Okay - this is just a total rant. There's no logical order and there are too many topics to count. Though they all seem related to me.
Does McCain think the country is full of idiots? And does he look like his shoes are too tight, or what? I mean, how superficial can you get? As in, yeah, she looks like she’s female. (She totally looks like a beauty queen, too: "I want whirled peas and a bear skin rug.") May as well put up some facades and call it the wild, wild west.
So in no particular order, what I really want to know - well, actually, there are so many things I really want to know - but one of them is how a person can call herself right to life - or even Christian - while supporting the death penalty and unprovoked war (or really, that should just be war, period). I don't recall any exception clauses to that commandment: Thou shalt not kill – except when people really piss you off. And anyway, aren’t Christians supposed to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ? Which, btw, in case anyone is wondering, are in the Sermon on the Mount – not the Old Testament.
So, Palin, gun-toting member of the NRA (oh, that’s just so sexy – let’s just dress that beauty queen up in leathers and hike her butt over a Harley in center field during the Daytona 500), has a dead bear carcass in her office. That's so civilized. Did she eat that bear? Is that bear skin providing warmth to her freezing family? I wonder how that felt, to pull the trigger on one of God's living, breathing, beautiful creatures for no other reason than the sport of it. I’m sorry, but what the hell kind of mother shoots something? And just why is shooting anything considered sport anyway? Is it any wonder this country is a mess? Does anyone see any possible correlation with shooting for sport and kids walking into schools to take out the bullies who've been taunting them? Tell me, how do you explain to a kid the distinction between sport, self-defense, retribution, and murder? How is a kid going to understand that all life is sacred when he and his peers see violence on television every day and play violent video games – while his mother’s out shooting down the lovely caribou? What else is a kid going to do but go put on a uniform and go do some shooting himself? And while I’m at it – is it only the proud to be an American’s kids that should be saved? I guess we could sacrifice a few dozen kids in Afghanistan for the cause? They’d probably just become terrorists eventually anyway, right?
If you want to impress me with your Christianity and your stance on the sanctity of life, why don’t you tell me about your work in sub-Saharan Africa with starving children? In 2005, “5 million African children under age 5 died … 40 percent of deaths worldwide.” Right to life? Tell me about what you’ve done to help Iraqi orphans. Have you adopted any little Chinese girls lately? Saved any 8 year old starving Filipina prostitutes? Worked to improve the air quality conditions for NYC ghetto children – or even to get them some inhalers so they can breathe? If you’re so pro-life, tell me – how can you support oil drilling while these children can’t breathe – or while your own children (and everybody else’s, for that matter) are accumulating a heavier and heavier toxic load of mercury, lead, BPA, rocket fuel, and pthylates? When our addiction to oil just cost the lives of 60 children in Afghanistan last week – and the parents of somewhere around 5 million Iraqi children to date? Excuse me, but are we concerned with all children, or just American babies?
So, back to my point (whatever it was), John McCain is going to give us a woman president when he croaks mid-term of old age. A heartbeat away from the big button and trigger happy? This is who he sees representing women in the U.S.? This is his idea of a stand in for Hillary? I just want to know – how can McCain talk about change while presenting us with G.W. in drag?
But, yeah. I bet she’d be great fun at a tailgate party.
Does McCain think the country is full of idiots? And does he look like his shoes are too tight, or what? I mean, how superficial can you get? As in, yeah, she looks like she’s female. (She totally looks like a beauty queen, too: "I want whirled peas and a bear skin rug.") May as well put up some facades and call it the wild, wild west.
So in no particular order, what I really want to know - well, actually, there are so many things I really want to know - but one of them is how a person can call herself right to life - or even Christian - while supporting the death penalty and unprovoked war (or really, that should just be war, period). I don't recall any exception clauses to that commandment: Thou shalt not kill – except when people really piss you off. And anyway, aren’t Christians supposed to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ? Which, btw, in case anyone is wondering, are in the Sermon on the Mount – not the Old Testament.
So, Palin, gun-toting member of the NRA (oh, that’s just so sexy – let’s just dress that beauty queen up in leathers and hike her butt over a Harley in center field during the Daytona 500), has a dead bear carcass in her office. That's so civilized. Did she eat that bear? Is that bear skin providing warmth to her freezing family? I wonder how that felt, to pull the trigger on one of God's living, breathing, beautiful creatures for no other reason than the sport of it. I’m sorry, but what the hell kind of mother shoots something? And just why is shooting anything considered sport anyway? Is it any wonder this country is a mess? Does anyone see any possible correlation with shooting for sport and kids walking into schools to take out the bullies who've been taunting them? Tell me, how do you explain to a kid the distinction between sport, self-defense, retribution, and murder? How is a kid going to understand that all life is sacred when he and his peers see violence on television every day and play violent video games – while his mother’s out shooting down the lovely caribou? What else is a kid going to do but go put on a uniform and go do some shooting himself? And while I’m at it – is it only the proud to be an American’s kids that should be saved? I guess we could sacrifice a few dozen kids in Afghanistan for the cause? They’d probably just become terrorists eventually anyway, right?
If you want to impress me with your Christianity and your stance on the sanctity of life, why don’t you tell me about your work in sub-Saharan Africa with starving children? In 2005, “5 million African children under age 5 died … 40 percent of deaths worldwide.” Right to life? Tell me about what you’ve done to help Iraqi orphans. Have you adopted any little Chinese girls lately? Saved any 8 year old starving Filipina prostitutes? Worked to improve the air quality conditions for NYC ghetto children – or even to get them some inhalers so they can breathe? If you’re so pro-life, tell me – how can you support oil drilling while these children can’t breathe – or while your own children (and everybody else’s, for that matter) are accumulating a heavier and heavier toxic load of mercury, lead, BPA, rocket fuel, and pthylates? When our addiction to oil just cost the lives of 60 children in Afghanistan last week – and the parents of somewhere around 5 million Iraqi children to date? Excuse me, but are we concerned with all children, or just American babies?
So, back to my point (whatever it was), John McCain is going to give us a woman president when he croaks mid-term of old age. A heartbeat away from the big button and trigger happy? This is who he sees representing women in the U.S.? This is his idea of a stand in for Hillary? I just want to know – how can McCain talk about change while presenting us with G.W. in drag?
But, yeah. I bet she’d be great fun at a tailgate party.
posted by Shannon at 10:15 AM
3 Comments:
Yes. Thank you.
So you want a racist muslim as president, and an extremely liberal lying vice president. Okay, everybody has their say. Neither of the candidates are president worthy in my opinion. But give me someone who has stakes in the war any day, and you'll see a difference. At least the Republican candidates do have stakes in the war called their very own flesh and blood.
Lisa,
Obama is not a racist (what with being half white it would be pretty difficult) and he is not muslim. You should check your sources. Even a quick search on urbanlegends.com, snopes.com, or truthorfiction.com. Obama is a Christian and was a member of the same church for most of his adult life. The stake the republicans currently in power have in this war is oil. If you do some research, it's pretty obvious and totally horrifying. And very sad for the families of the soldiers there.
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