Oh my God! Are you Serious?! Really!?

Sara Palin, really? I just want to tally a list of the Vice Presidential nominee’s views, quotes, experience, history and tactics thus far.

1. Just check out her views here: http://www.ontheissues.org/Sarah_Palin.htm. Notice that many of Palin's views have been reported as recently as September and October 2008 - as she did not hold any views on many of the issues until recently picked for the Vice Presidential ticket for the McCain presidency.

There is one view she has held for some time – abortion. Palin is prolife, and has stated the only exception for abortion is if the mother’s life would end (Jul 2006). The standard argument for overturning Roe is that "liberty" and "privacy" do not mean the same and that this interpretation amounts to forbidden judicial lawmaking. She feels that Roe should be overturned, but told Couric that she agrees the Constitution contains a right to "privacy" for individuals. Palin fails to explain her different view of this consitutional issue succinctly - or at all. When asked to name other Supreme Court decisions, she simply does not answer the question - simply because she can't.

Palin: Well, let's see. There's, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but …

Couric: Can you think of any?

Palin: Well, I could think of … any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a vice president, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.

2. McCain and Palin talk about unifying the country with a barrage of nasty insinuations and attacks, stoking anger and division. Shame on them, and particularly shame on McCain for choosing Palin, who is a huge set back for women.

With Obama rising in polls while the country struggles in the grip of a financial deadlock, John McCain's campaign is attempting to shift attention away from the troubled economy onto issues of Obama’s character and personal associations. Funny that a beauty queen has made the election so ugly.

In a speech in Colorado this week, Palin quipped, "…our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."

Here are the facts: In the 1960s, Ayers was a founding member of the radical Weather Underground group that carried out a string of bombings of federal buildings, including the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, in protest against the Vietnam War. Federal charges against them were dropped due to FBI misconduct in gathering evidence against them, and they resurfaced in 1980. Both Ayers and Dohrn ultimately became university professors in Chicago, with Ayers, 63, now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Obama's Chicago home is in the same neighborhood where Ayers and Dohrn live. Beginning in 1995, Ayers and Obama worked with the non-profit Chicago Annenberg Challenge on a huge school improvement project. The Annenberg Challenge was for cities to compete for $50 million grants to improve public education. Ayers fought to bring the grant to Chicago, and Obama was recruited onto the board. Also from 1999 through 2001 both were board members on the Woods Fund, a charitable foundation that gave money to various causes, including the Trinity United Church that Obama attended and Northwestern University Law Schools' Children and Family Justice Center, where Dohrn worked.

Review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved. Or, as Obama eloquently states, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood … the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago — when I was 8 years old — somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense." The McCain campaign did not respond Saturday to a request for elaboration on Palin's use of the plural "terrorists."

3. Two words – Bush Doctrine.

4. I only need here to quote a portion of the other CBS Evening interview with Katie Couric on 9/24/08.

Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.

Couric: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.

Palin: He's also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about - the need to reform government.

Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?

Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.

Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.

5. Regarding the Alaskan Independence Party and her affiliation:

Her husband, Todd Palin was twice registered with the Alaskan Independence Party. Its motto is "Alaska First, Alaska Always" is a far cry from the McCain slogan "Country First." The Alaska governor is seen as a supporter of the fringe (AIP), which aspires to secession from the union. As Vice President of the United States, she would have to raise her hand, to swear an oath that she will uphold the Constitution of the United States. Such an oath would seem to preclude some of the other stated aims of the AIP, such as:

To seek the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska in conformance with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, of the federal constitution.

6. Then there was ‘bring your daughter to work day’, when in a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy, the governor who just got her passport last year, met her first world leaders in late September. The conversations were private, the pictures were public, meant to pad her resume for those concerned about her lack of experience in world affairs. She planned to allow in only photographers and one television crew, but she changed her position after at least five U.S. news networks protested. CNN does not send cameras into candidate events where editorial presence is not allowed. Americans deserve more than a picture book - we want, we need, substance.

7. Bridge to Nowhere......................nowhere.............nowhere...........

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