Ok, so I couldn't hold out very long on my anti-Palin commentary.
There's no doubt Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a smart woman who has worked very hard to get to where she's at today. However, I do have doubts that she's the right person to be the next vice president of the United States.
Living up here in Alaska, I think we get a different and much closer picture of Palin than what's delivered through the national news in the lower 48. Like any politician, there are a lot of people up here who think she's great for the job and a lot of people who really don't. I would consider myself one of those who really don't think she should be in the White House.
Here are just a few reasons why I don't support Palin:
- She's open to teaching creationism in public schools.
- She shares McCain's desire to overturn Roe v. Wade.
- As the mayor of Wasilla, she left the tiny town almost $20 million in debt. Sounds like the right person to help clean up our current financial situation, right?
- She's well-versed on the Bush Doctrine.
- She's well-traveled, especially in the past two years she's had a passport.
- She accepted $223 million from Congress to build the "Bridge to Nowhere" ... only to cancel the project and keep the money anyway. Thanks, but no thanks?
And, she makes George Bush sound like a Rhodes Scholar in interviews:
"We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state." - Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee in a recent CBS interview.
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