A Declaration

OUR DECLARATION

We believe that policies like those of John McCain and Sarah Palin are NOT what this country needs. John McCain is too outdated to run a country like ours, and if he does, he will not deliver the things guaranteed to us by our founding fathers. The simple fact that he would nominate someone like Sarah Palin to be his second in charge only doubled the amount of doubt in my mind that he has the qualities necessary to be the leader of a global economy. Sarah Palin is the biggest atrocity that has ever entered into US presidential campaigning, and those of us who wish to see these two monsters stay out of the White House will do what it takes to keep them out.


John McCain thinks the US is better off financially now than it was 8 years ago. In 1998 the US announced it's first budget surplus since 1969 with $69 illion, growing to $236 Billion in 2000. The current 2008 budget deficit of $161 billion is expected to grow to $407 billion by 2009. In 2000, we saw the all time low unemployment rate sit at 3.9%. It's current rate is 6.1%. He has voted against raising minimum wage 19 times. He is FOR privatized social security, which would keep the lower and middle classes working into their 70s before retirement. In 2008, only 18% of workers were confident that they could retire comfortably.

John McCain himself has said that the economy is not his strong suit. With that statement and a VP who put a town of 7000 (in 2002) into a $20 million debt, it's plain to see that McCain and Palin will only dig our economy deeper. During her mayoral re-election campaign, she promised to cut her own salary. When she one she hired a city administrator, adding another salary to the payroll. Palin boasts about her anti-earmark sentiments, but took $27 million in earmarks during her time as mayor.

His foregin policy is something to be scared of. He's been quoted to say "It's not how long we stay in Iraq, it's if we succeed or not.", that we would be "mired for 100 more years in Iraq". He believes that we are still undergoing a troop surge. He has attacked Barack Obamas willingness to meet with Raul Castro to improve US relations with Cuba, as well as the suggestion that we should meet with Iran.

He has claimed to be an agent of change. How is voting with George Bush 86% of the time a sign of change?

His proposed gas tax holiday has been shot down by nearly every economist.

Sarah Palin is already under investigation for abuse of power. Is that something this country needs in a vice president? If a person can put a town of 7000 into 20 million in debt, roughly 3000 per man and woman and child, in what kind of debt can she put a country of 300 million? While claiming to be against tax raises, she raised sales tax in wasilla by .5% to finance a large sports complex. While a large sports complex is community oriented, don't lie about tax raises in order to pay for it. For the cherry on top, there was an ensuing legal dispute over whether or not the town owned the land on which the complex was to be built.

No, there was no list of books she tried to ban. However, upon becoming mayor, she asked the librarian how she'd feel about removing books from the library's collection, to which the librarian responded with an earnest 'No'. The mere idea of even asking a librarian how he or she would feel about removing books is evidence that Sarah Palin does not have a clue how this country works. The first amendment to the US Constitution is clearly written. Removing books from a library shouldn't even come to the table.

Again, on earmark spending. Per capita, Alaska is the largest recipient of earmarks. In 2005, before her term as governor began, Alaska had received $442 million in federal earmarks. Eight months after her term as governor began, she stated that Alaska would not return any of the $442 million. It's as though if Sarah Palin didn't have double standards, she'd have no standards at all.

She's a steadfast anti-abortion pro-lifer and calls herself a feminist. Does she even know what a feminist is? She supports family values, yet can't control her own. Endorsing the marriage of a 17 year old doesn't sound like family values. Marriage is about choice. Reproduction is about choice.

She sued the George Bush administration for adding polar bears to the endangered species list, because it would affect our ability to drill for oil in ANWR. She has supported population control of predator animals by hunting them from aircraft.

She beat around the bush when asked whether or not she believed we were doing 'God's work' in Iraq. The 'God's work' quote was direct out of her mouth.

She does not command the AK National Guard. She has the power to send them anywhere in Alaska, such as disaster areas, but they are under the command of National Guard officers. She has no control whatsoever over AK National Guard troops in the middle east. Visiting Guard troops in Kuwait is fine and dandy, but don't go and stretch the details of the trip in order to boost a better public foreign diplomacy image. That trip was her only travel outside of North America.

She opposes the marriage of same sex adults but endorses the marriage of her 17 year old child.

She's claimed to be against the 'good ol' boy' network in Washington DC. Did she also mention that BP, Beyond Petroleum sponsored her gubernatorial inauguration, whom her husband also works for?

Nearly everything that has come out of the mouth of Sarah Palin, there is something in her history to contradict it.

The McCain Palin campaign has promoted an image of change since Palin's nomination for VP. Based on their stances, the ideas they've promoted for the next presidential administration, and their own records in comparison to that of George W. Bush, what changes do they plan on making, unless its changes that will dig us deeper into a pit of desperation and economic turmoil?

I see plenty of reasons NOT to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin without having to turn to their sleazy intentionally misleading campaign for justification as to why they should not be elected, but it sure is a big cherry on top.

We are organizing a rally to inform voters of the danger we face in electing John McCain and Sarah Palin to the White House. Within the next week we will announce date and time and location for a scheduled massive public rally against these two dangerous people who are dangerously close to being the most powerful people in the world. Will they incite genocide? Probably not, but they want the people of the United States to live and act in such a way that is not in accordance with the basic rights and freedoms guaranteed to us and laid out by the Founding Fathers and the generations that followed them.

We are united by a love so strong for our country that we need to see it not fall into the hands of John McCain and Sarah Palin.