Sarah Palin:For country or for state?

As we start to learn more about Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, I find myself asking "Who is she in this for?" "Which does she care more about? Alaska or the US?"

The more I read and hear, the more it appears Palin accepted the veep nomination to help further Alaska.

She would favor a war with Russia. Smart move. That would eliminate Alaska's biggest foreign threat.

Soon after it was announced Plain was John McCain's choice for veep a video surfaced of Palin stating "What exactly is it the vp does everyday?" You can watch the clip of that interview on CNBC here.

While that remark shocked me, what really caught my interest was what followed that comment.

"We want to make sure that  vp slot is a fruitful type position, especially for Alaskans and for the things we are trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the US",Palin said.

Her energy policy even favors Alaska.

"There have been a lot of misperceptions and misconceptions about what ANWR is all about,"she explained. "You see pictures, visual, from the naysayers, the critics, of the idea of opening ANWR and the pictures they are showing are of mountains, polar bears. Lost of different wildlife. They'll show moose in the streams and mountains in the background. That is not ANWR."

Here's a video of Palin talking about energy.

According to ANWR.org,

"Each-year thousands of waterfowl and other birds nest and reproduce the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk fields and a healthy and increasing caribou herd migrates through these areas to calve and seek respite from annoying pests. Oil field facilities have been located and designed to accommodate wildlife and utilize the least amount of tundra surface."

Keep in mind, ANWR.org appears to support drilling in the wildlife reserve to liberate "billions of barrels and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable gas."

Again I have to ask myself if Palin cares more about Alaska than the United States.

In the video where she talks about energy she states "drill, drill, drill" and talks a lot about cutting foreign dependence on oil by using domestic oil instead.

She does mention renewable sources of energy but never lays out a plan to cut the US dependence on oil.

Again, I would only assume drilling in Alaska would bring money to the large state up north.

She seems to love Alaska a little too much.