By now, I'm sure you've heard about McCain's choice for Vice President: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. For someone who is for denying a woman her right to choose to have a baby, and who wants to make shooting wolves from a plane legal, Palin is surprisingly popular in the polls. I'm a girl, so don't accuse me of being sexist. Of course a woman can be President or Vice President of the United States. But when Hillary Clinton ran for President, the right-wing media was nothing but sexist. She was actually smart, and she was mocked by Republican and Democrat men while running for President. Now, when a woman with no original opinions and who has sought porkbarrel projects for the small town she used to be the mayor of might be he next VP, Obama's being accused of being sexist if he even remotely questions her backwards policies. She also has no experience and has never been out of the United States more than one time, when she visited troops in Kuwait. She was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska at one point, but Wasilla's a small town with only 6,000 residents. She served as Governor for only two terms, and graduated from the University of Idaho. Obama worked as a community organizer, and worked to help the homeless. He had also worked as a civil rights attourney, and had served in the Illinois senate from 1997 to 2004. He was also elected to the U.S. senate in 2004 as well. He has been outside of the country many times, and months ago, had gone to visit troops in Iraq. McCain's one strong point against Obama was that Obama "Lacked experience." Now, he goes and nominates someone with even less experience for his running mate. She is a better speaker than McCain, and she is a good debater, using smiles and a soft voice while interrupting the opponent and playing the gender card if Biden will interrupt her while she's speaking. However, think about it: John McCain's 72 yeas old. If he dies, then Palin will be the 45th president. Would you want Palin as President, despite all the hype over her?
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I love your blog, and wondered what you thought of Obama's VP pick. I am a woman who thought Hillary belonged on the ticket, but still support Obama. On a different topic, this week I heard a talk in your old neighborhood of Hyde Park by Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, host of a show on Radio Islam and founder of the Islamic communications organization, Sound Vision, speaking on the topic, "Being American Muslims." In his thoughtful talk there was much discussion of the Islamophobia pervading the election. Do you have thoughts on that? While the worst offenses are coming from the McCain campaign, it would be nice if the Obama campaign could figure out a better way of addressing Barack's religion without making "Muslim" seem like a dirty word. On Obama's "Fight the Smears" website, to label calling someone a "Muslim" a "smear" is not the right approach in my opinion. If you have any thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them! Keep up your good work.
Thanks for commenting! sorry, i haven't been on my blog in a while, but i'll be busy on here with the election and everything. I don't like how the word 'Muslim' has been made into something with evil connotations, and in the last debate, i was furious when McCain was saying he didn't smear Obama and only tried to protect him. I had a friend in Hyde Park who's Muslim, and i was upset that McCain and Palin were making it seem like Muslims were the anti-christ. I liked how Colin Powell endorsed Obama AND defended American Muslims. Hillary would have been my second choice, but I felt Barack was better for the job. What are your views on Palin?
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