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I Admit it, Sarah Palin Makes Me Nervous

by Joan Wile     Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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Author of "Grandmothers Against the War: 
Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace"
Citadel Press -- May 2008
 
Yes, when I first heard the announcement that John McCain had picked Gov. Sarah Palin for his vice presidential nominee, I sunk into an anxious state of depression.  I gleaned immediately that he had scored a political coup by copping the media spotlight Obama had enjoyed from his acceptance speech the night before.  Then, I had visions of thousands of Hillary supporters leaping on to Sarah's bandwagon now that there was somebody to represent Girl Power in the national election.  "Take that, Obama supporters!" I heard them say in my alarming scenario.

I got calls from other Obama grannies in my group, Grandmothers Against the War, equally worried about McCain's cataclysmic bombshell announcement.  I had a very unhappy couple of days as I imagined the defeat of the Democrats at the hands of this pretty young Hockey Mom.  The only negative I could discern was when I heard her speak in her shrill, piping Valley Girl voice.  This didn't comfort me much, though, as I am a singer, much more aware and concerned about vocal tones than most people.

But, then, as the revelations about Sarah started to roll out, I began to have a little hope.  Would the Hillary legions support a woman who was anti-abortion to the extreme, even, of condemning it for victims of rape and incest?  Hard to imagine.  Next, we learned of her fidelity to the creationism theory.  Would any Democrats go for that?  Would Independents?  By the very nature of the word "independent," it is hard to imagine that they would subscribe to a belief out of the dark ages.
And so much more.  She fired a librarian who wouldn't ban books Sarah deemed bad.  She didn't want sex education in the schools.  The later news that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter was pregnant was certainly an ironic comment on the questionable wisdom of that stance.  She actually supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she felt enough political pressure to turn against it.  She was a political pal of the indicted corrupt Sen. Stevens.  She's a member of the NRA who loves to hunt.

Well, I won't go on and on with the long litany of her conservative sins.  But, they have relieved me a little bit of my nervousness about her.  I tell myself that surely the American women are not cajoled into voting for this person who holds positions and beliefs so contrary to what I assume most women outside the Bible Belt hold, who if elected with John McCain, would be so on the brink of being President.

We couldn't be that dumb, could we?

On the other hand, we elected George W. Bush to a second term. 
     

 

I am a grandmother of 5 who founded Grandmothers Against the War 5 years ago. Among our many activities, we were arrested and jailed when we tried to enlist at the Times Square recruiting center, in Oct., 2005. We've traveled to Europe and to (more...)
 

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Palin scares me too.

Comment from Ratings:   I am not a singer, so am not as aware of voice tones as you probably are, but...her voice is grating to say the least. It's like listening to Joe Lieberman...just plain irritating...thanks for posting your article

by russ king (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:21:37 PM

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Reply: more about her voice

I shouldn't complain about her irritating voice, because God knows Eleanor Roosevelt had an awful one, but her great character and wisdom made it irrelevant.  But, when you put a grating voice together with a woman holding insufferable values and espousing dangerous policies, she is unbearable to listen to.  I thought it was just my singer's sensibility, but other non-singer friends and the reader's comment seem to verify my revulsion when I accidentally hear her speak -- I never seek to, God knows.

by Joan Wile (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 25 comments) on Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:45:01 PM

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No...the last two elections were stolen

Its not accurate to state that we elected Bush twice. In my observation, both the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen. There is a great deal of evidence to document this but the mainstream media don't practice journalism anymore, preferring to serve their corporate masters. We have one of the most corrupt political systems on the planet. I fully expect the current election to be stolen as well. We are already sunk, just don't know it yet. The only two real issues before us are Media Reform and Election Fraud. All the rest is just for show.

by Abraham007 (6 articles, 36 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 54 comments) on Sunday, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:41:12 AM

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Reply: I know, Bush wasn't elected

I know.  I realized my mistake and have tried to change it, but navigating the system of OpEdNews to do a revision requires rocket scientist intelligence.  I can't seem to figure it out.  I want to change my last line to "On the other hand, we elected Geoge W. Bush to a seond term."  Not quite what you have in mind, maybe, but makes my point, I think. 

by Joan Wile (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 25 comments) on Sunday, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:24:19 AM

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Reply: Bush lost both elections

I submit he was never elected.  The Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount in 2000 and appointed Bush president.  A news media consortium later counted all the ballots and reported that Gore won the popular vote in Florida.  This was independently corroborated by the University of Chicago in their recount of Florida's ballots.

Then, he outright stole the 2004 election in Ohio.  Below I produce a brief bibliography of evidence just regarding the 2004 election that supports this assertion:

Richard Hayes Phillips. Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election, Rome, New York: Canterbury Press, 2008.
 
Mark Crispin Miller. Loser Take All: Election Fraud the Subversion of Democracy 2000-2008, Brooklyn, NY: Ig Publishing, 2008.
 
Greg Palast. Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild, Plume, 2007.  And see http://www.gregpalast.com/
 
Robert F. Kennedy. Was the 2004 Election Stolen?  June 1, 2006.  This is an 18,000-word investigative report in Rolling Stones Magazine – based mainly on info we uncovered in Ohio which Harvey, Bob and Richard provided to him.  When this came out, we election investigators in Ohio sang, "On the Cover of the Rolling Stones" and generally celebrated national exposure of our evidence.  
 
Abbe Waldman DeLozier and Vickie Karp, eds. Hacked! High tech election theft in America, Austin, Texas: Truth Enterprises, 2006.
 
Robert Fitrakis, Steven Rosenfeld, and Harvey Wasserman. What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election. Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Institute of Contemporary Journalism (CICJ), 2006.
 
Greg Palast. Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War, Dutton Adult, 2006.
 
Fitrakis, Wasserman, and Rosenfeld. Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? Ohio's Essential Documents. CICJ, 2005.
 
Fitrakis & Wasserman. How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008, Columbus, OH: harveywasserman.com Pub., 2005.
 
John Conyers. What Went Wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election, Academy Chicago Pubs., 2005. (Originally authored by the House Judiciary Committee and published by the Government Printing Office in January 2005; edited and redesigned for mass readability.)
 
Mark Crispin Miller. Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One too, Basic Books, 2005.
 
 
And I have to add this list of scientific reports to support the assertion that any election run on software driven voting systems is inherently suspect, since software can be changed without detection:
 
50+ Bibliography of Scientific Studies on Computerized Voting Systems,  Warning: This product is hazardous to your freedom, and Debunking Pre-Election Testing Myths
 
 

by Rady Ananda (182 articles, 374 quicklinks, 49 diaries, 1718 comments [201 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Sunday, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:39:39 PM

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Reply: re Bush;s elecrion or lack thereof

I recognized my mistake and changed my last line to one asserting that Bush was elected once only -- to a second term.  I acknowledge the arguments of the writer and believe it to be true in a sense.  But, I NEED MY LAST LINE TO MAKE MY POINT THAT AMERICANS ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO ELECT MCCAIN ON THE BASIS OF HIS VASTLY UNQUALIFIED RUNNING MATE AND ON HER DANGEROUS NEO CON BELIEFS.  However, I'm glad I have provided an opportunity for two readers to clarify the fact that Bush was not LEGITIMATELY elected either time, and I appreciate your comments very much.

by Joan Wile (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 25 comments) on Sunday, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:58:18 PM

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