September 13, 2008

• Politics- You Have Been Warned

  The Reason Palin Is a Bad Choice for America--

  Note I said "for America" not for "the Republican Party."

  I've had a hard time articulating why I think Palin is a bad choice for the Vice Presidency-- it isn't about whether she will get votes or not (which is why the GOP appears to have picked her), it's about whether she's really ready for the job. This NY Times Op-Ed says it Better than I can.

  For those of you who don't care to read the whole thing, I'll include what I think is the most disturbing quote:

  "I feel for Ms. Palin’s son who has been shipped off to the war in Iraq. But at his deployment ceremony, which was on the same day as the Charlie Gibson interview, Sept. 11, she told the audience of soldiers that they would be fighting 'the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.'

  Was she deliberately falsifying history, or does she still not know that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks?"

  And she could be president.

  (And I don't even want to talk about how interesting I find it that Palin's son's deployment ceremony just happened to be on Sept. 11th. I thought the parties claimed they were both taking that day off from campaigning-- or was it just the presidential candidates?)

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