Just what this country needs a pit bull along side a senile president. Sort of like having a dim-witted president with a dark devious one at his side. One can imagine the scenarios that will evolve out this current “miracle match.”
The thing that bugs me the most with a smug politician is the arrogance of their questionable beliefs. It is most interesting that Cindy McCain thinks that creationism should be taught along with evolution. Obviously a Palin tenet. Curious, isn't it? I wonder if she believes medical schools should teach voodoo along with medicine? And how about the arcane American principle, the separation of church and state?
And Sarah, the hockey mom with engaging rhetoric and a acerbic tongue, rises in the polls because Americans are indeed enamored by celebrity. They also want change. You can't sell these Republicans short. They steal a good thing when they see it.
I really don't give a hoot if she is from a small town. I couldn't care less if she has no experience. The thing that troubles me about this person is that she is a product of the people who gave us this current mess. The inability to examine one's belief in the face of conflicting ones is problematic. Standing up for one's conviction is one thing, doing so in the face of evidence to the contrary is a serious problem. It is not so much that certain fundamentalists (all of them regardless of creed) persist in their beliefs but that they denigrate even destroy those who hold different ones. Pluralism is essential for a free society. People who believe that their practices give them a direct link to a power greater than the world is a group that will destroy whatever is in its path including the world itself.
So, this is what bugs me about this woman. The people she followed can take us into a reckless and ill advised act like the Iraq Adventure and then she sees a connection between it and her Christian beliefs. Is this any different than the residents of Jones Town drinking down the Kool-Aid?
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