Sarah Palin

[badstar]

I have never disliked a political figure in such a short time after first hearing a name.

I was going to write a nice, detailed, specific list of reasons why...but the more I read, the more my head hurts and for the sake of my poor little brain, I think I'm going to put it off for another time.

I'll leave you with this little tid bit for now (bolding mine):

Q: Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance?

A: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.
Source: Eagle Forum 2006 Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire Jul 31, 2006

Then there's this link, with a very high shake to stick ratio of links to sources for all kinds of fun stuff on the sort of things to which she is connected: http://dogemperor.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/29/1803647-sarah-palin-dominionist-stalking-horse

Mmmmmm....Dominionism.

Comments

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Never has any candidate known so little about history or the actual responsibilities of the office.

Seriously. The dumb!

The pledge of allegiance was devised to harass southern people after the civil war and under god was added in I think the 1950s. You'd think some of her southern cronies would have corrected her dumb as a box of rocks ass.

[lalaf80.livejournal.com]

I definitely know that "under God" was added to the pledge in the 50s because my mom told me she remembered being told the new line when she was in school.

Aside from that, not everything that was good for the founding fathers is good for us--they had slaves, didn't they?

[darkfiremoon.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about that line being added in the 50's. But I do subscribe to the tin hat theory our country was founded by Masons, the Illuminati and probably more nefarious beings than I can even imagine. God had nothing to do with it.

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing that as well. The number one reason I'm all for the under God portion being removed is because of the efforts of the descendants of its author pleading with the government to not add it in; that he tried to write a pledge that would be inclusive and applicable to everyone and never would have approved of that addition. As a want to be author myself, I believe pretty strongly in not messing with people's work and altering things to say something the author had never intended. This in addition to the whole religious problem.

I wonder if it ever occurred to her that, if the founding fathers were to have their way, she would have never had her term in government let alone be allowed to run for vice president. Times change, this doesn't have to be a bad thing.

[dance-shiva.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "Under God" was a stab at the commies, since communists are atheists, sort of a rider to all that "sign the loyalty oath or get fired" bullshit.

And I love how they stuck that deliberately divisive phrase in there right before the word "indivisible". That's irony you can take to the bank!

Now, how do you really feel?

[fervid-dryfire.livejournal.com]

I'd venture that that quote had more to it, and that the source from wherever you read it either deliberately or unknowingly truncated whatever else she may/might have (probably) said. I for one am not going to presume that she's so dumb/historically ignorant that she believed that the Pledge existed in the 1770s. =P

My third-hand-not-pretending-to-read-her-mind-answer: it's no secret that the majority of the founding fathers were WASPs- as such, recognizing God publicly was something they had no problem doing. Whether they did that with directly-linkable-to-today's-practices such as putting "Under God" on our money- or mentioning that all men are created equal, and endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights- or some other conveyance is splitting hairs.

Personally, I think actively looking for reasons not to like someone- and collecting these fragments of "evidence" to support that stance- is beneath you. You can come up with much better thought-out and reasonable arguments than culling the freshest johnny-come-lately flippant and biased editorials.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

WHY CAN'T IGNORANCE CAUSE THEM PAIN, TOO??

*whine*

[verginiamus.livejournal.com]

Raised as an atheist, we had to sit down for the under God part. Actually, the pledge was written by *gasp* a socialist.

I don't like Palin because of her manner - she sucker punches you before you can react.