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The Worst Vice Presidential Candidate in History?
Sarah Palin has been the mayor of a small town for six years, and Governor of Alaska for a year and a half. She has absolutely no national public service experience, however. Her only legislative experience has been to sit on the council of what most honestly could be called a village.
In the summer of 2008, Sarah Palin wondered on national television just what the job of Vice President requires. If she doesn't know the job description of Vice President of the United States, should she get the job?
Sarah Palin is asking to be placed first in the line to become President of the United States, running with the oldest presidential candidate in American history. The chances that John McCain will not survive his presidency, if elected, are good.
The combination of Sarah Palin's inexperience, her tendency to speak before thinking, and her involvement in an abuse-of-power scandal as Governor suggest that indeed, Sarah Palin may be the worst vice presidential candidate ever.
Heck, there are even polar bears against Palin.
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Sarah Palin allows toxic waste dumping next to national parks in Alaska
Understanding Sarah Palin
Analysis of the vice presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin, from Irregular Times
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What will be the greatest problem for Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate?
Sarah Palin Videos
Short citizen movies scrutinizing Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate
Palin Extremist Church Background
The Wasilla Assemblies of God, which Palin grew up in and still visits, preaches that non-Christians and homosexuals deserve to be tortured for eternity. That's what Sarah Palin's "plan of God" really is. Find out more...
Was It A Good Or Bad Idea To Pick Palin As A VP Running Mate?
Was John McCain wise or a fool to choose Sarah Palin to run with him for the White House?
Was John McCain right to choose Sarah Palin?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYou bet he was?
Louis_Dubois says:
He was right to choose her so he can lose this election!
She even met with Bono, King of Ireland. lol
Posted September 29, 2008
jimcook says:
Well, that depends on whether the American people pay attention to detail or are superficial. If the American people are superficial and just say, "Hey, change!" regardless of Palin's policy preference for using government to shove her religious standards down others' throats, then the strategy may well work. Unfortunately, I think the American people are pretty darned superficial.
Posted August 30, 2008
No way! Palin was the wrong choice!
bgamall says:
No all religious people support Sarah Palin. If you go to squidoo.com/palinsucks you will see that historically, the people who supported church/state really do not have any sound understanding of the words of Christ. They have caused all manner of evil, including waging religious wars, killing people for their religious views, etc. Christ said that his kingdom was not of this world, so his servants should not fight the authorities of this world. I don't view the dominionists, who want to "convert" the world by force as being true Christians. I believe they are off the mark. I would not say that there is no truth in the world, but I just don't happen to believe that Palin has it.
Posted November 17, 2008
mulberry says:
I guess I feel it was the wrong choice for McCain for larger reasons that his campaign success or failure. I respected him as a man (though I wasn't going to vote for him) until I became disenchanted that he would bring her to the forefront of national politics-- to potentially linger in our future for years to come. She represents all that is ugly in us, hawkish, narrow minded, crass, the anti-thesis of learned...she may represent "common", but I pray she doesn't represent us as "typical". I am certain she doesn't inspire us to be better or more.
Posted October 26, 2008
Margo_Arrowsmith says:
Well, she was mayor in a city that had a supervisor doing the work and still tried to fire the head librarian because she wouldn't get rid of 'offensive' books. That is the good news about her.
McCain choose her for the same reason the Bush I choose Quail, they have no respect for women.
Posted October 08, 2008
EuroSquid says:
Please watch the Palin interview with Katie Couric where Couric asks Palin about the $700 Billion Bailout and Palin has a complete meltdown. Tell me if that does not frighten you to think that she is one 72 year old man's heartbeat away from the presidency.
Posted September 29, 2008
irregularworld says:
Sarah Palin is inexperienced, unready for the presidency, and espouses political ideology too far off in the right wing world of Creationism and marriage bigotry. Plus, Palin is in the middle of political scandal about her abuse of power and unethical behavior as Governor. What a dumb pick for McCain!
Posted August 29, 2008
More Muckraking on Sarah Palin
Research on Sarah Palin from the Huffington Post
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Bumper stickers and buttons against John McCain and Sarah Palin
Share What You Know About Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin must no longer be the mystery woman of 2008
Sarah Palin was chosen because her inexperience makes her difficult to confront. She doesn't have much of a record to examine. That's why it's especially important that American voters know as much about Palin as possible. Please share what you know here.
Margo_Arrowsmith wrote...
She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.
and more
From Wasilla
She took over Wasilla when it was completely in the black and left it with millions of dollars of debt. Does that matter?
Posted October 08, 2008
EuroSquid wrote...
You have got to post this video of Palin's interview. How can someone like this, be one 72 year old man's heart beat away from presidency?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc&feature=user
Posted September 29, 2008
ltraider wrote...
Very thought provoking lens. I'm not sure what to think of her.
Posted September 10, 2008
Sarah Palin Censored Library Books
Church lady moral values led Sarah Palin to threaten the librarian
The following insight into the character of Sarah Palin comes from Anne Kilkenny, a resident of Wasilla who has been observing Palin's abuse of power for the last ten years."She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day."
An anti-book Vice President? Who thought that anyone could be worse than Dick Cheney?
Sarah Palin Is An Opponent of American Freedom - Video News
Independent Videos in Protest of Sarah Palin's Anti-Liberty Agenda
Sarah Palin, Alaska and the World Map
"Alaska is all over the world map right now." - June 8, 2008
The Plan of God for America According to Sarah Palin's Church
The Wasilla Assembly of God says that God's plan is to torture non-Christians. Is that what Sarah Palin believes in too?
Progressive Patriots Points on Palin
Sarah Palin analyzed by Progressive Patriots
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byWhen Will Sarah Palin Talk To Reporters?
If Palin isn't ready to be interviewed by journalists, she isn't ready to be Vice President
The McCain web site says that Sarah Palin will not speak to reporters in any interviews or even give a press conference. Why? McCain says that Sarah Palin is not ready
If Sarah Palin is unready to be asked questions by reporters, then she is unready to be Vice President. Follow this countdown as we get closer to Election Day, and Sarah Palin continues to hide, unwilling to submit herself to questions from journalists, unwilling to let America ask questions about where she stands on the important issues of the day.
What is John McCain trying to hide about Sarah Palin?
Palinisms
A Palinism is an expression of the essential character of Sarah Palin: Ideologically extreme and intellectually incoherent.
A Palinism is an expression from the lips of Sarah Palin, that reveals this character of incoherent certainty. For example, there was the time that Sarah Palin worried about Putin's head entering American air space. There was the toxic sludge on Wall Street that Sarah Palin promised to cure. There was Sarah Palin's idea for cutting government spending: A new program to give hundreds of billions of government money to Wall Street.
Read these and more as you read through the collection of Palinisms.
