The following posting was written by Elizabeth Roach (bettanne@online.no) who resides in Oslo, Norway. Ms. Roach is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where she majored in English, Latin and Greek. Ms. Roach taught these languages at Rockford West High School in Rockford, Illinois and was the first Black teacher in the Rockford, Illinois school system. Upon moving to Oslo, Norway, Ms. Roach taught American students on the American base. She later opened an American bakery before retiring several years ago. Ms. Roach’s big interest of late is American politics.
Ms. Roach is the sister of Jean Bryant, an award-winning journalist and founder of the Miss Black Teenage Pageant and the Mister African American Pageant. The Miss Black Teenage Pageant has provided participants with $400,000 in educational grants to date. She is a recent recipient of the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation Legend in Journalism Award for her distinguished career as reporter for the Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In recognition for her community service, Jean also received the New Pittsburgh Courier 2008 50 Women of Excellence Award.
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In a speech at a church in Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin claimed that the Iraq war was God’s plan! Then she proceeded to make the case that it was also God’s plan to dig for oil in Anwar.
I’d like to know if she thinks it was God’s plan for our young men and women to attack a country that had not attacked us? Sarah Palin, you got that wrong. It was George W. Bush’s plan. Do you also think it was God’s plan for 3,000 young, innocent American soldiers to spill their blood in Iraq? Was it God’s plan to send them to war with equipment so inadequate that they were sitting ducks for the adversary? Was it God’s plan to bring so many of our young men and women home from Iraq in caskets or with maimed bodies and broken dreams?
Sarah Palin, My God does not make such plans—only people make such plans—people like you, like John McCain and like George Bush!.
Sarah Palin also said that people in Alaska had to “get right with God” and vote for digging in Anwar for oil. This was a cynical use of God to sell her plan and to connect being “right with God” to her political agendas.
Sarah Palin, that’s religious blackmail! Stop using God as your personal lobbyist. Leave Him out of your politics!
And now the evangelicals have abandoned their stand on ethics and family values to suit Sarah Palin’s because it was politically expedient to do so. They are falling all over a woman who paraded her unwed, 5-month pregnant teenage daughter on the stage where she sought the Republican nomination for Vice-President.
Her daughter’s pregnancy tells me that Palin’s stand against sex education and prevention hasn’t worked, at least not in her own home. It tells me that she’s a hypocrite---the kind that tells you to live your life one way, while she practices another way. I’m not holding Palin’s daughter responsible, but Palin herself who puts running public offices above “minding the store” at home.
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I agree with every word Ms. Roach wrote. And I write Sarah Palin off with the rest of the people who said that Hurricane Katrina was, although an act of God being a natural disaster, was punishment from God for all of the sins people were committing in New Orleans.
Well, if that's the case, what about all of the sins the government has been committing against its own people for years and this, the financial fiasco, can now be deemed as the biggest sin of them all! Trying to take taxpayers money to pay a debt that will only make the big whigs on Wall Stree even fatter cats!
I really hope that these so-called conservatives who do live in the trailer parks and in the rural NASCAR country will wake up and smell the coffee. It's you who are suffering the most at the hands of your own people. GW, McCain, nor Palin care about you; never have, never will. Remember when Kanye West said, "George Bush doesn't like Black people"? Well, George Bush and his cronies don't like ANY people who disagree or disregard what they have to say and they especially don't want to help those who need the REAL financial assistance, the American taxpayers.
This financial bailout is not being done to benefit us, especially not those of us who are struggling. And if you care or know anything about God, you know that He does not want to SEE us suffer. This ploy that Palin and other use to scare people by using God is an old fear tactic that slaveholders used on slaves to "keep us in our place", and it's the same today.
They know if they can scare people half to death (like in the case with Iraq), get people who they know don't read or pay attention and get these same people to take them at their word on how they are going to make "changes", then they will have the election in the bag.
But, hopefully that will not be the case this time around. There are so many people waking up, paying attention, formulating their own opinions and switching over from the Republican party that Obama might just have a fighting chance of being elected. It is in this instance that I think we can safely insert God and say a prayer for the good of the country. Lord knows we will need it.
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