Obligatory Sarah Palin Blog

Under the category of everybody else is doing it… here are my two cents on the potential Vice President of the United States. You don’t have to look too hard on the web these days to see a viral onslaught of opinion regarding this Alaskan politician. Does the devil wear Patagonia? Is she really the anti-Christ that she is made out to be? Well who knows really – but here are a few interesting tidbits that have come to light over the past few day.

She’s all about traditional family values and her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant to a boyfriend who is a self described redneck. She is strictly pro-life and created a policy in Alaska where victims of rape have to pay for their own rape-kit once they are in hospital (that could be perhaps the most un-feminist policy in the history of American politics). When elected Mayor of her little northern town she asked the Librarian of her town library what the procedure would be to get ‘certain’ books banned. And then there is of course the, “I see Russia!!” foreign policy experience, where she lists being able to see Russia from here home as a feather in her international relations cap. Perhaps I should be the ambassador to Thailand; I did have a mean pad-thai for dinner last night.

Say what you want about these things but there perhaps even scarier forces at work here. John McCain has campaigned on the fact that he is a political maverick and that he does what he wants not what his party tells him to. But his decision of running mate doesn’t harken to individuality it reeks of desperation. In an attempt to woo disenfranchised Hillary supporters who were unwilling to jump on the Obama bandwagon he’s wheeled out little miss NRA. Rather then creating a platform based upon the future, he’s banked on doing what he can to win the election and then let the rest sort itself out. He chosen a woman to run along side of him to attempt to entice female voters, unfortunately the woman he chose is not only woefully inexperienced but an ideological dinosaur when it comes to woman’s issues. But that being said, McCain is comfortable with dinosaurs – he is the only person alive to remember what they actually looked like.

If McCain wins he will be older the Regan – people that old shouldn’t be allowed to run the TV remote and this guy wants to be in charge of the most powerful nation on earth? Add to that this increasing rhetoric about Russia and its invasion of Georgia. Palin alluded to the need for the US to take pre-emptive action against Russia because they are a threat to the US. What the fuck? Are we going back to the cold war all of a sudden? Is it because Iraq is going so well we better get another war in the pipeline?

Speaking of pipelines – Palins solution to the US dependency on foreign oil? Drill the shit out of the Alaskan wilderness and then build a pipeline through, THROUGH! Canada! Please make the bad woman stop! Here crazy talk is hurting my ears!

I’m not an American, I don’t live in the states – but like everyone in the world the decisions that are made there affect me and affect us all. Come November I hope all those who have the opportunity to cast their vote don’t squander that chance. Vote for all of us who can’t vote, vote for change and a move in a direction that reflects the potential of what the American dream once was.

SK