Sarah Palin and her BFF
by Diane V. McLoughlin
September 24, 2008
Thanks to the press working overtime there are a lot of things to
discuss about Alaskan Governor and Vice Presidential candidate
Sarah Palin. She's not right for the job. Chief among the reasons
why Palin is not suited for the second-seed position of V.P. is her
inexperience - but not for the reasons usually cited.
People make mistakes. They usually make most of their
mistakes, and hopefully learn from them, when they are green,
hold little power, and hence, do little damage. On good days.
But what is it about being a newbie politician that would make
Palin dangerous to the country at this pivotal moment in American
history?
I have concerns about Palin that line up in a row: Her frightening
and spiteful arrogance toward anyone not like herself; her quick
response to questions about Russia (negative); her obvious lack
of knowledge of world affairs (sending her oldest son off to Iraq
with the message that he was fighting those who attacked
America - I mean, come on! Everybody knows now that Iraq had
squat to do with 9/11, and she's sending her son off to possibly
die and/or kill, which she condones based on discredited and
false evidence?! There are only three ways to slice it: she
doesn't know; she doesn't care to know and prefers to have blind
faith in her government; or she knows and doesn't care, perhaps
garnering political points for her patriotism at her own son's
expense. Ew.)
Let's see, what else? As Mayor of Wissila (pop. 8,000): requiring
top public servants of peeny Wassila to sign a gag rule that
anything anyone wants to say has to be passed by her. Putting
Wassila in massive debt approving a sports complex worth
millions of dollars on land that belonged not to Wassila but to
somebody else - causing the town to be embroiled in legal
wranglings to settle.
Palin has now held position of Governor for a scant eighteen
months. In that time, contrary to her claims of cutting the fat,
Palin hired a lobbyist to go to Washington, garnering more pork
per capita than any other state in the nation.
There is an investigation underway into allegations that she
and/or her husband and/or staff abused the powers of her office
to try to get her former brother-in-law fired, and for firing the
Public Safety Commissioner who refused to fire him.
Palin continues to peddle the lie that she was against the bridge
to nowhere. For the last time, she campaigned for Governor in
part based on the fact that she was for the bridge. The federal
government nixed the proposal but let Palin keep the money to
use for other purposes in Alaska, anyway.
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by Diane V. McLoughlin
September 24, 2008
Thanks to the press working overtime there are a lot of things to
discuss about Alaskan Governor and Vice Presidential candidate
Sarah Palin. She's not right for the job. Chief among the reasons
why Palin is not suited for the second-seed position of V.P. is her
inexperience - but not for the reasons usually cited.
People make mistakes. They usually make most of their
mistakes, and hopefully learn from them, when they are green,
hold little power, and hence, do little damage. On good days.
But what is it about being a newbie politician that would make
Palin dangerous to the country at this pivotal moment in American
history?
I have concerns about Palin that line up in a row: Her frightening
and spiteful arrogance toward anyone not like herself; her quick
response to questions about Russia (negative); her obvious lack
of knowledge of world affairs (sending her oldest son off to Iraq
with the message that he was fighting those who attacked
America - I mean, come on! Everybody knows now that Iraq had
squat to do with 9/11, and she's sending her son off to possibly
die and/or kill, which she condones based on discredited and
false evidence?! There are only three ways to slice it: she
doesn't know; she doesn't care to know and prefers to have blind
faith in her government; or she knows and doesn't care, perhaps
garnering political points for her patriotism at her own son's
expense. Ew.)
Let's see, what else? As Mayor of Wissila (pop. 8,000): requiring
top public servants of peeny Wassila to sign a gag rule that
anything anyone wants to say has to be passed by her. Putting
Wassila in massive debt approving a sports complex worth
millions of dollars on land that belonged not to Wassila but to
somebody else - causing the town to be embroiled in legal
wranglings to settle.
Palin has now held position of Governor for a scant eighteen
months. In that time, contrary to her claims of cutting the fat,
Palin hired a lobbyist to go to Washington, garnering more pork
per capita than any other state in the nation.
There is an investigation underway into allegations that she
and/or her husband and/or staff abused the powers of her office
to try to get her former brother-in-law fired, and for firing the
Public Safety Commissioner who refused to fire him.
Palin continues to peddle the lie that she was against the bridge
to nowhere. For the last time, she campaigned for Governor in
part based on the fact that she was for the bridge. The federal
government nixed the proposal but let Palin keep the money to
use for other purposes in Alaska, anyway.
(...page 2)
