Sarah Palin was my mayor
Portions of the following have been published in an editorial at TheRoot.com.
I’m an Alaskan. I grew up in Wasilla. Sarah Palin was my mayor. She explored the possibility of banning books at the library where my parents taught me how to read. Now it seems she’s just another symptom of McCain’s poor judgment. There have been many interesting pieces of journalism introducing my gun toting, mooseburger-eating former neighbors (I now live in Manhattan) to the rest of the country, and most have focused on how proud Alaskans are of their governor making the surprise leap to the big leagues.
But as reporters roam the streets where I grew up, chatting with my ecstatic neighbors, I feel compelled to offer another view, as an American, by pointing out that John McCain has demonstrated an alarming lapse of judgment by choosing Sarah Palin as his party’s VP candidate – and that it reflects a pattern of failed leadership and faulty judgment when it comes to who Sen. McCain chooses to surround himself with.
My fellow Alaskans have vouched for Palin as a charming, interesting person. I can add to that that she is perfectly friendly. But now she is running for a higher office and so it must be noted that Sarah Palin the Friendly Neighbor is different from Sarah Palin the Executive. The latter is a woman with intense agendas guided by a narrow set of culturally conservative and extreme religious values, which by now are well documented. When she was mayor of my hometown, these extreme views (on sex education, abortion, creationism, and homosexuality) came off as petty and irrelevant to people like me who did not share them. There seemed little cause for alarm. Most Alaskans are happy to live and let live; we don’t think of ourselves as Republican or Democrat. Besides, as mayor, it’s not like she had the power to wiretap our phones, amend our constitution, or send us to war.
For just 22 months Sarah Palin has been the governor of a state of just 680,000 people that is “awash” in money (as former Alaska governor Tony Knowles put it) and receives more pork-barrel money per capita than any other state.
What, a degree in only six years from five different colleges in broadcast journalism isn't good enough for you?
You can't buy that kind of educational diversity.
Heck even Obama only went to three colleges. That's clearly an inferior education.
September 18, 2008 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
You lost me when you assumed that people who oppose the stabbing, dismembering, chemical scalding and destructive vacuuming of unborn children from the wombs of America's women are extreme.
It is exactly the opposite. To defend with so much effort these practices as birth control, the great majority, is the most profound pathology of the mind. It is very, very sick.
September 18, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
But you ARE extreme. Baby killing is perfectly mainstream, in fact I personally had to dismember 3 fetuses before I could even volunteer for the Obama campaign! Hard work that, what with all the stabbing and scalding. Jackass
September 18, 2008 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Get over it. Life is central to the election. It's not a single-issue, einstein.
It is central to addressing mercenary resource wars too. You probably won't want to recognize that though, because it allows you to hang on to the child homicide thing that you have dressed up in euphemistic or ideologic terms to make yourself feel good about doing nothing to stop it.
September 19, 2008 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Warning: may be harmful to your sensibilities.
God is the biggest killer of babies, not abortions.
Approximately half of fertilized eggs do not implant in the uterus and are flushed away (as trash by God?).
Of the remaining half that do implant, about half suffer miscarriages, most during the very early stages of pregnancy, and are flushed away (as trash by God?). Only one quarter of fertilized eggs are even subject to abortion.
I am told these fetuses are human beings granted both souls and original sin by God at the moment of fertilization. But God does not allow them even a second of life as independent, loving, thinking creatures. And they don't have any chance to mitigate their original sins.
Or maybe these flushed fetuses don't have souls and are not really people. How would I know? How would any of us know?
September 19, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
There you go, talking about "facts."
For the extreme anti-choicers, facts don't matter. Furthermore, these facts are simply proof that women are essentially baby killers, all because of the sin of Eve, and are further evidence that women must be stripped of all autonomy.
Yes, the preceding paragraph is self-contradictory. Such is the mind of the extreme anti-choicer.
September 19, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a false storyline.
September 19, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're a religious fanatic. And, judged by your incoherent, contradictory argument ("Life is central to the election. It's not a single-issue") you are a moron, as well.
Fuck off, troll. I'm tired of you theocrats hijacking sensible politics in my country, not to mention so many discussion threads in the blogosphere.
September 19, 2008 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
You want the real storyline? The storyline is that you DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT to tell me what I can do with my body. You do not have the right to tell me whether I can or cannot have sex nor with whom whether I can or cannot use birth control, whether I can or cannot get pregnant, and if there is something wrong with a pregnancy - if it was unintentional, the result of rape, or presented physical risks - you cannot force me to go through with that pregnancy.
This is a matter of civil rights. It is also a matter of religious rights. You cannot force your interpretation of the beginning of life or the responsibilities of a woman onto me. My religious beliefs tell me that life does not begin when sperm meets egg. I am not certain when it begins, but it is most certainly not at the point of sperm meets egg. I have logical and spiritual reasons for this
You have every right to believe differently, but you absolutely, positively DO NOT have the right to force that interpretation on me.
September 19, 2008 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thou shalt not discuss "schma-schmortion" (ref: Knocked Up) on TPM.
September 19, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is a substantive argument from facts, which I appreciate. Some of these thoughts might offend your sensibilities, being metaphysical or based on a Genesis view of creation given to human kind to mold and shape either in harmony or disharmony with God.
If you see things as designed by God but controlled by humankind after a "mutation" away from harmony with God, then matters have developed under human direction and influence in the world. Blaming God is an irrelevancy as humankind has taken over authority over self, whether qualified or not to understand her / himself. The historicity isn't the point of old wisdom literature, but the relationships and answers of responsibility to our questions about our condition.
There are many unintended consequences stemming from past wrongs -- deregulation of Glass-Steagall, use of asbestos, promoting cigarettes knowing they're cancerous, promiscuity and many, many more. And one school of thought holds that God has let mankind form the condition of the world in his own fallen image.
Did God intend that, or did man insist on it?
Harmony with God has hope involved with it. Disharmony with God leads to ragings, blaming God and avoiding human responsibility. It is at the root of the culture war.
September 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Both sides of the aisle are affected in their own way. All of us, you, me, everyone. That's the view I'm speaking of.
September 19, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lemme 'splain somethin' to ya, Jesus Boy:
The day your Republicans outlaw abortion (in defiance of the vast, lopsided majority in this country who'd prefer that a woman and not some old white politician make that decision), they LOSE AN ISSUE.
They lose THE issue, which gives them the automatic voting bloc of theocrats like you.
The following is not a moral or religious test; it is not a political test; it is an IQ TEST:
DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT IN THE LAST 28 YEARS (with time off for good behavior in the middle) THESE REPUBLICAN LEADERS OF YOURS COULDN'T HAVE SOMEHOW MADE ABORTION ILLEGAL, IF THEY REALLY WERE DEDICATED TO THIS?
... or...
DO YOU THINK THAT THE MOMENT THEY DON'T HAVE THIS ISSUE, ANYMORE, THEY'RE MAYBE TOTALLY SCREWED?
Jesus may love you, but Karl Rove thinks you're a dumb fucking goober.
September 19, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The death of dogma is the birth of morality." Immanuel Kant
September 19, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
You entertain multiple assumptions as if they can be proven.
1. A supernatural creator of humankind exists.
2. This creator you call God exists and actually cares what we do on this one ball of rock in an extremely large universe, some posit more than one universe.
3. That we are endowed with something called a soul given to us by this creator.
This is merely a belief, based on faith, which by definition is not rational.
I prefer a government that governs that operates on facts. Avoiding facts and proof led us into Iraq. How many innocent humans, not fetuses or embryos, have been destroyed.
You want a government based on your faith and beliefs. No thank you. I prefer a government that acts on facts that can be proven.
September 19, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have you done anything in your entire life to stop the killing of people who were once chidren? Well?
September 18, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
And what has he done to protect the lives of the millions of unwanted children who end up in a series of foster homes because no one was clamoring to adopt them?
September 19, 2008 7:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
If as much money and energy were spent improving the lives, conditions, education, and coping skills of birth parents as is spent on the abortion industry, we would be unified on solving this problem without creating the mindset that fuels it: the acceptability of destroying human life to improve others' quality of life, or to assuage their guilt.
September 19, 2008 12:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
He spoke out about it on a blog and someone called him a jackass. He's probably been told it's a Constitutional right and he shouldn't do anything about it.
Now, getting RU-486 more used as the abortion method of choice would eliminate much of the ugliness of the procedures mentioned, and would likely encourage abortion at earlier stages before a nervous system develops (i.e. pre-possibility of pain). Hillary staked out the position some time ago of abortion as a "tragic choice", and rather than reveling in being the party of death, we're better off working to lower the need for tragedy.
September 19, 2008 7:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
You make an interesting point, Des. I'm still trying to get my head around the timing issue myself. I suspect that while Woodson talks about unborn children, he would lump embryos in with third trimester fetuses.
September 19, 2008 9:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
First, by trying to reverse the ideology that eugenic murder is necessary. Bearing with self-righteous folks who think that euphemizing homicide is "doing something about unwanted children." Rather, it is a mindset that encourages more unwanted children. Then blames those who argue otherwise.
Second, coming out against resource wars. Speaking up against mercenary use of war as contrary to the US Constitution.
Third, I'm not going to go into whether or not I do "alms" or give help. Our faith says do not do these things before men to get their approval. I may or may not obey the faith in this area. Who knows? God knows.
September 19, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
You picked up that hate-speech against reality and truth from Palin, right?
The one who made every effort to PROTECT rpaists and pedophiles against prosecution?
Let me guess: that's how you make up for the imaginary "dismemberments," etc., of fetuses you don''t even know for a fact exist/ed.
September 19, 2008 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Refer me to Sarah Palin's writings or the transcripts of any meetings in which she advocated for all efforts to protect rapists and child abusers. I'd like to know if there is proof of that. I have not seen it. I've only heard talking point hearsay on the matter.
If she opposed on effort, did that mean she opposed all efforts, or alternative efforts she thought better? That would change the analysis a bit, don't you think?
September 19, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah Hah ...
Ol' I wanna be a Marine leatherneck Woodson himself, eh?
This is how I would respond to this bloviating, pontificating blowhard back during the good old days 'round the cafe:
===========================
> So sorry there Boss ...
> You see I have this thing called a ‘Discrepancy
> Detector,’ that rises in frequency whenever I
> have encountered the smell of something fishy.
> You have provided more than enough odor of
> mackerel in the past so as not to allow me to
> fit you into my time frame so as to provide
> analysis for you to counteract. Therefore, I
> hereby elect to dissent to your order, and
> disobey your request to play your games of
> circle logic and sliding on the slippery slopes
> you invariably provide. Got that?
> Posted by OldenGoldenDecoy
> April 19, 2007 1:03 AM
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=TPMCafe+OldenGoldenDecoy+Mike7Woodson&btnG=Search
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Sail on sailor . . .
~OGD~
September 19, 2008 3:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
How many babies are you currently supporting, in order to facilitate young unwed women who got pregnant?
Until you establish a fund for that, which you give to every month - for your rest of your life - don't dis poor women who cannot afford another child!
September 19, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
You'd have to audit our church's giving and service projects in the community for that. It's a collective effort. Why should people have to brag about their alms to you to prove themselves? Who are you, the Pope of TPMCafe?
September 19, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
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Now run along and report me to the local PC police... Like you use to do.
~OGD~
September 20, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, how do you feel about the health of the mothers who *are* going to have abortions whether or not they are legal? Do they count?
The pro-life movement (and I consider myself pro-life) as a *political arm*, only cares about the intellectual purity of their argument and is unwilling to deal with REALITY.
September 19, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, LBJ, the health of mothers is part of believing in the right to life, as is the health of all living persons.
That is why so many GOP policies that are avaricious and mercenary are contradictory anti-life. It is why I say the parties are right about each other.
September 19, 2008 1:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whatever you may think of the decisions other people make with respect to their own reproductive biology--it is THEIR decision. I take no exception to whatever reproductive decision YOU make--and I will fight you to make sure that I preserve that same right. Some things ARE worth fighting over. More light. Less heat. I reject all of your claims as irrelevant and beside the point. It's none of your business.
September 19, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
So we should allow assisted suicide for all reasons, not just incurable diseases? My body, my choice? No limits to the insane - their bodies, their choices? Crippling drug addiction is just a personal choice?
September 19, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well from what I read of c4Logic's last two sentences it appears he feels it's none of your business.
That's as clear as one can state it.
~OGD~
cafe member since march 2005
September 20, 2008 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do you support the death penalty?
September 19, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's disappointing about this blog is you're not telling us anything we couldn't have pieced together from news reports. Where's the juicy stuff? I could have written this. What I want to know is what she's like up close and personal. Have you ever ridden in an elevator with her? What was that like? Did you think she was hot? What's her family really like? Come on, man. Give.
September 18, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I did, and as I recall she was wearing DOLCE & GABBANA EDT SPY with a hint or should I say soupçon of castor beaver scent.
September 18, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
My knees are weak just imagining it.
September 18, 2008 11:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Billy, I've met her and trust me, HDTV will not be her friend. (meow perhaps, but still true.)
September 19, 2008 1:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that's the kind of thing this young man might have given us instead of warmed over talking points. But I'm not worried. I'm old and ugly myself. I'll just think of Sarah as a beautiful spirit, trapped inside an aging body.
September 19, 2008 7:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
What is it about Palin that brings out the drooling, doddering old fool in otherwise normal curmudgeons?
I'm embarrassed for them.
September 19, 2008 8:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do they elevators in Wasilla?
September 19, 2008 10:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
insert
September 19, 2008 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
wow, weird software here. Insert "have"
September 19, 2008 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
1. I read the full article. I'd advise you to either pony up with some JUICY anecdotes, or step the hell back, dude. This mob (which we've worked 24/7 to assemble) is just getting their range... and I wouldn't wanna be responsible for distracting them.
2. Your choice of pen-names damages your credibility. 'Quinn' is no more a likely real last name than 'Jennifer.' Come clean, Levi.
September 18, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
"According to city librarian Mary Ellen Emmons, Palin inquired in October 1996 as to whether Emmons would object to library censorship.[34] Palin later spoke publicly about the issue, saying she had no particular books or other material in mind for removal.[34] No books were removed from the library.[35][36][37] Emmons recalls Palin raising the possibility of people circling the library in protest, to which Emmons replied that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would get involved.[34]
Palin fired Emmons on January 30, 1997.[38] This was the same day that Palin gave a similar letter to Police Chief Stambaugh; Emmons as well as Stambaugh had publicly supported Palin's defeated mayoral opponent, John Stein.[35] Palin rescinded the firing of Emmons the next day after meeting with her and after expressions of public support for Emmons.[35] Palin stated that her concerns had been alleviated when Emmons agreed to support Palin's plan to merge the town's library and museum operations.[38]"
Found here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_palin#First_term
I think that tells you what kind of "Sarah Palin the Executive" she is.
September 18, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
wikipedia? Not an authority.
September 18, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
The "Sarah Palin the Executive" who, when faced recall, hired a city manager to do that she couldn't do: manage the city as PART-TIME mayor.
September 19, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
why is Quinn unlikely? how arrogant. I looked up the lastname Quinn at whitepages.com for nyc area and found 300 listings?
September 18, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ummmmm, joke?
September 18, 2008 11:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
So many humored impaired, should have a wheelchair sign for this site.
September 19, 2008 6:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
I rec'd this blog up, hoping for some juicy gossip. I should have known.
September 19, 2008 7:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
But look upstream. My little chickadee is back! And still jealous. What is this strange power I have over women?
September 19, 2008 9:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
"What is this strange power I have over women?"
Dude, I'm 99% sure the only other guy I ever heard using that line was Pepe le Pew. 'Course, he had that really cool French accent. Not sure I'd wanna be competing with the Pew.
September 19, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Austin Powers?
September 19, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Andrew Halco blog is by the Republican Palin defeated for the governorship.
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/
The following was submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2008-09-18 08:21.
Too bad the Alaska Legislature is hibernating at the moment.
September 19, 2008 5:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry... there WAS actually more to the post but for some reason it was cut off after that paragraph. The complete version can be found at the link at the top.
But, unfortunately, I don't have any new gory details. I'm waiting for someone back home to explain to me how we're supposed to believe the circumstances surrounding Palin's most recent pregnancy. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but they're hiding something and they are paying someone well to keep quiet.
September 19, 2008 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
But is she hot or not?
September 19, 2008 9:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, the fake Quinn ain't talking. You'll have to torture him, which means you have to vote McCain.
September 19, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL. When he sees what happens the next time he blogs here, he'll understand he's made a mistake to ignore my demand for cheap thrills. You can rec his blog up next time. I want to hear about the pheromones.
September 19, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Love the fetus,hate the child. Another ant-choice zealot who'd force their beliefs on others, then of course abandon any pretense of caring once the child is born. How about the slaughtering of 150,000+ innocent Iraqi's? Oh yeah, that's cool cause their version of "god" is different than yours. Who would Jesus Bomb? You remember Jesus, right?, that pesky Community Organizer who was Guantanimo'd by the Governer Pontious Pilot.
September 19, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
The above comment was meant as a reply to 7/zero/hypocrites at large.
September 19, 2008 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Abortion hasn't done away with unwanted children. It has expressed the spirit that does not want children in homicidal terms. It is a civilized evil. You just want a scapegoat to blame for what you have been supporting. You want a moral out but you cannot escape the truth of what you are advocating.
Also, you do not have any idea what I do to make the world a better place. Instead of doing well yourself and that being good enough, you demand others prove they are doing well. That distracts you from doing well. And what does it matter what another does to save children's lives if you are teaching that killing them before they participate in the community of their parents is the answer.
If you are not saying it is the answer, please, propose the right to life alternative and work toward it.
September 19, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Civilized evil" Wow there's an oxymoron.
Do you just string words together when you post and hope something makes sense?
September 19, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right now, there are 2 sitting judges who were appointed by Clinton; Bryer and Ginsberg. The other 7 current judges were all appointed by Bush 41, Bush 43 and Ford. 7 of the 9 judges are conservative. If the conservatives/repub really wanted to reverse Roe V. Wade, it would have been done. But they don’t want to. Why? Because it would leave them little else to talk about. It would deprive them of an argument against the liberals. If they can keep harping on and on about the horrors of abortion, they don’t have to talk about the real issues; economy, health care, integrity, education, etc…
I am definitely anti-abortion, as a matter of faith. The problem of abortion will not be fixed until we fix the healthcare crisis, educate young people to not only protect themselves physically, but also emotionally and arm them with information so that unwanted pregnancies do not happen. Yelling and berating does nothing to really solve this problem. But then, Reps don't really want to solve this problem, they just want to have something to feel superior about.
September 19, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly Right ! If the Republicans wanted to ban abortion they would have done it in 2004-06 when they were all-powerful. They did not even propose banning it.
This means :
1.) The religious right gets nothing but hot air from the republicans - in return for this they continue playing useful idiots;
2.) Abortion is a phony issue in national elections - no one is going to force you to have one; no one is going to make it illegal;
3.) Phony issues ( guns, gay marriage, creation science, 'culture wars' in general ) serve only to distract the voter from important decisions that have to be made now.
Our country remains stuck in the past, walking backwards into the future, while the world moves on without us.
September 19, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well put, and true.
September 19, 2008 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed.
September 19, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice post Ryan. I think John McCain made a huge mistake in picking Palin. Alaska is a strange place to find a VP running mate. Do they still have that giant gorilla (or was it a giant Uncle Sam?)at the fireworks stand in Wasilla?
And nice hijack on the abortion issue... If you don't agree with abortions, don't have one.
September 19, 2008 11:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Steevo, last time I was there they still had the appalling gorilla at the Gorilla Fireworks stand. There was probably an uncle sam, too. There are about a 1/2 dozen fireworks stands just outside of Wasilla city limits because they are not allowed to be sold within city limits.
But everyone lights them off in their front yards so I'm not sure why the law against selling them. I guess it's just big gov't interfering!
September 19, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
One consequence of an outright ban on abortions: more women will give birth to babies that grow up to be like Sarah and Todd Palin.
Any woman with a choice, seeing that her fetus was devloping into a Sarah or Todd, would have aborted it.
This is why she's so afraid of abortion; it's a threat to the very existence of her kind.
September 19, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nice post, suburban mom. Way to see through bullshit. The republicans have held those voters hostage for decades and will continue to until they figure out they're being duped.
On a lighter note, today is National Talk Like A Pirate Day.....
http://tinyurl.com/6rdogr
September 19, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey guys - OT, and thanks (you know I'm not a spammer)
TBogg, Act Blue, some friends of mine and I don't know who else have started a drive to send donations to Planned Parenthood in "honor" of Sarah Palin. They can be as small as $5. The idea is to create an avalanche of Thank Yous from PP delivered to Sarah.
The link to donate in honor of someone is: https://secure.ga0.org/02/pp10000_inhonor
The address where acknowledgements should be sent is:
McCain for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington , VA 22202
This is spreading through the tubes and if it gets big enough, it might get media interested.
Plus, it's damn fun to do!
September 19, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great idea! I just sent my donation off.
September 19, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
You entertain multiple assumptions as if they can be proven.
1. A supernatural creator of humankind exists.
2. This creator you call God exists and actually cares what we do on this one ball of rock in an extremely large universe, some posit more than one universe.
3. That we are endowed with something called a soul given to us by this creator.
This a belief, based on faith, which by definition is not rational.
I prefer a government that governs that operates on facts. Avoiding facts and proof led us into Iraq. How many innocent humans, not fetuses or embryos, have been destroyed.
You want a government based on your faith and beliefs. No thank you. I prefer a government that acts on facts that can be proven.
September 19, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
sorry, ignore the above post it was accidentlly double-posted. Originally a response to Woodson.
September 19, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would like to comment to the gentleman who stated that Sen. Obama had attened three colleges. I assume he is unfarmiliar with the education it takes to be an Attorney. You first attend a four year college(within Harvard), then you attend Law School ( within Harvard).I think you get the idea now.
Sara Palin took four years to receive a regular diploma. She holds no Masters degrees in anything. I would say that at the time sara Palin attened school, 55% of the woman attending College all decided to Major in Journalism. I did as well. I did it in 3 years.
September 19, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Steevo,
I think your response on the abortin issue has to be the best I have ever read.
I would not expect too many people to respect or to follow the Evanglical Church that Sara Palin
attends. Every new "Born Again Christian" I have ever met was avoiding "rehab". Unfortunately, they still own the "isms"
September 19, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Midiri, but I am sure I heard that somewhere else so I shall not take the credit. I cannot think of a more tiresome subject to debate than abortion.
I wonder how many times the Woodson guy knocked up his girlfriend when he was younger. I detect some guilt on his conscience.
September 19, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
When I mentioned "ism's" I meant that the original behavior and thought process is still alive. As in George Bush. He is an alcoholic who attend "Church" and thinks he's ALL better. We have seen the "Me, Me, me. of his behavior and" I do what I want" selfishness that has been in control of this whole administration for eight years.
Selfishness has always been in charge of this administation. If you believe that this administration had your best interested in mind, I would see a therapist about your level of denial.
September 19, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink