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British media, including the supposedly conservative ones, are supporting Obama and (especially) hounding Sarah Palin, with a ferocity unknown even to their American counterparts, and looking more like the Daily Kos than anything, so to speak, human. This is appalling in itself, and may well end up being disastrous if by any chance McCain and Palin win. These creatures are planting poisonous ideas in the average British reader, which will take decades to weed away. And incidentally, it does nothing to disprove my view that at the roots of all serious modern political conflict in the West there is abortion; for the British media and establishment, including the so-called conservatives, are completely sold on the practice, and anti-abortion forces are marginalized to an extent unknown and hard to believe in Italy or America. This goes back a long time - Margaret Thatcher always voted in favour of abortion. Now, Sarah Palin, simply by being who she is, is a living rebuke to all the abortion-is-necessary crowd; and this explains the ferocious hatred and the avalanche of pathological lies with which this attractive, polite, competent female politician has been welcomed. Find me another explanation that makes sense! It also accounts for the complete silence that has been enforced on anything that might make Obama, the most pro-abortion candidate in history, look bad or even moderately dubious. It is not about race; if Judge Clarence Thomas were running for President, he would be treated like Palin has been. It is not even about party; if Condoleeza Rice had run and got the Republican nomination, you can bet your life that she would have had a much smoother ride than Palin. She, after all, has no children. You cannot underrate the power of repressed and concealed guilt feelings, crawling under the skin of all the career women who got rid of unwanted babies in order to please bosses and boyfriends, and indeed among all the men who were complicit in their crimes or even demanded them; when faced with a brilliantly successful career woman who not only had five children, but opted against aborting even the disabled one. (I don't suppose it helps that she is beautiful and looks ten years younger than her age. The sheer unfairness of the distribution of beauty is salt on any open wound, and the wound in question is painful enough in the first place.) Sarah Palin is a mirror who tells them the truth about themselves; and it is a truth that they cannot bear to see.

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That is a pretty big assumption to make. The Matanuska Maid Dairy was actually supposed to shut down until Governor Palin refused to accept the recommendations from the agricultural board and instead pour more money into a failing venture which she then had to close down 6 months later after appointing her friend as commissioner and wasting an additional $500,000 dollars of state money. So, yes, I was very concerned back then. This came on the heels of her dismissal of Monehgan (which I do not dispute, she had the right to fire him) and hiring of Charles Kopp as the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, who she had to let go ten days later (with a $10,000 severance package!) because of his history of sexual harassment. So, you know, I was pretty concerned months and months before her appointment as McCain's VP.

But that's what comes with actually knowing a candidate's experience and the players personally, not listening to just what they've heard from right-wing blogs. :)

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All right, I spoke without knowing your facts. I take back what I said about national reasons. However, I still say that if you are surprised by matters like that, you do not know what happens when power changes hands.

And I would suggest to you that I certainly knew more from such "right wing blogs" as Wikipedia than the average mass media consumer (or the Obama campaign) knew from network TV and establishment newspapers. To criticize my view without taking into consideration the avalanche of gross, basic, elementary lies that keep being repeated day after day by supposedly respectable news corporations whom people listen to is either evidence of partisanship or of inability to tell a mote from a beam.

Any further post will be unanswered for a while, because I have to go out now and will not be back for the rest of the day.