[Oe List ...] Palin's Lies

Fri Sep 5 04:02:28 EDT 2008

No, I don't think Cheney would look any better with lipstick on. But he could get a job training the junior pit bull in waiting.
Marshall

--- On Thu, 9/4/08, McCabe, Diann A <dm14 at txstate.edu> wrote:

From: McCabe, Diann A <dm14 at txstate.edu>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Palin's Lies
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 8:36 PM

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And do we really want a pit bull with lipstick for our VP?

D. McCabe

From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of W. J. [synergi at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:20 PM
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Palin's Lies

OK, I watched the speech intensvely, like many other Americans. And it was a great media event. She did a superb job of reading the teleprompter after practicing all week. She was poised, even sexy, and had the right delivery rhythms to wow the Republican audience. And she went after Obama with some great lines written for her by the best in the West! 

She also used her family as a Great American Story. . .of faith and freedom and being generously rewarded as a very popular governor. So what's not to like?

Well, for starters, she simply glossed over the truth of her own experience. 

While she was immersed in being governess of our largest state (with the smallest population per square mile) and handing out billions in bonuses to Alaskan citizens, her oldest daughter Bristol was sneaking around and getting knocked up by some 18 year old named Levi Johnston who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes, and boasts on his MySpace page:

"I'm a fuckin' redneck." 
"But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some shit and just fuckin' chillin' I guess."
"Ya fuck with me I'll kick [your] ass," he added.
He also claims to be "in a relationship," but states, "I don't want kids."

So that's the kind of marriage material Bristol is being forced to get locked into, to protect the image of her Republican family.

What's worse, the whole experience exposes the hypocrisy of Sarah's ideological embrace of Abstinence Only Sex Education. 

Well it didn't work for her own family because it enforces the myth of prolonged virginity, despite the truth that the Pledge doesn't prolong virginity for those who take it. So Bristol didn't have the option of being honest with her parents, and receiving appropriate guidance and counseling that could have protected her from an unwanted pregnancy, because she had to protect the myth and embrace the family lie. 

She didn't have the option of learning how to apply, use, and remove a condom safely to avoid unwanted exposure to Levi's sperm. Nor did she have the option of even discussing abortion as an alternative. She also does not have the option--or the self-awareness--to avoid a bad marriage and raise her child as a single mother. Or to put the child up for adoption.

And if she took huge risks either in ignorance, in the heat of the moment, or perhaps in defiance of her parents' stated values or in reaction to the dishonesty of her relationship with them, what does that say about their parenting skills?

And if she deliberately got pregnant to snare this no-good in a shotgun wedding and bail out of her parents' control, what does that say about her maturity?

Now she's totally out of options. The only option she and Levi have is of going through with the wedding for the sake of Republican politics to become the teenage poster children of responsible family creation for all American teens. As well as a cautionary tale for all of us.

So what's all this got to do with running the White House?

Simply put, Sarah Palin embraces an extreme right wing Republican ideology which is an inappropriate context for making life and death decisions about the fate of this nation and the world. Pervasive lying in your own family, protecting some ideal of "purity," translates into pervasive lying to the American public to protect some right wing ideal, rather than the straight talk for which John McCain likes to be known. 

Not a stretch. And that's really all she knows. It has worked for her up to this point, unless she gets taken to the cleaners on the influence charge of intervening to get her sister's 'Ex-' fired as a state cop. 

The real story of Sarah Palin is that you do anything you think you can get away with that's in your perceived short term interest while applying the lipstick that separates you from the pit bulls and smiling into the camera while you ply your right wing ideology to make the Evangelical voters pull the lever.  God help us while she figures out what to do once she gets into office.

Marshall

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