Why Sarah Palin is BAD news

[MadMike]

I'll provide the source, and I didn't even supply the story.

Now THAT is just hilarious!

[Boozy]

I'll provide the source, and I didn't even supply the story.

I did the unimaginable: I typed palin's speech results in nearly 10 millions dollars in donations within 24 hours to the obama campaign, and the very first result is entitled Daily Kos: Thank you Sarah Palin, for the $10 million donation.

And, funny thing, it seems to talk about just that. Strange. Whoda thunk it?

Thank you, Pedersen.

I was making the suggestion that members who post details drawn from current news stories might consider posting a link where at all possible (although it's not required by any means). I thought Dreamstalker might have had one handy. It's usually preferable to have a link so that we're all reading off the same page.

As I said, it's not required, just very much appreciated.

[Dreamstalker]

Sorry about that, I had heard it from my boss first and the computer I was using was refusing to do web searches...someone beat me to it though I'll definitely remember next time.

[Boozy]

It's no problem at all. Like I said, I just thought you might have a link handy.

[Amethyst Hunter]

Linkity-links!

It's good to see mainstream media is catching on bit by bit. Here's some more browsing material...




Time Magazine reports on Palin's questions about possible book-banning:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/ar...837918,00.html (NOTE: Snopes has already disproven that there were actually any banned books; however, it is clear enough that at the very least Palin *was* asking about the possibility of doing so at an undefined point in time.)

Apparently, Palin thinks it's pretty funny when a radio shock jock calls one of her Alaskan opponents a "bitch" and a "cancer." She laughs at it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_122776.html (NOTE: The video link in the story was removed by YouTube (how interesting...). To hear the audio, click the hotlink reading "full clip" above it.)

In keeping with her abrasive personality, this one's unconfirmed, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some basis to it - Sarah Palin is reported to have said "So Sambo beat the bitch," when she heard about Obama's win over Hillary:
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09...mean%E2%80%9D/

Watch a McCain spokesman repeatedly rebuff the question as Campbell Brown keeps asking for an example of Palin utilizing the national guard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxMCp1vydEI

McCain evidently got his nose so out of joint after this interview that he threw a tantrum and canceled a CNN appearance:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_123320.html

An ABC commentary on the infamous Troopergate:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/st...5724378&page=1

Hunting non-endangered animals within reasonable regulation is fine; however, I think most of us (with the exception of Palin) can agree that shooting wolves from a plane is not very sportsmanlike:
http://www.slate.com/id/2199140/

Palin doesn't think polar bears should be listed as a "threatened" species, because their inclusion on that list might jeopardize Alaska's oil pipeline prospects (remember, she comes from an oil family):
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...FHDkAD92S4MS04

A critical examination of Palin's acceptance speech:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/...cvn_fact_check

Palin is said to have billed the taxpayers for nights she spent at her house, as well as charging them for her kids' travel expenses when the family went out of town. This may or may not be accepted standard practice depending on Alaska's government, but it's rather odd, no?:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...0325&s_pos=top

A great summary of why Palin is a terrible idea for this country: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/op...xprod=facebook

Sarah Palin "won't rule out" war with Russia. You read that right. War. With. Russia. Because hot wars with Russia always turn out so well for the non-Russia side:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...0,555508.story Putting all else - even her extreme anti-choice views - about her aside, this alone makes me say OH HELL *NO* to a Palin candidacy.

Not only does Palin not support abortion for rape and/or incest victims, as mayor, she made Wasilla the only place in Alaska requiring rape victims to pay for their own rape test kits:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-..._b_125833.html

The New York Times is asking questions, and finding some unsurprising answers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us...in&oref=slogin

Also from the Times, Maureen Dowd does a piece on Palin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/op...in&oref=slogin

A great blog post from someone who attended the "Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin Rally." The rally wound up having a higher turnout than Palin's official rally!:
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/0...rally-is-huge/

Salon.com weighs in:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...7/palin_mayor/

And the rest of the country is catching on now that the glitz has worn off - Palin's fallen 10 points in the polls since Sept. 13th:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stump...to-falter.aspx

[CancelMyService]

Honestly I think everyone was just kind of surprised at the pick and after the initial shock wore off, everyone's kind of "uhhh, yeah I don't know about this".