More Questions About Sarah Palin's Vice Presidential Candidacy
As a follow-up to my last post, other issues worth considering in connection with Sen. John McCain's selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate are: How well was she vetted? Would her deeply held religious beliefs seep into her policymaking?
On the first, it seems in retrospect as if she was hardly vetted at all. An Anchorage Daily News reporter spoke with party officials and apolitical Alaskans alike, and none of them had been contacted by the McCain campaign. From McClatchy:
Chris Coleman, one of Palin's next-door neighbors, said that no one representing McCain spoke to him about Palin. Another neighbor also was never contacted, he said Monday. Republican Gail Phillips, a former speaker of the Alaska House, said that she was shocked by McCain's selection of Palin and told her husband, Walt, 'This can't be happening because his advance team didn't come to Alaska to check her out.' She said she would've heard had someone been poking around.
The last factor is whether Palin's deep devotion to God will cloud or impact her political judgment. In her speech when she was introduced by McCain as his running mate last Friday, Governor Palin mentioned her intention to serve government with "a servant's heart." According to the National Catholic Reporter , "That reaction wasn't simply about approval of good government; the phrase 'servant's heart' is a popular bit of evangelical terminology, used as a shorthand for Christian humility."
Would she use governmental power to further President Bush's destruction of the wall between church and state? If so, she may alienate the very independent voters Senator McCain needs desperately to win the White House. In any event, Governor Palin is far from the smart choice she appeared to be last Friday, when Senator McCain announced her selection.
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re: the little people
whoever wrote " the little people" really needs to get over themself. obviously terrorism didnt impact you the way it impacted some people. people feared the name hussein because hussein did try to attack us on a mass scale. just think of internment camps. people were put there because of a notional scare. not saying it was right just saying everyone has there opinions and unfortunatly people in high places had the wrong opinion back then.
Sarah Palin
I was going to vote for John McCain till he picked a lovely lady, but an evangelical (former Assembly of God member) and I
have family members who belong to that church. They believe in
literal interpretation of the Bible, and base a lot of their beliefs in the book of Genesis as truth. The earth was formed in
6 days (24 hour days!) and mankind is no more that about 6000 years old, because of all the begats added together. That is called the Creationism that Sarah Palin wants taught in the public schools. Evidently she doesn't believe birth control should be taught in health classes in public high schools either. She would also try to help stack the Supreme Court to
assure that Roe vs. Wade would be overturned someday. Back to the back alley abortions. I am a 73 year old retired nurse, and
not a crackpot. I just know I can't vote for a woman that would
put women's rights and science back a few centuries. A scared woman.
Question of the day !
What's the difference between a hockey mom and a vice-presidential candidate ?..... A LOT !
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