Oh my, how the cookie does crumble. The pendulum has swung so far the other way on Palin, I almost feel sorry for her now. She's now being hammered even by conservative gurus who only a month ago saw her as the second coming - for example conservative columnist Kathleen Parker who had praised McCain's "keen judgment" in picking Palin who she said was "a perfect storm of God, Mom and apple pie," now says Palin should step down from the ticket. She's not alone, the article also cites 3 other conservatives who say the same David Brooks, George Will, and David Frum.
Palin step down
But what the heck, it's still fun to pile on the pressure and watch her squirm. For today's episode, we have the clip where she rears her head and says "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. "
Anderson Cooper's double take is priceless.
Palin clips
Heck, while you're there, check out the other clips on this interview as well. It's fun, it's Friday.
More seriously, Carl Bernstein echoes exactly what I've said on this blog for the last month, that all these Palinproblems are entirely McCain's fault, she is who she is, and is probably a mighty fine governor of the state of Alaska, but in picking her for VP, he exercised a colossal misjudgement and threw away his hard-won legacy of an honest, straight-talking patriot.
The devolution of McCain
Looking back, I think maybe even the bigger mistake he made was in hiring the entire Bush campaign team (who basically burnt him at the stake in 2000) to run his campaign, including Karl Rove's protege Steve Schmidt, whose capacity for evil sleaze even gives his master pause. A decisive victory by Obama in this election would surely end these evilmongers' career once and for all, and perhaps return American elections to the democratic ideal the world once looked up to.
I'll drink to that tonite when I'm watching the debate.
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Dear iloveusafirst,
to me all politicians are sleaze-bag liars regardless of their party affiliation or their ideology. So the difference between a lie one tells or a half truth the other tells is minute. We all hear what we want to hear anyway, and we want to believe that one or another will bring some fresh air to a pretty polluted place.
Yesterday I heard comments made by congressmen of both parties that made me very angry, especially when they went in their typical accusatory modes of blaming the other for not resolving a problem they should earnestly work togehter on, and to be honest I was disgusted by it.
Take care, and congratualtions on your new blog. I'm sure I'll be reading it when I can.
Max5959, i agree with you on one big thing - the current climate in washington is toxic. but it's gotten that way over 8 years (or at least 6 - they've had to come down a bit the last couple years, but hardly what I'd call cooperative)of high-handed brushing off by the Bush white house.
There definitely needs to be a change in government for this climate
to change.
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