to become the most exciting election ever. And mining issues may well be central. And that is as it should be. For mining starts it all and ends it all. And if we cannot get our mining policies, developments, production, economy, closure, and long-term site benefits right, what can we get right.
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You have to admit that Sarah Palin is pretty hot (remember she was in the Ms. Alaska Pageant) and MUCH BETTER on the eyes than Joe Biden. Oh and wait until you see the bikini pics!!! NOT BAD for a mother of 5.
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As you say, McCain could kick off any day, leaving Sarah Palin as President of the most powerfuld country on earth.
Wow. If she could have a troublesome ex-brother in law fired for contesting child custody in backward Alaska, imagine what she can do with the FBI, CIA, etc when she gets p*ssed off!
Cool.
Who’d a thunk it? Possibly a one-shot republican “coup de grace”? A smart, mining advocate, woman(with credibility) in the top U.S. office, with mining only one of the many (really important) beneficiaries. Is it too late for neophyte Obama to go back to the drawing board to generate some real excitement? Too bad we can’t vote, eh !
Palin is a typical politician at best. She said what she needed to to become the governor of Alaska, and now she’s selling out big time. Not only does she lack experience, but if she and McCain wind up running this country, we can pretty much count on Alaska’s fisheries and overall beauty to take a giant dump - as they will most definately take a back seat mining, drilling, a more inustrial development.
Where did you get the notion that Sarah Palin is for the Pebble Mine? I talked with her last year and she said she was neutral on it and that she wished the prospect was located ’somewhere else.’
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