A friend sent me this shirt. Get yours! I Love it. I think it’s just jarring enough to start a conversation, and people should be talking. Not about Sarah Palin’s gender. But about her politics.
Women Against Sarah Palin. – a big collection of letters and ideas from women who see Palin as a political figure, not an example of womanity.
The American economy is crashing today.
Sarah Palin’s economic decisions of the past include a series of hedging decision in which she approved and revoked a series of immensely wasteful spending measures. She can’t make a decision on economic policy because she doesn’t understand the economy, government spending, or tax paying. What she does understand is payoffs, including paying Alaskan citizens thousands of dollars per person to accept her destructive drilling plan.
Sarah Palin is destroying the world around her -she supports drilling in the Alaskan Wilderness, which is killing off the local wildlife, destroying the home and resources of native tribes. She has fought hard, including suing the government to keep animals like the Polar Bear and Beluga Whale off the endangered species list. She beliefs in hunting Wolves – from the Air.
She claims to be pro-life, however Sarah Palin does not bat an eye at the Iraq war that has killed thousands of humans, and destroyed the lives of millions more. And though she doesn’t believe in abortion, she does not believe in a sex education program that would give teenagers the knowledge to prevent unwanted pregnancies (in fact McCain has voted against requiring abstinence educations to be scientifically accurate!)
Sarah Palin’s church is promoting a gay conversion conference: "Pray Away the Gay."
There are so many more issues I would like to discuss, but in the interest of brevity, I will only say that I hope everyone is thoroughly investigating the issues most important to them.
I will not vote for someone who is pro-war, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-environment, and too short sited to make decisions that span beyond her lifetime. I will not vote for someone who believes the economy is healthy, simply because the wealthy are still wealthy. I will not vote for someone who vows to take away my rights in the interest of promoting her own religion.
I might be a woman, but I’m voting for my political peer, not my ovarian double.
Cute blog, and love the shirt.
Thanks.
I guess the view is pretty good when you’re a billionaire heiress.
You and your husband would then, obviously consider the economy “strong” and you can tell all the common folk to go “eat cake!”
I dunno – I think McCain is really Bush, only older, and Palin is Cheney with a bra. They chant the “change” mantra, but it’s the same old lies.
Fool me once and shame . . . Uh, How does that go again??!!
That shirt is AWESOME.
I am reading ‘Are Women Human?’ by Dorothy L. Sayers (who I totally heart, btw). the main premise is this: We shouldn’t need feminism, and often it is counterproductive. ‘Male’ and ‘Female’, ‘woman’ and ‘man’ are just qualifiers on the noun ‘human’. There is no more reason to ask ‘what do women want’ than ‘what to people want’, because every woman is her own being, as complex and complicated as everyone else.
Just because SP is a woman, doesn’t mean I have to like her, approve of her, identify with her. I find that idea insulting. Because I am MORE than a woman. I am me. I am all the other things that make me up. And telling me that the only way I able to express myself is through my gender is limiting, oppresive and RUDE.
So vote with any bit you like. I’ll be voting with my brain.
(except not because I live in Australia. Seriously, America. Don’t fuck this one up again. Please?)
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I’m white, female and over fifty and I’m voting for Obama!