For a couple of days. Tomorrow I go to the doctor for one of those “exams”. You know the kind where you need someone to drive you home afterwards, because you are all doped up on anesthetics? Where did 7 years go?
So while I’m horizontal and God willing its only for a short while (I always get nervous when doctors administer anesthesia on me…..), here is a homework assignment:
Most people can name the Presidents, or most of them, few can name the Vice Presidents. This little video will compare Sarah Palin to every Vice President in US history. As Andrew Sullivan points out, “Well worth 12 minutes of your time. The Palin nomination is without historical precedent for her total lack of any salient qualifications as well as her refusal to engage the press in any meaningful way in a national election campaign. Truly surreal and utterly without precedent. Just listen to Lessig go through the history of the vice-presidents.” If you don’t have the time just remember this number-2 out of 46. That’s Sarah Palin’s rank from the bottom in this Veepstakes.
No quiz-we all just flunk the course if we all guess wrong because the electorate is in love with the myth-without understanding the reality of who she really is. “Just folks” my rear. Her story is not my story-nor is it most of America’s. Try telling that to the throngs who checked their good sense at the door.
Well not me. I watched a PBS special on Reagan last night-and anyone who thinks of Palin as a female Ronald Reagan, needs to go back and review the details of Regan’s life. She does not deserve to tie Reagan’s shoes-much less be that close to the office he once held. I shall not allow his memory to be disgraced by such a comparison.
Get thee back to Anchorage!