Some thoughts on Palin and wish list

If she became president we would have a president who believed that talking snakes changed the destiny of mankind, but that man has nothing to do with destiny-changing global warming.

Although I agree in principle politican children should be off-limits and her daughter's pregnancy
resulted in her daughter making the choice to keep the baby is private, she wants to limit other women's choices by taking away the abortion choice. This puts the subject into public discourse.
Palin also has disapproved of sex-education especially unless is it is abstinence only. Of course, there is no way to know what would have happened if Bristol had known about birth control or even if she did know about it and chose to ignore it. That is not a question for public discourse.

As a feminist the question whether she should be VP when she has five children would never be asked of a man. It angers me.

Her world view is far too shallow from quotes I have seen for her to lead should McCain die in office. The definition of experience seems to depend on which party is saying it. Both Obama and Palin come from middle class families. Both have worked hard, but I will put Obama's education, the fact he has lived outside the country and in Hawaii, California, NY and Chicago and is aware of multi-culutral America, had experience organizing, headed the Harvard Law Review against Palin's living in a small rural environment.

It is not Palin's fault that only 36 of the RNC delegates, according to the Washington Post were black, the rest were white...

I have said the VP choice for both Obama and McCain were of major importance, especially considering the race of one with the number of crazies in the world and the age of the other.

I soooo wish I could find a woman worth voting for, but I resent the idea that politicians think that I will make my choice based on gender.

I am not sure Obama can do what I want either...but what I would like to see happen:

1. Restore habeas corpus.
2. Prohibit the arrest of independent journalists and the raids of citizen journalists at gun point and without search warrants as we have seen in St. Paul this week.
3. Close Guatanamo and stop torturing as policy.
4. Rebuild our schools both physically and educationally. I kids are scoring too low in the major areas such as math and sciene against all other industrialized nations.
5. Institute a one-payer health system such as France. Health care is a human right.
6. Rebuild crumbling roads
7. Rebuilt crumbling bridges
8. Overhaul the airtraffic system before we see more crashes
9. Institute tight regulations for investments to prevent another subprime.
10. Increase tighter regulations for the food industry so the food eaten is safe.
11. Support small farmers more and big food corporations
12. Tax companies that shift jobs off shore heavily and reward those that keep jobs in the US
13. Push the idea that taxes are necessary if we want an infrastructure that works
14. Reduce our defense spending (it is already double what the rest of the world's is) and put that money into rebuilding America.
15. Invest heavily in enviromental research and products to reduce carbon emissions. Already Europe is developing products that will help their economies capture this future market.
16. Give equal consideration to Palestine.
17. Stop interferring in other governments
18. Challenge the idea that corporations are persons with equal rights but not equal responsibilities.
19. Get rid of the death penalty.
20. Rethink our prison policy. The amount of prisoners we have is the highest per capita in the world.
21. Limit guns to people who have a reason for them such as hunters and then only hunting guns.
22. Have daycare available for every child of working parents.
23. Issue vacation and sick day policies to that of the rest of the industrialized world.

Okay, okay, if I expect either candidate to do many or any of these things, I am living in a fantasy world. But I want my country to live up to what its resources if properly used would make possible for every citizen.