Now I know what the gypsy meant When he told me I’d never be President. He said, “Adopt a Korean, kill you a moose Before all hell breaks loose. ” From Before All Hell Breaks Loose by Kinky Friedman Click here to hear it.
“We rely on elected officials not to use the power of their office to pursue personal agendas or vendettas. It's called an abuse of power. There is ample evidence that Palin used her power as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired. When his boss refused to fire him, she fired his boss. She first denied Monegan's claims of pressure to fire Wooten and then had to amend her story when evidence proved otherwise. The available evidence now suggests that she 1) tried to have an ex-relative fired from his job for personal reasons, something that was clearly inappropriate, and perhaps illegal, though possibly understandable in human terms, 2) fired a state official for not himself acting inappropriately by firing the relative, 3) lied to the public about what happened and 4) continues to lie about what happened.
These are, to put it mildly, not the traits or temperament you want in someone who could hold the executive power of the federal government.” Getting Real About Palin By Josh Marshall
Thanks to Jane.
2 comments:
She must have really hated that Caribou.
Hay, Palin is the next logical step after Bush seems to me. A natural for the Republican party. It is the good old boy concept carried to a feminine extreme. I mean don't you figure she would be fun to have a beer with, or two or three? America found George a likely drinking buddy in spite of his privileged background and expsoure to an education, and gave him the presidency for it. It was a testament to his fundamental lack of intellectual curiosity that the good old boy in him survived his education and background. (His presidency actually confounds the nature or nurture argument entirely, as his stupidity triumphed over both genes and environment.)
Palin has a leg up on George in this regard, as she has not had to struggle against such unfavorable circumstances as George to maintain her common touch. I mean her sister married an Alaska State trooper, whom she is now divorcing and her daughter is pregnant at seventeen. These things and worse happen to the finest families but where are the pluses here? Palin eloped with her husband at 24 years of age, she is a beauty pageant participant with a BS in communications-journalism from Idaho University, with five children. A good old gal if there ever was one. The potential first gentleman is an oilfield production operator and commercial fisherman. Nothing wrong with any of this in the abstract, but is there something here to lead us to believe that this woman has the kind of mind and mental discipline, the education and/or background and experience, the steady judgment and focus one would want in a President of the United States?
Can you imagine what intelligent and serious minded people around the world are thinking? Why, they must be asking, do they have to live on the same planet with a country that consumes so much, drives the world's economy, has an enormous arsenal of destruction, and a national personality disorder that makes it think it is destined to run the whole planet and causes it to immerse its political thought and national character in a bible thumping, snake handling, gun worshiping mythology that idolizes ignorance and transforms it into a virtue?
Naturally, so enlighten, she is against sex education, other than abstinence; it has worked so well for her family, which by the way started eight months post elopement.
What the hell does this say about McCain's judgment that he would chose such a running mate? What does it say about the Republican party apparatus, that it would allow him to choose her. Is there no point at which the well being of the nation rises above the parties short term political interest? What does it say about the American voter, right of center, that the party thinks they will ratify the choice? The answer is, it says nothing we have not all known a long time.
Do we take ourselves serious here? Is there any vision in any of this for the country, for humanity for what anything is about?
The very occurance says a lot about what is wrong with this country which slipped is moorings after vietnam and has never really regained is balance or sense of direction.
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