In principle, I have always agreed with the basic tenets of Rob’s plea for comity and decorum at OEN. However, while the children, as individuals should be held harmless –as they are just merely adolescents – the larger narrative about Sarah Palin is germane and should be out front in the public sphere to debate.
I was at the Dublin, Ohio Obama rally on August 30, 2008, a mere 10 feet away from Obama while he spoke and reiterated what is at stake is the very core principles of this nation. Prior to Obama speaking, I circulated in the midst of the VIP section and spoke to a litany of women. They not only panned Palin, they felt betrayed and insulted; that McCain’s attitude was one of ungainly sexism whereas women are interchangeable parts – that one is just as good as the next.
The near ubiquitous “drip, drip, drip” that spills over daily into another scandal, another tabloidesque story, is evidence either Sarah Palin was an exercise in extremely poor judgment by John McCain or Palin is a pure gimmick –a gambit to court and woo Hillary Clinton supporters.
The overarching viewpoint is the judgment – or lack thereof – of Palin, her duplicitous actions and double standard, faux Christian values, the exploitation of her infant (and now unwed pregnant daughter) for political expediency; her own failed abstinence only teachings – that clearly does not work, even amongst her own children – and the sum total of her (Palin’s) actions that definitively leads one to conclude she is inept, unwise, reckless, and is unfit to be a heartbeat away from governing this nation as President.
It’s not about the children, but it is about her inability to govern and make sound, rational choices – that she believes in Creationism and not science. These flaws need to be exposed and she – as a candidate – needs to be eviscerated for her utter lack of credibility, inexperience, lack of common sense and the extreme fringe values she holds.
As one reader of the local newspaper in Wasilla summed her up in a comment to a reporter, “she is a kook.”
Palin may have set ablaze the benighted crowd of sheeple evangelists into a gesticulating frenzy of jubilation, but she is dangerous to this nation, dangerous to a progressive America, and cannot be allowed to become the next VP of this nation, or be a hairs breath away from the presidency.
Everything from “Troopergate” to “Babygate” is in play when she accepted the nomination as McCain’s VP. Palin could have declined the invitation, but she did not. She could have shielded her family from public scrutiny and spared them the overt embarrassment of her hypocritical stances and statements, but she opted to stand in the national spotlight and allow her disastrous conservative values to be illuminated. And for that reason alone, America has the right and the responsibility to vet this woman, leave no stone unturned, for in politics, as it has been said, is a contact sport.
Not only is this travesty of American politics fair game but the cacophonous bleating of Republi-swine over this is music to my ears, what a jackbooted bunch of king hell hypocrites, serial spinners and low grade morons who have continually relied on this sort of preposterous folderol to deceive the general public into voting against their own interests.
Hypocrisy of the highest order and the attack against the big lie of the ‘Liberal Media’ has already been one that has been denounced by influential conservatives who nonetheless love to bait the flaccid public relations flacks and spineless careerist shills into becoming servile, doggie biscuit sniffing, invertebrates so that they don’t lose access to the purveyors of bullshit who run this fascist garbage up the flagpole and then see how many of the idiots salute it.
Keep pouring it on because this is an outrage! You could pick up any damned bum of several hundred warming themselves around a barrel under an Anchorage overpass who would be equally qualified as Sarah Barracuda and be possessed of less right-wing, anti-American, Dominionist ‘Christian’ baggage as this buffoon.
Keep up the great work because this is an insult to America that any major political party can roll out garbage like this and try to sell it to the people as if it were gold.
Just my two cents
EE
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Ed Encho (8 articles, 18 quicklinks, 56 diaries, 394 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 7:00:57 PM
The link provides additional commentary on Mr. Ranelli's eloquent insight into this "clear and present danger" that the Palin Baby Affair truly represents to Progressive America.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1766 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 11:29:51 PM
Any comment can be flagged with a suggestion to promote it to an article if it is exceptional. Happpens occasionally. This one definitely fits the bill.
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JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments)
on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 6:49:00 AM
Comment from Ratings: Do readers realy KNOW how to rate an article? Almost every rating I see at OEN is five stars... The Law of Averages says that this is not probable - possible, yes but not probable.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1766 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 11:33:07 PM
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