I had actually wanted to remain in the US this year, so that I could follow (and blog about) the presidential campaign, but I'm rather glad I didn't. Aside from the fact that I've had a super-wonderful year here in Kyrgyzstan, just occasionally skimming the internet for headlines and downloading random podcasts is enough to make me boil and wonder what the hell "my part of the world" has come to. I've got a rather frightening link for you to read about Sarah Palin [click here], and a forward worth sharing that I received from Chad C (below). Please read both.
(Below is a forward; I don't know the author)
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drivethat registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his seventies.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a true Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in aprestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
Seriously.
5 comments:
That's fantastic.
Did I send you the SNL skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin?
hey - i know lots of people will hate what i'm about to say since it's not exactly in line with your quoted poster's bias, but in my defense, despite being a staunch independent, I am not an Obama-hater. and there are some things that really bother me about Palin (her support of sport hunting for starters) so bear with me.
That said, the quote you posted didn't convince me of anything. I'd heard most of the bare facts already, but since the post is obviously very biased towards Obama, it did nothing to help me decide on a candidate. The Obama facts are made to appear more positive (listing the number of bills he sponsored in the Senate without also listing Palin's accomplishments as governor, calling Obama's daughters "beautiful", etc.) while the McCain/Palin facts are skewed to seem more negative (for example: (Todd Palin's "at least one" DWI conviction... and it is true that Palin's kids have weird names, but McCain is the one called a "maverick" in the Senate) And where is Joe Biden in all this? If the McCain/Palin ticket is considered one entity, then why is nothing being said about Biden on the Obama ticket?
so yes, jane, politics here are a mess, but they're still just all politicians, with none too much worse than the others. i think.
Agreed, the fact that Sarah Palin is considered so seriously as a bonus on the ticket must just make Hillary crazy. The chances that McCain will kick the bucket and that she will be the next president are just surreal/too close. And the drivel that is being sent around about Barack? incomprehensible.
sure - could have included that. of course, the real facts, as admitted by the comish are that he felt implied pressure to fire the bro-in-law, but was never ordered to do so. and that the bro-in-law was never actually fired. also that the commissioner had been cited multiple times for performance issues.
i know a little bit about wrongful terminations (having experienced one myself), and those cases usually only hold if the person being fired had a clean employee file, which this guy did not.
again, my original point was that citing only partial, biased facts still makes the writer look like they didn't bother doing the research and are just repeating what another biased person said.
if you want to discredit palin, try saying something that can be documented, like about the large amount of tax money she spent propagandizing aerial hunts of predators (an initiative which had been voted down twice by the people of alaska) or about how she said "no thanks to the bridge to nowhere", but then did not return the money that congress had given alaska for the project.
And apparently she spent some of that money on a road to the bridge that goes nowhere...to the tune of what is reported as $25mil. It opened this week and it was said it could be used for 5 and 10k runs! But you are right Katlady to get the facts right. I use Factcheck.org a lot.
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