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Like many out in the blog world, I was shocked by McCain’s choice of the relatively unknown Sarah Palin
as his running mate. It felt a lot like the Republicans were throwing
us a bone, thinking that we would be so caught up in the idea of a
woman in the white house that it wouldn’t occur to us that she wasn’t the right woman.
The Republican camp is fighting the attacks on Palin,
saying that the only ones that have a problem with her are the “elitist
liberals.” I was unaware that being intelligent enough to read the
available information and form an educated opinion caused one to fall
into the category of being an “elitist liberal.” That tells me that
there are a whole lot of us out here that are distressing the
Republican party by having the nerve to think for ourselves as opposed
to shutting up other than to say, “Thank you, sir. I’ll take another.”
I would like to review just a few of Governor Palin’s
positions on issues. To start she believes in teaching abstinence only,
despite the fact that statistics show that this actually increases the
rate of teen pregnancy. I would like to point out that there is clear
evidence that this sort of thinking did not even work in her own house. Why would you encourage that type of policy?
She is ultra-conservative socially. Pro-Life, creationist and doesn’t
believe in protecting the environment. She does not believe in global
warming and would like to increase domestic drilling. She has not
supported alternative energy sources. She has been accused of
advocating censorship in libraries. She tried to fire her small town librarian when she “failed to prove her loyalty.” Which in reality, was the librarian just refusing to pull books at Palin’s request.
To
make the whole thing worse, she is not fiscally conservative. She took
over as a small town mayor in a town with no debt. She left it with
nearly 20 million in debt with little accomplished in real improvement.
In order to accomplish this task she fired many people that might be a
threat to getting her way. She also required a city manager and was
responsible for the largest increase in the size of the local city
government, ever.
One of the things that the Republican’s have attacked Barack Obama on is his relative lack of experience. Obama is a US senator with a diverse background and education. Palin
a small town mayor and Alaskan governor. I would like to also point out
that the Republican’s like to twist the facts and focus on how large
Alaska is and therefore her experience should carry more weight. Alaska
has a tiny population and is actually number 47 of all the states. Here
is what Wikipedia has to say about Obama and Palin’s educations respectively:
“Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[9] He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[10] Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then worked for a year at the Business International Corporation[11] and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.[12][13]
After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[12][14] During his three years as the DCP's
director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from
$70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a
job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a
tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[15] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[16] In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks then