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Intelligent Women Unite and Post Voice Against Sarah Palin!

By Tess - Sep 12th, 2008 at 2:10 pm EDT

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Women from around the US are submitting their thoughts and worries about Sarah Palin as Vice President of the United States. This started as an email sent to 40 women and within one week 100,000 women have responded. Great read, and insight into the real thoughts of women in the US, without the media screening.

Enjoy and submit your own voice! http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/ Send email to: womensaynopalin@gmail.com. Follow the instructions noted below to get your voice posted.
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Below is a missive that has already been forwarded to many intelligent women. I feel compelled to pass it on and hope you will read it to the end and follow thru. Our country is bordering on a electoral disaster that could damage it for decades to come and destroy the freedoms as we know them for us, our children and grandchildren. Thanks, Friends, compatriots, fellow-lamenters.

We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate that has a real possibility of becoming fact.

Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the librarian who stood against her), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the second-most-powerful person on the planet.

We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and all together devastating choice for Vice President. Ms. Palin's political views are in every way a slap in the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we've so demonstrably benefited from.

First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.

Therefore, we invite you to reply here with a short, succinct message about why you, as a woman living in this country, do not support this candidate as second-in-command for our nation.

Please include your name (last initial is fine), age, and place of residence. We will post your responses on a blog called "Women Against Sarah Palin," which we intend to publicize as widely as possible.

Please send us your reply at your earliest convenience; the greater the volume of responses we receive, the stronger our message will be. Thank you for your time and action. womensaynopalin@gmail.com

**PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! If you send this to 20 women in the next hour, you could be blessed with a country that takes your concerns seriously.Stranger things have happened.

Patricia A. Fletcher,
LCSW Assistant Director of Field Instruction
Widener University
Center for Social Work Education
610-499-1133

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