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[Adrienne Kandel]

Twelve reasons why as a mother, I can’t support Sarah Palin and with her 
John McCain.

1. *Sarah Palin and John McCain will tax my children.* Who else do you 
think will pay when we keep cutting taxes on the rich, and borrowing 
unprecedented amounts of money?

2. *Sarah Palin doesn’t think greenhouse gases cause global warming*, so 
what kind of planet will she leave my children?

3.. *Sarah Palin laughed at an adversary’s weight, and sets a 
mean-spirited example for my children. *On radio, Palin laughed when the 
host mocked Senate President Lyda Green for Green’s weight, and when the 
host called Green a “bitch,” and when he called cancer-surviving Green a 
“cancer,” and when he suggested Green didn’t love her own children. Then 
Sarah said she’d be honored to have the host visit her. 
http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/story/295464.html 130 people called 
an Anchorage radio show to complain about their governor’s behavior: 
that’s a lot in a city of 280,000 people (Anchorage has 40% of Alaska’s 
population).

4. *I want my children to have affordable medical insurance no matter 
what job they choose or switch to, like they would in every other 
developed country. *Palin and McCain won’t see to that, but Obama will.

5. *Palin and McCain will make my children less safe. *The war in Iraq, 
which Palin and Bush have said were God’s will, has created so much 
camera-friendly suffering that it’s bred terrorists all over the world 
(and decimated the ages-old Iraqi Christian community). It diverted our 
troops from seeking out Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan – the folks 
who attacked us (Iraq didn’t). Palin says we’re “winning” now, but 
“winning” just means lessening the mayhem a little and supporting a 
government that’s cozy with dangerous Iranian president Ahmedinijad. 
This “winning” doesn’t make us any safer.

Obama will make us safer because he knows how to speak softly as well as 
carry a big stick; he motivates foreign citizens to wave American flags 
instead of burning them. McCain and Palin try to bluster by on the stick 
alone – and that stick will get less smaller as they bankrupt us out of 
affording our military advantage.

6. *Palin and McCain’s tax policy will help the rich, not working 
families. *Obama will give me and my $45,000 salary a $1000 tax cut 
while McCain gives us $300. But if I made $3 million /per year/ McCain 
would give me $270,000 more per year and Obama would have me give back 
just part of my huge Bush years’ tax cut, helping us pay as we go for 
government services. **

7. *Palin and McCain can’t help our economy because they assume it will 
take care of itself. *Example: we lost hundreds billions to the Savings 
and Loan bailout decades ago because McCain and friends stopped us from 
regulating financial markets. Now we’re bleeding taxpayer dollars and 
foreclosing people’s homes because McCain and friends still kept 
government from overseeing lending practices. Sarah Palin’s no better: 
she thought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were public companies when they 
were private – I bet it’s because they nearly tanked and she can’t 
imagine a private owner goofing up.

8. *Sarah Palin is dishonest. *For example she keeps implying she always 
opposed the “Bridge to Nowhere” when she supported it until it became 
unpopular. Then she had Alaska keep the federal money but spend it 
elsewhere. She says she opposes earmarks but got over $25 million 
earmarked for her town of 6500. Her slurs against Obama are false and 
politically motivated, maybe scripted by Karl Rove.

9. *Like Bush, Palin fires folks who don’t tow her line,* meaning she 
won’t hear all sides and will make bad decisions. She even did this in 
her town twice the size of my high school, where everyone must know each 
other. (Except the population didn’t let her fire the librarian who 
wouldn’t ban books for her.)

10. *Sarah Palin not qualified.* She’s spent 20 months running a state 
with a population the size of Fort Worth’s, and no budget problems 
because it’s oil-rich. Before that she was a mayor and councilwoman of a 
town twice the size of my high school. That’s it. No foreign policy 
experience: zero. Like George W. Bush before he became president.

11. *Palin is extremist.* She sported a button for Pat Buchanan for 
president in 2000, she’s drawn cheers from her husband’s secessionist 
group, she believes even 12-year-olds raped by their father shouldn’t be 
allowed an abortion, even the week they get pregnant. (I don’t like 
abortion but that sort of child abuse leaves scars beyond the 9 months 
of pregnancy.)

12. *Sarah Palin is a snob, unless she just asks snobby to manipulate 
us.*. She brags about her “small town values” as if I don’t know how to 
pass on good values to my kids just because I live in a city of 60,000. 
I think it’s a fake image to draw votes, part of a Republican plan to 
make people think Democrats are “latte-drinking” elites which is pretty 
random considering the more rich a person is the more likely they are to 
be Republican.