Adam (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} scrambledeggs) wrote,@ 2008-09-11 07:26:00 |
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You have got to be kidding me.
The more I hear about Sarah Palin, the less impressed I am.
I'll admit, when I heard about McCain's VP pick I thought it was a bit of an obvious grab for disaffected Hillary voters, but that it was still a pretty gutsy move. Now I'm just disgusted.
I'll ignore the stuff with her family. Any sane person knows that you can't control what a 17-year-old does.
What pisses me off most is her so-called stand against government waste. She didn't stop the "Bridge to Nowhere" -- she supported it until after it gained a notorious reputation. (see here for more info). She's not an anti-waste crusader, she's just an expedient politician. Selling the Alaska governor's luxury jet was a good idea (even if she didn't actually manage to sell it for a profit), but who's paying for the private jet she's now using for the campaign? Expedient politics.
And, of course, there's her mocking of "community organizers." ("I guess the mayor of a small town is like a community organizer -- but with actual responsibilities.") Mayors run cities & towns, and most of the time probably do a fine job. But community organizers and the movements they create have been the actual agents of real change in this country. Think suffragettes. Think the civil rights movement. Those were grassroots community movements that actually accomplished major changes in our government and in our society.
And finally, she's a religious-right, put-government-into-my-bedroom (while taking it out of my pocketbook) ultraconservative who would take the country in, I think, the wrong social direction.
Sarah Palin may or may not be "qualified" to be vice president, but I'll say one thing -- were she to end up in the White House, the changes she'd bring are pretty much the opposite of the changes we need. At best she's just another expedient politician, and at worst she's an ultra-right-winger who wants to impose some idyllic notion of the 1950's on our society.
In conclusion, go Barack. :)
The more I hear about Sarah Palin, the less impressed I am.
I'll admit, when I heard about McCain's VP pick I thought it was a bit of an obvious grab for disaffected Hillary voters, but that it was still a pretty gutsy move. Now I'm just disgusted.
I'll ignore the stuff with her family. Any sane person knows that you can't control what a 17-year-old does.
What pisses me off most is her so-called stand against government waste. She didn't stop the "Bridge to Nowhere" -- she supported it until after it gained a notorious reputation. (see here for more info). She's not an anti-waste crusader, she's just an expedient politician. Selling the Alaska governor's luxury jet was a good idea (even if she didn't actually manage to sell it for a profit), but who's paying for the private jet she's now using for the campaign? Expedient politics.
And, of course, there's her mocking of "community organizers." ("I guess the mayor of a small town is like a community organizer -- but with actual responsibilities.") Mayors run cities & towns, and most of the time probably do a fine job. But community organizers and the movements they create have been the actual agents of real change in this country. Think suffragettes. Think the civil rights movement. Those were grassroots community movements that actually accomplished major changes in our government and in our society.
And finally, she's a religious-right, put-government-into-my-bedroom (while taking it out of my pocketbook) ultraconservative who would take the country in, I think, the wrong social direction.
Sarah Palin may or may not be "qualified" to be vice president, but I'll say one thing -- were she to end up in the White House, the changes she'd bring are pretty much the opposite of the changes we need. At best she's just another expedient politician, and at worst she's an ultra-right-winger who wants to impose some idyllic notion of the 1950's on our society.
In conclusion, go Barack. :)
