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According to Politico Palin can only name Roe v. Wade as a supreme court case.
I have no idea why CBS is holding this clip and if they will play it.
Personally I find this outrageous. I took american history in HIGH SCHOOL 9 years ago, but can
rattle off a couple landmark cases w/o blinking.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
I actually took pride in learning american history, it's clear from this answer she has no idea about any american history or simply doesn't give a damn.
Bill Kristol loves her, but she is not, and I mean this seriously, even qualified to intern at the weekly standard.
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I'm impressed with you guys! I could describe several cases, but only could name 2 or 3.
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i'm still waiting to hear the context of the question because I don't believe ANYONE with even a smidget of a clue about their country (or just having a working brain in general) couldn't at least pull Brown v. Board out of their ass when asked this question. She CAN'T be THAT clueless and if she is, shame on the Republicans for nominating a complete and utter idiot to the ticket because they needed a stunt.
but like I said, I want to see the context of the question because this is positively galling if it went down as it's being reported.
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Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy
Her faith views are strong and sometimes controversial. Her aides say she seeks to share but not impose her faith; her critics say she has 'a fine-tuned sense of how far to push.'
By Stephen Braun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 28, 2008
ANCHORAGE -- Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular strain of creationism.
Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based "intelligent design" to be taught along with evolution in Alaska's schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.
As governor and in her formative role as mayor of Wasilla, Palin has trod carefully between her evangelical faith and public policy on issues such as abortion and library books. At times she has retreated when her moves have sparked controversy or proved politically impractical.
She has harnessed the political muscle of social conservatives and antiabortion groups, yet she did not push hard for a special legislative session on abortion, and she did not challenge a court ruling that allowed health insurance for same-sex partners of state workers.
Palin has attended a number of prayer sessions with pastors and has quietly sought their guidance, but she is often mum on matters of faith in high-profile public forums.
Her aides say Palin's caution at the intersection of religion and governance is a studied effort to share her beliefs without forcing them on Alaska.
"She's obviously an intensively religious person," said Bill McAllister, Palin's chief spokesman as governor. "She understands that she's the governor and not preacher in chief. Religion informs her decisions, but she is not out to impose her views on Alaska."
McAllister said that he never heard Palin make such remarks about dinosaurs and that Palin preferred not to discuss her views on evolution publicly.
"I've never had a conversation like that with her or been apprised of anything like that," McAllister said. He added that "the only bigotry that's still safe is against Christians who believe in their faith."
Palin's critics say she holds back from trying to codify her faith-based views when she senses it will cost her politically.
"She's got a fine-tuned sense of how far to push," said John Stein, who guided Palin into her political career before she toppled him as Wasilla's mayor.
'Moral majority'
Stein said Palin displayed only hints of her fundamentalist Assembly of God upbringing when he first backed her for a nonpartisan run for Wasilla City Council in the early 1990s. But in 1996, when Palin ousted Mayor Stein with the aid of pink-colored antiabortion mailers and busloads of Christian grass-roots activists, she grew more overt about her plans, he said.
She combined her staff meetings with prayer sessions, Stein said, and upset the town's chief librarian by asking what the process would be for banning books. According to Stein, bans were never carried out only because "the library director was horrified and stood up to her."
Geri McCann, who ran the town museum under Mayor Palin, counters: "Sarah brought it up because she knew there was a moral majority in Wasilla who needed their voices heard."
During an October 2006 debate in the Alaska governor's race, Palin urged that evolution and creationist ideas be taught together in state schools. "Don't be afraid of information and let kids debate both sides," she said.
But since taking office in December 2006, Palin has made no moves to impose the teaching of creationism or "intelligent design," the modern version of creationist thought, in Alaska schools.
Yep she has all the signs of a stealth religious wacko, anybody remember the 'Compassionate Conservative'
GW did everything possible to soften the appearance of his fundamentalist views. This idea being that if he was clearly known for the religious fundamentalist wacko he is, that would have let Gore win. Much better to quietly implment wacko policies quietly once you are in power.
Here's a partial transcript of the latest from Katie Couric's interview with Gov. Sarah Palin that aired on the CBS Evening News tonight:
COURIC: Do you think there's an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?
PALIN: I do. Yeah, I do.
COURIC: the cornerstone of Roe v Wade
PALIN: I do. And I believe that --individual states can handle what the people within the different constituencies in the 50 states would like to see their will ushered in in an issue like that.
COURIC: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
PALIN: Well, let's see. There's --of course --in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings, that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are--those issues, again, like Roe v Wade where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know--going through the history of America, there would be others but--
COURIC: Can you think of any?
PALIN: Well, I could think of--of any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a Vice President, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.
i'm still waiting to hear the context of the question because I don't believe ANYONE with even a smidget of a clue about their country (or just having a working brain in general) couldn't at least pull Brown v. Board out of their ass when asked this question. She CAN'T be THAT clueless and if she is, shame on the Republicans for nominating a complete and utter idiot to the ticket because they needed a stunt.
but like I said, I want to see the context of the question because this is positively galling if it went down as it's being reported.
okay, having seen that in context now, I know completely 100% believe this woman isn't just being handled wrong, she's outright dumb. there, I said it.
What other cases do you disagree with?
Hmmmm...
wow.
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okay, having seen that in context now, I know completely 100% believe this woman isn't just being handled wrong, she's outright dumb. there, I said it.
What other cases do you disagree with?
Hmmmm...
wow.
It almost would have better if she said she disagrees with brown vs. board, at least demonstrates she has HEARD of one!
Yep she has all the signs of a stealth religious wacko, anybody remember the 'Compassionate Conservative'
GW did everything possible to soften the appearance of his fundamentalist views. This idea being that if he was clearly known for the religious fundamentalist wacko he is, that would have let Gore win. Much better to quietly implment wacko policies quietly once you are in power.
She is just using the same gameplan.
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