Women against Sarah Palin

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* McCain campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan said that Palin is "unlikely to cooperate" with the [Troopergate] investigation...When the investigation was announced less than two months ago, Palin said she welcomed it and promised her full cooperation. See The Washington Post
* Under Sarah Palin, Wasilla made rape victims pay for their own rape kits, according to former Alaskan governor, Tony Knowles. "Eight years ago, complaints about charging rape victims for medical exams in Wasilla prompted the Alaska Legislature to pass a bill -- signed into law by Knowles -- that banned the practice statewide."
* Sarah Palin has stated that we should "perhaps" go to war with Russia in an NBC interview with Charles Gibson.

GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help.
* A day before she was announced as the Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urging him to veto a bill that would impose a clean-air fee on cargo containers moving through Oakland and other California ports. Reported in the Mercury News
* According to a 2006 article in the Anchorage Daily News, Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms.
* An informal adviser who has counseled Gov. Sarah Palin on ethics issues urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of the state's public safety commissioner and warned that the matter could snowball into a bigger scandal. Wall Street Journal.
Palin didn't listen.
* While claiming to be a "reformer" Palin billed the state of Alaska $17,059 for "per diem" travel expenses for 312 nights she spent at her home in Wasilla. Here's the Washington Post article. According to the Washington Post, the last guy who did that in Alaska resigned because of the scandal.
* Palin was not a very good mayor, according to one Wasilla resident. "Far from being a fiscal conservative, Palin left Wasilla in debt, was intolerant of "divergent opinions" and "has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help." Read the story in the Anchorage Daily News.
* She DID support the Bridge to Nowhere (before she opposed it). Palin claimed that she said "thanks, but no thanks" to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere. But in 2006, Palin supported the project repeatedly, saying that Alaska should take advantage of earmarks "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist." According to the Associated Press, Palin sought $197 million in so-called "earmarks" for Alaska in 2009. In the previous budget year, she asked for earmarks worth $256 million.

Quote from a Fox News story: THE FACTS: Palin did abandon plans to build the nearly $400 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport. But she made her decision after the project had become an embarrassment to the state
* Palin has actively sought the support of the fringe Alaska Independence Party. Six months ago, Palin told members of the group, who advocate for a vote on secession from the union, to "keep up the good work" and "wished the party luck on what she called its 'inspiring convention'. Here Palin is addressing the party >.
* Palin favors drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
* Palin questioned the science behind predictions of sea ice loss linked to global warming. Speaking about climate change, she said, "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade."
* In 2008, the state of Alaska under Palin's guidance sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne in an attempt to reverse his decision to list polar bears as a threatened species.
* Palin opposed a state initiative that would have banned metal mines from discharging pollution into salmon streams.
* Palin has close ties to Big Oil. Her inauguration was sponsored by BP.
* Palin is extremely anti-choice. She doesn't even support abortion in the case of rape or incest. "I am as pro-life as any candidate can be," Palin wrote on July 1, 2002, to the Alaska Right to Life board, according to the Anchorage Daily News
* Palin opposes comprehensive sex-ed in public schools. She's said she will only support abstinence-only approaches.
* Palin supports the aerial shooting of wolves in Alaska -- despite ballot measures in the state in which voters twice since 1996 have voted to end the practice. (This according to the Wall Street Journal)
* As mayor, Palin tried to ban books from the library. Palin asked the library how she might go about banning books because some had inappropriate language in them-shocking the librarian, Mary Ellen Baker. According to Time, "news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor."
* After she took office as mayor in November 1996, Palin asked for letters of resignation from six department heads based on allegations that they were still supporting the former mayor. She also fired Police Chief Irl Stambaugh, who unsuccessfully sued her for wrongful termination, according to court records.

In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."
Read the Associated Press story.

Really, what kind of God does she worship? Not the one most of us do!

This woman is an anti-choice, anti-sex education, anti-environment, far Right religious fanatic. The only thing she has in common with Hillary Clinton is her anatomy.

"One well-known conservative commentator, Kathleen Parker, urged Palin on Friday to withdraw from the race in the wake of her abysmal dealings with the media. Parker suggested Palin's performance on the national stage revealed a woman who was in over her head." (Quote from an article at The Canadian Press)

It is time for women across the US to move forward and speak out.

Another powerful female voice for Obama

CNN has done a fact check on Sarah Palin's latest smear campaign of Barack Obama. Yet another inication that this woman needs to learn to do some of her own fact checking.

From time Magazine. A woman's perspective on why some women hate Sarah Palin.