Monday, September 29, 2008
Who's Fault is This?
Chalk it up to my new-found maternal instinct, but I have resisted the urge to unleash my witty banter at Sarah Palin's expense, mostly because it's just too easy. This morning, however, I watched her interview with Katie Couric on CBS and was outraged. Not just because she referred to Congress as "those guys in Washington," but because of her utter lack of preparation, savvy, and general political acumen. She has no business being on the presidential ticket and the ridicule she is being subjected to is John McCain's fault.
Surely he could have predicted the elitist scrutiny she would fall under when it was discovered that she (gasp!) transferred to three different colleges before earning her bachelor's degree, or that her passport is just one year old. Surely he has a staff, at least one of whom should have taken her aside and rehearsed a few foreign policy talking points besides, "I can see Russia from my back yard." Who in their right mind would ask a person with no concept of national, world, and global affairs beyond her limited scope of experience to potentially lead our country? And worse, who would ask someone who so obviously is out of her league and then essentially throw her under the media bus?
This situation reminds me of a conversation I had with a good friend and mentor a few years ago. I was immersed in the last pages of my Master's thesis and due to turn it in to the graduate committee for final review in a week. I was terrified that they would read one paragraph and start laughing and rolling their eyes. "Who is this girl?" "Who does she think she is, trying to get a Master's degree?" My friend, in her unfailing wisdom, reminded me that I had an awesome faculty advisor who had reviewed each draft, provided honest feedback and guidance, and ultimately his blessing that it was ready to submit to the committee. She said, "Sherri, your advisor will not set you up for failure. He has a reputation to uphold and if he approved a thesis that was less than ready, it would reflect poorly on him and the work we do. He knows what a Master's thesis is supposed to look like and if he says you are ready, you are ready. So get it done!"
Mr. McCain, this is not what a Vice Presidential Candidate is supposed to look like!
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6 comments:
Yikes. That was painful to watch. She came off as many things...scared out of her mind, nervous, defensive, hostile. Many things except confidence, what she needed to show. I am with you...I wonder what support she has received to prepare her for this huge undertaking! There is no comparision to Hillary Clinton.
Oh my....I thought she didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was but she pretty much articulated it through her fear-mongering, hate, and intolerance. That's scary. By the way, your mentor sounds swell!
What's really bad is that Tina Fey's impersonation didn't have to stray far from Sarah Palin's verbatim answers to get big laughs. That's just scary. And if McCain wins, with his age and past cancers as factors, the statistical chances are very high that he won't finish his term. Then we have President Palin???
OMG, I so almost kicked in my television last night when she said she might not give the answers that the moderator and her opponent wanted to hear. Who the hell does she think she's fooling? And I swear to all the deities people pray to...I will puke all over her shoes if she winks at the t.v. lens again.
I definitely need to up the xanax if this woman becomes the next president in waiting.
!@#$$%
OMG, I nearly lost my head when she decided to not answer the moderator's questions. I mean, really, why go to the trouble of actually participating in the debate when you can just off on your own? That's more like my grandpa when he had dementia than a self-defined maverick, don't ya know. Joe Sixpack...for $%^#s sake. And I swear to every deity in the spirit realm that I will hunt her down and throw up (and not just a little, but a whole lot) on her shoes if she ever winks at the camera lens again.
I'm so going to have to move out of the country or go back on xanax if this woman steps into the president in waiting position.
Urhg!!!
Beautifully said. I have been so annoyed for, well, a month that this has been such a well-executed plan by the McCain camp...sleazy politicians at their best!
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