Sarah Palin has recently been going on about a tenuous connection between Barack Obama and William Ayers, a former sixties radical, suggesting that Obama's character should be judged by the company he keeps. She's also throwing Tony Rezko and Reverend Wright into the mix.
But what about the company Sarah Palin keeps? Her husband joined a secessionist party. He so hates America that he wanted to make Alaska its own country and stop being an American.
Obama served on a charity board with his America-hater. Sarah Palin sleeps with hers.
So, last night was the beginning of Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year. I didn't go to a synagogue and celebrate, but I did take time to have a personal chat with God. I first thanked him. Although the past year wasn't everything I might have hoped for, my family and I were healthy and kept our financial heads above water, plus we began what is so far a healthy pregnancy (wood dutifully knocked). Though we didn't have as much success as I hoped, we had our needs met and then some, which is a lot more than a lot of people can say in this world. Rather than complain about not doing as well as I wished, I tried to be grateful for doing well enough to have so few reasons to complain.
Some say John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate to pick up all the disaffected Hillary voters under the mistaken belief that they'd vote for anything with ovaries. But there's a good counter-argument that he picked her because she's a gun-toting, vindictive nutcase who spouts Jesus out the side of her mouth while picking and choosing which "Christian" values she wants to incorporate into her life... just like much of the Republican "base."
As the stories like Troopergate and the firings during her term as mayor show (including trying to fire a librarian who resisted her attempts at banning books), Sarah is a poor loser... which puts her right in line with all the Hillary supporters who said they'd vote McCain for spite. But it also shows that Christian values like "forgiveness" are easily rationalized away in her brain.
And let's not talk about Charity. Her view on that Christian value is that the government should cut funds to help the neediest and most vulnerable in our communities and that charities should step up to provide replacements. To an extent, taxation and government spending are an enforced redistribution of wealth, and to the extent that this wealth is spent on social services, it's enforced charity. Since charity should come from the heart, they think "let's cut out government social services so it's true charity." And if people don't make enough charitable donations to help the truly needy, well, either they'll have to form a big enough majority to get something voted their way, or they can die off.
For a party that doesn't believe in Darwin, their belief in Social Darwinism is through the roof.
But I digress. I originally started this post because I wanted to blog about a video a friend pointed me to. It's by a musician with the stage name of Dean Dobbins and addresses the whole "vote for her/me because she's/I'm a woman" thing. Fun little song. And for those of you who know my family, no, the guy on the piano isn't my dad with his hair grown out. It's just an unfortunate circumstance that if you're an older Jewish man with a few extra pounds, gray hair, and a beard, you look like my dad... or vice-versa.
As the song goes: "What God wants, God gets, God help us all."
The AP reports that, in an address last June, Sarah Palin claimed that the Iraq war was a "task from God" and that a $30 billion natural gas pipeline project in Alaska was "God's will." This was part of her attempt to implement God's will from the governor's office, because she felt her legitimate accomplishments like job creation and development of resources would be meaningless if the hearts of the people of Alaska weren't "right with God." Read the rest of this entry »
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