I Can't Make this Stuff Up
The more one learns about Sarah Palin, the more one must question John McCain's judgment. The following is a link to a Washington Post article talking about her time as Mayor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302596.html
A lot of the things that she did were high handed and foolish (for example, she filled a post that calls for experience as an Engineer with someone who had NO experience as an Engineer, but was married to a major republican donor). Most of these things would, taken alone, be scary. But one point in this article is absolutely terrifying.
The Post said:
Despite the city's flush accounts, the police department under the chief Palin hired to replace Stambaugh required women who said they had been raped to pay for examination kits themselves, a policy Palin now says she rejects. State legislation passed a year later required the town to pay for the kits.
Think about that carefully. We have a victim of one of the most violent and dehumanizing crimes and the Police want the victim to pay to provide proof of the crime. No doubt this is driven by the very small (and very wrong) minority opinion that Rape isn't really a "crime" and that the woman "really wanted it". And that's very clearly the message being sent by this policy. That we don't really believe most claims of Rape and so we are going to add hurdles to prevent the "just boys acting like boys" of our town from being subjected to unfair charges. And we have a Woman Mayor with Girl Children who allows this policy to go forward. Whether or not she eventually "rejected" this policy is really irrelevant. It is such a bad policy that it should have been rejected at the onset. And anyone who thought, in any way, that this was a good policy is demonstrably establishing a lack of good judgment.
As for McCain, the fact that he has decided that this HIGHLY unqualified person should be one heartbeat away from the Presidency (particularly with both his cancer and the risk of re-occurrence and the family history of Heart Attacks (both his Father and Grandfather did suddenly of Heart Attacks at the ages of 70 and 61 respectively) is proof of terrible judgment on the part of McCain. If, god help the Nation, McCain/Palin should win, it is highly likely that, within a year or two, the singularly most unqualified and most dangerous individual ever will be our President.
Frankly, after 8 years of having the currently most unqualified and dangerous individual to ever serve as President, I honestly don't know if the Country will survive.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302596.html
A lot of the things that she did were high handed and foolish (for example, she filled a post that calls for experience as an Engineer with someone who had NO experience as an Engineer, but was married to a major republican donor). Most of these things would, taken alone, be scary. But one point in this article is absolutely terrifying.
The Post said:
Despite the city's flush accounts, the police department under the chief Palin hired to replace Stambaugh required women who said they had been raped to pay for examination kits themselves, a policy Palin now says she rejects. State legislation passed a year later required the town to pay for the kits.
Think about that carefully. We have a victim of one of the most violent and dehumanizing crimes and the Police want the victim to pay to provide proof of the crime. No doubt this is driven by the very small (and very wrong) minority opinion that Rape isn't really a "crime" and that the woman "really wanted it". And that's very clearly the message being sent by this policy. That we don't really believe most claims of Rape and so we are going to add hurdles to prevent the "just boys acting like boys" of our town from being subjected to unfair charges. And we have a Woman Mayor with Girl Children who allows this policy to go forward. Whether or not she eventually "rejected" this policy is really irrelevant. It is such a bad policy that it should have been rejected at the onset. And anyone who thought, in any way, that this was a good policy is demonstrably establishing a lack of good judgment.
As for McCain, the fact that he has decided that this HIGHLY unqualified person should be one heartbeat away from the Presidency (particularly with both his cancer and the risk of re-occurrence and the family history of Heart Attacks (both his Father and Grandfather did suddenly of Heart Attacks at the ages of 70 and 61 respectively) is proof of terrible judgment on the part of McCain. If, god help the Nation, McCain/Palin should win, it is highly likely that, within a year or two, the singularly most unqualified and most dangerous individual ever will be our President.
Frankly, after 8 years of having the currently most unqualified and dangerous individual to ever serve as President, I honestly don't know if the Country will survive.
posted by prophet of doom | 7:08 AM
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