The storm of revelations about Sarah Palin, since her announcement, approaches biblical proportions. While struggling to keep afloat amid the flood, one song keeps going through my mind, a song that could represent Sarah Palin's love ballad to John McCain and the Republican Party: What a wonderful world it would be ...
Don't know much about history
don't know much biology
don't know much about science books ....
Don't know much about geography
don't know much trigonomitry
don't know much about algebra
A biblical event?
The storm of revelations about Sarah Palin, post her joining John McCain's campaign as the presumptive Republican Vice Presidential nominee with seemingly no serious vetting prior to the decision, is almost biblical in its intensity and extent. The torrent of issues and items is, at minimum, a 100-year flood on the political spectrum.
Where to start? Separatist to the point of treason? Serial pork barreler? Disgraceful and dirty campaign style? Disingenuous (lying) about the flagship issue of opposing the Bridge to Nowhere (lie?)? Association with serial Republican corruption in Alaska? Lack of foreign policy experience (to the extent of calling a refueling stopover in Ireland a 'visit" there to boost foreign experience) and disdain for key international issues? Lack of experience? Extreme anti-choice stance? Serial Abuse of Power? Tyrannical governance style? Close allegiance to the fossil fuel industry and evidently lack of understanding of America's (and the globe's) energy options and challenges? Anti-environment views, including support of aerial hunting of wolves (see)? John McCain's insult to the nation's collective intelligence through suggesting that she is even in the top 100 list for viable people to be a heart-beat away from the Presidency? Abuse of Power? And, the list can go on and on and on and on ... As noted, a 100-year flood.
Sarah's plaintive love song ...
Amid all of this, one song keeps going through my mind, a song that could represent Sarah Palin's love ballad to John McCain and the Republican Party: What a wonderful world it would be ...
Don't know much about history don't know much biology don't know much about science books .... Don't know much about geography don't know much trigonomitry don't know much about algebraHow does this relate to Sarah Palin? In brief, Palin
Palin's anti-knowledge crusade and ignorance credentials don't stop there.
Asked for her personal views on evolution, Palin said, "I believe we have a creator."She would not say whether her belief also allowed her to accept the theory of evolution as fact.
"I'm not going to pretend I know how all this came to be," she said.
Sarah Palin's stated beliefs and positions clearly show her to be an anti-knowledge and anti-science zealot. She is, to me, the clearest anti-science, anti-knowledge VP selection in, perhaps, US history. With this decision, impulsive John McCain kowtowing to the 'know-nothing' fringe of the Republican Party.
We are going on eight years of having an Administration focused on sound science rather than embracing the value of scientific knowledge. We cannot afford four more.
But i do know that i love you
and i know that if you love me too
what a wonderful world this would be
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At what point in the nearly-concluded convention will the Republicans set aside the Bushian tactics of fearmongering and dissembling and begin to address the grave issues facing the country -- do they have any understanding that the economic disaster created by people like George Bush, top McCain adviser Phil Gramm (yes, still) and their ilk cannot be solved by personal attacks? That their foolish and failed war has made the world less safe? That the American people have lost patience with the rapacious cronyism of the past eight years? Or has Sen. McCain abandoned all principle in his lust for power?
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Posted September 2, 2008 | 05:24 PM (EST)