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October 4, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Burr Deming
Your chart illustrates a real pattern. We laugh because it’s funny. We laugh because it’s true.
But I have not yet heard anyone from any side express any concern about the most dangerous possibility if Governor Palin is elected to national office.
October 4, 2008 at 5:42 pm
ernest
SARAH PALIN, GLOBAL WARMING AND THE US ELECTION
I have read so many articles and blogs about Sarah Palin most of which I agree and most I do not. At the begining, her selection to be Sanators MacCains VP choice seemd to be the best political gambit needed to cut the edge that Obama´s candidacy seemed to be enjoying.
But the emphuria that characterised this success was shot lived as Americans started getting to know the stuff their VP choice was made off. We have to give credit somehow to this woman for the reformer image that has been portrayed of her. However the fact remains that even if this woman was some sort of reformer and who even meant well for America as his fans want us to believe, the post of the VP of the United States of America is considerably too large for her. But I have to give her credit though for what she said about Climate. What I do not know is if she had that insight which has gotten me into this discuss.
I was a conservative but I am gradually given that up for the single stark reality that life cannot possibly be expalined in just one- straight- jacket definition. These however, does not change my principles and values. I strongly believe that life is empty without beliefs, principles and values. There are the ingridients, no matter how wapped they may seem to be, that keeps us going. What I have learnt is that we have to be more tolorent, respectful of divergent opinions, undersatnding and really ready to support people to achieve their ambitions, peacefully and within the principles they choose as long as these does not in any way undermine the rights of existence of others. Having said that, I think that in so many ways, Sarah Palin was right when she said that climate change is not caused by man alone but that there are other contributive factors which leads to climate change. A lot of people found this to be offensive. But I think she is right in some way and some of us who thought she is wapped maybe wrong.
Let us take for instance the theory of Evolution as propounded by Darwin. This thoery as against the Cration Theory seem to be a model for so many academics. It is understandable because of the insight it offers. This theory is a postulation steming from the conception that Man evolved from Alps (austrolupeuticles, homoserpients etc). We no longer look like Alps today. We have gradually sheeded so much hairs and long hands and jaws that characterised the Alp -man. Similarly, implicit in this postulation is a suggestion that evolution is still taking place.It did not stop just in making man what it is and could not have only affected man but also its eviroment.The Big Bang theory sheds more light on this. We can see it in so many things.If evolution is a strong force and true from the way it was explained, it is only logicakl to suggest that it is not only man that changed. The earth and even the universe could have been a testitmony to these changes. Unless somebody is ready to correct me if I am wrong that evolution probably stopped at a point. If it continued then it means that the world and the univers will continue in this process of flux. After all, it is often said that the only permanent thing in the world is change itself. So if this is through, is it worng to ascribe this evolutionary process a contributing to global wariming and climate change. If the theory of evolution is true and it was strong to change man from Alp to what man is today, then one cannot be more right as to suggest that it is a primary factor in global warming and climate change today than human efforts or actions. I say this because even before human actions started impacting on the world as it is today, this evolutionary process has been taking effect as to change Alp to man. So I think Sarah Palin is right here and all of us are wrong including our accadmies. But I do not understand why we tend to become like the leaders who accussed Gallilio and Cumpernicus and even brought them to death for attempting to challenge the old age belief of the goecentic postulation of the Universe.
What this does is to challenge us to investigate all claims before we accuse people of not having sound ideas. It calls for more studies into these twin issues. And also, it is a pointer to those conservatives that the world cannot be possibly explained in one single straight Jacket definition. It is suprising how the so called liberals have not given this a critical thought before accusing Gov. Sarah Palin of “blaspheemy“. It clearly shows that we have passed the era of conservatism. If we have to draw anything from this, it is a simple no to those conservatives who have great lural in objecting to anything that does not fall in line with their believes. In that sense, the Republicans from their ideals of over deregulation and allowing the market forces to solve all our econmic problems without government interference- will have to wait until these issues are sorted out before we could allow them another shot at the Presidency.
In the other issues. I do not get it when people try to compare executive experience of a mayor in a small town Alaska or a governor of Alaska or any other president of the third world country as enough for being the Vice president or President of the United States of America.Frankily, most Presidents of the third world countries cannot compete interms of experience with the mayor of New York let alone the president of the United as it concerns what his duties are.. This is because American system and what the country represents is much more complex than issues that are being dealt with in these areas and the countries that I mentioned.
Anybody who has watched Gov. Palin´s interviews will come out with one notion. That even this person means well, it is either that she has not been concerned with the issues or she is still very far from understanding the issues that American leaders have had to deal with. With her executive experience, it would take her another 1 year to even be abreast of these issues let alone playing such a substantive role in it. Though her choice as the VP by Maccain got him some echo at first, recent developments have shown that the process of choosing her was not properly veted which somehow casts some aspersion on Sen. MacCain´s ablity to make good judgement. It is one thing to be a nice person or a good man, it is another to be a good judge. Events of the last few months have clearly shown that though, Sen. MacCain can be said to be a good man and an experienced establishment man, he is far from being a good judge. And being a good Judge is one of the critical attributes of a good leader. Obama has shown his ability to make sound judgements in the choices he has made and in runing this campaign. No matter how we try to defend the statement Sen. MacCain made that the fndamentals of the American economy is strong, every right thinking person came out with the impression that this man, like he said previously, does not understand much about the economy. I expected renouned economist to give an operational definitions to the fundementals of an economy so that Sen. MacCain would have been learnt more before he made that carricature of a defense. Even in trying to defend the assertion in such elementary sense, Macain and his group continues to drift more as people who lack the requisite knowledge of economics.
It is also ridicolous to compare Sarah Palin with Barack Obama. Nobody contends the fact that in terms of accademics, Obama is the most qualified of all the candidates having gone to the best schools in America and graduated with excellent results. We have leterally heard less about Gov. Palin´s educational qualification. Given the kind of insight we have had about Mrs Palin in the last few days, would anybody argue that if Mrs Palin was to be in New York, she would have been able to rise to a Mayoral position let alone governor? As it is often said, in a village of blind people, one eyed man is a king.
Obama was not just an average student.He came out with excellent result little wonder he has been able to grasp, in a few years, issues of American politics faster than any of these candidates in such a way that he could talk authoritatively on them. But that is not the difference between him and Mrs Palin. The difference is that he has been in the main stream of American politics by virtue of being a member of the congress for two years. This is also why it is easy for him to discuss American politics more than any insight that Palin could offer. Secondly, apart from being blessed with orathory power which is very important as well in leadership, he has the ablity to energize and inspire a lot of young people as can be seen since he indicated interest in this election. I would suggest that, we do not make these blind comparisms between Sarah Palin and Obama which sort of undermine excellence.
Unlike the last election, I will be suprised if the Republican party wins this years elections.From the ongoings it is very clear that the odds are against the republican party as represented by the issues that Mr Maccain have had to deal with these past Months. From the fundamentals of the economy being strong to seing the over deregulation burst us in the face in the form of the recent economic crisis, there is no “belabouring“ the point that common sense is asking us to vote for the Democrats for the desired change.
By Ernest
Berlin.2008
Responses to this thought should be forwarded to ernest_amabuo@yahoo.com