From Seneca Falls to … Sarah Palin?

Because I am only limited to 3000 characters, I couldn???t say all I had to say in my last post. Switching to the summer edition of USA@Work, I???ve found the following facts.

`1. McCain opposes the Employee Free Choice Act which would make it easier for workers, including working women, to form unions. Working women would have to accept whatever hours, wages, and working conditions their employers deign to give them - without protest.

2. Even though working women may be willing to accept cuts in pay and off-clock time, many working women can expect their jobs to get off-shored, especially of McCain pushes trade pacts like the one with Colombia. They can also expect to lose their jobs whenever employers decide to ???import??? workers as guest workers.

3. If McCain gets elected, working women will need to accept more hazardous working conditions. The summer edition of USW@Work reports that in 2006 alone 5,840 workers were killed in work-related accidents. 50,000 to 60,000 worker died of occupational-related diseases. While USW@Work does not break these deaths down by sex, be rest assured all of these workers were somebody???s loved one.

In addition from other sources I???ve noted that

4. Although McCain pledges that he won???t let a government bureaucrat stand between a woman and her family and her doctor, he???s got the wrong person. It???s not the bureaucrat that the public needs to worry about, it???s an HMO. For example, aqccording to a recent article in AARP, should a woman get breast cancer, she should be prepared to shell out $10,000 to $30,000 in advance if she wants treatment. Hospitals are insisting on pre-payments because they ate tired of getting stiffed by insurance companies.

9. I picked up this gem from a recent edition of the Los Angeles Times. When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, rape victims were billed $ 300 to $ 1200 for rape treatment kits. Wasilla had the distinction of being the only town in Alaska to do such a thing. Sarah Palin did not end this practice. The state legislature did.

Again, I am wondering. Is this the sort of life women want to lead. If the answer is yes, they should vote for McCain. If the answer is no they???d better vote for Obama. You get what you vote for.

I don't need a fiesty VP. I need a VP who is a critical thinker. I don't see that in Palin. I see a woman who gets her highs from doing what men do. Big deal. I want someone is able to ask questions, research the possibilities, listen to other points of view and then make decisions. People who are so sure of themselves that they have to mock others, reminds me of the middle school students I teach. As people truly mature, they stop acting like kids and become adults. Sarah Palin doesn't appear to have done that yet.

We don't need a VP who can kill and "dress a moose." We need a critical thinker. I see nothing about Sarah Palin that indicates she is a critical thinker. I am seeing someone who gets her highs from doing what men do rather than being thoughtful, analytic, questioning, willing to listen to other points of view, and being able to make decisions only after those considerations. She shoots from the hip, it appears, and to me, that is exactly like George Bush. Fiesty is not what I want. I want thoughtful!

The young voters should vote. Whether Republican or Democrat, they must get out and vote to help make this a better campaign. I'm not really worried about the Presidential debate. Itsthe VP debate thats going to make a difference, given that Palin and McCain already stand different on some issues.

Senator Obama again tried to distance himself from Mr. Ayers today. Obama said: "The Mr. Ayers that has been portrayed by Fox News is not the Mr. Ayers I knew. When he told me years ago that he was sorry for his terrorist activities, I thought he meant that was remorseful. I did not know he meant that he was sorry he did not kill more people. Mr. Ayers is the most recent person to have disappointed. I was disappointed by my father. I am still trying to figure out how many siblings I got. I was disappointed by my high school basketball coach. Then the cook at Harold's Chicken in Hyde Park who would undercook the chicken. Then Reverend Wright disappointed me. Then Bill Clinton. Reverend Jackson. Father Pflagel. Then most recently Mayor Kilpatrick. I don't know why this keeps happening to me." Several reporters cried.

Everybody talks about polls. Remember when Bill Clinton ran against the first Bush, he was loosing because they said he had no experience. He ended up winning. It is the young vote that will change. McCain picked Palin not because of the women vote, but because of the young women and men votes. The problem is, she is very hard to the right. She is not for most of the young people's votes and thats where they will loose. I keep feeling that it will be up to Ohio to pick our next President and Ohio already said that race play an important factor. Those same racist people who said that race plays a role will remember that they lost their jobs to NAFTA and soon CAFTA and McCain is a big supporter for CAFTA. Once they realize that their jobs will not be around (like McCain said to the people in Michigan), they will vote for Obama.

Initially, I felt the historic excitement of Sarah Palin's nomination, like everyone else. Her speech was great - but then Day 2,3,4...12, 13, 14...it was still the same speech every day - and most of it has been dis-credited as either inflated, exaggerated, or straight out lying. Her foreign policy experience is that "she can see Russia from an island", and she has no idea what the Bush Doctrine is (no big deal - just the whole rationale behind the Iraq War!).
This is an embarrassment now for everyone. Obviously, McCain made a rash decision in choosing her (over dozens of far better qualified women or men) - but I'm holding McCain responsible for this decision. He didn't put "Country First" when he chose Palin - and Obama did put country first by picking Joe Biden. I'm putting policy first this time and voting for those I know can lead - not for those who have no clue what our policies are in the first place.

Her supporters chanted, "Run with a woman, win with a woman." This is an example of plain ignorance which is why the Republicans dont need to cry sexism over Obama's lipstick remark. To say that she would be ready when over a month ago she did'nt know exactly what a VP did.

And the saddest part is she thinks Obama made the wrong decision on Clinton. From day one of her speech she was deployed by McCain to attract Hillary voters. If women who believe in the issues Hillary stands for are eager to select Palin just because she is a women, they dont need to cry sexism. They've answered themselves.

A liar's soul is what I see when I look at Palin & McCain. Their lies are so egregious and over the top, they almost make George Bush look like George Washington. My husband and I have raised our daughters to speak the truth, no matter the cost. We would never vote for McCain/Palin. They have crossed the line and set an awful example for the children of this country. The swift boaters will start their lying attacks against Obama this week, just as they did to Kerry and they will get away with it. These really, really rich Republicans will probably turn the tide again with their despicable lies and universal health care, equal pay for equal work (John McCain just voted against this legislation and was the deciding vote in its defeat), income inequality so great it hasn't been seen in almost 100 years will have to wait another 4 years. Americans will work harder and harder and end up with less to spend, just as we have for the last eight years. The middle class will get poorer and the rich will get richer, all because of the lies. This would appear to be a legacy no American would want to inflict on America's children but apparently it is acceptable to many.

Sarah Palin's most vital "Identity" tag in this election isn't her gender. That element just screens the real issue.
Sarah Palin's only qualification for VP is to "energize the Republican ticket" because of her religion. We need to stop being disingenuous about this, and discuss it. She is a representative of the TV base built by Pat Robertson, which brought us 8 years of George Bush and which McCain once opposed. She is also a representative of the "New Wave" of apocalyptic Pentecostalism, a lunatic doomsday cult with a bizarre theocratic aganda.

Barack Obama said small town rural Americans cling to religion and guns in tough times. It must have been tough times during in his first year of law school at Syracuse University that Joe Biden clung to his religion in deciding to use an academic product of his own faith, Fordham Law Review to commit plagiarism. Joe Biden did more than cling to religion, he clung so hard that he took a substantial chunk out of the Fordham Law Review and failed and had to repeat his legal research and writing class as a result.

Why won't the McCain camp talk about the issues. All they can do is spread lies to try and take the White House.