John McCain's choice of Governor Sarah Palin was the last straw. It makes American politics look like a sick comedy. My faith in my native country had already been shaken by other elections and by other wrongs, such as the Iraq war (which I at first supported, to my shame). But the moose-hunting pitbull with lipstick is too much. I have never used my vote in the past, but if I had, I would usually have voted Republican. Today no rational conservative can vote for the Palin and McCain ticket. It makes America an international laughing stock. The fact that there has been a Palin bounce, after her charismatic speech, fills me with dismay. This has little to do with Palin's views. [....] All the same, her selection was a shock. What horrified me was not so much the woman herself, though she is clearly entirely unfit to be vice-president or president. It was McCain's cynical and sudden choice of her. [....] Though he didn't know Palin personally, he must have known a few facts about her. He must have known that she compares feebly with previous vice-presidential candidates. Her education is minimal, her real political and managerial experience very slight. [....] In short Palin is an ill-educated, inexperienced hypocrite. The Republicans are trying to sell her to the voters as something she isn't, and McCain hardly cares what she is. It's a bad day for my native land.
This has little to do with Palin's views. [....] All the same, her selection was a shock. What horrified me was not so much the woman herself, though she is clearly entirely unfit to be vice-president or president. It was McCain's cynical and sudden choice of her. [....] Though he didn't know Palin personally, he must have known a few facts about her. He must have known that she compares feebly with previous vice-presidential candidates. Her education is minimal, her real political and managerial experience very slight. [....] In short Palin is an ill-educated, inexperienced hypocrite. The Republicans are trying to sell her to the voters as something she isn't, and McCain hardly cares what she is. It's a bad day for my native land.
Am I supposed to do [Murdoch alert] for this ? keep to the Fen Causeway
If it was my job to make shit up, I'd probably shoot myself in dispair. OTOH, if I was a latenite talkshow host, I'd be rubbing my hands with glee. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
Dear Ms Marrin,
Speaking of cynical, how are ya?
If you have never bothered to vote, but you´d have voted repugnican anyway, you´d have gotten the choice you are looking at right now!!!, so you have nothing to complain about and nothing to be proud in your oh-so-convenient writing. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
For it is written, when even Minette Marin accidentally writes something that I don't totally disagree with in every detail, then truly the Apocalypse is due...
