Posted by
Patriotic Woman on Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:15:24 PM
Will americans choose to break the glass ceiling with a Mayor turned Governor or with a Community Organizer turned Senator?
McCain's decision to pick Governor Palin as his running mate has truly reminded me why I migrated to the United States from Kenya 17 years ago and why I decided to become engaged in public service. The effort to minimize Governor Palin's accomplishments by referring to her as mayor of a small town or beauty queen is desperate, disappointing, and it will not work with american voters. The glass ceiling will be easier to shatter with an elected mayor turned governor than with a senator turned DNC's hand picked nominee.
Governor Palin has made multiple executive decisions and Obama has never had the opportunity to make any executive decisions as a community organizer or senator. The Governor has already accomplished in Alaska what Obama ‘hopes’ to do if he is elected (i.e., she has stood up to the big oil companies, improved education and given some money back to the people to subsidize gas prices).
3. Governor Palin's position on abortion demonstrates she walks her talk. Her respect for life was exemplified when she chose to give birth to her special needs child. According to Obama unplanned pregnancies are ‘mistakes’ that women should not be burdened with. And if an infant manages to live through a third term abortion, the doctor should not be burdened with reviving the infant. His vote against the Infant Protection Act was disturbing. He was the only senator to vote against a doctor reviving an infant who is 23 weeks old and has survived an abortion. Obama is also on record saying 'i don't want my daughter's punished with a baby'. Most pregnancies are not planned because we can't plan all the events of life. Let me say this ‘we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal’. That infant who survives an abortion at 23 weeks is included in this belief and protection. The dignity of life is the American philosophy that ended slavery, and gave both blacks and women the right to vote. Obama's disdain for life is not what americans need in the executive branch.
4. Questioning Governor’s Palin’s intellect and ability to lead is a desperate measure on the opposition's part. This is a woman who has balanced career and family. She rose to power without an Ivy League law degree or the backing of Ayers, Rezko and Wright. Governor Palin has demonstrated the type of fiscal responsibility that Obama can only give speeches about. She fired the staff in the governor’s mansion and asked her kids to live ‘normal lives’. Obama did not think the Bronco's stadium was big enough for his ego and used a tax-subsidized event to re-build the stadium into a Greek god venue. This is not the wasteful spending we need in the executive branch. We need the practical everyday living approach that Governor Palin brings to the executive branch.
6. For the past 2 years, americans have been listening to Michelle Obama whine that ‘life is too hard for working mothers because they have to raise kids and go to work’ and that 'they keep moving the bar' making it very difficult to succeed. It is refreshing to have a woman with five kids (one who has special needs) smiling her way into shattering the glass ceiling without complaining or playing the victim card! She is also a pilot, hunter, fisherwoman, and beauty queen. She has earned the right to shatter that glass ceiling and we the people ought to give her this privilege.
Governor Palin, exemplifies a woman’s right to choose life, career, family and public service. She has done so without playing the victim of circumstances and without an Ivy league law degree. She is what Americans need today in the executive branch because she connects with mother's of young soldiers being deployed to Iraq like her son, mother's of special needs children who want to maximize their children's potential, and the 70% of working women who are balancing career and family everyday. Sarah Palin is a leader who understands what it is like to live the every day american life. She is the every day american who will represent our priorities in the executive branch.
For those who are doubting Governor Palin's ability to lead this country in the event McCain can't serve, I say to you, Governor Palin has made multiple executive decisions running a city and a state while Barak Obama has never made any executive decisions. As Vice President, she will start her work with some executive experience. As President Obama would need a crash course on executive decision making. I trust my fellow americans will use sound judgement to shatter the glass ceiling with a Governor who has demonstrated the change Obama talks about everyday without a track record to back it up.
Finally, we the people, no longer have to dream, because the dream has been actualized. Dr. Martin Luther King would be proud to see that his dream about 'all men being created equal' has been actualized by Governor Palin's strong defense of the weak and unborn children (most aborted children are minorities). Governor Palin will shatter the glass celing, and use the pieces to build a stronger america for all ordinary americans who believe their dream can be achieved without an Ivy League College degree or victim mentality.
God Bless America!