(no subject)
One of my grad. school teachers sent this:
Friends, compatriots, fellow-lamenters,
We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we
have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential
candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision
has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce-on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate-that has a real
possibility of becoming fact.
Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of
what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for
ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against
sex education,birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental
protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor
she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the librarian who stood
against her), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar
bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the
second-most-powerful person on the planet.
We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a
woman, a mother,or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but
solely as a rash,incompetent, and all together devastating choice for Vice
President. Ms.Palin's political views are in every way a slap in the
face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and
great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we've so demonstrably
benefited from.
First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She
does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It
is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win
over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.
Friends, compatriots, fellow-lamenters,
We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we
have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential
candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision
has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce-on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate-that has a real
possibility of becoming fact.
Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of
what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for
ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against
sex education,birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental
protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor
she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the librarian who stood
against her), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar
bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the
second-most-powerful person on the planet.
We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a
woman, a mother,or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but
solely as a rash,incompetent, and all together devastating choice for Vice
President. Ms.Palin's political views are in every way a slap in the
face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and
great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we've so demonstrably
benefited from.
First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She
does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It
is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win
over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.