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Originally Posted by ngdawg
The "best" one would actually be Palin as she's a governor, albeit of a sparsely populated state.
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The arguments that the McCain-Palin campaign are making about Palin's mayoral and gubernatorial experience bolstering her VP qualifications...
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Originally Posted by http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302596.html?sub=AR
Since joining the Republican ticket, Palin has faced questions about whether she is qualified to be vice president or, if necessary, president. In response, the first-term Alaska governor and Sen. John McCain point to the executive qualifications she acquired as Wasilla mayor, a six-year stint from 1996 to 2002 that represents the bulk of her political experience.
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...would be much stronger for Palin had she not essentially outsourced a chunk of the mayoral duties that would have given her this executive experience (
As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin Cut Own Duties, Left Trail of Bad Blood - washingtonpost.com).
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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
Her daughter is no different that the rest of america's teenagers just because she holds a government office.
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In Bristol's case, she is actually very different than many of America's teenagers, because Sarah Palin's government office paycheck can support Bristol's teenage pregnancy. While Bristol is bringing her baby to term in the economic security and social sanctioning of her family, Palin's proposed abstinence only and anti-abortion policies would deny access to contraception and abortion services to other American teenagers; as a result, maybe they end up pregnant and maybe—more than likely—their families can't support the birth of their kids. But why have these children (yes, children) go through with this when you know they're going to have sex whether they've been taught to abstain or not, and their pregnancies could have been prevented to begin with?
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Originally Posted by anti fishstick
I also really don't like the sexism that surrounds this campaign. VPILF? I mean, come on... As woman, we're always going to be reduced to either a fuckable slut or an old witchy hag. Nice. You never see articles about what male politicians are wearing (unless it involves a flag pin), yet there are articles about Hillary's cleavage, or Condi's boots, etc. etc.
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THANK YOU for mentioning this. Can we also touch on the horrible, HORRIBLE double standards in the media's treatment of Hillary vs. Palin? i.e. fair-game questions for Hillary about her experience are suddenly completely off-limits and "too sexist" to ask Palin, whereas blatant sexism was rampant throughout Hillary's candidacy for the nomination?
Needless to say... I can't stand Sarah Palin. I think she's hypocritical, manipulative (sure she's a politician but in my estimation she's worse than many others) and has become a charicature of herself, in part voluntarily, and I am sick and tired of the media and rabid supporters alike being so obsessed with her.
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If one million people replaced a two mile car trip once a week with a bike ride, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 50,000 tons per year. If one out of ten car commuters switched to a bike, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 25.4 million tons per year. [2milechallenge.com]
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Originally Posted by roachboy
it's better if you can ride without having to wonder if the guy in the car behind you is a sociopath, i find.
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