While I might agree with Matt Damon about the frightening prospect of someone who would govern seemingly based totally on religion (and it's hard to dispute that based on the YouTube video in which she said that the Iraq war was a task from God), it's strange that in this AP interview, he says he knows nothing about her.
That's what frightens me as well: I've heard feminists supporting her, yet if they took a look at her stance on abortion, they would turn tail and run. People need to do their research, and after they do, then make their choice.
Damon said:
I think there is a really good chance that Sarah Palin could president. And I think that's a really scary thing because I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'm going to know anything about her. I know that she was a mayor of a really, really small town. And she's governor of Alaska for less than two years. I just don't understand... I think the pick was made for political purposes but in terms of governance it's a disaster.
You do the actuary tables and there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term and it will be President Palin. And it really ... we were talking about it earlier ... it's like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom. "Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska." And she's the president. And it's like she's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd. It's totally absurd. And I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is. It's a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we've gotten this far and we're that close to this being a reality is crazy, crazy.
I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago, that's an important...I want to know that. I really do. Because she's going to have the nuclear codes. I want to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. Or if she banned books or tried to ban books. We can't have that.
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