Posted: August 31st, 2008 | By Minor Matters | Posted in General | Tagged as , , , , , , ,
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Some of us were fans of Northern Exposure in the early 90’s. It was an off-beat American TV comedy about the diverse and often eccentric inhabitants of a fictitious town in Alaska. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s newly appointed veep, hails from Alaska. This woman, a supermom of five, with her beehive hairdo (Amy Winehouse has one too) and retro glasses could have stepped off the set of Northern Exposure.

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She is an attractive, warm and very telegenic woman: apparently. She might very well give Obama a run for his polls. As the conservative American radio chat show host, Rush Limbaugh said, ‘We’re the ones with the babe on the ticket.’ But there is something unsettling about her too. I am not sure how much being a Northern Exposure fan has prepared me for her many quirks.

She is pro-life. Her comments on having a Down-syndrome baby are very moving. But pro-life is not pro-choice. Also, her love for hunting unsettles me: that picture of her and her daughter next to a caribou she shot in Alaska is pretty weird. She looks dangerous.

If I were an American Democratic I would be worried. But that would be better than if I were a peace-loving moose out for a morning munch  – I would be dead.

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john

August 31, 2008 at 8:56 pm

Have you ever let a piece of non-plant flesh pass you lips? If you have…..? You, mean to say that you couldn’t kill the meat you would eat? Like i said, if you ever have let meat pass your lips, then????? wow, and you survive how in this world?
must be so powerful being so weak.

 

Barry Worthington

August 31, 2008 at 9:04 pm

Is it true that she only has a high school education? She doesn’t believe in evoluton? She doesn’t believe that man has anything to do with the climate change that is ocurring at an unprecedented rate????? If these things are true about her, then she is an idiotic choice for VP.

 

nem

August 31, 2008 at 9:58 pm

wahahaahhahahahha. its all to scary. i got this story from my amy winehouse google alert. they asked me to eat moose but i said no, no, no! sx

 

vanderleun

August 31, 2008 at 10:58 pm

“The smart liberals are worried. The dumb liberals think they’ve won.”

How do you get food to your table? Grazing?

 

vanderleun

August 31, 2008 at 11:03 pm

And in passing, “But that would be better than if I were a peace-loving moose out for a morning munch – I would be dead.”

And you live in South Africa? How’s that working out for you so far?

 

Christie

September 1, 2008 at 1:02 am

I think McCain made a very wise choice. I like her, and everything she believes; circumferences morals, and God. I also think she makes Hillary look very meek. Look out Democrats; maybe you should be worried.

 

Sebastian

September 1, 2008 at 1:40 am

Sarah Palin is ignorent. She does not believe in evolution, she does not believe in man-made global warming, she is against abortion even in the case of rape, she is for drilling everywhere, and she possibly pretneded to have a baby to cover for her 16 year old daughter. John McCain is totally irresponsible for even considering her.

 

Janet barks

September 1, 2008 at 2:26 am

Only in America would an election only be about abortion. Guess that’s why Americans wear their international stereotype so glaringly. As for the hunting aspect, all you Southerners don’t know a thing about the North. About how REAL people live. ABOUT REAL CIRCLE OF LIFE REALITIES.

I guess that makes you a vegan. Have you ever been to a slaughter barn? Hunting an animal – not for sport – is one of the most humane ways of killing an animal for food. Next to the Kosher method of slashing the animal’s throat.

Many people need to grow up.

If you’ve (in the infinitive sense) never had an abortion, shut up about the issue. People have no grasp of REAL LIFE.

This woman is one tough cookie. She’s a far better role model than most of the pampered woman nowadays. My Gramma was widowed in a house with no heating, no welfare, a new baby, and 10 kids (who all did very well), and no appliances. And people whine only about abortion?

 

Janet barks

September 1, 2008 at 2:32 am

Forgive me. I didn’t realize I was blipping Africa. Hey but that still makes this blog a Southerner…

For those of us who actually live next to Alaska, we can speak for the North.

Cheerio.

 

Joni

September 1, 2008 at 5:22 am

It’s very telling that the writer of this article is more concerned for dead animals than for dead babies. That’s why the Repulicans keep winning in the U.S. The Dems have made abortion their religion and frankly, people are getting tired of it. Choose life – you never regret it, you only regret the one you didn’t have. And yes, I speak from experience on this issue.

 

Chip

September 1, 2008 at 3:42 pm

B. Worthington: Bill Gates & Steve Jobs don’t have high school educations, better toss that computer you’re using. Obama has a Harvard education yet he has never had to balance a budget (like Palin as mayor and governor). All that education taught him was that hanging out with Wright & Ayers were good ideas.

I’ll take a gun-toting global warming realist any day.

 

That Girl

September 1, 2008 at 7:25 pm

God. Morals. Abstinence only. And a pregnant daughter.

Adds up beautifully. She should take care of home.

 

Lesley Palmer

September 1, 2008 at 10:02 pm

I guess the abstinence talk between Palin and her daughter didn’t work. So much for family values.

 

Anon

September 7, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Choosing Sarah Palin has to be a joke, as a woman I cheered for Barack, not Hillary as I did not agree with her war stance. Five children is a career on its own. As a woman amongst many in USA is this the only one who may have been chosen, this is an isult to woman in USA I believe who have accomplished so much more for so many more people than this individual. CRITICAL for Democrats to win.

 

vanderleun

September 12, 2008 at 5:26 pm

A joke? Well, perhaps, but it just may be that the joke is on you.

Please avoid joining any ritual suicide parties on Nov. 6.

 

Sebastian

September 14, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Sarah Palin is simply not smart enough for the job. I reject the notion that “hocky moms” want a “hocky mom” as a president. I am a professor, well educated with a PhD, yet I want my president to be 10 times smarter than I am…
Sarah Palin is over her head and the sad thing is that she does not know it…



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