Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin (Get a Jump on 2012!) (Kindle Edition)

by Sue Katz (Author), Stephen Windwalker (Editor), Sandy Oppenheimer (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

Review
'Sue Katz is just the she-bear to wrestle Sarah Palin's image back down to earth. Forget the myth about the GOP's latest superstar--Katz will show the real motivations behind Palin and where she comes from.' ----Susie Bright

'Sue Katz's meticulously researched book cuts through the media fog and political doublespeak, bringing the facts about Sarah Palin into sharp resolve.' --Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger

Product Description
Who is Sarah Palin and what does she believe in? People around the country -- and indeed the world -- had more questions than answers when John McCain announced her selection as his running mate on August 29, 2008. Has any national political candidate ever emerged on the American political scene with less scrutiny than Alaska Governor Sarah Palin received prior to her selection?

Whether you believe Palin was nominated because of years of hard work in Alaska, as a result of a reckless decision by her "maverick" running mate, or because of the influence of the religious right, you probably want to know more about this remarkable political phenom.

Hours after John McCain shocked the nation by selecting Palin as his surprise Republican running mate, journalists, activists, and ordinary concerned citizens began to research and write about Palin's biography, public statements, and political background. The flood of information and commentary has been torrential.

For those who would like some help sorting through all the hype about Sarah Palin, Sue Katz's Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin is the perfect solution. Katz distills the overwhelming glut of information about Palin into a highly readable and fast-paced voter's guide about the woman who may be elected vice-president in 2008 and who could well serve as president one day. From Palin's days in Wasilla to her leap into Republican super-stardom, Katz helps you to better understand this intriguing candidate.

While remaining true to her own strong point of view, Sue Katz looks beyond the lipstick and the sound bites. Thanks But No Thanks synthesizes information and commentary from a wide range of sources so that readers of any political persuasion will find help in educating themselves about just who Sarah Palin is and what her election might mean for the country and the world.

This book is for voters who want to go beyond the usual campaign "puff piece" biographies and learn about Palin's known views on everything from community organizers to women's issues to the relationship of faith and politics. Thanks But No Thanks provides the reader with access to interesting voices from around America and the world, and they all have something insightful to say about Sarah Palin.

In addition, the publisher has included several valuable appendices that will serve as handy references for voters and debate-watchers: a year-by-year chronology of key events in Palin's life, a detailed history of Palin's performance in past elections, and the full text of her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

About the Author

Author and teacher Sue Katz has published journalism and political commentary for many years and is the creator of the popular Sue Katz: Consenting Adult blog. Her passport shows more wear than Palin’s--she has lived and worked on three continents, teaching martial arts in her institutes in Israel, promoting global volunteerism while living in Europe, and writing, editing and teaching (from salsa to senior fitness) in the United States. A rebel with a newfound interest in electoral politics, Sue continues her lifelong commitment to social justice activism from her home outside Boston. She attended Boston University as an undergraduate and earned her master's degree from Tel Aviv University. Her second book, an edgy and unabashed look at the private behavior of boomers, is due in 2009.

About the Cover

The unique collage portrait of Sarah Palin was created expressly for the Thanks But No Thanks cover by artist Sandy Oppenheimer. Her well-deserved international reputation reflects this distinctive style, and her creations are as affordable as they are exceptional.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 199 KB
• Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press - palinvoterguide.blogspot.com; Kindle Original edition (September 30, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001H0G6M8
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #83,655 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plain Talk about Palin , October 10, 2008

By	No Northern Exposure - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin (Paperback)

I thought I had "Sarah Palin overload," until I heard about this book Thanks But No Thanks. Now I don't feel guilty for not reading every article and watching every program. Sue Katz seems to have done it for me. I'm grateful for her hard work and plain talk.

12 of 16 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

By	N. D. Floyd from Idaho - See all my reviews

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.

18 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INSIGHTFUL AND INFORMATIVE, October 1, 2008

By	M. Burgos "Expert Kindle graphics artist, ama... (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been hoping for many weeks that the McCain camp would have provided more background information on Gov. Palin by now to help voters better understand who she is and what she's done. What's happened to date is sad and unfair to voters: she's given few interviews and gives a lot of canned comments when campaigning and speaking in public. This has really bothered me because I consider myself a moderate so I try very hard to learn what both sides are like in any presidential campaign and I don't always vote in lock-step with my party. Thankfully Sue Katz has written an informative guide to help people like me learn more about the candidate and help me make a better decision next month when I vote. It's a good read, and just in time for the vice presidential debate tomorrow. Definitely worth the price and more.