I’m sure you’ve all heard the news that Sarah Palin is McCain’s VP choice. While this doesn’t make any sense to me and I am anticipating it backfiring on him (1.5 years as governor? You call that experience?), it’s still maddening, as she is anti-choice, anti-environment, anti-gay, and anti-everything that we work for. Here’s a fantastic petition on Care2 that sums it up nicely:
No Way, No How, No Sarah Palin!
John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin shows how little he knows about women. In an attempt to woo the women vote, his selection shows how out of touch his platform and candidacy is with the issues that matter to women in this election.
Sarah Palin is anti-choice. Just like McCain, she opposes a woman’s right to choose. Sarah Palin has also stated her opposition to abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
Sarah Palin is a creationist. U.S. teenagers are trailing behind their peers from many industrialized countries in math and science. To truly compete in a global economy, we need leadership that will improve the quality of U.S. education. Yet Sarah Palin has supported creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state’s public classrooms.
Sarah Palin opposes gay-marriage. Sarah Palin took office less than two years ago in Alaska, and by then the state was one of the first in the U.S. to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage. But Sarah Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment.
Sarah Palin is pro-drilling. Even though John McCain has opposed opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling in the past, his choice of Sarah Palin as VP shows how untrustworthy he is on protecting ANWR in the future. Sarah Palin has implored McCain to change his position against drilling in the Arctic, repeatedly pushing policies that benefit Big Oil and could make us even more dependent on foreign oil.
Sarah Palin is anti-environment. She’s responsible for approving a $400,000 state-funded propaganda campaign to justify Alaska’s barbaric wolf slaughter from the skies, and sued the federal government over the addition of polar bears to the Endangered Species list, arguing the designation would slow gas and oil development in the state. [addition by Emily - her husband is an oil tycoon! Now don't tell me that doesn't affect her desire for more and more drilling!]
Sarah Palin is embroiled in scandal. She’s currently under ethics investigation for abuse of power in Alaska: in late July, Alaska’s state legislature voted to hire an independent investigator to find out whether she tried to have a state official fire her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper. She has also refused to call for the resignation of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens despite his indictment for allegedly hiding gifts received from an oil firm.
Sounds like more of the same broken politics we’ve seen in the last eight years.
And yet you could say that Barack Obama has little to no experience either and is embroiled in scandal too, and he is actually running for President.
How is a woman….anti-woman? I am not sure that makes much sense.
Barack Obama has WORLDS more experience than Sarah Palin. And exactly what scandal is Obama embroiled in?
Emily, you do know that the acquisition of Alaska from Russia in the 19th century was motivated by the wealth of natural resources that would be available to the US in future years?
Sarah is just urging that we go after some of those resources to ease our energy pinch.
When Cold War I ended, all the displaced communists in the US found refuge in the environmental movement so that they could continue their effort to stop the continued growth of the US economy and reduce the standard of living to the lowest possible level. Pelosi thinks she is the savior of the planet by stopping drilling against the will of the people.
This election will tell us who is going to prevail.
Wow, that’s laughable. Environmentalists want to stop the growth of the economy, eh? So that’s why the environmental movement is pushing for the biggest job boom we have seen in decades by promoting clean energy technologies? Because clearly the oil execs are sharing the wealth and making our economy grow… (hope you’re sensing the sarcasm here, I’m laying it on pretty thick).
Not to mention, “easing our energy pinch” is quite the understatement. What she’s proposing would continue our gluttonous oil habits for years to come, which would cause global warming to speed up – and then, I believe we would be in a “humanity pinch,” if I can be facetious here.
Nice try, but we will indeed see who is going to prevail, and our planet is waiting in the wings, cowering at the thought of 8 more years of Bush policy.
Now, tell me more about that job boom the environmentalists are pushing. Since I’m an investor (some might say capitalist) I’m always looking for prospective profitable opportunities.
I have researched several (ethanol, wind, solar, natural gas, fuel cells) and all are money losers for the foreseeable future or they are being heavily subsidized by the federal government. My experience tells me that most job creation occurs in profitable ventures.
Do you know something I don’t?
There are so many reasons why these technologies haven’t taken off, and some of that is because of government red tape (and them being in the pockets of oil companies), and it’s also because people are trying to develop technologies from scratch that have no practical application in our current society – IE, they would require an immediate overhaul of our energy infrastructure. These are all great ideas, and they’re getting people to think outside the box. But the way we are going to re-shape our economy is with gradual and practical steps toward a green system that will open up many new jobs in the process.
In other words, these jobs are not ALL going to come from brand new, hardly developed technologies. They are going to be jobs for middle-skilled workers, and from creating more environmentally-friendly steps within our current framework. Then, we will be taking steps to retrofit our entire system, particularly focusing on wind and biofuels.
There is a great report done by the organization Green For All, which details why this new economy is possible, and why it’s going to happen. You just have to know where to look and what to invest in:
http://www.greenforall.org/resources/greener-pathways-jobs-and-workforce-development-in
Thanks for your comments!