The weekend Sarah Palin was put on the ticket, I posted something in my personal blog, which turned into a project by me and a few of my friends to make an ad that we would love to put on the air, if we had a 527.
We don't - we just have YouTube (and YouTube has a tendency to muddy the audio on the vids I make) - but we made something anyway.
You can also find it here.
My friends in the ad - and I - live in half a dozen different places. Some of us are students, some of us are wives, some of us are mothers, and all of us want a better American than what we've had for these years of Bush/Cheney, and we are all working to ensure that Obama and Biden take the oath of office in January.
Some of us supported McCain in 2000 - or at least preferred him to Bush.
But that was then.
Now, we all worry about what Sarah Palin believes and what she stands for. We worry about a presidential candidate who lies over and over and over again, and a vice-presidential candidate who lies when she isn't showcasing her lack of knowledge of things that she needs to know.
Watch our "ad". Give it stars on YouTube if you like it, recommend it and share it if you agree with what we are saying.
On September 3, we started this ad-project with my post:
The day Sarah Palin was named as McCain's running mate - before I learned that her husband was a member of a secessionist party, before I learned that she hired a lobbyist to bring over $25 million dollars in federal earmarks to her seven thousand person town, before I learned that she had tried to fire a librarian who stood up to her attempt to ban books, before I learned that she thinks the founding fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, before I learned about the relationship between the church she grew up in and the Dominionist movement which believes that everyone should be governed by a strictly literal Christian interpretation of New Testament law, I wrote this to a friend about Sarah Palin's statement that women should support McCain so she can break through the glass ceiling:
I will not risk my reproductive freedom or my personal health to have
Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory. I will not risk having
creationism taught in schools' science classes to have Sarah Palin at
the Naval Observatory. I will not put polar bears at risk to have
Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory. I will not put the idea of equal
pay for equal work to have Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory. I
will not agree that marriage should only be between a man and a woman
to have Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory. I will not support
drilling in ANWAR or off the shores of Florida when the benefits are
so small and so far away to have Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory.
They've stepped away from the "break the glass ceiling" argument, but it is still out there - and I wanted to try and counter it in a small way. This is my list of things I won't risk - but I know others of you have other things that would be at risk in a McCain/Palin presidency.
What don't you want to risk?