"Women Against Sarah Palin"

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"Women Against Sarah Palin"
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Registered: 01-28-2004
Mon, 09-22-2008 - 10:38am

So how is she different than Hillary?


For one, she just stood by and let Bill abuse a few women.

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Registered: 09-09-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 6:48pm

Alaska Women Reject Palin rally


http://www.aarp.org/community/groups/displayTopic.bt?groupId=1492&topicId=731232


So, if you've been doing the math Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.The citizens of Alaska , who know her best, have things to say.


A bunch of pictures of that rally.




Edited 9/25/2008 6:50 pm ET by sistah_w
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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 6:57pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_el_pr/palin


Palin defends Alaska-Russia foreign policy remark


By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer



NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the close proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview airing Thursday that "we have trade missions back and forth."


Palin has never visited Russia and until last year the 44-year-old Alaska governor had never traveled outside North America. She also had never met a foreign leader until her trip this week to New York. In the CBS interview, she did not offer any examples of having been involved in any negotiations with the Russians.


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What's that saying about it's better to keep your mouth closed than to open it and remove all doubt?


That needs to be Sarah Palin's mantra.

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 7:39pm

<<Well, that's because, have you forgotten, his mother was married

 

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 8:01pm
I like Palin, my husband doesn't. I think he is just jealous that she has shot a moose and he has a hard time getting a deer, never mind a moose, he's never got one. I think a lot of feelings from people of "hatred" towards sarah are that of jealousy.
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Registered: 09-15-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 8:11pm

Seems only fitting since Screwy Louie calls him the Messiah.

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:47pm
SP a feminist? How can you be for women's rights and vote against them?
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Registered: 08-31-2003
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:03pm

What "woman's rights" is Palin against?

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:23pm
Well, can't speak for your husband - or for anyone besides myself, for that matter. And I'd be the last person to try to suggest that some people don't make very important decisions (financial, voting, whom to date/marry) on criteria that you and I might consider truly shallow and misguided - possibly even dangerously oblivious of the real issues.

But it's exactly those real issues which have sealed the deal for me regarding Palin. I would probably not have been voting for John McCain anyway, based upon a whole different set of calculations having to do with McCain himself, long before he picked Palin. I have a hard time imagining anyone he could have chosen as a running mate who would have reversed that for me. That said, though, since she's applying for the job (paid for with my tax dollars, in part) of being the second in command of this nation, it's not only my right but actually my duty to examine her critically, even if I don't plan on voting for her - just as I think it is every other citizens' right/duty.

And, when I look, I see exactly the reasons why the McCain campaign wants to keep her away from unscripted sessions with the media: she is woefully unprepared even to answer questions from domestic media about what she might do, in this or that situation, to say nothing of unqualified to actually act on any of her half-baked and often incomprehensible and self-contradictory ideas. When I look at Sarah Palin, it isn't envy or hatred that I feel, it's genuine concern, almost fear (though not in the personal "I'm terrified" sense of it) that this woman could be President at any moment. I do not believe - after watching her, what little I've been able to - that she is even remotely possessed of the qualifications or the fiber necessary to run this nation.

If you're interested, Sam Harris has a great piece along these very lines at Newsweek. A little taste:

The point to be lamented is not that Sarah Palin comes from outside Washington, or that she has glimpsed so little of the earth's surface (she didn't have a passport until last year), or that she's never met a foreign head of state. The point is that she comes to us, seeking the second most important job in the world, without any intellectual training relevant to the challenges and responsibilities that await her. There is nothing to suggest that she even sees a role for careful analysis or a deep understanding of world events when it comes to deciding the fate of a nation. In her interview with Gibson, Palin managed to turn a joke about seeing Russia from her window into a straight-faced claim that Alaska's geographical proximity to Russia gave her some essential foreign-policy experience. Palin may be a perfectly wonderful person, a loving mother and a great American success story—but she is a beauty queen/sports reporter who stumbled into small-town politics, and who is now on the verge of stumbling into, or upon, world history.

The problem, as far as our political process is concerned, is that half the electorate revels in Palin's lack of intellectual qualifications. When it comes to politics, there is a mad love of mediocrity in this country. "They think they're better than you!" is the refrain that (highly competent and cynical) Republican strategists have set loose among the crowd, and the crowd has grown drunk on it once again. "Sarah Palin is an ordinary person!" Yes, all too ordinary.

We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter's microphone, saying things like, "I'm voting for Sarah because she's a mom. She knows what it's like to be a mom." Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security … the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them.

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 11:37pm

It is mindless and senseless.


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