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If your friends are asking you if you will vote fo...

2008-09-08T23:00:00.000-04:00

If your friends are asking you if you will vote for McCain I may suggest that they don't know you as well as I do.

That isn't even a question.

Palin may be a woman but as donna mentioned she isn't anything remotely like Hillary. If McCain thinks she is a stand-in for Hillary he is misguided. But I don't really think that is why she was picked.

I suspect she was fast tracked for her personalization of the Pro Life/ Anti Choice stance. Though I think she has become a liability in recent days because of her crazy talk and weird attempts to abuse the little power she has as an Alaskan representative. Sadly, McCain seems very reasonable and thought out by comparison. Perhaps that's the real reason she was picked.

My biggest concearn with her though is she seems more than just a little nuts and if she were second in command and McCain croaks we could have a real problem.

No, definitely not because she is a woman, but because she is a nut.

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2008-09-03T20:33:00.000-04:00
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Clearly, Pahlin was chosen to pursue the voters wh...

2008-09-03T20:29:00.000-04:00

Clearly, Pahlin was chosen to pursue the voters who supported Clinton. She made the perfectly clear herself the day McCain announced her.

What's interesting about her daughter being pregnant is that Pahlin is for abstinence and against sex education in schools. Her daughter's pregnancy, better than anything, reflects a failure of her policies.

Any woman who doesn't recognize that their reproductive freedoms will be infringed upon if the Republicans take control is clearly out of touch.

The future of the Supreme Court rests with the next President. There are likely to be three new Justices appointed during the next term.

The good future of the United States depends on the election of Barack Obama.

That said, I'm quite impressed with your blog. If you're so inclined to do a link exchange let me know.

Excellent article, you bring up many great points....

2008-09-03T18:03:00.000-04:00

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Excellent point, Rick, regarding the "pro-life" la...

2008-09-03T17:11:00.000-04:00

Excellent point, Rick, regarding the "pro-life" label. I did later refer to her as anti-choice, which is my preferable term for those who call themselves "pro-life."

As for comparisons, it is impossible to avoid those; there are so few well-known women in politics, they are all considered the same because they all have ovaries.

Why do people internalize terminology designed to ...

2008-09-03T16:58:00.000-04:00

Why do people internalize terminology designed to frame bad ideas in a positive light? You say, "Sarah Palin is definitely pro-life." She most certainly is not pro-life. She's anti-choice as far as abortion goes, and apparently anti-informed choice when it comes to sex. She probably supports the death penalty, and opposes life-affirming polices that lift human beings out of poverty. She belongs to a political party that openly endorses unprovoked, preemptive warfare. Indeed, if Sarah Palin is pro-life, John McCain is a spring chicken. Just say, "Sarah Palin is adamantly against legalized abortion."

Re Hillary, I don't see why all these comparisons are being drawn. Hillary may not be that similar to Palin, but she's quite similar to McCain. If anything, Hillary is to the right of McCain except on healthcare, foreign policy, and abortion.

It sort of offends me that this was his female cho...

2008-09-02T13:10:00.000-04:00

It sort of offends me that this was his female choice. If his goal was to "placate" the Hillary Clinton supporters who feel they can't support Obama, this is an outright slap in the face because this woman is simply nowhere near the woman that Hillary is, politically speaking.

And honestly I agree that while I don't give a fig if her daughter is pregnant, I abhor a hypocrite and this woman has living breathing proof right under her own roof that abstinence only sex education does not work, and yet, she still won't acknowledge that it does not work.