My fear of Palin

“Al-Qaeda Terrorist still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he is worried that someone will not read them their rights”; so said Governor Sarah Palin at the GOP National convention speaking about Obama.



The crowd was quiet for a minute, and I thought that maybe they found that statement as terrifying as I did, but then the cameraman pan’s to an elderly woman. She was nodding her head with a concern look on her face. Slowly people started to clap, then they yelled, and then everyone in the auditorium was on their feet. I was left staring at my computer in shock.



Now I know that the constitution has seen better days and following the Geneva Convention as not always been our countries favorite thing. But watching this auditorium full of people cheer as the potential Vise President mocks the constitution, well lets just say I felt a little sick. Now I find Sarah Palin terrifying. The fact that she said something like this does not surprise me. What surprised me was that the crowd went crazy. They loved it. This was a standing ovation. 



Surfing the internet later I found a quote from Obama that captured my outrage. 
“There should be no conflict between keeping America safe and secure and respecting our constitution”. (Obama)


That’s it. If we while keeping American secure we let our constitution crumble, well then ladies and gentlemen, we have a major problem. So there I was watching Sarah Palin sneer over our constitution, while an audience cheers. 

Now maybe I am being a little over dramatic and blowing the situation out of proportion. But really, this was just her opening speech; if this is the beginning then where are we going? 


Yet despite all of this, I still find her to be charismatic and in a sick way kind of charming. A moose murdering lipstick wearing pit bull that went from PTA to governor and on top of that was a beauty queen who was called the barracuda in high school. I mean come on. Sometimes no matter how much you want to hate some one you just can’t.