More on Sarah Palin...please, someone stop me!
I can't seem to get enough of this woman! I've tried to take on a more diplomatic stance on most issues political (as theProf. has mentioned) but her speech has pressed one to many buttons. Just two more things:
1. Palin's political platform, her calling card if you will, has been her staunch opposition for teen sex education and support of an "abstinence only" policy. She slashed state funding for teen moms in Alaska.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_funding_to_help.html
Meanwhile her daughter gets pregnant at 16. And Christian Conservatives rally around and call her a beacon and an example of Christian family values? To be fair, she's only 6 months pregnant and we have to wait and see how her personal values and political policy evolve in light of her daughter's pregnancy...then again, its really none of my business. However, I'd need to seriously reconsider my poor judgement of her as a politician if by chance she were to change her stance...but I doubt she has the Wisdom to recognize the opportunity to look past her Evangelical mindset to do WHAT IS RIGHT for soo many less fortunate young mothers who, JUST LIKE HER DAUGHTER, got pregnant at too young an age. Note: I serve low income mothers as part of my job...so I should say that it IS MY BUSINESS if the White House were to champion this cause.
2. She has a special needs child. I commend and applaud her for keeping the child (to me, there was no other choice to make in the matter) and adhering and living up to her Pro-Life principles and values. I work EVERYDAY with people with developmental disabilities and psychiatric illnesses. Its my job to find them housing when their parents, who had cared for them their entire lives, pass-away. I know about the lifetime of challenges these parents and care-givers confront everyday. My problem is how she can say:
"To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."
but had slashed funding for special needs kids by 62% in her State of Alaska:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/07_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
Is this typical "Compassionate Conservative" lip service without the concomitant policy to back up the rhetoric? I hope I'm wrong, but this is what I'm used to seeing.
Just one local and personal example...in California, Prop. 63 (funding to provide care and emergency housing to the near 60,000 indigent, homeless and mentally disabled) was blocked by the Republicans in our State Congress for nearly 18 months. I wonder what kind of world the extreme right-wing want to design? I hope theProf. can give me some hope (he usually provides a little perspective), but in my line of work, serving the silent mass of disabled, its a constant battle to get anything in the way of services to people who have NOTHING...no money, no family, no resources of any kind, no purpose in life, and no sanity. We can debate what part politics on either side had to play in getting to this mess but the problem remains and must be dealt with.
Just one more thing. Found a Blog that I find absolutely hilarious...granted it is wholly much to cynical to be taken seriously. Here is an excerp and the link:
http://revmanny.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/morons-and-hypocrites-sarah-palin-in-the-land-of-duh/
1. Palin's political platform, her calling card if you will, has been her staunch opposition for teen sex education and support of an "abstinence only" policy. She slashed state funding for teen moms in Alaska.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_funding_to_help.html
Meanwhile her daughter gets pregnant at 16. And Christian Conservatives rally around and call her a beacon and an example of Christian family values? To be fair, she's only 6 months pregnant and we have to wait and see how her personal values and political policy evolve in light of her daughter's pregnancy...then again, its really none of my business. However, I'd need to seriously reconsider my poor judgement of her as a politician if by chance she were to change her stance...but I doubt she has the Wisdom to recognize the opportunity to look past her Evangelical mindset to do WHAT IS RIGHT for soo many less fortunate young mothers who, JUST LIKE HER DAUGHTER, got pregnant at too young an age. Note: I serve low income mothers as part of my job...so I should say that it IS MY BUSINESS if the White House were to champion this cause.
2. She has a special needs child. I commend and applaud her for keeping the child (to me, there was no other choice to make in the matter) and adhering and living up to her Pro-Life principles and values. I work EVERYDAY with people with developmental disabilities and psychiatric illnesses. Its my job to find them housing when their parents, who had cared for them their entire lives, pass-away. I know about the lifetime of challenges these parents and care-givers confront everyday. My problem is how she can say:
"To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."
but had slashed funding for special needs kids by 62% in her State of Alaska:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/07_OMB/budget/EED/comp2735.pdf
Is this typical "Compassionate Conservative" lip service without the concomitant policy to back up the rhetoric? I hope I'm wrong, but this is what I'm used to seeing.
Just one local and personal example...in California, Prop. 63 (funding to provide care and emergency housing to the near 60,000 indigent, homeless and mentally disabled) was blocked by the Republicans in our State Congress for nearly 18 months. I wonder what kind of world the extreme right-wing want to design? I hope theProf. can give me some hope (he usually provides a little perspective), but in my line of work, serving the silent mass of disabled, its a constant battle to get anything in the way of services to people who have NOTHING...no money, no family, no resources of any kind, no purpose in life, and no sanity. We can debate what part politics on either side had to play in getting to this mess but the problem remains and must be dealt with.
Just one more thing. Found a Blog that I find absolutely hilarious...granted it is wholly much to cynical to be taken seriously. Here is an excerp and the link:
Oh America. You sad, stupid, spoiled bitch. You wasted gilded heifer marching on the killing floor with a bible up your ass and a twinkle in you somniferent eye. You stupid stupid nation. Look how far afield psychoworld you’ve taken us. The Sarah Palin VP pick has really put something into horrifying perspective for me. This is how America got here. We were led by Morons and Hypocrites — Neither of which could have gotten this far without the other. In fact, they are the two major governing factions of our country. They do not align left or right, top or bottom, forward or backward. They simply align according to the Moron National Party and the Hypocrite National Party. They are the governing faction.
The Hypocrites (HNP) would be nowhere without the support of the Morons (MNP). For example, whenever the rest of the nation, regardless of IQ, occasionally awakes and questions the absurd american tax policy. The HNP is threatened. They will immediately reach out to the MNP and clearly show that
a)Absurd Tax Policies Keep Abortions from happening
b)Absurd Tax Policies Keep Illegals from Entering The Country
c)Absurd Tax Policies Keep Your Family Safe
d)Jesus Loves the Absurd Tax Policies, shouldn't you?
So off they scamper, hand in hand leading our nation: The Uber-Wealthy and the Uber-Stupid.
http://revmanny.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/morons-and-hypocrites-sarah-palin-in-the-land-of-duh/
posted by supergoober at
1:51 PM
4 Comments:
I trust the Palin nomination is frightening enough to Hilary supporters to get them to stop their bitching and moaning about Obama not selecting her as his running mate. Their decrying his selection of Biden grains on my ears much in the same as listening to Bush attempt to form actual coherent sentences.
It's pretty obvious his choice in Biden wasn't a matter of placating a certain portion of the populous but a decision to shore up actual policy-creation strengths. It is the politically risky choice, but the policy-sound one.
It's all innocuous posturing on the Clintonites part. I can't reasonably see any Clinton supporter actually throwing their weight behind McCain, despite multiple threats and websites dedicated to such a maneuver. This thought is further reinforced by his Nazi Commandantess of a VP selection. Palin is the physical manifestation of the diametric opposite to all that Clinton soap-boxed for.
Her selection is the politically safe one for McCain. It's galvanized the insane base it was meant for. She has no policy strengths whatsoever. Alaska might be geographically huge, but it really is a minor player in the on-goings of the lower 48.
I'm not dismissing her effect on the uber-scary conservative base, but she's realistically just a cheerleader for a rather uninspiring campaign.
But holy shit, is she cute. I'd even call her hot! Since when did we get MILF's for VP's?
You are the Man, duff. Re. her appearance, I give her that. They really down-played her looks but she is pretty darn cute. I google'd her pics from when she was just a bit younger...SHEESH! Okay, I don't hate her as much.
You are getting older bro...I remember there was a time when you couldn't imagine finding any woman over 30 attractive.
I had not heard that about the cutting of funding for special needs children. Thanks very much for the pointer.
In a state with a budget *surplus*, there simply is no valid reason possible to justify a stand like that. What an amazing failure of government to fulfill its most basic reason to exist.
thanks for the link!!
one love,
--reverend manny
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