VP debate

[KrazyRabidSheep]

I'm not watching it, but I passed it by a minute ago (I'm bored, so I'm flipping channels), and I heard Sarah Palin say something rather silly.

She said
"He [McCain] knows how to win a war".

I must have missed it when the results of the Vietnam War changed.

The more I hear, the more Palin comes off as a female version of Dan Quayle (moronic VP candidate.)

[Dust Bunnies]

A bit boring, they need some 3rd party candidates.

[Mecha_Shiva]

Pretty much everything she says is silly.....

[bcbm]

She actually held her own in the debate, which was somewhat surprising, though I think Biden made better arguments. Neither of them seemed to come out especially ahead of the other by the end.

[Lenin's Law]

Yea I guess, stick someone in a room for a week and even a fool can memorize a few talking points. I just thought it was interesting how the Dems and the media continue to give this woman a free ride when it comes to her incredibly reactionary, theocratic politics: She apparently doesn't believe in the separation of church and state, she belonged to/spoke to the Alaskan Independence Party, an ultra-right wing party that calls for the secession of Alaska from the US, imposes severe penalties for homosexuals and doctors that wanted to perform abortions, she also wanted to ban books...needless to say she is a darling of the fundamentalist Christian movement.



The Constitution Party puts forward a program that can be accurately described as theocratic fascism. Its commits the party “to restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations.” This is the program commonly identified with a movement known as “dominion theology,” which demands the subordination of every government and institution to Christian fundamentalism, not only in the US but all over the world, together with the outlawing of all other religions and the suppression of atheism.

In addition to establishing severe criminal penalties, including death, for homosexuals, doctors who perform abortions and adulterers, the believers in this Biblical state also propose a social agenda that dovetails completely with the aims of the most reactionary sections of big business. It calls for the elimination of virtually every social reform instituted over more than a century, including minimum-wage laws, Social Security, environmental and health and safety regulations, public education and virtually any form of public assistance.

There is little doubt that Palin is extremely close to these elements. Revelations that have surfaced in recent weeks include the fact that she ran for mayor of Wasilla, a town of barely 5,000, on a right-wing Christian agenda opposing abortion and promoting gun rights, while including in her literature the promise that her victory meant the town “will have our first Christian mayor.”

After becoming mayor, Palin attempted to fire the town’s librarian for refusing to ban certain books. Opposition from residents forced her to drop the plan.
Videos have surfaced of Palin speaking before her church barely three months before she was tapped for the number-two spot on the Republican ticket, extolling the US intervention in Iraq as a holy war.

Addressing the congregation at the church, the Wasilla Assembly of God, in June, Palin declared: “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [US troops] out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”

[JimmyJazz]

She winked at me! :w00t: