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Laying Palin's Wardrobe Bare

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Mathew Maavak

Furthermore, don't they know that pregnant women are medically prone to lose their babies in a world of financial duress?

Anyway, what is the plan to protect unborn babies? I have not seen the details, especially when it comes to either state support or funding.

Palin's track record is just that: An appropriately named son and a dodgy record that is being assiduously traced to the delight of tabloids.  Her doorway opens with Troopergate, Third Reich-style vetting of library books and the question of why a pregnant Palin took more than 22 hours – including a flight from Texas, and a drive from anchorage -- to see a doctor when she developed contractions with amniotic fluid leakage at a Dallas energy conference.

How many pro-life mothers would wait that long, especially when carrying a vulnerable baby diagnosed with Down's Syndrome?

It gets better.

In Palin's and evangelist James Dobson's universe, unwed teenage pregnancy has morphed into a "celebration of life" religion that needs universal embrace in keeping with the times.

And have you hear the lament that parents just can't control their children these days. It is the fault of the goddamn liberal media, which, continually poisons the minds of young ones. Only Fox News broadcasts the pristine truth.

After all, Fox's parent company News Corp also owns the bible-publishing house of Zondervan, and… the lucrative DirectTV porn channels.

When parents, politicians and the church perform such sleazy compacts, children are literally left holding the babies.

Another naked truth

I wonder what the Palin-McCain team plans to do with the porn industry? Like News Corp that bundles its weak fleshes, seductive spirits, and dreadful news into a super prime financial empire, porn and conservatism often go hand in hand. Rick Warren counts himself as the personal pastor of News Corp moghul Rupert Murdoch.

If porn is banned, many evangelical finances will run dry. It is not going to happen. The sheep must be trodden by the goats in the natural selection of species. Restitution can await Judgment Day.

Till that fateful moment, you think the McCain-Palin team will have to gall to overturn the Miller vs California (1973) ruling that opened the floodgates to laissez-faire porn?

It is easy to take on Roe vs Wade (significantly, also 1973) in public, though 20 years of Republican rule since Ronald Reagan had done squat to ban abortion. It is an emotive electoral slogan that pulls enough wool over the sheeple's eyes, and this time around they are glazed by the impossibility of a Quadrillion dollar derivatives market propped by a global GDP worth a piddling $54 trillion, and falling by the day.

Is this a change we can believe in? It is not a matter of belief; it is history transpiring. Even Fox News cannot hide the graphic downward slides of Dow Jones. But who knows? When hunger strikes, we may be enjoined to the chorus of "Drill baby, drill!"

Roe vs Wade will not be important then.

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