So I don't know if the hypothetical audience of this blog has picked up on this yet, but I struggle through a lot of race/culture paradigms. pretty consistently at Whitworth.
I wonder if part of the problem is that I don't like people that are different than me in their opinions. I don't know if I rebel against the feeling that they think I agree with them, or if I truly don't understand how they think that way. I think that makes me elitist. smile.
I don't see the appeal in Palin. Does that make me one sided? Have I just attached myself to Obama, and idolize him to the point of not seeing wrongs in him, and demonizing his opponent?
She didn't point out a single difference between mccain and bush's policy? she enumerated multiple times word-for-word portions of Bush policies. are you kidding me? really?
aand, apparently, she/her administration in alaska were responsible for killing that bill diverting funds from Sudan that she now really wants to pass. no source on that. just angry new york times readers.
i think bidens a smart smart man. it will be interesting (oh please please jesus) to see if he and obama do butt heads due to differing opinions like my new moody friends were talking about today. also. palin didn't answer the question about whether or not she would follow through on mccain's policies

And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people

Pretty sure in a debate you're supposed to listen to the moderator, and generally even answer her/his answers.

Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution. In fact, too often you're the problem so, government, lessen the tax burden and on our families and get out of the way and let the private sector and our families grow and thrive and prosper

and saying that holding to the Republican party line of deregulation and smaller government is not patriotism. I would hope that half the country doesn't hate America, or isn't patriotic, they just choose to affiliate with the Democratic party. you can't say that sarah palin, you can't say that.

PALIN: Yes. Well, as the nation's only Arctic state and being the governor of that state, Alaska feels and sees impacts of climate change more so than any other state. And we know that it's real.

I'm not one to attribute every man -- activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.

But there are real changes going on in our climate. And I don't want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?

We have got to clean up this planet. We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

As governor, I was the first governor to form a climate change sub-cabinet to start dealing with the impacts. We've got to reduce emissions. John McCain is right there with an "all of the above" approach to deal with climate change impacts.

We've got to become energy independent for that reason. Also as we rely more and more on other countries that don't care as much about the climate as we do, we're allowing them to produce and to emit and even pollute more than America would ever stand for.

Although China surpassed US for the first time this year in gross carbon pollution, our per capita rate is still 8.1 tons per year, around 4 times that of the Chinese per capita usage. also, India's is still at like 1.4 (out of a Foreign Affairs article, Setp/Oct 2008). Lastly, if we're pumping crude oil out of alaska, its still gonna produce the same carbon as oil from those terrorists who hate American freedom.

last palin frustration from the debate: she didn't seem to hear biden any of the multiple times that he stated explicitly that John Mccain voted the same as Obama on the funding for Iraq.

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