McCain, Stop Being Sexist

Commentary: Sexist treatment of Palin must end

Apparently, John McCain thinks Sarah Palin is prepared enough to be President, but still not ready for reporters.

Palin Charges Victims to Find Their Attackers

Although the rape rate in Alaska is 2.5 times the national average, and as Mayor Sarah Palin put Wasilla into debt building a $22-million sports complex, she still insisted on billing rape victims for their own evidence collection (costing upwards of $1,000).

Palin's town charged women for rape exams

Way to support women !

Palin Fails on Fannie, Freddie

Okay, so Sarah Palin may not know what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do.

Palin’s Bailout Statement Raises Questions

When asked about the proposed bailout of Fannie and Freddie, Sarah Palin responded:

They’ve gotten too big and too expensive to taxpayers. The McCain-Palin administration will make them smaller and smarter and more effective for homeowners who need help.

Which is funny, because Fannie and Freddie have never received a dollar of tax money; they are a publicly traded company. Defenders of Palin have argued that what she MEANT was that they would cost tax payers money if we bail them out. However, let me bust out my eighth grade grammar skills and decipher the word "they've" to mean "they have", and since have is the past tense form of has, and the bailout takes place in the future...Sarah Palin think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government programs. So go ahead Sarah, make them smaller and more effective, but since you and John McCain oppose government regulation of private companies that may be tough.

Banking on the Free Market

I tried to find what Sarah Palin has been saying about the details of their healthcare plan, but she doesn't really like to talk details. So, here's an amazing quote from John McCain:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

That's a great idea ! Banking is the perfect example of how deregulation can strengthen the economy...Oh wait, isn't deregulation of banking what caused this current economic disaster, where the government has to bail out the top banks and insurance companies to prevent the country from entering the next Great Depression. An investment banker from Arkansas said, "This has been a beast of biblical proportions. Nobody has seen anything like it." John McCain, you might want to read the front page of any newspaper in America before you go making recommendations for a national healthcare plan.

Palin's Record of Climate Change Denial

Even in the state of Alaska, where the effects of climate change are already severe, Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin denies the evidence in her own backyard.

Ignoring her Bible, Palin denies human dominion over Earth

Subpoena Schmupoena

Wow, Bush waited until his second term as president to start claiming executive immunity, perhaps Palin is ready to be President. Well, she's ready to be President George W. Bush:

Palin staff won't testify in trooper probe, AG says

Sarah on Science

When McCain announced Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate for the presidential election, everyone wanted to know where she stood on the issues that mattered to them. Here's where she stands on science:

She supports the teaching of Creationism in public schools.

She opposed listing Polar Bears as an endangered species (and is now suing the federal government to remove them from the list), even though her own commisioned report by Alaska state wildlife officials agreed with the scientific conclusion of the federal report claiming Polar Bears will be extinct by 2050. Her quoted reason: protecting Polar Bears limits oil drilling off the northern coast of Alaska. She also claimed the climate models were unreliable, with a degree in journalism she must know better than the scientists.

Palin views on oil, polar bears may be liabilities

Alaska seeks to reverse U.S. polar bear decision

And this may count as Conflict of Interest:

Her husband works for British Petroleum.

More importantly, she has received over $4,000 from executives of VECO including the former CEO, who last year plead quilty to federal conspiracy and bribery. Yes, that is the same VECO who paid for those pesky home renovations for Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, currently under investigation.

Did She or Didn't She ? We May Never Know

Even though the Legislative Council that commissioned the probe is bipartisan, anytime McCain or Palin refer to the probe they cal it "partisan politics".

Palin allies sue to halt trooper probe

If you trust that Sarah Palin did not commit an ethics violation, why would you try to stop the probe ? Sure, it's a distraction. But if Palin is proved innocent, it would show that the media is biased and that she is really a clean candidate.

Abuse of Power

Palin threatens to fire city librarian for not wanting to ban books:

Palin pressured Wasilla librarian

Wasilla Resident Speaks Out

A Wasilla resident who has know Sarah Palin since 1992 checks the facts of her acceptance speech.

Read it, pass it on:
A Wasilla resident speaks out about Sarah Palin

A Few Highlights:
Palin claims she lowered taxes, but really only lowered them for big businesses, actually raised taxes for city residents.
Palin claims she opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere", but actually fought hard for that earmark, and only opposed it after the bridge was ridiculed by the media.
She claims she balanced the budget, but as Mayor she started with a city with zero debt and raised taxes and took out $22 million in bonds to pay for pet projects the city didn't need. She actually increased city expenditures by 33%.
She increased a regressive sales tax that included food.

Hirings and Firings

Should you really appoint your high school friend to the State Division of Agriculture because she kinda liked cows as a kid ? Sarah Palin Did !

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes