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[blackcurrants]

Last thursday night I had a very entertaining high tea in Alice's TeaCup with Adela and Alice, and we bonded with the (already known and liked) waitress over the horror, the horror of the GOP's Veep choice. A couple leaving the teashop were suitably moved to stop on their way out and join us in the rant. The man joked "If the republicans win this

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[esther_reeves]

Considering the amount of mis-information that has been put out about Obama are you really going to take something like that at face value? Not saying it isn't and it's certinaly believeable but of course it wouldn't be good mis-information if it wasn't. Not trying to say she is a good choice just that such things are very unreliable.

[blackcurrants]

I didn't take it at face value. I took it as a chance to do some digging of my own. I haven't spent hours researching everything on there (I'd need to go to Alaska for some of it) but what I've checked (voting records, Alaskan newspapers re: library censorship attempts) has been true.

[blackcurrants]

hhmmn, I hope this doesn't come across as a snippy response, as it is not intended to be. In effect: I agree with you that such things cannot be taken at face value. And in all honesty, I don't want even half of it to be true (yes, the library censorship stuff scares me stupid). But much of it seems to be.

[esther_reeves]

Sorry the other comment was me he logged in when I wasn't looking :)
It wasn't snippy in fact i was worried I'd come over that way.. so we can both agree we agree and yes even half being true is scary though from what I've seen of US politics it doesn't seem to me it makes her overly abnormal for a politician though I'm sure there are some good ones in the mix somewhere.