I have read many blog posts today on the Sarah Palin speech, from many different political spectrums. A number were critical of Sarah Palin for her attacks on Barack Obama. Many reactions were, to me, irrational.
I ask, isn’t Governor Palin allowed to respond to attacks from the Obama camp (and their surrogates) which are critical of her own experience?
Some of her critiques of Obama and the Democratic left were quite effective – and all done with humor:
“… I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involved. I guess… a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”
“I might add that, in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they’re listening and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening. No, we tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
(The transcript of Governor Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, as delivered)
SARAH PALIN: Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens, I will be honored to accept your nomination for vice president of the United States.
(APPLAUSE)
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America. And I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election against confident opponents at a crucial hour for our country.
And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions, and met far graver challenges, and knows how tough fights are won, the next president of the United States, John S. McCain.
An interesting and very revealing exchange, on the subject of VP candidate Sarah Palin, occurred Tuesday night on the floor of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul Minnesota.
Referring to Sarah Palin, MSNBC’s Ron Allen said to former Speaker Newt Gingrich: “But to be fair, her resume is not something we’re familiar seeing with presidential candidates.”
Gingrich’s response was immediate and very assertive:
“It’s stronger than Barack Obama’s. I don’t know why you guys walk around saying this baloney. She has a stronger resume than Obama. She’s been a real mayor, he hasn’t. She has been a real governor, he hasn’t. She’s been in charge of the Alaskan National Guard, he hasn’t. She was a whistleblower who defeated an incumbent mayor. He has never once shown that kind of courage. She’s a whistleblower who turned in the chairman of her own party and got him fined $12,000. I’ve never seen Obama do one thing like that. She took on the incumbent governor of her own party and beat him, and then she beat a former Democratic governor in the general election. I don’t know of a single thing Obama’s done except talk and write.”
“I’d like you to tell me one thing Sen. Obama’s done.”
One day while browsing in the library stacks, I stumbled across an essay collection entitled Self-Organizing Systems: The Emergence of Order. I had the experience of scales falling from my eyes.
"My friends on the left make much of the apparent correlation between creationism and skepticism about assured climate disaster," complains Patrick J. Michaels.
Now another professor comes along and responds to Richard Weikart's op-ed in the Baltimore Sun defending Ben Carson and gets the point of Weikart's article totally wrong.
It's not only intelligent-design advocates who are in on the action but others with no ties to ID, or evident sympathies for it, who are breaking free of evolutionary orthodoxy.
The idea of millions of years is like a disease, and biological evolution is like the symptom. Many Christians are willing to deal with the symptom, but not the disease.
The economy, unemployment, terrorism, politics, finances, moral decline, major sickness, a prodigal child, an unhealthy marriagefor most of us, contemplating any one of these pressures will knot our stomach.
A blind Chinese activist who was supported by Christians in fighting againstforced abortions and defending the disabled has left China for the United States, ending a near month diplomatic standoff between the two nations, witnesses said.
Activists from Britain and Ireland were taking part in a protest outside the Eritrean embassy in London on Thursday, May 17, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of mass detentions of Eritrean Christians, organizers said.
For three days an unidentified mob set fire to homes and vehicles in a predominantly Christian neighborhood in the Moluccas as dozens of families fled in fear of suspected Islamists.
Contact: Suzanne Ward, Georgia Right to Life, 770-891-8320 NORCROSS, Ga., May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Georgia Right to Life President Dan Becker today announced that Republican voters in all 159 GA counties will have the opportunity to approve granting "personhood" status to all human beings from their earliest biological beginning. The ballot question will appear on the July 31st Republican primary ballot. "Of all the freedoms we hold sacred," Becker said, "the right to li Source: Georgia Right to Life
Many Healed, Others Not, but Divine Healing More Prevalent Than Realized, Especially in Two-Thirds WorldContact: Ty Mays, 770-256-8710, tmays@inchristcommunications.com; for The Mission Society NORCROSS, Source: InChrist Communicatinos
With time running out, dioceses, agencies resort to the courts Church united in defense of religious liberty Diversity of church ministries at stake Contact: Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 202-541-3200, mwalsh@usccb.orgWASHINGTON, May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in a May 21 statement applauded 43 dioceses, hospitals, schools a Source: CCN
Contact:Leslie Palma, Priests for Life, 347-286-7277STATEN ISLAND, NY, May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, applauded the additional 12 lawsuits filed around the country today in protest of the Health and Human Services mandate forcing employers to provide coverage for activities they find objectionable.The lawsuits represent 43 plaintiffs, including the Archdioceses of New York, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Source: Priests for Life
Contact: Jeff Field, Director of Communications, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 212-371-3191, cl@catholicleague.org NEW YORK, May 21, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two newspaper ads he wrote that were published yesterday and today:Yesterday, we let the workers at Kellogg's know what we think of their senior management by taking out a full-page ad in the Kalamazoo Gazette (click here to read it). Today, we let Source: Catholic League
Canadian researchers claim that analytic tasks (vs. intuitive tasks) promote religious disbelief. However, what they really showed was that group of female unbelievers subjected to stressful analytic tasks increased their disbelief in God.
I have read many blog posts today on the Sarah Palin speech, from many different political spectrums. A number were critical of Sarah Palin for her attacks on Barack Obama. Many reactions were, to me, irrational.
