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Sep. 3rd, 2008 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiSorry to those who aren't interested - and please, if you're definitely supporting McCain/Palin you probably don't want to
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.
Are you interested in helping me make a vid about them? All you'd have to do is film yourself saying a single sentence - well, three sentences because I'd need a count-down of 3-2-1 and a pause before you said your Important Sentence - and then I'd need you to say "Cut" at the end, just so I can edit it together properly. I'm not asking for real names, but I plan to put this up on YouTube so there is a chance that someone may distribute it.
The important sentence would be I will not _____________ to have Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory.
I think it needs to be US citizens only - probably registered voters only, actually. I'll put as many as I can into a 60 - 90 second clip next week.
If you're interested, let me know. If you think it's a bad idea, feel free to tell me what I'm not taking into consideration in a comment or email/ping me. This may be ridiculous - and it may not work and it may not change a single mind. But I want to do it - and I cannot do it alone.
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.
Are you interested in helping me make a vid about them? All you'd have to do is film yourself saying a single sentence - well, three sentences because I'd need a count-down of 3-2-1 and a pause before you said your Important Sentence - and then I'd need you to say "Cut" at the end, just so I can edit it together properly. I'm not asking for real names, but I plan to put this up on YouTube so there is a chance that someone may distribute it.
The important sentence would be I will not _____________ to have Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory.
I think it needs to be US citizens only - probably registered voters only, actually. I'll put as many as I can into a 60 - 90 second clip next week.
If you're interested, let me know. If you think it's a bad idea, feel free to tell me what I'm not taking into consideration in a comment or email/ping me. This may be ridiculous - and it may not work and it may not change a single mind. But I want to do it - and I cannot do it alone.
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Date: 2008-09-03 07:05 pm (UTC)But I think the vid idea is cool. I might participate!
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Date: 2008-09-03 07:09 pm (UTC)I'd probably like to either mention teaching of intelligent design or abortion, but I'm open to other possibilities.
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Date: 2008-09-03 08:09 pm (UTC)Also, do you know if the built in camera on MacBooks records video? Because that's how I'd be recording it...
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Date: 2008-09-03 08:21 pm (UTC)And I don't mean yay for abstinence-only education, but yay that you're doing that one.
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Date: 2008-09-03 08:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-03 08:19 pm (UTC)"I will not limit my Freedom of Speech To have Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory."
I was going to say "restrict my frist amendment rights" but that's kinda broad.
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Date: 2008-09-03 08:43 pm (UTC)But I think this is a wonderful idea. I am horrified at the idea of her being Vice President.
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Date: 2008-09-03 08:52 pm (UTC)edit: what format do you want this in?
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Date: 2008-09-04 01:34 pm (UTC)And .mov, .avi or m4p - I can work with all of them.
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Date: 2008-09-03 10:15 pm (UTC)EDIT: Just read some of the comments and saw how you're doing it! Would love the Equal pay/equal work line, unless someone else has taken it, and then...whatever? :)
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Date: 2008-09-04 12:27 am (UTC)So, she's essentially against anything and anyone who likss the freedom of choice they're entitled to as citizens?
Transfer that to an international stage and it's fundamentalism at its ugliest. Blech!
I think the vid is a great idea, but its credability would be strained if it wasn't US citizens. It's much harder to dismiss the voice of a community within a country, than it is to dismiss the obviously deluded and shuddering masses from elsewhere. ;)
I myself, will never forgive her for what she's done to her own daughter. It's reprehensible and completely without sensitivity or compassion. The measure of a person can be found in how they treat those they love - and she fails miserably, IMNSHO.
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Date: 2008-09-04 02:05 am (UTC)You wouldn't believe how many of my coworkers have teased me that I'm qualified to be VP. Especially since I moose hunt too.
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Date: 2008-09-04 05:18 am (UTC)Also, I adore and share your love for the HP fandom, but I've just looked through your recent posts and I've really enjoyed the political discussion - I'd like to friend if that's okay!
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Date: 2008-09-04 01:38 pm (UTC)And yes, definitely!
: friends you back
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