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Palin lacks tolerance, truthfulness and tact

Editor, the Tribune: Sarah Palin must have good qualities or she wouldn’t be governor of Alaska. However, she lacks three that are necessary for better national and world leadership: truthfulness, tact and tolerance.

● The eBay sale of Alaska’s state plane is an example of untruthfulness.

● Damning the press at her acceptance speech shows her lack of tact. She has a tendency to be a smart aleck, and that is disastrous for fruitful negotiation.

● Palin is intolerant of a woman’s right to choose and gays’ equality. She, like the far right Christians who support her, would use her freedom to take away others’ freedom. She bases this on her religious beliefs.

We live in a country with many religious beliefs. Each must be respected and none force itself upon the other.

We have had a lack of truthfulness, tact and tolerance in the White House during the past eight years. We need no more of it, so vote carefully!

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Donna Jones

1700 Forum Blvd.

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