Friday, October 3, 2008
A Whiter Shade of Palin
Posted by Noah Bonaparte Pais on Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM
On CNN this morning, a talk radio host in St. Louis declared Sarah Palin’s performance in the VP debate a success, citing her use of “complete sentences.” (Up next on AC360: McCain surges ahead on strength of subject/verb agreement!) To anyone else disappointed by Palin’s, um, non-face-plant last night, take heart in knowing that the Katie Couric clips just won’t die. At around the one-and-a-half minute mark of this latest chestnut, after Joe Biden says Dick Cheney’s shredding of the Constitution has been more harmful “than any other single elected official in my memory,” Palin deems Icky Dick's biggest failing to be accidentally shooting Harry Whittington on a hunting trip in 2006. Really? Not advocating torture in worldwide rendition camps? Not selling Americans on WMDs in order to sell Iraq to Halliburton? Not inflating his own legislative influence through the dissolution of checks and balances? Nope: “Worst thing, I guess, that woulda been the duck hunting accident (Ed. note: it was quail), where, you know, that was, that was an accident. And that was made into a caricature of him, and that was kind of unfortunate." Lodging buckshot in your buddy is a big no-no in Wasilla, dontcha know.
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And yet, we live in a democracy where each individual, regardless of word count, only gets one vote. The way Palin haters go on in the local blogs, seems they forget that rule. Or is it just their own tendency towards verbosity that makes Obama/Biden so appealing to them? It's the inexperience. Obama's not vying for the one step away post.
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For someone who evidently dislikes Palin so much, you certainly write about her a whole lot.
Comment No. 1: about bloggers and Obama. Comment No. 2: about me. Doesn't anyone have something to say either way about this potential train-wreck executive?
Bloggers (or did you mean commenters) tend to be curious and verbal people so of course they dislike Palin, and of course write about her. The gleeful arrogance of ignorance is too tempting a symbol of what's wrong with America to not call it out. Odd how a vice president embodies the leadership (Chenney) and Palin the electorate that has run the country off the tracks.There respective No. 1s seem almost an afterthought.
The nice thing about American democracy is also the ability to speak out against what one sees as wrong. This can potentially change more than just one vote. Or would you rather we just shut up, say nothing to change the minds of others and take our bitter medicine like good little Dickensian children?
