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Originally posted by Anne Bryant-Hamon:
I think you are whacked out defending this Palin woman and telling Donna to apologize to her!
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I'm not sure he's
defending her - although honestly, with all the false things people are doing to her perhaps she needs defending. I'll admit that when I first saw the bikini pic I thought it was her. Although I wasn't quite as horrified as others seem to have been. I think Jerry's simply saying that we shouldn't be so quick to judge - or so rightous in our judgements. For all our complaining about the "crackpot right." aren't we behaving in very much the same fashion?
The picture cracked me up simply because there's a picture of me looking quite the same, although as far as I know, it's not made an internet appearance and the bathing suit wasn't quite so skimpy. But there's a picture and there I is - standing on a front porch in the middle of nowhere in the hot August sun, holding a semi-auto B.A.R. and smilin' like someone just bought me a new Lexus. And there's a target in the distance that shows just how well I know how to shoot with it.
It doesn't make me evil. (At least I don't think it does) It just makes me someone posing in the middle of summer with a big gun and grinning. And why shouldn't I have been? I was havin' fun.
Of course, I'm not running for VP, either - but Jerry's right, we don't know people and we can't really judge their whole person on one or two pictures. And then it turns out we were judging her on someone else's picure. I wonder what Jesus had to say about
that? "Judge not lest ye be judged" comes to mind.
And so, I AM sorry I jumped to the conclusion that it was Sarah in the bikini. I should know better. Maybe I just
wanted it to be her.
And that's the danger, isn't it? With any politician - be it Obama or McCain or Biden or Palin. We take the gossip that suits our purpose and we're happy with believing it. Just like we take the facts we disagree with and ignore them. Both things make us happy enough that we don't look any further.
I still don't like Palin. I think there's enough honest-to-God warning signs that she's probably not going to be good for our country. I don't think we need Daisy Duke pictures to realize she's ill-prepared for the office.
I have a bad feeling though that it's like a runaway train at this point. The more trash the so-called Left throws out there at her the more stubbornly the Right Wing will defend her. It's a bad corner to be trying to back her (and them) into - especially when it relies on doctored photo's, ill-conceived rumors and unsubstantiated stories.
Like I said before, what's wrong with using the facts we do have available? What's the burning need to spread untruths when there are so many honest facts at our disposal?