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

Mon Sep 8 14:44:04 EDT 2008

Well said Tim.  It is my country and I wish I had responded as you did.
Karl

On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Tim Casswell wrote:

> 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
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> 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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