Politics

Soo.....since all my friends in blogworld are posting about politics and I'm posting about music, I guess I better get with the program. :)

I watched the DNC, and got the highlights of the RNC (not feeling well last week). And I have to say, I'm not enthused with Sarah Palin. We would probably get along in real life but I'm not sure she's the best candidate for the job. Being a Christian doesn't make you a good veep candidate, any more than it makes you a good surgeon. And if I'm going to have surgery, I'm not going to ask my surgeon if he's a Christian...I'm going to ask if he knows what he's doing. And I don't think Sarah Palin does.

Not only that, I'm less than enthused with her record. Much ado is made over her 'fighting the Bridge to Nowhere,' when in reality she was originally for it, as it earmarked millions of dollars in funds for her region. I don't agree with her stance on same-sex couple issues. While I have my personal beliefs about it, I don't think the government should be the arbiter of those things, and she wants it to be. Ditto for abortion, which is why I think 1st trimester abortion should be legal. Not because I agree with it but because outlawing it is not going to improve things a bit, and it's not government's place to say so.

She stated herself that she did not think much about the war in Iraq...not until her son got deployed, and all of a sudden she's 'just like the rest of us' because she's got a son going to war? Why didn't it matter to her before?

Her family is really a non-issue for me. It's not really any of my business how many kids she has, or what their personal issues are, esp not Bristol. That kind of thing happens in the best of families. The only other thing I'm going to say is how much it annoys me that pro-life groups have praised her for not aborting the youngest baby 'even though she knew he was going to have Down syndrome.' Since when was that EVER a good reason to abort? I know of no pro-choice person that would abort because they knew the baby they were carrying had Down syndrome - and in my field, I know a lot of pro-choice people. It really gets under my skin.

Add to that that she has about zero foreign policy experience....I just don't think she's cut out to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. I don't think McCain would have picked her had a 'minority' not been running on the other ticket.

I don't care whether she was in FCA in highschool, I don't care what her nickname was on the basketball team, I don't care whether she hunts/fishes or not, and I don't care what her husband does. Let me rephrase that - none of those things affect my vote.

Where Sarah Palin stands on the issues