| | I <3 campaign season. Generally disillusioned and annoyed with politicians in general, I can't help but enjoy the screaming, yelling, accusations, and media frenzy. The media has done nothing less than their best with Sarah Palin. They've drudged up every last little thing they could find on her, analyzed it, re-analyzed it, regurgitated it, and then force fed it to us. They do this with every politician, of course, but as someone who supports Sarah Palin, it's been fun to see what the media thinks of "my type" - you know "white" and "evangelical" and "woman" and even "18-35 yr old".
One media report says that if Obama's daughter were preggers, I'd be decrying liberal values. That irked me because I try very hard not to give double standards. Frankly, it bothers me that Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant. To me, it underscores the general inability of anyone on either side of the conservative/liberal line to actually make any headway in the sex-education programs. I am a total, 100% wait until you're married kind of gal. That being said, I also think that if you try to do abstinence only education without a root in the Bible, it's going to fail. It's all about worldview and values. So, yes, it bothers me because I wonder what she taught her daughter. Most evangelicals show up at a church, few carry their faith into their everyday lives except to use it to re-enforce social values that they don't understand. Whether Obama or Palin, they're both results of liberal values, the problem is the evangelicals aren't paying attention. On the other hand, with Obama, we might never know if his daughters got pregnant since, he said he wouldn't want his daughters "punished" with a baby, so hey, they might just slip down the nearest Planned Parenthood and we, the people, would never know about it. So I do give kudos to Sarah Palin's family for living out this pro-life decision in the public eye.
Several other reports go on about money and what she did with it while governor. Frankly, I don't care. I'll leave it at that.
Believe it or not, my biggest two problems with her are her book banning and her oil drilling. She tried to ban books in the libraries. That really, really, really bothers me. I may not like what's in books at the library, but I am COMPLETELY for the freedom to read them. It is not the responsibility of the the library to know what your child is reading, that is YOUR responsibility. The fact that she was banning them over offensive language even furthers my ire. It just seems so petty and childish.
My second issue is the excitement to drill all over Alaska. I care about the environment and I want to know we're taking care of the land that we're using. I don't have a problem with drilling, but I think it needs to be done with care. Better yet, let's just say SCREW OIL and go to alternative fuel sources ASAP...
However, despite these reservations, I support McCain/Palin. No matter how many ways I turn it, I can't get Obama's voice out of my head talking about the punishment of children for his daughters if they didn't plan on it. No matter how many other issues I try to look up, I can't run from the statistic most Down Syndrome babies are aborted. No matter how many arguments I hear pro-choice, I can escape the reality that in order to accept abortion, you have to use the same logic that Nazi Germany did. I can't pretend that abortion isn't woman-hating and racist (most babies aborted in the world are female, and in America, it's generally minority women that have abortions). History favors those who choose life. History favors the abolitionists. History favors those who protected and hid the Jews in Nazi Germany. History will favor the pro-lifers.
So call me stupid, call me naive. Say that I'm ignorant or dumb. Push me off to the fringe and roll your eyes. I cannot ignore the stench of burning flesh from concentration camps, as so many Germans did. I cannot ignore the blood of so many children, as so many Americans do.
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