Hmmmm, Sarah Palin's selection has a lot of folks skeered.
I wonder why?
the only thing that scares me is to think there are many, many people out there who may think like her, thus support her....thus support mccain...and they actually get elected. otherwise, there is nothing 'scary' about her at all. i personally think it's insulting to just pick a woman b/c she's a woman and that alone will have many flock to her. the fact that many DO flcok to her anyway with her extreme far-right leanings is scary enough...but at least it's about issues. so really, the only think i fear is that perhaps my personal pov of this country and our world may very well be quite different from the rest of the country. and if that is the case, so be it.....but i definitely don't like to think it, and it does scare me to think where it will take us.
By Paul Kane
ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.
According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."
Palin's own daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and has plans to wed.
"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family," Palin said in a statement released by the McCain campaign. "We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy, as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."
Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.
Reporters asked McCain in November 2007 whether he supported grants for sex education in the United States, whether such programs should include directions for using contraceptives and whether he supports President Bush's policy of promoting abstinence.
"Ahhh, I think I support the president's policy," McCain said.
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I didn't say that...but you know that's not what this is about at all. Just as the Obama/Muslim thing wasn't either.
A diffrerence in questioning and attacking.
I want to be sure I understand what you're saying. I don't mean this in a bad way. I'm honestly curious.
So, an unsubstantiated rumor about Obama being a Muslim is the same thing as her husband being a member of a group that wants to secede from the US?
If Barack or Michelle Obama were a member of such a group, their patriotism would be questioned.
the only thing that scares me is to think there are many, many people out there who may think like her, thus support her....thus support mccain...and they actually get elected. otherwise, there is nothing 'scary' about her at all. i personally think it's insulting to just pick a woman b/c she's a woman and that alone will have many flock to her. the fact that many DO flcok to her anyway with her extreme far-right leanings is scary enough...but at least it's about issues. so really, the only think i fear is that perhaps my personal pov of this country and our world may very well be quite different from the rest of the country. and if that is the case, so be it.....but i definitely don't like to think it, and it does scare me to think where it will take us.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/latestpolls/index.html
Obama's lead has widened in every single poll. This may have backfired a bit for McCain.
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By Paul Kane
ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.
According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."
Palin's own daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and has plans to wed.
"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family," Palin said in a statement released by the McCain campaign. "We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy, as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."
Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.
Reporters asked McCain in November 2007 whether he supported grants for sex education in the United States, whether such programs should include directions for using contraceptives and whether he supports President Bush's policy of promoting abstinence.
"Ahhh, I think I support the president's policy," McCain said.
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