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1.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly written!, January 31, 2010
This review is from: Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin (Paperback)
While I agree with her premise that Sarah Palin shouldn't be elected to anything at any time, I couldn't read the whole book because it was so badly written. This "author" needs an editor. She wrote it in haste and blames that for any "split infinitives or too much alliteration." Yes, it does have split infinitives. Even though she was finishing the project in a hurry, a quick run through a spell checker would have found those for her. "Too much alliteration"? That's not a problem that people usually notice or comment about. But, way, way to many dashes along with many other grammatical errors make this impossible to enjoy.
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28 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Katz describes accurately what I know as a former evangelical, October 11, 2008
This review is from: Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin (Paperback)
I have to say that Katz describes accurately what you can expect behind the "maverick" facade with Palin's likely ascent to the presidency. Like Palin, I was raised evangelical in Idaho. As Katz describes, I too fooled people with my impressive appearance and converted "Jews for Jesus". Like Palin, I, as an "instrument of God's will", worked toward nuclear Armageddon in Israel. (This all sounds unbelievable, unless you are an evangelical fundamentalist. This is prophesied for end times (when the world will end in fire, the first time it was Flood) required to prepare the imminent return of Christ, as described in Revelations.)
Be forwarned, in the Palin candidacy, extreme religious zealots are closer than they have ever been to ultimate power. For thirty years the Billy Graham-Pentacostal-Jesus evangelicals have striven to seize power on behalf of war to the finish between Christ and Anti-Christ. All the references in this campaign to Obama using such labels are not accidental, they are code for stages of a religious war for power in this country. I know--I used to be one of them.
Palin truly believes as I did that she is doing God's will. Belief in God in your gut must be the only guide. Reason is the enemy, a tool of the Devil.
I recommend this book. Katz has made a huge effort without time to polish, because of this dark horse candidate sprung on the national scene by McCain.
Katz covers not only this much misunderstood religious civil war now just short of victory. She also highlights the economic and social gulf between the image of a supposed "woman who can do everything" and the reality of a woman who will sacrifice her own presence in the life of her young and suffering children on the alter of a messianic religious cause to which she feels herself anointed by God. Palin's economic and social policies continue policies of penalizing working women by denying equal pay for equal work, by refusing them protection in case of rape, denying them education appropriate to sexual activity. In summary, Hillary, Palin isn't, you betcha, and she ain't no maverick, neither. She is part of the onward evangelical army, marching as to Armageddon, and we're all going with her.
Under President Palin,affiliated with evangelicals now within sight of their long-sought victory, you will see renewed recklessness in our 'end-times' foreign policy regarding Israel, Iran, Iraq, as well as gross interference in your rights as families to privacy, crushing the separation of church and state.
One heartbeat away from ultimate power--or even less, given Palin's youth, and McCain's age, melanoma, and his otherwise unintelligible refusal to release his full medical records for thorough review by public doctors. He clearly is hiding truth from appropriate analysis before an election.)
The machinery for this control of the levers of power has all been laid under the Bush administration, from claiming dictatorial levels of executive privilege, to salting extreme partisan judges throughout the judiciary, to destroying the non-partisan civil service, to appointing the Roberts Supreme Court, to destroying documentation and transparency of governmental actions, to wiretapping without warrants, arresting legal demonstrators, classifying dissent as treason.The recent McCain Palin town hall meetings have been nearly hysterical with threats against their opponent--they taste the blood of victory.
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