World Views of Sarah Palin & The Environment

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.

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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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