Matt Damon compares Sarah Palin VP candidacy to a bad Disney Movie

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and
>>>> activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the
>>>> following about Sarah Palin:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Drill, Drill, Drill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she
>>>> was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the
>>>> claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I
>>>> have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy
>>>> whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the
>>>> arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one.
>>>> Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice.
>>>> Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my
>>>> life trying to build community, help empower women and stop
>>>> violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin.
>>>> This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious
>>>> and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the
>>>> goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is
>>>> antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story --
>>>> connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women,
>>>> giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening
>>>> tolerance, and ending violence and war.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most
>>>> dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose
>>>> those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction
>>>> so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But
>>>> what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on
>>>> the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In
>>>> my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be
>>>> elected to the presidency with regularity.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a
>>>> metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing
>>>> changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in
>>>> global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are
>>>> destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are
>>>> all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears
>>>> off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is
>>>> here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are
>>>> here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and
>>>> plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said
>>>> herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe
>>>> women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their
>>>> will should have a right to determine whether they have their
>>>> rapist's baby or not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth
>>>> control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we
>>>> know how many babies that makes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I
>>>> gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a
>>>> tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She
>>>> cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This
>>>> is a woman who could and might very well be the next president
>>>> of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse
>>>> populations on the earth.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting
>>>> rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has
>>>> shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private
>>>> right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector,
>>>> when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are
>>>> denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and
>>>> state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this
>>>> election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine
>>>> the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will
>>>> determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make
>>>> it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether
>>>> we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether
>>>> we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack.
>>>> It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal
>>>> burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us
>>>> from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets
>>>> spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and
>>>> more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a
>>>> free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear,
>>>> fundamentalism and aggression.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in
>>>> your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that
>>>> filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill
>>>> Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of
>>>> rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of
>>>> military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the
>>>> brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the
>>>> floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust
>>>> between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this
>>>> precious thing we call life?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Eve Ensler
>>>> September 5, 2008