AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ALASKA PREZ SAYS PALIN DISSED STATE'S JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS, BUT WAS HOT TO GET ON 'OPRAH'

I guess when you have a future shotgun wedding son-in-law who proudly says on his myspace page he's a "&^%$#$' redneck," you're not exactly up for an NAACP Image Award.
But when you can't even show enough civility toward a group of people to even acknowledge their presence--yet desperately try to use a person from that group to help air your message, you've got truly sad situation.
The president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska weighs in on Gov. Sarah Palin

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SF CHRONICLE: PALIN BILLED VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS FOR COSTS OF RAPE KITS WHILE MAYOR OF WASILLA, AK

How's this for exemplifying the expression "adding insult to injury"?
According to this San Francisco Chronicle story, current Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin actually billed victims of sexual assaults and their isnurance companies for the cost of rape kits while she was mayor of Wasilla, AK, on the advice of that town's police chief, saying it would be a burden on taxpayers. Read on...

NOW PAC: Palin May Be a Woman but Isn't Strong on Women's Issues, Endorses Obama

The National Organization for Women Political Action Committee endorsed the Obama-Biden ticket today. Not a huge surprise -- Obama and Biden usually get high marks from NOW for their Senate votes.

But it was a blow to the McCainiacs, who are counting on their Veep-nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin, to attract female voters. Trouble is, a lot of organizations don't compile ratings for governors. And when Palin was asked to supply answers to the nonpartisan Project Vote Smart's "National Political Courage Test" -- basically her positions on the issues, she refused -- she didn't. Or, as Project VoteSmart says on its website (with their capitals):

"Governor Sarah Heath Palin REPEATEDLY REFUSED TO PROVIDE ANY RESPONSES TO CITIZENS ON ISSUES THROUGH THE 2006 NATIONAL POLITICAL AWARENESS TEST WHEN ASKED TO DO SO BY key national leaders of both major parties including:

John McCain, Republican Senator

Geraldine Ferraro, Former Democratic Congresswoman

Michael Dukakis, Former Democratic Governor

Bill Frenzel, Former Republican Congressman

Richard Kimball, Project Vote Smart President"

Not that Palin would score well with women who are pro-abortion rights (she opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest.) Plus, she supports McCain's opposition to legislation requiring equal pay for women.

Yes, she has huge fans among anti-abortion rights advocates but while she was mayor of tiny Wasilla, AK, the city billed victims of sexual assaults (and their insurance companies) for the cost of rape kits and forensice examinations. Wasilla's police chief said the kits, which cost between $300 and $1,200, would be a burden to taxpayers.

TOP MCCAIN ECONOMIC ADVISER: PALIN NOT QUALIFIED

From her fellow conservatives to even people within her own campaign, the growing consensus is that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be VP.

Here's what Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO, has to say...

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EVEN CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST RIPS PALIN

Think all conservatives are on board with Sarah Palin?

Not David Brooks.

Check out his column in the New York Times.

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WE CAN'T LET IT HAPPEN HERE

Greetings from a non-partisan voter and concerned citizen with blue views and values living in a red state. Ever since I laid eyes and ears on her, read her history, examined her record and family background, I am utterly shocked that a presidential candidate would put someone of Sarah Palin's minuscule intellect, limited worldview, non-existent international experience, arcane personal beliefs and hypocritical views so dangerously close to the presidency.

I am outraged that so many in the American public clearly lack the intelligence to distinguish between style and substance and pack her outdoor rallies and like brainless sheep, hold "homemade" signs that Republican officials hand to them and loudly shout her name and wildly applaud her as she belts out empty, scripted slogans.

She doesn't believe women should have reproductive rights.

She claims to have visited Iraq, yet, as a Boston Globe story correctly points out, she never made it past the checkpoint into the country.

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She claims to have said "thanks, but no thanks" to the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," a $600 million pet project to link Ketchikan, town of about 9,000 to its airport on Gravina, an island where a whopping 50 people live, but in fact, she was a longtime supporter of it.

She doesn't believe dinosaurs ever existed.

She believes in a doctrine of sexual abstinence from birth until marriage, but that lesson didn't even sink in, in her own home, as her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

The Republican party has managed to shield her from most every media request for interviews and has painted reporters as villains for daring to subject her and her record to the same scrutiny as every other candidate in the presidential race.

Worst of all, the Republicans have the audacity and arrogance to sue the state of Alaska to prevent her from having to speak with an independent investigator looking into allegations that she abused her power as governor when she fired a state official for not firing her ex-brother in law, a state trooper.

Friends, we can't sit by and allow her to ride a wave of superficial, misguided adoration, vacuous rhetoric and a mystique factor into the Old Executive Office Building.

This blog is dedicated to informing all who care to read it, about why voting Sarah Palin into office would be an unmitigated disaster for our country and why American voters MUST make the smart choice and on November 4 cast their votes for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Your comments and ideas are most welcome.

Thank you.