Archive for September, 2008
SARAH PALIN THINKS SHE IS NOT THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW
Hahaha. Check out this graphic.
SARAH PALIN THINKS JOHN McCAIN KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING
Seriously? After the federal bailout of AIG, McCain remarked that his response would be to fire the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The only problem is that the President can’t fire or hire the head of an independent commission. So McCain’s comment was complete fluff, and inaccurate fluff at that.
Is that what Palin means when she replies that her main qualification is “that confidence”?
SARAH PALIN THINKS JOHN McCAIN IS A GREAT AMERICAN WHO USES HIS CAREER TO BUILD REFORM, WHILE IMPLYING THAT OBAMA IS USING REFORM TO BUILD HIS CAREER.
Oh, really? Then how about this quote, penned by McCain himself, as it appears in his 2002 memoir, Worth the Fighting For?:
“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.”
The proof is in the pudding, folks.
SARAH PALIN THINKS SHE IS GEORGE W. BUSH
There are plenty of people in Alaska who understand how bad George W. Bush has been for our country. Sarah Palin isn’t one of them. In fact, she seems to sweat the guy’s technique. Check it out:
SARAH PALIN THINKS SHE IS ABOVE THE LAW
Don’t want to be investigated? Refuse to cooperate with an investigation! It’s a path well-worn by our country’s current Executive branch, and Sarah Palin sure seems to think it’s a great strategy, too!
Palin’s organization claims that “troopergate” is a fabricated circus stirred up by devious Democrats – a total partisan sham and the product of partisan conspiracy.
Of course, it is a bipartisan investigation, being conducted by a council consisting of twice as many Republicans as it does Democrats.
SARAH PALIN THINKS SHE IS A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE
But she left Wasilla in debt when she left her mayoral office – and that jet Palin brags about having sold on eBay? It never sold on eBay. When the plane finally did sell, it was through typical airplane sales channels, and the state of Alaska lost money on the transaction. Sounds very much like W’s style, no?
SARAH PALIN THINKS SHE IS SHATTERING A GLASS CEILING FOR WOMEN
This doesn’t seem right, of course – especially as Palin made this statement with a false nod to the campaign of Hillary Clinton. Palin can’t even dream of hoping to touch Clinton’s resume, intellect, or general gravitas. It’s insulting to even the most average person’s intelligence to think that Palin seriously wants anyone to seriously ponder this comparison. Newsflash: Having breasts and a vagina doesn’t automatically qualify anyone as a champion for gender equality, feminism, or the empowerment of women. Especially when so many of your policy positions are bad for women:
SARAH PALIN THINKS THAT A VICTIM OF RAPE OR INCEST HAS NO RIGHT TO AN ABORTION
Not really sure I have to say much here. This is flatly out of touch from the way most Americans think, and downright frightening. During her 2006 campaign for governor, Palin made her position disturbingly clear when asked how she’d respond to the theoretical rape of her own daughter: “I would choose life.” (Anchorage Daily News)
Ever heard of a rape kit? It’s forensic kit used to collect DNA from rape victims. Usually, the kit is used as soon as possible after the rape is reported, to get the best possible samples, hopefully for later use as evidence. The process is arguably invasive and humiliating – especially since, you know, this person was just raped. Sucks, right? Under Palin’s watch, Wasilla charged rape victims $1200 for their rape kits.
For some well-put perspective, I quote feministing.org:
“One of the services that almost every American (with the exception of a few hardcore Libertarians, I suppose) agree that our government should provide is policing and investigation into crime, especially of a violent nature. Rape, one of the most difficult to prosecute, disproportionately affects women–young women, in fact. If Palin wants to play fierce mother hen in her stump speeches, I suggest she explain how it is that she wouldn’t do everything in her mayoral power to make sure that rapists be caught and prosected.”
How on earth is that shattering a glass ceiling for women?
SARAH PALIN THINKS YOU CAN SUBJECTIVELY BAN BOOKS IN AMERICA
Although her campaign thinks they’ve answered for this one, they definitely have not. Sarah Palin thinks you can subjectively ban books in the United States of America. Let’s be clear – you can not.
In 1996 Sarah Palin was the newly-minted Mayor of Wasilla. She openly pursued the town’s librarian in hopes of banning certain books from the town’s collection. Horrified by the request, the librarian refused to entertain the inquiry. Palin then tried to fire the librarian, but was ultimately prevented from doing so after a wave of public support emerged for the seven-year city employee.
Palin then raised the possibility of banning books a second time, at a Wasilla City Council meeting that same year.
Palin’s response to criticism on this topic is that her questions were rhetorical.
Okay, done laughing? Of course, every true American knows that banning books sucks- except in cases of libel, sedition, hate speech, and other exceptions which have been generally accepted, though only through vigorous debate. But the sitting mayor of a small, snowy town can’t just muscle a librarian into tossing out whatever texts don’t bring glory to the Lord, or any other book for that matter. That’s flatly un-American. We don’t need leaders who abuse their authority while flagrantly disregarding the law – we need leaders who know, understand, and respect the Constitution of the United States of America. So far, Sarah Palin has demonstrated only the contrary.
John McCain is pretty old and has had cancer FOUR times. If he dies in office, do you want someone as president who would tell you what you can and can not read, watch, or hear?
Blog outtake: Sarah Palin makes Tipper Gore look like G.G. Allin.
SARAH PALIN THINKS THE WORLD IS 5,000 YEARS OLD
Come on. What about all of those fossils – not to mention science in general, you know? Yet Palin wants creationism taught in public schools. In a 2006 Palin told the Anchorage Daily News, “It’s OK to let kids know that there are theories out there. They gain information just by being in a discussion.” But teaching creationism alongside evolution is like trying to ride a Big Wheel in the Tour de France.
Creationism does not adhere to any method of analysis; it’s not even a set of facts supporting a particular principle, because some of creationism’s main tenets are invisible or can’t be otherwise demonstrated. Creationism can’t be tested, but evolution can be, and has been. And guess what? It turns out that the scientific disciplines which contribute to the study of evolution – well, we owe them a lot, for things like MRI machines, medicine, and the hope that we can one day defeat illnesses like Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, AIDS and more.
Palin has been a friend to proponents of Intelligent Design – a creationist belief system championed in American politics mostly by an agency called Discovery Institute. This organization wants to re-cast the role of science in human civilization to incorporate Christian and theistic notions of the supernatural. Intelligent Design also asserts that science is at the root of many of the world’s current problems.
If you don’t believe in science, vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Give up your medicines, your processed foods, your machine-perfect clothing and the automatically milled wood in the roof above your head. Give up your car, your shoes, NASCAR and the operation that saved grampa’s life – give all that stuff up, because science is at the root of it all. Science causes problems, but what doesn’t? In the mean time, science also provides answers, solutions, longevity and a better quality of life for human beings. Science makes this debate possible, and runs the gears of the flag factory, too.