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Sarah did inquire into banning books. Just that www list was bogus, not the inquiry. And then Sarah fired the librarian, but the town gave her back her job the next day.
Yes. And republicans try to gloss over this as though it's a little nothing, but it is not for librarians. People who advocate an extremist branch of fundamentalism don't go around asking librarians about banning books just for the opportunity to make casual conversation.
For a librarian, such a question would set off red flags whether that person were a liberal or a conservative. Liberals have tried to ban books for other reasons (Huck Finn, for example, b/c of the language) and if a liberal came to a librarian and asked how that person felt about banning books, the red flag would be the same.
If the person is a political figure with a right wing agenda, then it would be against the history of censorship to assume she did not want an opportunity to pander to the religious right... if she wanted to ban this man's book for personal reasons, that would seem to fit in with many of her other actions as both mayor and gov. She has shown she is vindictive with many personal moments she chooses to politicize.
My opposition to Palin is grounded in my life-long knowledge of Pentacostals, other fundamentalists, evangelicals, and the most dangerous christian cult at this time: Dominionists. While I understand that it is offensive to pentacostals to hear them dismissed, the fact is that the radical Christian right has become a danger to democracy in the eyes of those who honor democracy and our tradition of secular government.
As a mother, I do not want any woman in office who wants to be able to deny my 12 y/o daughter a morning after pill if she were raped. If Palin wants to force such a horror story on her child, that's her family's life... sadly. These religious extremists want to deny morning-after pills because they *might* cause a female to expel a blastocyte.. an undifferentiated mass of cells.
this is a heretical position too... the idea that a one-day old fertilized egg has the same rights as a 12 y/o human.
Palin's positions on cultural issues make it impossible for this woman to EVER support her. In additionk, she showed she was too ignorant about the most imp. foreign policy issue of the last 8 years.
She is frightening because, yes, she is attractive and personable and has great stories to tell and calls people "guys and gals," and all of this has NOTHING to do with the ability to serve as vp/president. She's frightening because more Americans pay attention to American Idol than they do to policy issues.
She and McCain are trying to run on the SAME ideas as those that are now in place while arguing that they are "mavericks" -- this is simply bullshit. They are running against their own platform. How many Americans are stupid enough to fall for this?
