Palin, who went to five colleges before finally getting a bachelor's degree in journalism, wants teachers to teach creationism in public schools. She doesn't believe that humans contribute to global warming. She has a nationalistic, America-first viewpoint and has only traveled outside the country once.
Deepak Chopra is right when he says that Palin is “the reverse of Barack Obama, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses….Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from ‘us’ pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat [click here]."
And Republicans want us to believe Palin is qualified to lead us well into the 21st century. What a crock.
Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and writer who has written about the Bush administration for ezines such as OpedNews, Alternet, and Online Journal since 2000. He is the author of the book, Born to Cheat: How Bush, Cheney, Rove & Co. Broke the Rules - From the Sandlot to the White House, published in 2007.
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