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I like this lady!!
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I DO TOO! I've added SP4VP across my back window. I've been reading up on her history and interest. I feel she is what the country NEEDS and would be ready to be our President over the latter choices if McCain were to kick the bucket early. Check out feministforlife.org this is an organization she is a member of. It will give you some insight into the direction her views on abortion and some women's rights will head.
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Go Sarah!
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9/4/2008 10:30:18 AM
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I like her too and think she will do a great job. They've got my vote!!
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I'm looking forward to her being the first Woman President four years from now!
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PikeSki
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Go Sarah!
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9/4/2008 12:01:41 PM
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Very Impressive. Looks like she's a winner !
In her first appearance last night she smacked a home run. She seems to be cool, collected, and very intelligent in politics.
Last nights speech was written for her but they say she is even stronger when she has to think on her feet with no preparation. I think Biden is in real trouble in the debates.
My stance has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat (gave that up a while ago) nor skin color. I beleive the most qualified and trustworthy person deserves this job and she and McCain have my vote.
I get the feeling that this team is going to stop all of the bickering in Washington and get us back to our roots.
Less Government = More Money
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Pontoonfisher
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Go Sarah!
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9/4/2008 12:26:36 PM
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You would be crazy to vote Obama at this point!!!!!!
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Besides, B.O. Stinks anyway.
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When she can bring home some bacon, fry it up in a pan, pump some breast milk and talk on her balckberry at the same time. Watch out, you don't know what your dealing with!
Barracuda!!!!!!!!!
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lakeplumber
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Go Sarah!
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9/4/2008 5:37:53 PM
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The lady was refreshing to watch and listen to. She deserves the vote, she'll surely get mine.
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UncleSam
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I was intrigued... UNTIL
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9/8/2008 2:07:51 PM
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I was intrigued about this choice, and somewhat excited, until I learned that one of her first acts as an elected official was to call the library so she could learn about the best way to go about banning books.
BANNING BOOKS!! That's as un-American an act as I can think of. I was strongly considering hopping on the McCain Train, but if this is the kind of person he thinks should be his second-in-command, I'm going to have to re-think things.
Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin... do we want to put a follower of their practices one chair away from the most powerful seat in the world?
Oh, for a good third-party candidate!
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Webmaster
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I was intrigued... UNTIL
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9/8/2008 2:48:45 PM
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That is a common myth right now but can be confirmed false by Snopes.com
Mythbuster, Isn't this your job? :-)
URL: Book Ban False (Snopes.com)
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Ulysses E. McGill
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I was intrigued... UNTIL
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9/8/2008 3:32:24 PM
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It's hard to fathom the amount of misinformation is out there in an attempt to smear candidates.
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4thelake
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I was intrigued... UNTIL
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9/8/2008 7:24:12 PM
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Miss information,,,Yea,,,,As much from the Republican party as the Democrats. You just only hear about the Democrats. LOL..If a Democrat posted here the string would be full of bashers. Look at this one. Not one person calling names. Lets try a Democratic atta boy and see what we get. But don't ask me, I'm not interested in hearing anything anyone on this forum thinks about my choices.
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MythBuster
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No, my job is to bust MYTHS...
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9/8/2008 7:24:23 PM
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and the original post, as written, is not only not a myth, but is confirmed by your link to Snopes. (Which is a great site, by the way; a daily dose of Snopes should be required for all internet users.)
What Uncle Sam said was: "I learned that one of her first acts as an elected official was to call the library so she could learn about the best way to go about banning books." He doesn't say she got any books banned, he doesn't list any books, he doesn't even say she demanded it. But he says she asked about it.
And right there, in your link to Snopes, we learn "In December 1996, [city librarian Mary Ellen] Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her — starting before she was sworn in — about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose."
Then we hear about her request a second time, form another person: "When the matter came up for the second time in October 1996, during a City Council meeting, Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla housewife who often attends council meetings, was there. Like many Alaskans, Kilkenny calls the governor by her first name. "Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" Kilkenny said."
And then, straight from the horse's mouth: "Palin herself, questioned at the time, called her inquiries rhetorical and simply part of a policy discussion with a department head "about understanding and following administration agendas," according to the Frontiersman article."
So she admits asking about banning books. And, going back to the original post, that is what the concern was: that she looked into banning books.
The myth that Snopes blows out of the water concerns books that were supposedly banned. They weren't, and anybody who says she actually had books banned is either a liar, or an easily-manipulated idiot. But, for whatever reasons, SHE DID ASK ABOUT BOOK BANNING. So, Uncle Sam is right. Whether or not it's as big a deal as he makes it out to be-- seeing as how nothing happened-- is a matter of personal choice.
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MythBuster
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I was intrigued... UNTIL
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9/8/2008 7:28:28 PM
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In an answer to another post in this thread, I said that a daily visit to www.snopes.com should be mandatory for all internet users. In this election year, I rank Fight The Smears right up there with Snopes.
However, since it is much easier to be told what to believe than it is to actually try to learn something, people still continue to spout nonsense as if it were the gospel truth.
URL: Fight the Smears
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Webmaster
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No, my job is to bust MYTHS...
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9/8/2008 8:25:45 PM
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I stand corrected... I should have read carefully and let it sink in when comparing to Snopes... My apologies to Uncle Sam and thanks to Mythbuster.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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I was intrigued... UNTIL
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9/9/2008 11:15:18 PM
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I totally agree that it happens on both sides of the street.
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Jim120
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No, my job is to bust MYTHS...
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9/13/2008 12:41:57 AM
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It's intriguing -- doesn't PROVE anything, but intriguing -- that (as Snopes.com reports) after making these two public "rhetorical" inquiries in the Fall of 1996, Palin tried to fire the librarian (who declared in response to the new Mayor's questions that she would oppose any efforts to ban books) two months later in Jan 1997, declaring that she didn't feel she had the librarian's "full support." (The librarian kept her job after a public outcry.)
I wasn't there, and I reckon you had to be there to interpret all this in context, but it's enough to make me wonder. Snopes rejects the idea that it ever got to the point of a specific list of books, or any books being pulled, and I assume that's true. But the general drift of what happened and what Palin's philosophical approach to this was and would be is still open to question. Not, of course, that the VP or even the P (should we become so unfortunate) has much to do in the book-burning or library-stocking area.
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