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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
More from the McCain/Palin Bush-like Pants on Fire Express
Since I've written the RNC about war and torture I've ended up on their mailing list. They asked me about what I thought of Sarah Palin, so I told them...
The choice of Sarah Palin is very upsetting to the future of our nation. I originally thought she was just a bone thrown to the evangelical right, who was expected only to attend funerals and dinners, without much expected of her beyond that. If the occasion arose for her to take the reigns of the executive branch the Neoconservatives would be pulling her strings. After hearing as much of her acceptance speech as I could stand it's not hard to realize that she has another asset; Palin can deliver fighting words just as well as our current president Bush. Elect McCain and we have another puppet prepared Bush-like personality for the fascist-leaning Neocons to exploit, should that unfortunate situation arise.
She and her husband have also expressed hatred for the United States through the Alaska Independence Party.
Being able to see Russia from some parts of Alaska does not qualify a person to deal with foreign policy any more than I'm qualified to run NASA because I can see the Moon from my home.
She doesn't know what the Bush doctrine is.
She believes the false assertion that Russia invaded Georgia un-provoked.
She's a book banner that doesn't believe in science.
McCain picked a trophy wife type partner. It wouldn't be the first time. Sadly, when you sit down and think about all the reasons, she doesn't measure up, to all the many, many, exceptionally qualified battle-harden women in the GOP; it's hard to come to any other conclusion than he wanted only to use her to look good.
It's quite shameful when you think about it.
Her right-wing identity and closeness to the top office along with McCain's medically complicated age make her a dangerous choice for VP. If the country were to be foolish enough to put McCain into office and something were to happen to him she would have no choice but to trust her, already ever present in the McCain campaign, Neocon handlers in running the country.
She would be another Bush-like character close to the oil companies with even less experience running the nation into the ground.
I worry that what we see as such an obviously shallow choice will be welcomed by the reality show obsessed Fox-accepting crowd as a good idea with no solid reason why they believe so.
Thanks to the Daily Show and Colbert we have an opportunity to laugh a little at all this nonsense which is in reality, frightening.
“In Germany, they first came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist....
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.....
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist....
Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Catholic....
Then they came for me –
and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.”.....
Martin Niemoller
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