...if McCain wins, has a heart attack and leaves Palin as President. I mean, I know Obama isn't the perfect candidate. But can we really risk having McCain and Palin run our country?
I feel sort of bad for her. I mean, she's been thrust into the public eye, put under all of this scrutiny, people are making fun of her, her daughter is knocked up, and she's forced to go around campaigning and debating and being interviewed by Katie Couric when probably all she wants to do is curl up on a couch in her pajamas and drink cocoa.
But really... I want my candidate to know where s/he stands. I want them to speak intelligently, to know that foreign policy is about more than being able to "keep an eye" on someone, to be able to answer simple questions about the economic crisis, know specifically what they want to change, and to at least be able to name one or two newspapers or magazines they read. Or at least lie and start throwing out names.
Here are a few videos. This first one is Palin failing to name a Supreme Court decision she disagrees with. None of these videos will embed, for some reason, so you can take action and follow the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn9WduykYpA
Here she is, not being able to name a newspaper she reads. She claims to read "all of them." And then launches into a rant about how Alaska isn't a foreign country. Which would, admittedly, help her foreign policy stance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y
Finally, here is a side-by-side comparison of the disasterous bailout question, and Tina Fey's portrayal. It's brilliant- it's almost word-for-word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqdfzi1Ega0&feature=related
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Wow. Palin never ceases to amaze me…but not in a good way. I totally agree with you, and I’m sure if Palin were to take charge, Canada would experience a significant immigration boom. But seriously, how can Palin not give a Supreme Court case besides Roe v. Wade? It’s not like she doesn’t have specific stances on issues that would directly correlate to cases. And she can’t name a news source? That’s ridiculous and bizarre. Does she trying to avoid playing favorites by not naming just one, or does she really not follow the news? Either way, this woman needs to stop embarrassing herself and her party and go away.
I concur with both you and Kristen; Canada is becoming a very real solution for many who see America dying if McCain were to become President if he died, Palin. She obviously has almost no education in regards to Supreme Court cases because Roe v. Wade is just one - there are many other significant ones that have changed our country. As far as I can tell, she doesn't really follow the media because it's against her - especially due to the many scandals that are now returning into the limelight. She is an embarrassment and she must go away and now.
...wooooooow. The fact that a comedy show can get laughs using the exact words and rhetoric of Sarah Palin is insane. But then again, im not sure which one I laughed more at, Tina Fey or 'Failin' Palin'. But I do wholeheartedly agree with everyone else: she is a disgrace, and she needs to leave. She needs to make like Harry Potter and stay in a cupboard, out of sight, and out of the public's eye.
Also, I do have to say that her knowing only one Supreme court case is embarassing, but I read an article that brings up the point that most people dont pay a lot of attention to supreme court cases. So yeah, its not a good thing that she only knows one, but personally I dont know that many either, and I doubt that the majority of people out there do.
And I also can help but notice that while both of you criticize Palin for only knowing Roe v Wade, you dont actually mention any others that she should know. Like Dred Scott v Sandford, or Plessy v Ferguson. Just saying.
Robin said: "I read an article that brings up the point that most people don't pay a lot of attention to Supreme Court cases. So yeah, it's not a good thing that she only knows one, but personally I don't know that many either, and I doubt that the majority of people out there do."
A lot of pundits and bloggers have been trying to defend her silence by pointing out that "most" "average" Americans™ don't know any Supreme Court cases. I'd be more sympathetic to this if she weren't running for Vice President of the United States. Robin -- and don't get me wrong, I'm fond of him -- is a first-year college student and just name-dropped more Supreme Court cases than Sarah Palin could.
Here's the thing: the conservative base of the GOP has, for the past 15 years or so, used the idea of "judicial activism" as a whipping boy, and have promised in election after election to reshape the judiciary by packing the bench with 'strict constructionists'. When you're the person on your party's ticket most closely aligned with the party base, and one of the base's most important issues is how the liberal activist judges on the Supreme Court have desecrated the vision of the founding fathers, you had better know a Supreme Court case or two!
After all, it wasn't even a year ago that the Supreme Court -- flush with two conservative Bush appointees, granted habeas corpus rights to Gitmo detainees. Then, of course, there's Bush v. Gore (2000), but I'm guessing the GOP doesn't really want us thinking about that one these days.
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