[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Palin's Lies

Mon Sep 8 11:26:37 EDT 2008

However much I feel uncomfortable about Sarah Palin and her views I am
disturbed by the venom in these emails. I realise that this is your country
and your politician, I have no right to challenge your thinking, but I think
you are better than that this sort of rhetoric reveals.

Tim

From: Adelbert Batica <abatica at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 00:50:08 -0500
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>, <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Palin's Lies

Marshall -

Remember in the 90's...when Rush Limbaugh was ranting and raving about
"FEMINAZIS"?!  Well....he was barking up the wrong tree at the time.

But now...you have the One, the Only, the Genuine...FEMINAZI.  Had she been
born in Germany in some other age, she could have been...Sarah Hitler von
Palin.

Watch out, folks, the Nazis are coming!

Addi

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:20:57 -0700
From: synergi at yahoo.com
To: oe at wedgeblade.net; dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Subject: [Dialogue] 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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