I love that in this great country, with hard work and determination, you can really become anything that you want to be. A girl born in Mississippi to a teen aged housemaid mother and coal miner father can become a media mogul. A man having battled testicular cancer spreading into his brain and lungs can turn around and win the Tour de France. A slave can fight for his freedom and then become an activist for black suffrage and equality in education. Those are just 3 stories of many. Many people that have struggled and endured extraordinary adversity have used that struggle to embody become the pinnacle of success. Sarah Palin’s story is not one of those stories.
The incoming President and Vice President are going to inherit an economy that is in a recession, a military that is over-stretched in two wars, an energy resource that is slowly depleting, and a public that is in dire need of answers. Can we trust that to a woman that cannot simply tell a journalist what media sources she gets her daily information from? Can we trust that to a woman that is running to be Second in Command of this country, but cannot tell us what the Bush Doctrine is? Can we trust that to a woman that feels that Dick Cheney's ONLY mistake in office was accidentally shooting a colleague in the face during a hunting trip? The answer is: absolutely not. Furthermore, can we trust that a man who chooses a woman of such apparent mediocrity has the cognitive ability to get us out of the current state that our nation is in? I think we all know the answer to that.
I, for one, really want to know the methodology behind selecting someone of such a mediocre background as your running mate. If John McCain just wanted a female on the ticket, he could've chosen 2nd term Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, or North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole, who has been serving in office for about 25 years and graduated from Duke University along with receiving a J.D. from Harvard Law School, or senior Texas Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison who graduated from UT-Austin and then received a J.D. from the UT School of Law. All women with experience, which used to be John McCain's platform, and all women that have spent time pursuing higher learning in the pursuit of ascertaining the fundamental knowledge that those that serve in office should possess. Instead, he chose the governor of a state with a smaller population than the city of Chicago, a budget lower than the city of Los Angeles, and went to 4 different colleges and universities to receive her BS in Communications-Journalism. COMMUNICATIONS-JOURNALISM, and she can't disclose which media publications she reads to stay informed on a daily basis? I'm sorry, she did disclose it, and it is infinite, being that she reads, "any of them...all of them."
The incoming President and Vice President are going to inherit an economy that is in a recession, a military that is over-stretched in two wars, an energy resource that is slowly depleting, and a public that is in dire need of answers. Can we trust that to a woman that cannot simply tell a journalist what media sources she gets her daily information from? Can we trust that to a woman that is running to be Second in Command of this country, but cannot tell us what the Bush Doctrine is? Can we trust that to a woman that feels that Dick Cheney's ONLY mistake in office was accidentally shooting a colleague in the face during a hunting trip? The answer is: absolutely not. Furthermore, can we trust that a man who chooses a woman of such apparent mediocrity has the cognitive ability to get us out of the current state that our nation is in? I think we all know the answer to that.
I, for one, really want to know the methodology behind selecting someone of such a mediocre background as your running mate. If John McCain just wanted a female on the ticket, he could've chosen 2nd term Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, or North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole, who has been serving in office for about 25 years and graduated from Duke University along with receiving a J.D. from Harvard Law School, or senior Texas Senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison who graduated from UT-Austin and then received a J.D. from the UT School of Law. All women with experience, which used to be John McCain's platform, and all women that have spent time pursuing higher learning in the pursuit of ascertaining the fundamental knowledge that those that serve in office should possess. Instead, he chose the governor of a state with a smaller population than the city of Chicago, a budget lower than the city of Los Angeles, and went to 4 different colleges and universities to receive her BS in Communications-Journalism. COMMUNICATIONS-JOURNALISM, and she can't disclose which media publications she reads to stay informed on a daily basis? I'm sorry, she did disclose it, and it is infinite, being that she reads, "any of them...all of them."
I realize that I sound bitter, and some may view me as being sexist, but I am just frustrated. Frustrated that in defense of such a mediocre candidate, Barack Obama has been painted as an "elitist" because he is highly educated, articulate, and well informed from a global perspective. Frustrated that the few conservatives that I respect, such as Michael Steele, Linda Lingle, and even John McCain, have allowed themselves to sound absolutely idiotic defending Sarah Palin. Michael Steele, in an appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, defended Palin's qualifications of being a hockey mom while condemning Obama's qualifications of being a community organizer. Linda Lingle, when asked why Palin had consistently fumbled in interviews, responded that perhaps she is "nervous", like being able to articulate themselves in nervous situations is a trait that the public DOESN'T expect in our leaders. And John McCain...well let's not even get into that one. I honestly wish Sarah Palin the best in her political endeavors…in Alaska. As for that Second in Command position, I think we should leave that to the Elite as opposed to the Mediocre.
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