Sarah Palin: I just watched the Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debate tonight. I cannot believe
she is even being taken seriously at all as a vice presidential candidate. I felt there should have been the national anthem
swelling up behind her as she spoke, because she was using cliches and trying so hard to butter up (and these are her words) the "Joe 6 pack" and "Soccer Mom" America. She even winked
at the camera at least 3 times! It made my stomach turn to think of all those people who need protection from corporate
friendly government, getting buttered up by the side that has just fleeced them over and over again by (for one of many examples)
trouncing small independent business owners, and making it easy for big corporate business to consolidate and ship American
jobs overseas for cheap labour. Remember Detroit. Those were our American workers left behind there.
People who once owned their own Hardware store are now clerks at Home Depot (selling
goods made in other countries). That is why people are broke, not because of taxation, but because they work for corporate
echelons who make a ridiculous amount of money, while the workers work for low wages (and they take it only because "it
comes with benefits"... i.e. health care... another racket! "health care benefits" are at the tip of the whip of corporate
America - but don't get me started there).
Remember Halliburton. Our present V.P. financially benefited from the Iraq
war through Halliburton (and presently through "Black Water"
Dick Cheney's Mercenary Army).
Let us not forget. Let us not forgive this blunder of a war we are now mired in (over fictitious "weapons of mass destruction").
Remember that that is why Bush led us to war... and remember that that was not the case. It was not because "they
don't like our freedom" as Bush and Palin love to say; We were attacked because radicals did not like our muscling
low prices out of oil rich Arab states (we have always way paid less than other countries - including Europe - as any of those
of you who have been, can attest) because we've had the global muscle to squeeze for our blind dependence on oil.
We could be developing energy alternatives - but the big oil
corporations do not want us to abandon their massive money making
infrastructure.
The other reason is because of
our lack of true support for a free and safe Palestinian state. Those are the facts, based on what Bin Laden stated.
We don't have to like it - we just have to be REAL about it.
Sarah Palin is not a capable political leader. She
is a tactful rouse by the Republican party to try and benefit from the Hillary Clinton fall out. Also, it is the Republican party trying to re-do what they did with George W. Bush; pick a duff-us
"everyman" to win the confidence of people who like to think... "hey, they're just like me"..... and
that just makes me mad. I think it's condescending, and the people being condescended to don't even see it. that's
the kicker.
But all you have to do is look at the state
of the country. It's a mess financially, globally we are dis-respected, and dis-liked for our selfish - short sighted
foreign policy. The Republican party likes to say that the Democrats
are not fiscally responsible and only want to tax, and yet the Republican
party always spends all the money on weapons development, cuts
taxes for the upper tier of the financial strata, and leaves the chest empty. Then the Dems take over because the people want
change, then the Republicans take over and do it all over again - and that's where we are now; Broke. The Republican party got us here, and I'm glad that people are starting to
realize this. You have to pay taxes and stay out of dumb wars to keep some money in the bank, and keep some ethical guide
lines so you don't have to bail out the greedy laze faire.
We
need to take care of Home first. Our people need to be healthy, cared for (because we are the United
States), well educated and able to pay their bills; then we can be in a position to help others.
My heart tells me this: If the red states win this election
I'm gonna want THEM to secede from the United States. They no longer speak for me - they speak for themselves.
Bush was all I could take.
F.Q.O. oct 2008
