Essential Eccentricity

Thursday, 04 September 2008

• Don't take my word for it.

  Sarah Palin is a liar.  You don't have to believe me on that.  Check her record.  One example:  she campaigned for governor on promises to get the Gravina Island Bridge built.  That's the infamous "bridge to nowhere," for those Outside Alaska who don't know where Gravina Island is.  Now, she boasts that she killed the dreaded bridge to nowhere, when the bridge was dead before she ever took office.  ...a pathological liar.
  
  In my opinion, she is also a dangerous fundamentalist religious extremist who wants to impose her beliefs on not just the USA, but the whole world.  Here are a few facts to support my opinion.  As mayor of Wasilla, she tried to ban some books from the public library.  The librarians and friends of the library stood up to her, so she cut funding to the already financially strapped library, and tried to get the librarian fired.  In a June, 2008 speech to her church, she told the congregation to pray for her own version of Jihad, saying, "our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," and, in reference to the $30 billion gas pipeline she wants to build, "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that."
  
  I know I'm largely preaching to the choir here, that most of my readers agree with me, and that Sarah's fellow fundies, if they read me at all, are only here to fuel their hatred and call me names.  It amuses me that they do that, and it pleases me that an occasional Xangan like TheCrimsonNinja comes along and speaks up for me when they do.
  
  It also pleases me when some of the people close to Palin refute her nonsense.  Reportedly, Levi Johnston, the guy who allegedly fathered the fetus that Bristol Palin has been said to be happily bearing to term, and who the Palin camp says is willingly planning to marry the mom, wrote in his myspace profile that, "I'm a f - - -in' redneck," and,  "in a relationship," but then continues, "I don't want kids."  Poor kids.  Whether Sarah stays in Juneau or moves to DC, I'm sure we're going to hear more about that little love story.
  
  I mentioned that my husband, ArmsMerchant, has been losing sleep over the threat that Mrs. Palin, who likens herself to a pit bull in lipstick, might inhabit the White House.  I have lost some tooth enamel over it, and continually find myself needing to consciously relax as I listen to the news.  I know we are not alone.  RobinAmyBass says she hates Palin.  Lupa is up in arms along with me, vowing to plaster my, "chickens voting," graphic all over the web.  Twotothefightingeighthpower is "nauseous," and BluePaNDoRa says, "This poltical circus is literally making me sick."  Ikwa cried watching Palin's speech last night.
  
  Speaking of that speech, Ari Melber on The Nation, said:
  

  She shared her inspiring story and brave family, while savaging and ridiculing the celebrated life story of Barack Obama, a fellow barrier-breaking candidate, with whithering attacks on his work as a community organizer, senator, and author. She misrepresented his record and simply lied about her own, claiming to oppose earmarks that she supported, and dissembling on her $1.5 billion tax hike and record of raising sales taxes by 25 percent in Wasilla.
  
  

  For screamingly funny and bleakly black humor, I don't think we can beat John Ridley's Palinguage:
  
  

  Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America. White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."
  
  If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential "American story."
  
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  If you say that for the "first time in my adult lifetime I'm really proud of my country" it makes you "unfit" to be First Lady. If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that advocates secession that makes you "First Dude."  [This refers to Todd Palin's membership in Joe Vogler's Alaskan Independence Party, whose slogan is, "Alaska first, Alaska always," in contrast to the GOP's "Country First."]
  
  And, finally, if you're a man and you decide to run for office despite your wife's recurrence of cancer you're a "questionable spouse." If you're a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five kids including a newborn... Well, we don't know what that is 'cause THAT'S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK.
  
  

  Comments by readers of Ridley's piece are turning up hundreds of additions to Palinguage.
  
  I have work to do now, and my son is going to be using the computer this afternoon.  I will probably be back  tomorrow.
  
  [EDIT]
  I almost forgot... I had intended to mention this hilariously cynical maneuver Mrs. Palin attempted in order to move the investigation of her firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Moneghan out of the hands of an independent investigator and into a jurisdiction more favorable to her:  the state personnel board whose three members she appointed.  She filed an ethics complaint against herself.  As a self-defense tactic, it didn't work, but as a joke on her, it certainly works.
  
  UPDATE - FRIDAY MORNING
  
  On local news today, I heard a state spokesperson in Juneau say that the governor keeps saying she is cooperating with the Trooper-gate investigation, but, "she and her people have been sabotaging our efforts at every turn."
  
  Related story.
  
  Now I really do have to get to work.
  
  
  
  

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