Sarah Palin: Run. Run Away!

Ah, Governor Palin.

The woman who very likely could be our next President, even though we had no choice in her selection.

She is truly a scary person for many, many more reasons than just being inexperienced:

• As mayor of Wasilla, requested $27 million in earmarks from the government for a town of 6700 even though she is now "against them"
• Left the small town with a $22 million debt in just 6 years (they had no debt before)
• Deep ties to big oil. Her husband works for BP, Carl Pope (Sierra Club Exec Director) says "no one is closer to the oil industry than Governor Palin". More ties here.
• Signed into law the largest spending budget in Alaska history (6.6 billion)
• Was quoted as "not knowing what a VP does" just two months ago and "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq" in 2007
• Reintroduced aerial gunning down of wolves from helicopters for sport, which is illegal but she exploited a loophole I'm striking my opinion out, but you can decide after watching it in action.
• Wants to remove polar bears from the endangered species list because it interferes with drilling (I support drilling but not in the ANWR, which has dire economic and environmental consequences. McCain is even against it – at least right now)
• Was for the "Bridge to Nowhere" before she was against it
• McCain admits his vetting team didn't even land in Alaska until less than 24 hours of her announcement in Dayton, so he doesn't know her either
• Doesn't understand operational security; told the public that her son would be deployed to Iraq on 9/11. Releasing a deploy date is a violation of OPSEC, illegal and dangerous.
• Claimed that part of her foreign policy experience includes going to Ireland. She actually was just in Ireland for a refueling stop. (The only other places she has been is Kuwait and Germany as part of a standard governor trip to visit Alaskan troops, and didn't even have a passport until just last year).
• Is so inexperienced that we aren't even allowed to get to know her right now – she's sequestered from the media and the McCain campaign says that the "people don't care" if she answers questions about policy, security etc.
• Republicans state that she oversees the Alaska National Guard as part of her foreign policy experience, but the foreign policy portion of that is completely under federal control – she has nothing to do with that part.

And that doesn't even touch on the personal and extremely right wing religious issues, because honestly, that stuff isn't nearly as important to me as making sure we are secure, we have jobs and our economy is sound. This is enough for me. Vote Obama/Biden 08 and save our country from potential disaster!