Hell hath frozen over

I missed this a couple of weeks ago, so if this is old news to you, please forgive me. But, a conservative newspaper in COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS endorsed Barack Obama for president. Pretty unbelieveable.

Of major concern to the editors was...Sarah Palin.

Full article can be found here.

Also of great concern is McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Like Obama, she has little experience in governing, but unlike the Illinois senator, she is a candidate of little intellectual curiosity who appears to be hopelessly unready to be president. The fact that people are confused by the difference between Palin and comedian Tina Fey's caustic impersonation is clear evidence that Palin should not be, as they say, a heartbeat away from the presidency.

It is what it is

The economic crisis did for Barack Obama what a domestic terrorist attack would have done for John McCain.

More on big brother

Interesting write up in the New York Times today on Sarah Palin. The full article can be found here, but I wanted to highlight a portion that expounds on my previous post regarding library censorship. Truly fascinating.

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The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral.
“People would bring books back censored,” recalled former Mayor John Stein, Ms. Palin’s predecessor. “Pages would get marked up or torn out.”

Witnesses and contemporary news accounts say Ms. Palin asked the librarian about removing books from the shelves. The McCain-Palin presidential campaign says Ms. Palin never advocated censorship.

But in 1995, Ms. Palin, then a city councilwoman, told colleagues that she had noticed the book “Daddy’s Roommate” on the shelves and that it did not belong there, according to Ms. Chase and Mr. Stein. Ms. Chase read the book, which helps children understand homosexuality, and said it was inoffensive; she suggested that Ms. Palin read it.

“Sarah said she didn’t need to read that stuff,” Ms. Chase said. “It was disturbing that someone would be willing to remove a book from the library and she didn’t even read it.”

“I’m still proud of Sarah,” she added, “but she scares the bejeebers out of me.”

Thanks, but no thanks?

Interesting article in today's WSJ.

Big brother manifest

I was rapidly losing interest in the presidential race until John McCain announced his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his vice presidential running-mate. As you might have noticed, the last few days have been rocky for Gov. Palin, not to mention the McCain campaign and those poor souls that are running the RNC.

Of all of the fascinatingly scandalous stories that have come out about her in the past few days, I think this one is the most bizarre and interesting. According to reporter Laura McGann, when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, AK, she reportedly had discussions with the city librarian about censorship of books in the library. The librarian was asked once to resign, but apparently was able to keep her job for unknown reasons. You can find the story at the link below.

http://www.washingtonindependent.com/4056/palin-to-wasilla-librarian-are-you-ok-with-censorship

Censoring books? Really?

This is gonna get ugly.