Well I must admit that Sarah Palin did much better than we had all been led to believe. Perhaps this is the George W. Bush technique of setting the bar so low with the initial interviews that anything beyond that would seem genuinely good. I was actually very surprised at how well she handled herself. My opinion from the two previous interviews (I'm only counting interviews with journalists here so her fluff piece with Sean Hannity on Fox doesn't count) was that she was woefully unqualified to be in the position she's in. I'm still not sure she is. Perhaps this was just a good showing after weeks of intense coaching. She was coherent on stage in a way that was the complete opposite of many of her answers to Katie Couric's rather straightforward questions.
Do I believe she'd do a good job? No. Do I believe Obama/Biden would do a better job? Probably not, but we'll see. You see, I happen to think that both parties are full of shit. The idea that we have two separate political parties in the country is ludicrous. What we have is the illusion of choice. We don't have choice, we have, in the words of the late George Carlin, "Fucking Owners". They own our asses and know that we'll do whatever they want as long as they put some folksy charm up there with a few "Nuculer's" and "You Betcha's". They parade this phoney down-home charm up there because we fall for it every single time. I don't know that I'll ever be able to figure out why we base our votes upon who we'd most like to have a beer with as opposed to who we think would do the best job.
Our nation, I hate to say it, has become a nation of dim-witted fools utterly convinced of their own entitlement and completely xenophobic towards anything not positively dripping with false Americana. From the grotesque displays of 10 mile per gallon Hummer's parading as domestic vehicles in the midst of an energy crisis to the empty gestures of the flag stickers afixed to them, we have truly embraced patriotism and politics exactly as we embrace celebrity gossip and reality television. We are spectators in our own democracy.
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