Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Sarah Palin:  Could she be any less qualified?  Does John McCain know what “vetting” means?

Campbell Brown asks a simple question of Tucker Bounds, spokesman for the McCain/hahaha-Palin campaign.  He can’t think of a single thing she’s done that qualifies her, so he talks around and around and around.  It’s kind of sad to watch, but this VP pick is such a disaster, even if there weren’t any weird pregnancy lies/deception.  Apparently John McCain was thinking VPILF, instead of gee, who would be qualified should I not be in the greatest health and have to hand over the reins.  Frankly, I’m glad he picked someone who will keep the National Enquirer busy, plus I’m really really looking forward to the VP debates.  Remember that general guy who Ross Perot picked and how terrible he was in the debates?  Well, at least he had a plethora of military experience - Sarah Palin’s got nothin’.  I’ll bet Joe Biden is even more excited for the VP debates than I am, especially since he could win a debate with her while he was napping.

We still don’t know what the truth is about her daughter and the pregnancy(ies?).  What kind of mother, who has a nice cushy job as the governor of a small state (population-wise), would accept the VP nomination knowing how this was going to tear apart her daughter?  Or, maybe this is her daughter’s punishment for having sex, since her mother is such a creepy right-wing anti-choice (even if the woman was raped!), abstinence-only (sex education and birth control are B-A-D), polar bears should die (she sued to try to make sure they weren’t put on the Endangered Species list) kind of person.  Anyway, for more thorough baby drama, read up.  (scroll down a few paragraphs to the links) Oh yeah, one more baby thing - apparently her first child was born 8 months into her marriage.  Hmmm, like mother, like daughter?

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1. She’s back! And with a great post! You are bang on here, my friend.

   laurie  on  09/02  at  08:58 AM

2. I agree on many things and I do question her qualifications. However, having three kids—there are many things even the best parent doesn’t have control over. Good kids at times do bad things (sometimes the parents never find out and I don’t feel it is necessarily a reflection on the parents. I had a patient years ago that came to the office late for her appointment—she was bailing one son out of juvenile hall and attending the other son’s law school graduation (I told her I was sorry she had a lawyer in the family). She thought she raised them the same. Good dogs with good masters sometimes poop in the house.

   Craig  on  09/04  at  09:48 AM

3. I didn’t blame the mother for the daughter getting pregnant.  Many kids will have sex before they’re mature enough to make those adult decisions (or adult enough to deal with the possible consequences), and if their parents are anti-sex education (which Sarah Palin is), the kids will still have sex, but they’ll have unprotected sex.  The anti-sex education governor’s surely can’t be seen buying/getting birth control at the local pharmacy.  Unprotected sex when you’re 16 or 17 means that if you get pregnant, you’ll often end up with a baby daddy who writes on his MySpace page that he doesn’t want kids.  What a surprise, a boy who lives for hockey not wanting to be weighed down by starting a family when he’s a teenager.

   Sarah Palin is completely unqualified, and frankly, a little bit scary.  She knew her unwed (although, by the comments & pictures in Levi Johnston’s sister’s MySpace, it sounds like they’re already married) pregnant teenaged daughter would be dragged through all kinds of humiliating media coverage and that every tidbit of her life would be investigated by the National Enquirer, but her career was more important to her.  It wasn’t enough to be the governor, everyone/thing else was put on the backburner (with the heat getting turned up more and more) so she could be the VP candidate.  She knows she’s unqualified, and that if McCain wanted a female VP, there were plenty of women with years and years of valuable experience.  Why he wanted her, I’ll never know, although he’s known for cheating on his wives, so maybe he just wanted the hot librarian looking chick just hangin’ with guys at the White House…and just maybe, you know, if she was lonely and her husband was back in Alaska, taking care of the family, McCain might get lucky.  Why not, he’s gotten lucky with pretty much everything he’s done.  How many guys graduate at the bottom of their class (okay, fifth from the bottom) at the US Naval Academy (I’m sure he wasn’t even qualified to get in, but when Daddy’s an admiral and granddaddy’s an admiral, magical things happen), crash 5 (FIVE!) military planes (he shouldn’t have been fighter pilot anyway - only the top graduates usually got offered the flight training), cheat on their wives (after the terrible accident, she wasn’t hot anymore), get involved in scandal after scandal…and are considered heroes?  Oh, and the second wife, the really rich one (convenient, no?) is just as classy - she stole drugs from her own charity to feed her habit.  At least she should’ve gotten prescriptions written out by her own family doctor to keep the monkey calm & happy, not involve the charity.  Ugh, and getting addicted to Percocet & Vicodin - how much did she take, it must’ve been a lot because tolerance develops really quickly, so her stomach/liver must’ve been a mess from all that acetaminophen.

   Let’s just say that I’m not impressed with the “family values” (and these are the kind of people who attacked Bill Clinton for cheating on his, when they were all doing the same thing, at the same time!), the hypocrisy, and just the mean-spirited way of the Republicans.  (not all Republicans - I know a few sane ones who are Republicans because of that fiscally conservative issue that no longer applies to the Republicans in office now, who are spending $10.3 billion a month in Iraq) I admit that Barack Obama wasn’t my first choice, but compared to the Republicans, he’s practically a saint.

   I’m sleepy, it’s 11am and I haven’t gone to bed yet, so I got a little rambly and veered off-course from my talking points.  I should’ve just taken the time and written a new blog entry.  Oh well…

   Flippy  on  09/05  at  01:18 PM

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