It is my usual stance to refrain from talking about politics, and I must now come out of the political closet. As a feminist, I want women to have equality. We will lose any semblance of equal treatment under the rule of McCain and Palin. Please, please, please — if you care about women, about our lives, our rights, our place in this culture — vote for Obama and Biden. If you care about people, about men, children, and women of all races, shades, religions, political orientations, cultures, sexual orientations — vote for Obama and Biden. If you care about the Earth, our home, this green and fragrant land that gives us life — vote for Obama and Biden.
Ms. Palin has made one thing abundantly clear — she cares little for this beautiful planet upon which we live. I hold this Earth sacred, consider her a living, breathing being. In my belief system, this planet is my Mother, and the Mother of us all. I have been eating organic for many years, since way before it was trendy. I recycle everything I can possibly recycle. I have been making my own shampoo and laundry soap for more than 12 years. And the list goes on.
I do these things because I care about this planet, and about the people who live here. I want many generations to come to enjoy sunshine, blue skies, sunsets, sunrises; walks in the woods after a spring or summer downpour; sleek black cormorants swimming on the surface of a lake; the shade of grandmother and grandfather oaks, cedars, birches, manzanitas, pines; seas, rivers, lakes, streams, ponds calling, buzzing, splashing, teeming with life itself; herds of gazelles, giraffes, elephants, packs of hyenas, prides of lions running, hunting, mating, living out the normal span of their lives.
Ms. Palin seems deliberately unconscious about life, about the preciousness of what we take from our Mother Earth in order to stay alive. She is against abortion, yet — as seems true for so many Right (or would that be Wrong) Wingers — her political views are actually anti-children, because they are anti-life. She seems completely careless about whether there will be a planet for her children’s children to enjoy, and that feels less than supportive of life to me.
I have said all of my piece about politics that I wish to say at this time. Peace be with you all, and may you be present to the sacredness and beauty of each moment.
~Love and Blessings,
Selene~
Hey Selene,
McCain/Palin get no vote here either. Aside from the things you mentioned, Palin has about as much experience in being a VP as I do! it’s an insult to women everywhere! he only picked her because she’s a woman and to get the female vote. Excuse me, but I’m not going to vote for a woman just because she’s a woman! She’s got to have more then the same type of equipment I have.
Anyway, Obama will see my vote. And hopefully he will win. Eight is ENOUGH!
Comment by Terrie — October 5, 2008 @ 6:38 pm