By Fabian Schoeppner
Who am I voting for and why? I am voting for Obama/Biden because I believe in dinosaurs and because I have family values instilled upon me by my parents.
To me, the skeletal structures uncovered by numerous paleontologists around the globe are proof enough to argue against creationism. Things clearly have changed since God first changed them. Is that so hard to admit?
OK, so we evolved from monkeys, but nobody is saying our parents, grandparents, or even our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were monkeys.
What is trying to be said with the evolutionist argument is that millions of years ago, when our existence was beyond conception, dinosaurs and monkeys walked the earth and we are descendants of those previous living beings.
Better to be a descendant of a monkey than Stalin or Milosevic, right? I also think good parents, in American society, tell their children to marry when they are ready.
Being ready can never be synonymous with high school. How can Sarah Palin know her daughter's hockey-player boyfriend has the necessary traits a husband/father requires? I guess it doesn't matter though because they already have a date set...
So why does creationism affect my vote? Because there are clear descendants of dinosaurs, so numerous I needn't mention them, roaming the earth and a vice-presidential candidate is denying any connection between the two.
Denying any connection between a rhinoceros and a dinosaur is like saying wheat and bread have no correlation.
Denial of blatant fact is kind of scary. The Catholic Church denied the earth was round, but we have all seen pictures of the globe. There was that British, anti-Semitic historian, David Irving, that denied the Holocaust and was jailed for his thoughts, but who hasn't seen any of those horrendous pictures.
My point is people who deny the existence of reality rarely meet success. Forget success, they aren't internationally respected.
So why does parenting affect my vote? To use a cliché, "the children are our future." OK, now I should clarify. I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST YOUNG MOTHERS OR YOUNG COUPLES! Some young people are in love and have met their mate.
Some women are totally ready to have kids. I just have everything against their parents becoming U.S. figureheads.
I really think the family structure is crucial to our country's survival and it is important to maintain it.
If people, at increasingly younger ages, are necessitating a higher income to support their family, then it will worsen the job market.
We need people to screw around at young ages so a.) We can live a little and b.) To delay our entrance into the workplace.
So why does this affect November 2008? Because Sarah Palin is a creationist and a bad mother.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the people who dispute the theory of evolution or even bad mothers, I just think creationists belong in a pulpit and bad mothers in solitude, not in seats of political power.
Seriously, it's bad enough she's been allowed to enter Alaska's executive branch. She's leaking confidential information to her husband about matters of state; her daughter is off sleeping around, marrying and bearing children at an age all too early.
Now with all that, and her denial of physical evidence, do we really want her to have a say in our country's future or our children's education? Oh wait, I could use the experience card, but the Republicans got dibs on that one first...
