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[heidi]

Sorry 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.

Comments

[cailleanlarkin.livejournal.com]

I presume that it's that the Naval Observatory is the traditional home of the VP in Washington, DC. The "to have Sarah Palin at the Naval Observatory" is akin to saying something along the lines of "having a woman in the White House," just that since she's the VP nominee, she'd actually end up in the Naval Observatory rather than the White House. Thus, she breaks the glass ceiling into the Executive Branch

Heidi, I'm definitely interested. I keep waffling as to whether or not I think it'd have more impact as "a woman at the Naval Observatory" or specific mention of Sarah Palin, but I think it's probably a wash.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Basically, it is - although I think there is still a working Naval office on the property. And yes, that's what I was trying to parallel the language to.

(Not so much traditional, as it only has been since Mondale, but it's been Official since before Palin could vote. ;) )