From MoveOn.Org … I could not write this so am borrowing from the professionals. It’s biased, but it doesn’t mean it is untrue.
Who is Sarah Palin? Here’s some basic background:
- She was elected Alaska’s governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage.1
- Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2
- She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3
- Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4
- She’s doesn’t think humans are the cause of climate change.5
- She’s solidly in line with John McCain’s “Big Oil first” energy policy. She’s pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won’t be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as a threatened species-she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6
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We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here’s a sample:
She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK
She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She’s a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK
As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK
Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK
She’s vehemently anti-choice and doesn’t care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK
I think she’s far too inexperienced to be in this position. I’m all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn’t done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain’s part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he’ll get our vote by putting “A Woman” in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK
So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She’s a global warming denier who shares John McCain’s commitment to Big Oil. And she’s dramatically inexperienced.
In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he’s made a very dangerous decision for our country.
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“I think she’s far too inexperienced to be in this position. I’m all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn’t done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices.”
I think Obama is far too inexperienced to be in the position. Prove me wrong. And as for women working their way up, just look at Hillary Clinton and what good it did her. Obama comes along and the far left is smitten. The media is acting like they are fans instead of journalists.
Palin was asked about creationism in the class room and she said she was NOT for it and in fact her father was a science teacher. Give me a freaking break. And if Palin is doing a good job running your state then she is doing better than a lot of the more “experienced” Govenors in the lower 48.
As a conservative white man, much of the media I see that’s directed towards the black community deeply concerns me.
I feel that there’s a lot of manipulation of the facts taking place in most media (both liberal, and conservative). It worries me that the continued manipulation of facts and figures from the powerful on both fringes of society has victimized the black and white communities greatly.
The misunderstandings created by this lack of pure honesty on the part of the media is one of the biggest sources of the mistrust and tension between our communities, in my opinion.
As someone most people would call a “redneck”, based on my appearance and background, it bothers me when I feel like I’m rejected by the black community before I get a chance to share my experiences and values.
I’m writing this because I don’t know what else to do. I have nothing but love for the black community, and I want to be a friend to the people I meet, but I feel like the walls history has created between our peoples are too high for me to climb over, and I feel like the powerful on the left are all too happy to keep stacking the bricks.
I hope one day, the left will stop trying to drown out the message of reconciliation that our nation needs so badly, but as long as their power base rests upon the conception that they are the only ones that care about the black community, and that conservatism is an effort to keep the American Dream away from those that don’t already have it, then the challenge I face in reaching my dream may be beyond my strength.
I hope I’m wrong.
Palin has more experience than OBAMA…. Putting him in the President’s seat is scary…plain and simple…SCARY.
At this point for me, its a matter of the lesser of the 2 evils; and that is McCain/Palin.
Sarah is more knowledgeable than the average American can imagine!!!! She ate Joe Biden up in the debate. I am convinced that she would make a very excellent President,” God Allowing”.
I would support her and her straight answersed self in
What “magic beans” said. Factcheck.org dispelled the myth that she wanted creationism taught in schools (along with other commonly circulated slanders). And she admits the possibility of anthropogenic climate change but like many (if not most) scientists recognizes that there are other, cyclic factors as well. Please check your facts before you post.
Palin in any position above and including Governor is scary. She is as false as the trinkets the Tourist traps sell.
Lamy Juneau AK