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Pledge of Allegience and More
McCain's selection for the Vice Presidency of the United States, Sarah Palin, answering a 2006 policy questionnaire: Q: Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not? PALIN: 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 AllegianceFun facts: when John McCain's grandfather graduated from the Naval Academy in 1906, the Pledge of Allegiance, as first written, was only fourteen years old. It would not be made the official pledge of the United States until 1942, six years after John McCain himself was born. When John McCain was born, the words "Under God" were not in the Pledge. They would not appear there until 1954, during McCain's senior year of high school. On top of that it's now been confirmed that Palin was a part of an Alaskan Seccessionist Party during the 1990s. A Seccessionist who's now running for VP. As a Governor, she's now under investigation for firing a Public Safety official who wouldn't fire a state trooper who divorced her sister. During the speeches last night, there was plenty of negativism, cynicism, divisivism, and the usual Bush Administration tone, but barely anything saying why she would be a good Vice President. Maybe I had my hopes to high for McCain.
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Palin's Problems
I am not a fan of McCain's pick of VP Sarah Palin. I also haven't been a fan of the spin of her pick either.
The first problem is that true or not, it seems apparent that the number one reason to pick her was to steal Hillary/Woman supporters away from Obama. The very sad thing, it's working with some. I saw a lady on CNN at the Republican Convention, a registered Democrat and I quote: " Woman are smart enough to vote based on more than one issue. That's why I'm here. I'm here to help shatter the glass ceiling for woman."
....... WHAT? So you're not voting on one issue by voting on the one issue of voting for a woman? How does that even make any sense.
There were also MUCH more capable woman candidates that weren't even vetted for the position. Yet any claim that Palin isn't qualified based on very real questions is being deflected as "sexism".
A month ago she didn't even know what a Vice President did except take over if the President died.
They're claiming executive experience from being a mayor of a town of 9000, and now 2 years as governor of Alaska. So that's all it takes now? Well then why isn't she running for President with McCain as the VP?
Now Republican's are claiming she has "foreign relations" experience by being governor of Alaska, because it's the state closest to Russia. Governor's have nothing to do with foreign relations. All the northern states can now claim experience because of Canada, and southern ones because of Mexico. Except Florida which has Cuba.
Finally, they're saying she will work well with McCain in "reform" and that not to worry because she's only the VICE President, and won't be the President herself. I think these people forget why the position of Vice President exists. John McCain is 72 years old. Not to be morbid, but realistically there's a good chance he's going to die during his term. Many people survive past 80, many don't. If he were to die in the first week in office, Palin would be President. How is SHE qualified to be the President? Even near the end of his first term, 3 years in, would she be qualified to take over then if he were to die? We don't know.
These aren't idle complaints or worries. This is our country we could be putting in her hands.
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Not Tortured
In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured. Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo and David Addington and George Tenet. In the one indisputably authentic version of the story of a Vietnamese guard showing compassion, McCain talks of the agony of long-time standing. A quarter century later, Don Rumsfeld was putting his signature to memos lengthening the agony of "long-time standing" that victims of Bush's torture regime would have to endure. These torture techniques are, according to the president of the United States, merely "enhanced interrogation." No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects. Feel safer? The Daily Dish
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