So, if you're a Republican seriously contemplating voting for a book censoring, Evangelical hack from one of the smallest cities in this nation, maybe this might give you pause. I promise you are sure to lose my daughter's generation. Or not? Republicans don't have a very good record of thinking realistically or long term, or governing realistically or long term, do they? But maybe you'll just roll the dice and consider how lucky it is that McCain is only 72 and hasn't had that many problems with cancer yet.
The question is, will the rest of the electorate want to be governed by a religious zealot and her geriatric captive?
Editor's Note: For the doubting Thomas's among you, the first Harry Potter book in the series was indeed published in the US in 1998. Sarah Palin served as mayor from 1996 until 2002.
So, yes, the books were indeed in print while she was mayor and seeking to ban books hated by Evangelicals.
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Just wanted to point something out. She also wanted to ban Vonnegut, Miller, Shakespeare and a ton of other great classics. Be sure to tell your daughter she hates polar bears as well. I think Kurt Vonnegut said it best:
“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States — and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”
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