Contrary to many a rumour out there, I don’t always agree with Old Hitch. But in this recent article for Slate, he takes the Republican Party’s vice presidential candidate and very ably shows her for what we all already knew her to be:
“With Palin, however, the contempt for science may be something a little more sinister than the bluff, empty-headed plain-man’s philistinism of McCain. We never get a chance to ask her in detail about these things, but she is known to favor the teaching of creationism in schools (smuggling this crazy idea through customs in the innocent disguise of “teaching the argument,” as if there was an argument), and so it is at least probable that she believes all creatures from humans to fruit flies were created just as they are now. This would make DNA or any other kind of research pointless, whether conducted in Paris or not. Projects such as sequencing the DNA of the flu virus, the better to inoculate against it, would not need to be funded. We could all expire happily in the name of God. Gov. Palin also says that she doesn’t think humans are responsible for global warming; again, one would like to ask her whether, like some of her co-religionists, she is a “premillenial dispensationalist”—in other words, someone who believes that there is no point in protecting and preserving the natural world, since the end of days will soon be upon us.”
As a Brit, there is very little I can do directly to prevent her and McCain from gaining office. And yet the choices that you, my American friends and readers, will soon make will have consequences on a global scale. This impacts on us all. As imperfect a political specimen as Obama might be, he’s far superior to McCain and Little Miss Full of Shit. So please, use your vote wisely.
Don’t give these inbred arseholes the opportunity to, amongst other things, possibly make the End of Days prophecy a reality.
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Hitchens certainly isn’t shy, is he? 😆
As for me, well, I’m sure you know where I stand this election. I won’t let you down! 😉
Dear Gary,
The best thing you as a Brit can do about the US election is to keep posting stuff like this so that I don’t forget to go out next week and cast my vote for Barack Obama. He’s not perfect by any means, but neither he nor Joe Biden gives me the screaming willies like the thought of that woman being in a position of power.
Your American Pal,
Carrie
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I feel sorry for Sarah Palin.
No, seriously.
She’s a small-time politician chosen as the Vice-Presidential running mate of a reanimated corpse almost solely because she is (a) young, (b) attractive, and (c) a woman. People forget that she comes from ALASKA, where there’s about 12 people, and the sole requirements for holding public office are knowing your left from your right, being able to play ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’ without making a mistake, and dressing yourself.
It’s not like she campaigned for the role, or went out and sought votes to become the possible VP. She’s just a naive women being used as a tool, and in the meantime, is trying to help the party she belongs to as much as she can.
When they lose, she’ll go back to shooting children or whatever it was she did in her spare time, and we’ll never hear from her again.
Unless her and Tina Fey come to my house for a three-way. I’m more than happy to accommodate them.
Lottie: no, Hitchens certainly isn’t! Even when I don’t agree with him (which in this case, I do!), I still admire just how committed to his own view he can be — and how unintimidated.
Carrie: she truly is scary, isn’t she? I can see it now… “Oh, golly gee — I wonder what this red button does…”
David: I’m not sure wanting to/being willing to shag her is the same as feeling sorry for her, mate 😉
For the record, as if you don’t already know, I don’t feel in the least bit sorry for her. A tool being used — that may have been true initially but now, in her own imbecilic way, she knows exactly where she is and what she is doing.
Darn! Foiled again!
LOL… how so, mate? You can still shag her if she’s willing… hell, if you got a little tired I’d even be your tagteam partner, if need be 😉
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