Note: Since John McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate, and she thus now plays a very big important role in his campaign, I feel it's within the spirit of this blog to cite her follies as well as McCain's.
Many have pointed out that Sarah Palin, the presumptive Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency, is too inexperienced to be a heart atta--I mean, heartbeat away from the presidency. While that's certainly true, her problems don't stop at inexperience.
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While running for governor in 2006, Palin (along with the other candidates) was asked a series of questions regarding her proposed policies and politics. Here is one of them, along with her response.
Q: Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?
SP: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.
As many scholars would be happy to tell you, the Pledge of Allegiance was not written by our founding fathers. It was written by Baptist minister Francis Bellamy in 1892 roughly over a hundred years years after our country was founded. Furthermore, the phrase "under God" wasn't added until 1954, about 120 years after the death of the last founding father.
Keeping in mind that McCain is, in his own words, older than dirt, and that he's developed the most deadly form of skin cancer four times, is it a good idea to elect a Vice President who doesn't know basic facts about the formation of our country? Anyone who was ever peripherally paying attention to politics a few years ago remembers that debate we had about whether "Under God" should be kept in the Pledge of Allegiance. I can't remember a single time that debate popped up and a pundit didn't remind us that "Under God" was added in the 1950s, during the "Red Scare." Come to think of it, weren't those debates going on around 2006, the year in which this questionnaire was given to Mrs. Palin?
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