Love her or hate her, Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has nearly taken over the Presidential Race. Obama can't stop talking about her, and McCain doesn't want her away from his side. Now, there are a host of possible explanations for those loose comments...
The key questions revolve around Palin's significant impact on this race. Republicans are suddenly energized and Democrats are throwing darts her way at ninety miles per hour. But she is Super Woman, and the action figure proves it. Biden doesn't have one. (Don't be offended; that just a little satire to accompany the circus act).
While many analysts claim the Palin nomination to be a brilliant political move on McCain's part, one can also assert that Republicans and Conservatives have bought into part of the left's feminist agenda and claimed the victory for their own. That can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your perspective.
Maybe you missed it, but there's also the Pentecostal background of Palin that made news this week. Is speaking in tongues and baptism of the Holy Spirit strange to some Evangelicals as John Fea says? Fea expects the GOP to keep the Pentecostal explanations out of the speeches. Maybe the Dems have other plans.
There are a host of more important questions and concerns around Gov. Palin. We want to hear your thoughts. Join Eileen Flynn and I as we talk about the Palin Factor, this Sunday at 4pm. Eileen is the Religion Reporter at the Austin-American Statesman. I encourage Austinites to follow her Of Sacred and Secular Blog.
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Snoop Dog has an action figure, that hardly makes him a Super Man, hero, or role model. Seriously, is that the standard we are setting?
Joseph Biden is an honorable and courageous man, who also has a child serving in the armed forces, and who is also soon to be deploying to Iraq. So please, let's talk about the top of the ticket, instead of the diversionary tactics the Republicans and the right wing faction of the media are using with this choice of Sarah Palin. I'm disappointed in the setup and the topic of this week's show with such precious little time left in this election.
Sarah Palin could be a remarkable figure, maybe not. She has captured quite a bit of attention, no doubt about it. However, facts are stubborn things. Ms. Palin is openly lying and misrepresenting her previous positions on earmarks and taxes, she has used the executive office as Governor in the state of Alaska to flex her muscle, especially with those who disagreed with her. Lastly, she and her family were openly warned several times in court to desist disparaging her sister-in-law's ex-husband in front of their children (This especially strikes home for me as a child of a very, very bitter divorce).
For the McCain/Palin campaign to suddenly represent themselves as mavericks and agents of change is at best disingenuous and at worst an outright lie to the American people. All the candidates in this race are skilled politicians who know exactly how to play the game. Obama even acknowledged this fact during the democratic primary, saying as politicians, "nobody's hands are completely clean". At least he is transparent and genuine about this. Yes, it was a brilliant political move to pick Palin because they can get away with this lie for a short time, but that is all this was, a political move, and we the people need more than political moves at this point in history, we need leadership.
No one is perfect, but talk about the "messiah complex" the GOP has over this woman, turning all the republican talking heads into a bunch of hypocrites in the process (as demonstrated by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show here - warning, there are expletives in this dialouge). Sarah Palin, John McCain, and the Republican party do not entirely represent my faith, or me. Just as Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, or the democrats do not entirely represent my faith or me.
Personally, I'm a conservative, I think government should should be as small and efficient as possible in representing ALL of the people, but neither major party is truly conservative when it comes to all areas of government and neither is running a true conservative for presidency. Honestly, I think we have a very distorted definition of conservative in this country, but I digress.
Regardless of your political tendencies or world view, let's not be lemmings and follow all the hype and spin when it comes to Ms. Palin or any candidate, as so aptly put by a recently naturalized American, Craig Ferguson, here and here.
One last point - The Republicans should be ashamed of mocking Barack Obama as a community organizer. Barack Obama chose to turn down a more lucrative life and dive into a community through churches, businesses, and other organizations right after he completed his his undergrad to help make it stronger and a better place to live. Uncle Brent, maybe I'm wrong, but isn't that what you're doing? When they shamefully mocked him, they were mocking you. They lost my respect when they did that, and more importantly, they lost my vote. They lost my vote for not just this election at the presidential level, but for a very, very long time up and down the ticket.
Speaking for the majority of Americans stuck between "The Right" and "The Left",
Jeremie
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