For the record, I am delighted to see you back posting and challenging. I know you aren't doing it to "make us weep", an attitude that just tends to encourage the partisan response.
Reading the mindless reaction to Palin by the right (talk about paeans) reminded me how easy it is to react in the same way as one gets defensive about one's own candidate. I had already decided to vote for Obama, and the Palin nomination cemented my vote- but based more on what it says about McCain than on Palin herself.
I understand your point about the unlikelihood of her being president-- at least immediately- but stranger things have happened. And there is nothing, nothing, in her record that has equipped her for the global part of the job- least of all any attempts on her own to learn about the world. Heck, they can't even let her out for two weeks, she is so unready. There are people on this board more qualified than she is. I don't see it as some Lincolnesque we the people choice, but a thoughtless, politically expedient gamble. I am not a gambler. That's one reason Obama was a hard choice for me. Well, that and not being a liberal either.
I do think the reaction to Palin was at first shock, and then curiosity, and then consternation, which may have made us react more strongly.
So keep us honest. Ask the questions when the Odes to Obama get out of hand. |
