{"id":1795,"date":"2008-08-30T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T00:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2008-08-30T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T00:55:06","slug":"honestly-not-sure-what-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Honestly Not Sure What to Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read the Wikipedia article on Sarah Palin<\/a> and I’m honestly still a bit like “what?????” in terms of McCain choosing her as a running mate.<\/p>\n

At first glance, it seems like he deliberately chose her to make the ticket look balanced — I mean… old dude and young woman.\u00c2? It is actually kind of sexist to have picked her if that was the main reason (which I’m sure it’s up there) and I think I’d be a little surprised if I was her.<\/p>\n

It’s also a seriously hypocritical move if his homies want to bash Obama for having no experience because she’s been the governor of Alaska for two years… after being mayor of a small town outside of Anchorage.<\/p>\n

Looking at her positions, it does look like her selection is pandering to the Right.\u00c2? The only thing she and I share in common is being pro-life\/pro-contraception although I’m in favor of abortion in cases of rape or incest.\u00c2? (I waffle on the same-sex marriage issue so we don’t really share that.)\u00c2? Otherwise, she’s in favor of teaching creationism with evolution in schools, a gun rights activist, supports the death penalty, opposes abortion for any reason, in favor of banning same-sex unions, etc.\u00c2? I can see that she’s not blindly any of these things (which pleases me because I like it when politicians have a brain) but… she’s kind of everything the Bush administration would want her to be.<\/p>\n

There’s no chance in Hades that I’m voting for McCain\/Palin in November but I’m still kind of blown away by her being his running mate.\u00c2? It just doesn’t seem to compute for some reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read the Wikipedia article on Sarah Palin and I’m honestly still a bit like “what?????” in terms of McCain choosing her as a running mate. At first glance, it seems like he deliberately chose her to make the ticket … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-sX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}