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I am not American, so I can't really say I know all that much about Sarah Palin. From what I have read, I would not be voting for her individually. Even so, this is not a case of voting for her exactly, it's for her "team". She likes to use that term, team, and "team player" a lot it seems. She appears to be very driven, and a little hot-headed. Too much so for my taste.
What I have read about her so far that I don't like (I don't know if it's all true or not but some of it will be):
- in favour of the death penalty
- against same-sex marriage
- advocates the right to bear arms including possessing handguns
- pro-life, against abortion unless it's to do with the mother's life being endangered
- promoted a predator control policy (that was never put into practice) offering $150 dollars for every wolf shot down as a way to increase the moose population in Alaska. Funny that she used to go moose hunting as a child.
- the rumour that when she was Mayor of Wasilla she asked the town librarian how she would feel about library censorship. She later tried to fire the librarian but did not succeed.
-some say she has more than once crossed the line between government and personal grievance, pursuing personal vendettas
- the issue with pressuring then firing staff so they would not fire her ex-brother-in-law
- the issue with the bridges that go nowhere
Do with this what you will. As a by-stander who has little knowledge of American Politics, I am just giving you some food for thought!
Some of those reasons alone would be enough for me not to choose her for anything. I don't think she represents women well at all. She strikes me as a bully with a pretty face.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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