World Views of Sarah Palin & The Environment
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Following Sarah Palin’s key speech at the Republican Convention, BBC news asks readers around the world for their reactions.
A straw poll of the many hundreds of responses seems to indicate that the majority of those outside of the US are unimpressed, with Palin’s lack of regard for the environment featuring in many remarks.
Read on for a selection of reader comments from the BBC.
A commentator from Berlin writes;
Nasty, nasty stuff. Pure reactive bile, pandering to the lowest common denominators. LOOK AT THE FACES in the Republican crowd - the braying, mean, angry, uncompassionate, thick, right-extremist fellow-travellers, the hollering, prejudiced, anti-everything crew, from towns too small to have a library.
The sort who believe what Fox “News” tells them, who think care for the environment is communist and that bombing is a diplomatic tool. UGH! Imagine - just try - such a régime!
From Canada;
Sarah Palin demonstrated that she can deliver a prepared speech effectively. She also demonstrated that she does not have an original idea on how to solve the nation’s problems: the economy, health care, a foreign policy quagmire, the environmental crisis (oh yeah, she does not believe there is one) etc. She has further shown that she is indeed like John McCain - content to continue the hateful, divisive, fear mongering campaign that tears others down. How about those GOP “hot chick” pins?
And from Paris;
Impressive speech if you like to listen to a lot of hot air. She never mentioned the economy, housing crisis, environment or Iraq. These are the substantive issues of the day, not her stand on this irrelevant issue or that. If Obama is inexperienced then she is a babe in arms when it comes to Washington. Big fish in very small pond doesn’t equal fit to be VP.
Source: BBC News - Has Sarah Palin silenced her critics?
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Sahara Palin is the bridge to nowhere. She is the absolute epitome of an empty suit. Yes she can deliver a speech. However, she did NOT address the concerns of the American people such as the economy and how to end the costly war in Iraq.
For John McCain [(a 72 year old male who has had several boughts w a serious form of cancer and whoe's grandfater died at 61 and father died at 70)] to make national security the pole star of his campaign and then to select Gov Palin who stands a heart beat away from the presidency [(has absolutely no foreign relations experience)(No experience on a national level) (only two yrs a Gov of small Populas state)]suggests that McCain has been lying about his concern for national security or he lacks good judgment. Wake up America. This is horse and pony show.
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Sarah Palin seems to be an intelligent and authentic woman. She will bring fresh air to the toxic American political climate. What America needs is not someone who can always relate to the needs of the world communities, but some one who can respond to the needs of ordinary Americans.
Outside the U.S. we non-United Statens (I’ve always rather resented the way they call themselves “Americans” as though they co-opted the whole continent!) are watching the United Staten campaign like it is a combination of the newest spectator sport and a possible train wreck in slow motion. One of our former prime ministers described the situation of Canada as “like sleeping next to an elephant”. Whatever happens, it will certainly affect us, and our co-Americans in Mexico - not to mention those Americans in Central and South America. I am just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping the voting majority in the U.S. has noticed that in the midst of Palin’s winks, cutesiness, “doncha”, “betcha” etc. She did not actually ANSWER most of the questions that were put to her in the debate with Joe Biden. Biden, on the other hand, seemed to be doing his best to address the actual issue. Style? Yes, she’s sorta got that. A lot of people seem to have enjoyed her performance (or her act - take whichever word you prefer). However, she also showed a dangerous degree of ignorance about the world and it is difficult to believe that, should the Republicans win the election, her extreme religious/anti-science/anti-social welfare views will not affect her behaviour as a member of the U.S. government. Moreover, her smug statements about the superiority of the workers in her country and how blessed they are to be living in a place where they are better off than anyone else in the world is rather chilling - particularly in light of the way so many Aleuts and Eskimos are forced to live in her home state. Does anybody remember them?
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