Displaying all 39 Character Flaws for the Category: sarah palin

Sarah Palin Character Flaws

Date	Character Flaw	Summary of Character Flaw
12/22/2009	Fear	She tries to strike fear into people by drastically overstating and extrapolating the effects of the Independent Medical Advisory...
12/09/2009	Lie	Palin claims that scientists still are unsure about climate change, and that they are cannot come to a conclusion on whether man...
08/07/2009	Lie	Palin falsely claimed in her Facebook page that "my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel"...
06/06/2009	Lie	Sarah Palin, in delivering a speech in Anchorage, repeatedly lifted from an article written by Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley...
05/21/2009	Lie	Sarah Palin vetoed state lawmakers' acceptance of $26.8 million of federal stimulus money for energy cost relief, falsely stating...
05/21/2009	Vindictiveness	Sarah Palin vetoed four Southeast tax projects that are in the district of Sitka Republican Sen. Bert Stedman, who has been criti...
04/12/2009	Lie	Gov. Sarah Palin denied asking Sen. Mark Begich to resign from his seat after criminal convictions against former Sen. Ted Steven...
10/01/2008	Secretiveness	Palin maintained a private discreet e-mail account outside the state government's secure official e-mail system that she used to...
09/16/2008	Secretiveness	Dan Fagan a conservative radio talk show host said that "with Palin's refusal to cooperate with the independent investigator and...
09/15/2008	Lie	During her speech to the RNC, Palin claims that "the teleprompter got messed up, I couldn’t follow it, and I just decided I’d jus...
09/13/2008	Hypocrisy	Palin outed Republican leader Ruedrich for conducting party business on state time; then later hypocritically "did the same thing...
09/13/2008	Vindictiveness	Republican speaker of the House, John Harris, said that Todd Palin called him to complain about selecting as his chief of staff...
09/13/2008	Vindictiveness	Republican speaker of the house John Harris said, “The Palin family gets upset at personal issues. And at our level, they want...
09/13/2008	Divisiveness	According to the NYT, "The administration’s e-mail correspondence reveals a siege-like atmosphere. Top aides keep score, demean...
09/13/2008	Secretiveness	Palin called a special session in 2007 but attended so infrequently many legislators started wearing "Where's Sarah?" buttons.
09/13/2008	Secretiveness	When Palin vetoed millions of dollars in state legislative projects, she did not consult anyone except her husband and budget dir...
09/13/2008	Secretiveness	Palin and her top officials used personal e-mail accounts for state business on occasions in an attempt to circumvent subpoenas.
09/13/2008	Secretiveness	As mayor of Wasilla, she issues a "gag order" to her employees instructing them to never talk to the media.
09/13/2008	Secretiveness	The New York Times stated, "Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy."
09/13/2008	Secretiveness	“Their secrecy is off the charts,” Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor, was quoted as saying when he attempted to get...
09/13/2008	Secretiveness	Many city mayors complained that Palin was inaccessible. The NYT reports that "mayors across the political spectrum swapped stori...
09/12/2008	Lie	She claimed that Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy" when facts show it is actually 3.5 per...
09/08/2008	Lie	Palin deceived Americans by saying she put a state jet on Ebay when in fact it failed to sell three times and was eventually sold...
09/07/2008	Lie	Palin lied about firing her personal chef as Governor in an attempt to make her look more fiscally responsible. The chef was actu...
09/07/2008	Divisiveness	Sarah was so divisive and hated as mayor that residents attempted a recall vote to remove her from office.
09/07/2008	Vindictiveness	She fired two of six department heads for no real reason causing the other two to quit along with three others at the city's muse...
09/05/2008	Vindictiveness	As Governor, she fired Alaska's top cop because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper, and now is "stonewalli...
09/04/2008	Rudeness	Palin demeaned community organizers in her RNC speech to which CivilRights.org replied, "We're a nonpartisan coalition but we do...
09/03/2008	Secretiveness	In 1997 Palin refused to appear before a citizen's group stating, “she doesn’t intend to face the hostile group to answer their...
09/03/2008	Divisiveness	Frontiersman editorial wrote, “Palin continues to lose public faith sticking by her philosophy that either we are with her or aga...
09/03/2008	Divisiveness	The Frontiersman stated, “Wasilla is led by a woman who will tolerate no one who questions her actions or her authority.”
09/02/2008	Vindictiveness	As Mayor, in an act of ruthlessness that stunned those in the community, she fired her loyal City Administrator.
09/02/2008	Vindictiveness	She tried to fire highly respected city librarian who refused to remove books that Palin found to be "morally or socially objecti...
09/02/2008	Hypocrisy	Palin for the "bridge to nowhere" before it became politically favorable to be against it.
09/01/2008	Vindictiveness	As Mayor, she fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because she claimed that he “intimidated” her, but the Police Chief says it was becaus...
09/01/2008	Secretiveness	She skipped four major debates during the 2006 general-election campaign for Governor of Alaska
08/29/2008	Vindictiveness	She fired her public safety commissioner because he refused to fire a state trooper who was the ex-husband of her sister and enga...
08/29/2008	Vindictiveness	She fired members of the Alaska Agriculture Board in order to replace Creamery Board members who she could not fire.
01/27/2008	Rudeness	Palin laughed when a controversial Alaskan DJ insulted a political rival and made a joke about her cancer and weight.