Mommy Palin Faux Controversy

Right on! Marianne

Well said. I couldn't agree more. Laurel

Jamie,

It'd be nice if you actually got the facts on some of those issues.

Gov. Palin said she hopes we are doing God's will in Iraq, just as Lincoln said the same about the Union forces in the Civil War. Find the full quote, and listen in context.

She doesn't doubt "global warming", merely the cause. Man was not responsible for the previous changes in the Earth's climate, why is it so hard to think we are not the cause now? Guess we are responsible for the dearth of sun spots too?

That said, I think the hype was way over blown. I wish all sides would stop playing the victim

Thomas, thank you for your comments. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the U.S. sent troops to fight the Iraq war on a "task that is from God." In another quote, she said, "Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan." (as reported in the Washington Post).
On global warming, to clarify: Palin said that scientists' predictions that global warming would eliminate the ice where the bears live in summer were unreliable. From Newsmax.com, Palin said, "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made." According to the Anchorage Daily News, Palin is not "totally convinced one way or the other. Science will tell us...She thinks the jury's still out."

I have to agree with Jamie. We need to focus on what kind of leader Palin would be on a national level; the questions about how she runs her family are no more relevant regarding Palin than they are about any other candidate, male or female. So, I suppose I should be happy that Thomas was addressing what Palin has stated in public and her beliefs about policy issues as opposed to whether or not her personal choices make her a good candidate. Having said that, Palin's positions indicate that she would be a disastrous leader.
Comparing Palin's beliefs about the Iraq war with Lincoln's about the Civil War is simply specious. Palin does not appear to have any better rationale for why we fought this war or why we continue to than does the Bush administration, which has failed to honestly win public support for this catastrophe.
The same is true about her position on global warming. Of course her position is that we do not know if the cause of climate change is man made. That then becomes an excuse to avoid action. It's hard to imagine an informed person denying that we have any choice but to change behaviors that are unsustainable and most certainly damaging to our environment.
On the basis of those two position, as well as so many others, Sarah Palin is not demonstrating real leadership. I would never question her ability to seek higher office whatever her family circumstance. But we are all obligated to question her suitability to occupty the position next in line to the presidency.

I agree with Gov. Palin.

I have to believe that we are on the side of right in Iraq, just as we were in Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI, 1812, and the Revolution.

I could never do my job if I didn't believe it was the right thing. Both my current engineering work and during my service in the USMC in the early 90s.

I hope and pray that we are doing God's work in Iraq and Afghanistan today. If we are not there is no way for us to succeed.

As to Global Warming, or Climate Change as is preferred today, I'm not convinced that man has any influence. Yes it's happening, just as the climate has changed many times in the past, when man was not the cause.

I think we'd do far better preparing for the future as the climate changes than expending resources trying to prevent that change.

What would another little ice age do to the world? Or another Medieval Warm period? Would we handle either better than they were before?

Turning our food supply into fuel is certainly not a good idea.

I want leaders that will lead, and not promise to do for me.

I'm no fan of Sen. McCain either. I'm not convinced he will do anything good. I am sure that he will do less bad than Sen. Obama.

I can only hope McCain will keep Congress in check. Nothing he proposes will become law, it just won't get through Congress.