Over here, the country is befuddled by John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, as his running mate. McCain hardly knows her. They had met only twice before she was announced. The commentators are calling her a gimmick and a Dan Quayle repeat.
The media tells us that she was once a beauty queen, has five kids including a baby with Down Syndrome, and that she stood up against corruption, whatever that means. A bit of gossip: she may have had a hand in getting her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired after the man divorced her sister. But other than that, we know nothing.
But then again, Vice Presidents, except for Dick Cheney, are usually quiet asides. For instance, I don't remember Al Gore being so influential when Clinton was President, do you? Maybe that's why McCain is okay with her as his potential Vice President.
A good thing that's come of it is that Alaska's been mentioned in the news a couple of times. I'm learning that Alaska is the United States' most corrupt state. I'm very sad now, because that's not the Alaska I remember.
30 August, 2008
Alaska? I'll ask her.
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Hello Diz,
Oh yeah! The new running mate, & a lady at that. Politiccccs!
Hey thanks for hopping by & offering ideas. Great that.
Wishing ya:
'Happy Making Changes Towards Dynamism' aka 'Happy Merdeka'
For post-colonial children like me, Merdeka is quite an abstract thing. We've always had a country, with a song and a flag. No big deal. It would be nice if they had a Merdeka ceremony along the lines of an Olympics opening ceremony, where they act out the fight for independence and light a torch at the end. Or something! Something to rouse our semangat about that country on this day.
Farizah, you said:
"About Palin - the pundits are saying that Biden will eat her alive during the debate, but I am not counting on that. This woman may surprise all of us yet. Incidentally, she endorsed Buchanan in 2000 - and he ran under the platform of teaching creationism in public school (well, one of them, anyway)."
I was thinking a lot about her support for creationism too. Technically speaking, in Islam we teach creationism to our kids, which is weird if you think about it. I was going to blog about this, but the truth is I care about it somewhat, but not by much. It's such a silly, inconsequential thing to quibble about. I mean really, nobody knows the truth about how we all came into being, so why fight about it? If you want to teach it in schools, go ahead. What is "truth" anyway? Every single thing we think is a human construct. There's nothing inherently real about our world -- it's all the product of our imagination.
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