Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter’s Guide to Sarah Palin
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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 Palin’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.
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I know Sue Katz. She’s what my grandmother would have called a pistol. Bright, funny, passionate, argumentative, rabidly political, one of the best ballroom dancers alive on this planet and a gifted, generous writer.
This weekend I set myself the task of reading her first book, Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter’s Guide to Sarah Palin. It gave me chills. No, I mean it. I had to plug in and lean against a heating pad for most of the afternoon because Katz’ prose made me shiver in my Uggs. So, let me cop to the fact that I love the way she writes. I subscribe to her blog, Consenting Adult, and if you’re an adult over 50 interested in all things, or anything sexual, then you should too, but back to Sarah Palin.
Beloved, Sarah Palin scares me because of how she understands and relates to God, and that’s saying something because mostly God things of any kind thrill me. She truly believes that a Kenyan pastor who has been praying for her to “go national” is responsible for this nomination to the Vice Presidency.
Sarah’s god isn’t mine at all, and that means, as a committed omnifaith person, that I need to check hers out lest I be caught in the same kind of judgment that dear Sarah is. She thinks the war in Iraq is God’s war. No really. I suppose, on some level, it is, but it has to do with Islam, and I’m pretty sure Sarah’s God has nothing to do with Islam in her book.
I’m appalled that this woman has been nominated for the second highest post in the land, and Katz’s book only increased that feeling. Despite her own democratic leanings, Katz searched source after source both nationally and internationally to find the facts for her book, written in just four weeks. She reports the facts, ma’am, and for the ma’ams who are reading this post, we have to look out!
If we live in Alaska, we have to pay for our own rape test kits!
If we live anywhere in America, we will not be entitled to have an abortion.
Or marry whom we love, unless we are one man and one woman.
Or expect our schools to teach sex education.
Or count on the support of our government against violence against women.
We’ll have to put up with creationism in schools.
We might have to suffer her arbitrary edit of our school library shelves.
We might have a loved one who loses a job because he or she offends the new veep.
We might have to live with a Vice President who is more Vice than Virtue because she lies and considers it cute, folksy, allowable!
Katz ends her Palin whirlwind with a chapter called “Mavericks to Nowhere.” If you’ve read my God’s Dictionary, you know that another way to look at the word nowhere is now + here. Well, Beloved, look at where our country is now and here. Do you want it to stay that way? I sure don’t.
This is why everyone who even mentions politics in discussion between now and November 4th ought to read Sue Katz’s trenchant, chilling book.
Rating: 5 / 5
When I read the words, that 14 vice-presidents became president after succeeding the incumbent, either because the president resigns, or because the vice-presidents run for office after finishing their term in the second slot . . . some say that since Gore won, it should be 15, I knew this would piece would be slanted and it was. Katz included a massive bibliography, but a lot of them came from blogs.
But, Amazon dropping the Kindle price to $0.00 (with no free books by Amazon for Obama or Biden) less than one month before the election makes this book nothing but a bald political statement.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was fortunate to receive an advance copy of Sue Katz’s Thanks, But No Thanks: A Voter’s Guide to Sarah Palin. Wow! Not only is this book well-researched, well-written and entertaining, it makes it perfectly clear that Americans have taken their eye off the ball while they gawk at Sarah Palin’s pompoms. Sue Katz’s writing is feisty and informative–she dissects Palin’s belief that the war in Iraq is God’s war; there should be no sex education in the schools; creationism should be taught in the schools; we should have to pay for our own rape kits–just to name a few. We voters absolutely need to make an informed decision because our country is in crisis, and Sue Katz can help us do that.
Rating: 5 / 5
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, given the title…but somehow I thought the author might have at least attempted to be somewhat balanced. ‘Hatchet Job’, ‘Slanted’, PMS-NBC like’ – choose the one you like – they all apply.
I gave the work one star, only because the publisher at least had the integrity to not ’spin’ the sample in order to suggest that it was an even handed piece – in order to sell full editions.
Rather typical of the left blogisphere writing…possibly even well done if you are into that left wing propagander…but not for most thinking voters.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was fortunate to receive an advance copy of Sue Katz’s Thanks, But No Thanks: A Voter’s Guide to Sarah Palin. Wow! Not only is this book well-researched, well-written and entertaining, it makes it perfectly clear that Americans have taken their eye off the ball while they gawk at Sarah Palin’s pompoms. Sue Katz’s writing is feisty and informative–she dissects Palin’s belief that the war in Iraq is God’s war; there should be no sex education in the schools; creationism should be taught in the schools; [...]–just to name a few. We voters absolutely need to make an informed decision because our country is in crisis, and Sue Katz can help us do that
Rating: 5 / 5