From Seneca Falls to … Sarah Palin?

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

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'

Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, 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 from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant 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 (and according to the actuarial tables, a > 30% chance of succeeding the president during your first term).

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 Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your un-wed 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.

If your 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 advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

Sarah Palin is DANGEROUS for this country. She has no world political experience, and she will simply do what McCain tells her to. She will be A PUPPET of McCain and the lobbyists that support them.

She has never had to manage crises or work across the aisle to get things done - she's another Bush "My way or the highway" person. Haven' t you had enough of it these past 8 years?

She happily reads from the daily bullet points without batting an eyelash or questioning why. She is not an open thinker, and she makes up for it by threatening to fire or take down everyone who stands in her way. That is not leadership, that is dictatorship.

I want to see a woman in the white house, too. But it can't be just any woman. It needs to be the RIGHT woman, not this woman on the right.

Go Obama/Biden!

If American sides with McCain/Palin??? its a world gone to dirt , People who are uneducated, lack of common sense, againt a black in office, no sensible judgement, who doesnt know a lie if it slapped them in the face, who cry about everything the Bush administration has done over the last few years??? BUT cant stand taking a chance to see if someone else can make it better??? they rather cry about it and stay in the quicksand we are in.

Such Cowards

Hey not-fooled-by-slick-talking-charlatans & whiterock:
Have you lost your MINDS????? I do NOT want a lying, crazy hair trigger selfish egotist representing me! I'm a career minded 47 y.o. white middle class female and I take exception to your thinking she's the embodiment of what we always wanted! She has burned everyone and everything that has gotten in her path, she went to 5 colleges and became a sportscaster and a PTA-hockey mom, she ran off and got married because she was pregnant,(yes, gave birth to her first 8 months after her wedding date at the courthouse) and is sticking her daughter with the same for her own beliefs. Then ran against the guy that took her from the PTA and started her career as a city council person as the first Christian mayor candidate even though he was a Christian too. She wanted to fire the librarian because she wasn't supportive of her (because Sarah was considering banning books, no it didn't happen because the town supported the librarian), she is so fiscally responsible that she cut Wasila's budget and startyed charging victims for rape kits but managed to put the town in debt over a sports facility, she lied endlessly about the bridge to nowhere, she is lying about how much earmark money she's asked for for Alaska, she hired lobbyists to get her earmark money, she's trying to cover up the troopergate fiasco and get the subpeonna's thrown out ( why if there isn't something to hide?), covering up emails with a yahoo account and won't produce them, won't produce her tax records, fired everyone that didn't support her when she became governor...oh, by the way, YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE RUSSIA FROM ALASKA...OMG! That's her foriegn policy experience by the way...Well Charlie, their our neighbors, NO FOLKS, smart women, Chukot, part of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
NO THANKS SARAH, this independent registered woman is TOO smart to fall for this absolute garbage the republicans are chruning out yet again. I want a better Americas than we've been getting, I want the economy fixed, not further broken by the queen of lies, deception andselfishness. McCain and Palin don't care about you! They only care about their careers and will trod on anyone to get to the White House, take off your blinders people!

Thanks Julia Baird! As I diehard Dem and Feminist for 30+ yrs that switched to Independent because of how poorly the Dems treated Hillary, how poorly they handled the MI and FL votes, the lack of effort they made in the U.S, Senate since they became the majority in the last election, and then forcing a man with few accomplishments and experience down our throats for president...I'm voting for McCain! Yes, I'm tired of the sexism in the media and in the nation's psyche. I've raised my daughters all by myself for 20+ yrs without any child support because the courts favored men. I was constantly creating new positions and innovative systems in the corporate world but the promotions went to a man or a man got the credit. I had a judge that told me that "you make a lot of money for a woman" when I took my ex to court after going for 10 yrs. without any child support. I was making barely above the poverty level at the time! You bet I'm ready to have a woman in the White House. I know that any woman that has gotten into any position of power has had to work much harder than any man to do so, so they have my automatic RESPECT. I think Obama has a lot of audacity to think he can be president with such a thin resume and all that Ivy League sweet-talking. I don't see any change in his campaign....he reminds me of Bush Jr. and I have no respect for men that think they should be president without proving themselves.

Thanks for the heads up chindognyc.
CHEAK IT OUT FOLKS, The biggest rally in Alaska history AGAINST their illustrious Governor:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/palin-met-by-hundreds-of_n_126276.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/alaskan-women-reject-pali_b_126315.html

This is one woman who will NOT be voting for McCain-Palin. This article is insulting to the intelligence of women. It suggests that women will vote for McCain-Palin simply because she's a woman and we feel the time is overdue to have a woman in office. Wrong. SOME women will vote for her simply because she's a woman. Those women probably shouldn't be voting, anyway, and are the simpletons that McCain was counting on. I won't be voting for her because I disagree on her stances and find her utterly out of touch and abrasive. After a week and a half of preparation, her interviews were atrocious. She changed the subject every time a serious question was asked, and her attempt to attribute her "Iraq is God's war and our responsibility given by God!" to a famous quote by Lincoln didn't make sense and was laughable.
Also, many Hillary supporters I've talked to are now voting Palin--meaning they never really supported Hillary in the first place. Hillary's political views are the polar opposite of Palin's. McCain criticized Obama for turning the election into a popularity contest, then tapped Palin and did the same. Hypocrisy all around!

I just finish reading some of these nasty comments and people are saying that blacks need to get off their lazy ass. It never seems to amaze me. Funny though, you might be enjoying life right now, but soon, you won't have a voice. We will. We will be the majority. The hispanics will have a say and you will have no voice. So keep saying your racial slurs. McCain thinks it is fun to have illegal immagrints working at his many houses while he is leaving the middle class poor? Well, soon you will be cleaning our houses, because the hispanics will be in the White House and the Senate and their is nothing anybody can do about it.