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| Keith Olbermann comments on Sarah Palin, Mccain's VP pick |
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McCain's minimal vetting of Palin. All you
can say from this - regardless of what
happens with this Desperate Housewives
subplot beginning to play out - is that
McCain is more incompetent as an executive
than Bush:
As the Palin pick turns 72 hours old,
McCain's campaign is learning as much about
her from the media and from Democrats as they
are from what minimal political preparation
they had...
They've bragged that Palin opposed the famous
"Bridge to Nowhere," only to learn that
Palin supported the project and even told
residents of Ketchikan that they weren't
"nowhere" to her. After the national outcry,
she decided to spend the funds allocated to
the bridge for something else. Actually,
maybe it's more fair to say that coincident
with the national outcry, she changed her
mind. The story shows her political judgment,
but it is not a reformer's credential.
Likewise, though she cut taxes as mayor of
Wassila, she raised the sales tax, making her
hardly a tax cutter.
She denied pressuring the state's chief of
public safety to fire her sister-in-law's
husband even though there's mounting evidence
that the impetus did indeed come from her.
Ostensibly to clear her name, Palin asked her
attorney general to open an independent
investigation—the legislature had already
been investigating. (I am told that the
campaign was aware of the ethics complaint
filed against her but accepts Palin's
account.)
McCain's campaign seemed unaware that she
supported a windfalls profits tax on oil
companies and that she is more skeptical
about human contributions to global warming
than McCain is.
They did not know that she took trips as the
mayor of Wasilla to beg for earmarks.
They did not know that she told a television
interviewer this summer that she did not
fully understand what it is that a vice
president does.
You know what this pick remind me of?
Invading a country with no plans for what to
do once you got there.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai
ly_dish/2008/09/what-mccain-did.html#more
Tags : Barack Obama Joe Biden john Mccain Sarah Palin economy speech interview debate energy oil gas tax cut Iraq war president |
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