[Peace-discuss] Mike Gravel on Palin

[C. G. Estabrook]

Biden is a perfectly conventional tool of militarist and corporate interests, 
responsible for murderous policies at home and abroad, from the Middle East war 
to the new bankruptcy law. Insofar as she departs from those policies, I (like 
Gravel) would prefer Palin.

As Larry Bartels points out, "it is affluent, college-educated people ... who 
are most exercised by guns and religion. In contemporary American politics, 
social issues are the opiate of the elites." --CGE


Brussel Morton K. wrote:
> Gravel sounds deluded. His thesis is that ignorance is bliss. Sarah Palin's
> incorruptibility, with recent revelations, seems not so clear after all. He
> should have waited a bit before writing….
> 
> The implication of all the rants on this listserve against Obama-Biden is
> that  it's better to have a McCain-Palin executive than one of Obama-Biden.
> Or, really, it doesn't matter.
> 
> Incidentally, do you believe Palin to be less belligerent and corporate than
> Biden, as Gravel suggests? I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Or maybe
> you favor her antiabortion, creationist, NRA, energy, environmental,…
> positions, which Gravel sloughs off as an afterthought. ?   --mkb
> 
> 
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Matt Reichel wrote:
> 
>> Interesting piece by former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel on McCain's running
>> mate, Mrs Sarah Palin.
>> 
>> Echoing the words of Alex Cockburn previously posted on this list, far from
>> being "cooky", he says: "Foreign policy experience? Thank god she has none
>> beyond that of a normal citizen subject to the militarization of our
>> culture over the past 50 years, particularly so in Alaska with its strong
>> military presence. The three other would-be leaders have tons of experience
>> among them. But whether liberal or conservative all three are committed to
>> a policy of American imperialism with the self-appointed role of world
>> policeman. This role of trying to influence the world with our military
>> might sustains bloated defense budgets that profit the few and impoverish
>> the social and economic needs of the many."
>> 
>> "Sarah Palin's Clean Slate: Thank God, She Has No Foreign Policy 
>> Experience!"
>> 
>> http://counterpunch.org/gravel09032008.html