Monday, September 15, 2008

Hmmm...

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by a single Mom and your grandparents, you're "exotic, different " and not a real American.

* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers , a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate near the top of you class from Harvard Law School and you are an elitist who's not a real American and certainly not qualified to be President of the U.S.

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating or finish close to last in your class at the Naval Academy , you're well grounded and the most qualified to hold the two highest offices in the U.S.

* If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a maverick and a someone to be looked up to as promoting Christian values.

* If you teach teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society but if while Mayor of your small town, you charge rape victims for rape kits you are to be applauded for your leadership.

* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's ; however if you can't remember how many houses you own, your wife is one of the richest people in America who inherited her money and wears dresses every day that cost several hundred thousand dollars, the two of you have more in common with and can relate better to "real" Americans than the snooty Harvard Law graduates who paid their own way through college and law school. *

If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

* If you repeatedly lie about your own record and that of your opponent while your opponent refuses to make up lies about you, you're a maverick who is to be admired while your opponent is weird, out of touch elitist.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

'She is like me'

Women who say to themselves, 'I like Palin, she is like me', need to ask themselves: do you think you should be the vice president, or the president of the free world, and why?'

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Mike Huckabee with Longer Hair

Sarah Palin is Mike Huckabee with longer hair. If you like the stances of Mike Huckabee, vote for Sarah Palin. Since the Repubs wont lets her off the hook long enough to say anything substantial, lets get a REMINDER of where this Huckabee doppelganger stands for. Keep in mind, women, this person could be the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. If you do not believe in evolution, vote for Sarah Palin et al., because she does not believe in evolution either. She also does not believe in global warming. She believes the Iraq war is ordained by God. She does not believe in reproductive rights. She does not believe in equal pay for women. She said nothing about the number one concern of Americans: the economy. If McCain dies, and he realistically could, this is the future President. Mike Huckabee with longer hair.

You will not hear any of these in a replay of her adolescent acceptance speech, which basically talked about energy for 2 minutes and spent the other 30 minutes making fun of Obama and Biden. She apparently never got out of high school. She is still running for beauty queen of Wasalia by making fun of the competition’s hair, or job, or wife. The Republicans have no issues to stand on, so they are going for character assassination and gossipy one liners. Do not be fooled again. This is culture war 101. Women know better than this. Seriously. Stop dividing people based on culture choices. It is not less obvious because you are using a high heel instead of a wedge.

Furthermore, I am disappointed by her reliance on mockery. This is the sign of a weak person with no real ideas to offer. My mama, Audrey Hope Monti, also has 5 children, and gave me one of the wisest pieces of advice I have ever heard. We were driving along in the back seat of our little Subaru, coming home from KinderCare day care center, after my mom had been at work all day as a high school teacher. We were bickering at each other. She pulled the car over, stopped dead on the side of the road and said, ‘There are enough people in the world to make fun of you. I do not know why you have to make fun of each other.” That is a working woman’s wisdom. Not to insult people and then do high fives over the margarita blender in the kitchen. This country needs more grace than that, more recognition that we are in this together. She is a blatant dive back to Bush politics.

In the meantime, here are five questions to ask Palin, if she is ever allowed off the leash:

1) Do you believe in equal pay for equal work for women?
2) Do you believe God has ordained the Iraq war?
3) Do you believe in evolution?
4) What do you think causes poverty?
5) Who do you think are America’s top allies, and why?