Skadi

Skadi

Skadi, whose pseudonym is an homage to her Viking ancestors, was raised in a small city on the banks of the Mississippi River in the far north. She grew up hunting and fishing with her father and traveling the United States with her Mother. The youngest of nine children, she is a devout Catholic and Reaganite conservative. She has a bachelors degree in History and a minor in English. She did an internship in Berlin Germany and worked for a former House Majority Leader as a Staff Assistant for one year.

Skadi currently resides somewhere in the US with her husband and Golden Retriever.

Coakley: The Political Gift That Keeps on Giving

by Skadi

Wait, what was that? Did Martha Coakley actually say that? Yes she did.  Here is the quote for those who have not heard or read it,

“You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.”

She was saying that about devout Catholics on Boston’s WBSM to Kevin Pittman. But it is not where she said it, or to whom she said it. It is the words she chose to use.

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Where to start? The sheer arrogance is mind boggling.  Is she so full of hubris that she thinks that everyone in Massachusetts from Uxbridge to Cambridge agrees with her? This is what she says off the top of her head in an interview? This sentiment is so close to the surface of her consciousness that it spills out under routine questioning? How does one pick from such a plethora of goodies that Martha has given us during this campaign.

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