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Aquarian
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 Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: Sarah Palin: An Extreme Choice. |
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Last Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) as his vice presidential running mate, "catching almost everyone but his inner circle by surprise." Of the very little that is known about Palin is her extreme right-wing policies on a wide range of issues. For example, she supports teaching creationism in school, favors privatization of health insurance, boasts of being a "lifetime member of the NRA," opposes stem-cell research, and declared that "she would support a ballot question that would deny benefits to homosexual couples." On some of the most important issues of this election -- Iraq, energy, abortion -- Palin represents the extreme right wing.
EXTREME ON ABORTION: One of the only policy stances widely known about Palin when her name was first announced is her extreme opposition to abortion. She once said that she would not support an abortion for her then-14 year old daughter, even if she had been raped. Palin has also declared that "explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," favoring abstinence-only programs instead. The right wing has lauded both Palin for choosing to carry her most recent child, who has Down Syndrome, to term, and her 17-year-old daughter for deciding to complete her pregnancy. Yet as the American Prospect's Ann Friedman points out, "John McCain and Sarah Palin don't believe women have a right to choose. It's absolutely absurd for the campaign to emphasize the fact that [Palin's daughter] Bristol 'made this decision,' and then push for policies that take away that choice."
EXTREME CLUELESSNESS ON IRAQ: Like George Bush before he became president, Palin has barely traveled outside the United States. She has never been to Iraq or Afghanistan and admitted last year, "I haven't really focused much on the Iraq war." In an interview with Time magazine last month, she seemed completely unaware of McCain's Iraq plan. She said she did not know "what the plan is to ever end the war." She later said it's "tough" to "talk about the plan for the war" because her son will be deployed to Iraq. "Let's make sure we have a plan here," she said. Palin then added, "respecting McCain's position on that too though." Eschewing any substantitve analysis of the war, she asserted simply that U.S. soldiers are "out on a task that is from God." She also seems to believe the Iraq war was about oil, saying that "in many [ways] the reasons for war are fights over energy sources." In another interview, she argued, "we better have a real clear plan for the war," adding, "And it better not have to do with oil."
EXTREME DENIAL OF GLOBAL WARMING: Though McCain points to his position on global warming as a chief difference between himself and President Bush, Palin shares more of the current president's perspective than McCain's. Though she admits that climate change "will affect Alaska more than any other state," she said, "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made." "During last fall's political campaign, Gov. Sarah Palin said she remained unconvinced about how much human emissions contribute to current global warming trends." She has also opposed listing polar bears as endangered due to climate change. In the New York Times today, Tom Friedman writes, "With his choice of Sarah Palin -- the Alaska governor who has advocated drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and does not believe mankind is playing any role in climate change -- for vice president, John McCain has completed his makeover from the greenest Republican to run for president to just another representative of big oil."
EXTREME PAWN OF BIG OIL: "No one is closer to the the oil industry than Governor Palin," the Sierra Club's Carl Pope said. Palin told Roll Call last week, "When I look every day, the big oil company's building is right out there next to me, and it's quite a reminder that we should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil industry." As a champion for Big Oil, Palin is a vociferous proponent of domestic drilling. "I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of our problem," she said. She also dismisses alternative energy solutions as "are far from imminent" focusing instead on opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. During her race for lieutenant governor, she received a full 10 percent of her campaign donations from executives and their families at the disgraced oil services company Veco. In her 2006 race for governor, another 10 percent of her donations came from the oil and natural gas industry. Though she supported a windfall tax on oil profits -- an idea McCain has blasted -- she also signed a bill just last week "suspending Alaska's gasoline, marine fuel and aviation fuel taxes until Aug. 31, 2009," which will only add to Big Oil's coffers.
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Extremely more qualified than Biden or Obama.
Great choice.
I was not suprised by this chocie, I said a while back,that if McCain picked Palin he was a lock for the next President of the United States.
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Extremely more qualified than Biden or Obama.
Great choice.
I was not suprised by this chocie, I said a while back,that if McCain picked Palin he was a lock for the next President of the United States.
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Really? More qualified than Biden? or Obama? Extremely?
Please explain further. |
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"suspending Alaska's gasoline, marine fuel and aviation fuel taxes until Aug. 31, 2009," which will only add to Big Oil's coffers.
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Ok, I will admit ignorance here, but doesn't suspending said taxes affect the pump price, therefore saving money for the consumers? Or is it a tax on the front end, paid by the fuel company?
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Yes, more qualified than Biden. I compared running the State of Delaware to the State of Alaska in another post.
You have basically a very conservative pair running against the most liberial. You can debate expericnce and counter from both ends. You can debate cotroversial positions, and counter from both ends. Wht you can;t debate is exective experience, in which a Mayor or Govorner has, even if its a small town, and Alaska is not only the largest State, but one with more special problems, it becomes equal to being the head of a country. Delaware is in no way in that league.
The other thing you can;t deny is that McCain promised a change and you are getting it with Palin. Biden was a safe and well known Washington name, who knows his way around the Washington Congress, that has a lower approval record than Bush. How was that change coming from Obama?
God hep this country if Obama, Biden, get in with Polosi the speaker of the house. The top 3 wopuld be the most liberial of polititians in the country which would spell complete weakness for this country, to the face of aggression and terrorism. |
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boy greeny, you are SO right.
terrorism is TOP of my list.
i'm willing to sacrifice everything to counter terrorism.
they can suspend everything and spend it ALL to counter terrorism!
boy
well, you turned me around..
and Pallins speech did to!
i'll be SURE to vote for her..
all i can say is THANKYOU Pallin for protecting me!
yep..
for sure. |
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Hey if you are happy and think you would be safe with the far sided liberial ticket, with an equal as speaker of the house, and a Democratic Congress, than if thats the will of the people, I would support that.
It is not my choice and I think its a mistake, so will not vote for it.
I also was against Bill Clinton but supported him while in office.
The sad thing will be if whoever wins, the opposite side just contunues with the same thing they did for 8 years of Bush. Run him down, ridicule his everymove, and do more to support his failure than success.
If Obama wins, I will not do to him what peo[ple have done to Bush for 8 years. That said, McCain and Palin are not Bush and Cheney.
Either the country is going to go with the liberials, in which case I believe we will end up pathetically weak, like the Carter years. Obama will slash the military including missle defence shields. You will see the public is very concerned about a weak stand against terroism and agreession. You may remember that Bush was as ridiculed as today in 2004 and was reelected. So peoples liberial ideas aren;t quite the majoriety yet. We will see in November if thats true still. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Oh I'm sure BO Obama Bin Biden is not an extreme choice at all.
Both are A1 FOS liars, and both are ranked 1 and 3 in the liberal votes department. Never mind neither have done anything of note, and both have no foreign policy experience, especially that is correct about anything. |
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Just because they have more experience in commanding a state or whatever doesnīt mean they stand for the right cause. 
Itīs like saying Hitler was the best politician in his time and therefore he was the right man to govern the country because he has the best experience and will to do so.
Yeah and we all know what that led to... |
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| Saturos wrote: |
Just because they have more experience in commanding a state or whatever doesnīt mean they stand for the right cause.
Itīs like saying Hitler was the best politician in his time and therefore he was the right man to govern the country because he has the best experience and will to do so.
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Sure.
get a clue. We're a Constitutional Govt. In our country it's called slavery to steal labor and resources from one entity to give to another.
So ALL Conservatives are fighting for the RIGHT cause.
If giving is such a pretense of the left they should be able to do it without resorting to forcing themselves at the point of a gun.
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More govt is the reason for the problems we have with costs of medical and other social services. |
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Question to all voters is what issues are most important to them, and who is best for those issues. People talk one way, but in the final decision, will put the bigger issues at stake ahead of a personal issue. This was proven by the reelection of GWB, as the liberials were still whinning about dimpled chads, the Gore loss, and the fear mongers record. Americans still reelected him over the character of JOhn Kerry. Picking that right person takes a lot of consideration, including character, past record, and experince.
Unless reelected no President has expericne as a President, so why have we never elected the CEO of major companies to be President? Honesty and payscale probably! Being President is the worst paying job in the CEO world. Character is a big consideration and like it or not, who can deny the character of McCain, and not think of the charcter of a husband and wife worshiping with a paster associated with Louis Farracan? Character is voting for something so uppopular like the surge, it could ruin your political carreer. Turns out the surge worked now Obama refused to admit to
O'Rielly he was wrong about it working. Where do you think our troops would be today had all the votes to support them in Congress went the way Obama voted?
I keep going back to them presenting Obama as the next JFK in image. I'm sorry but the elequent speaker they claim he is to me, is only a performance, and doesn;t have the ring of JFK to it. It has the ring of a ministers sermon, in his style of delivery and speaking.
An interviewer claimed GWB was the worst president since WW2. First, I wasn't aware FDR and Harry Truman were regarded this way at all. Second, for such a bad President, GWB united this country like no other since WW2. Every car had american flags and flags flew from homes, buildings, and even over hiway bridges. Our firetrucks had them over the cabs. When have you ever seen that in your lifetime before or since? |
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GWB's very success is the reason for the hate and vitriol from the left and their cohorts in Mainstream [codeword for leftist] Media.
My issues are stop the madness. Govt is causing the problems in the medical, health car fields, and energy, and general costs of things rising due to capricious tort law.
Then taxes MOST IMPORTANT cut spending by 10% for all non constitutional services. Fire 15% of the govt work force, all the bottom performers.
Then were talking about having a stronger $$$ so actual people who work can buy more bang for their buck. |
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