Right now, my time is almost completely taken up with the two new members of our family, Missy and Desperado. They are sister and brother black Lab mix canines–somehow, the word dog just doesn’t seem to do justice to their beauty–three years old and well, in my eyes, gorgeous! I’m spending a lot of time with them as they adjust to their new home and deal with the grief of losing their owner to cancer. Missy especially needs a lot of attention, and poor Des has a tendency to brood at times, but we’re slowly coming to terms with the changes in all of our lives.
So, as I’m busy developing a relationship with my two new best friends, I haven’t been paying much attention to the news of the 2008 election. Other than to catch a headline here and skim an article there, you might say the election is off my radar right now–until this morning when I happened to catch a recent post on the Mudflats blog about Sarah Palin’s attempt to ban books. Unfortunately for Governor Palin, she was, as she should have been, prevented from doing that, but still! Come on, banning books? There’s nothing guaranteed to piss a teacher/author/avid reader off more than talk of banning books.
According to what I read, no one knows exactly what books she wanted to ban or how many. Not that it matters because IMO, it only takes one and it doesn’t matter which one it is. And I have to ask myself what kind of person Sarah Palin is if she not only advocates the mass murder of innocent animals, but also the banning of books?
I admit I’m not as informed on this topic as I could be, but really, Governor Palin brings one person to mind for me; Hitler. I believe she’s as arrogant as he was, and just as likely to try to shove her beliefs down our throats until we choke on them. I also believe she doesn’t care how many people have to suffer or how many animals have to die to achieve her goal. Do we really want someone like that as our Vice President?
Even worse, can you imagine what she’d do if she was given even more power, like say if something happened to McCain?
I’m not much of a political activist and I’m sure there are many people out there who can give me all sorts of reasons why I’m making too much of these two incidents in Governor Palin’s past. But all I can think of when I think of her name on the ballot in November is the tagline from the 1986 version of “The Fly”:
Be afraid, be very afraid.
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September 7, 2008 at 3:29 AM
Robert
That banning of books thing turned out to be a hoax.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/06/the-bogus-sarah-palin-banned-books-list/
“I admit I’m not as informed on this topic as I could be, but really, Governor Palin brings one person to mind for me; Hitler.”
Sheesh. If that isnt the oldest, the most infantile, and cliched knee jerk thing to say. Comparing a political opponent to Hitler. Grow up and get a new playbook. Not only can she not be compared to Hitler by any stretch of ther imagination, but you’re trivializing the holocaust. I imagine almost everyone to the right of you reminds you of hitler.
Hitler wore clothes. Palin wears clothes.
Holy cow, the similarities are striking! I’m so scared!
September 7, 2008 at 6:59 AM
Hmmmm
What if the book was on how to build bombs and blow up stadiums and nuclear plants, and I dont think hunting moose can be considered mass murder of aninmals, but the mass killing of unborn babies can be considered genecid, what do you think?
September 7, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Ron Paul
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.E.B.WhiteE. B. White
September 7, 2008 at 1:55 PM
caitlynhunter
Sorry, but I have to say it; my blog, my opinion.
To clarify, the mass murder of animals I was talking about didn’t have anything to do with moose, but the hunting of wolves from the air, which Governor Palin seems to support. I disagree with that, just as I disagree with banning books–or even attempting to ban them by threatening to fire someone if they don’t take certain books off the shelves of the public libraries.
I’m choosing NOT to vote for McCain/Palin. And the last time I checked, in America, it’s still my vote, my choice. Which means you can make your own decision who to vote for, and though I may disagree with you, that doesn’t give me any right to call you names, ridicule your choice, or judge you in any way. If I did, then I might just be, as Robert says, “infantile”.