'US VP Candidate Sarah Palin Exposes Herself as a Religious Nut'

[Monkeytrousers]

here

[Blu]

"Thank God for a President who starts each day on his knees"

Snort.

It makes me want to make an innapropriate retort about what he might be doing on his knees.

[policywonk]

Congratulations Pruners!

The Guardian reports today that Palin was (until relatively recently) very active in the movement for Alaskan independence. The inference is that this will not play well with the general US public (who are quite keen on the indivisible union). Unfortunately this feels a bit like clutching at straws to me.

[francagoestohollywood]

I wouldn't vote for someone sitting on a dead bear. Shows extreme bad taste .

[Pruners]

Message withdrawn

[bundle]

(cod asks sex question shocker)

[msdemeanor]

I preferred Bill Clinton, even if he did spend every morning with a woman on her knees.Jesus fricking Christ, this lunatic believes the world is 6000 years old and God put the fossil record there as a giant practical joke.

[bundle]

lol msd

[expatinscotland]

she's from Alaska, peeps. what do you expect?

[francagoestohollywood]

lol msd!

[edam]

Oh, I was going to make the Bill Clinton comment, but msd got in first!

Love the comments on that site - people are agitating to get Michael Palin instead of Sarah on the grounds that Python would make more sense.

[msdemeanor]

Sorry Edam. Poor Michael Palin. He must be embarrassed to share a surname. I think he should start a Palins against Palin campaign.

[edam]

And isn't it funny how Christian fundamentalists - in fact, fundamentalists of all religions - are convinced God endorses exactly what they wanted to do in the first place. He never seems to call them to maybe think about changing their minds, or give up doing something they enjoy. Only agrees with whatever they want to dish out to everyone else.

If I were God, I'd be bloody embarrassed about the company I was keeping, tbh.

[Minniethemoocher]

I will not sleep sounder in my bed, if she becomes vice-president and could be making the decision to press "The Button", particularly with the USA's relationship with Russia deteriorating....

[TheFallenMadonna]

She does describe her self as a "proponent of teaching both" creationism and evolution - presumably in Science lessons - which shows her to be somewhat dodgy scientifically.

[solidgoldbrass]

Dittany has a point: women in politics get far more shit than men who peddle similar crap. But the American religious right in general scare and enrage me: fucking morons with guns, the lot of them.
Funnily enough, just before the Blair Landslide in 1997 I remember saying to a mate, I don't trust that grinning, snake-oil-peddling shit and I don't think people who make a big deal out of being religious are really fit for public office.
And so he got in, with the most religious government in decades, and look what a fucking mess he made...

[TheCrackFox]

Solid - yes Tony made a great big mess of everything but he kept religious side to himself. He only converted to Catholicism after he left office.

I worry about Palin because McCain is 72 and may very well die in office.

[msdemeanor]

I've just tonight heard a Radio4 interview with McCain's spokesWOMAN who agreed that Palin is a creationist, actually. Unless she (yes SHE) is also a misogynist trying to destroy Palin just because she's a woman
Being a feminist does not mean tying yourself into ridiculous knots and refusing to believe the truth about a woman who is a positive danger to us all.
And with McCain aged 72 with a dodgy heart, then yes, it does matter who the VP is.

[msdemeanor]

I had to laugh at her being called a VPILF

[donnie]

how risible that richarddawkinsdotcom ( or whatever it is called) could possibly be regarded by anyone, even an imbecile, as a balanced and impartial viewpoint!!!!

good one!!

[chenin]

Crackfox.... Tony didn't keep his religious views to himself that much I think. I seem to remember him being questioned after the invasion of Iraq and not finding the missiles he had told everyone were there. He told the interviewer something along the lines of 'the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do because it was between me and God'...

Religion and politics do not mix. I remember feeling very uneasy at the time.

[Miggsie]

...do remember that in America it is illegal in some states to teach the theory of evolution or the big bang...a lot of them ARE religious fundementalists, and really high on the old Testament...

Sarah Palin...she called her daughter Bristol, so really that sums her up doesn't it?

I also laughed when Radio 4 said she had "traditional values"...which seems to mean not teaching her daughter about contraception?!...or should that be getting the daughter married off and up the duff before she is 18?

Hmm...