Here’s what I was obliquely trying to say by posting this video: if you want to be a President of the United States, it’s something you prepare for your entire adult life. The shape of that experience varies but ideally should include some mix of academic excellence, meaningful experience in government, enthusiastic engagement in international affairs and military service in a time of war if applicable. Sarah Palin has none of these qualifications. She hopped around from one mediocre undergraduate program to another and finally graduated from the University of Idaho. Her very first trip outside of North America was in 2007. Her time in government was marred by support of one of the most embarrassing earmark proposals ever, the $450m “Bridge to Nowhere,” among other misadventures. She’s not even remotely qualified to be President, and anyone who’s given honest thought to her candidacy – regardless of political affiliation – knows it.
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geoff, just go with this really (there is video of this exchange too)
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the–it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.
well… she certainly is biologically a woman!