- A moose. Hiding from Sarah Palin, perhaps? Photo:Peter Mirejovsky, from canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/…/ alc_alc.htm
After this blog’s nearly summer-long slumber, I guess it’s time I pitched my wholly unnecessary $0.02 in regards to Sarah Palin.
No one quite expected crazy old McCain to pick up some random lady from Alaska, and the reaction from the general public is mixed at best, but Palin has managed to turn quite a few heads, and I’m rather impressed.
There’s the absurdity of the whole deal, for one. How is our nation’s most physically attractive moose shooter suddenly under consideration for the second most powerful position in the country?
Well, just look at her long list of qualifications. We have the aformentioned shooting of meese, and of course she’s a hockey mom, has a litter of children one of which has Down’s Syndrome, and of course she’s very very Christian.
Aren’t these the most important aspects in regards to the consideration of a presidential candidate? AFter all, we’re dealing with a lady who uses the words “Iraq” and “God” in the same sentence, and seems to believe its all a part of some sort of biblical prophecy.
So maybe Sarah Palin’s a prophet. She’d be good in the White house, no? After all, who better to run a war and rid the world of heathens than an Alaskan prophet?
Bollocks, you say. She’s but the vice-presidential candidate. We’ll still have Maverick running the show.
Oh yeah? Who’s to say that 20 minutes after getting sworn in, Palin won’t assassinate 72-year-old McCain by sneaking up behind him and shouting “boo?”
McCain keeps calling himself an agent of change, but for the life of me, I have no idea what he could possibly be talking about, unless he intends on fully ridding himself of his now self-proclaimed “maverick” status by following Palin all the way to the radical right.
And I’m not the first to point this out, but would the McCain of 2000, when he was still called a maverick by people besides himself and a few die-hards, have even voted for McCain 2008?
I don’t intend to seem mean.
OK, maybe a little. But seriously, when choosing a vice-presidential candidate whose main qualifications involve hockey and moose-shooting has the ability to turn the presidential race on its end, what’s going on?
Perhaps I’m overlooking the much ballyooed qualification that Palin is in Alaska, a state whose (relative) geographic closeness to Russia makes them “neighbors,” and thereby proves Palin’s excellent potential in foreign relations.
And tonight, we’ve got the VP debates. What fun that’ll be. Any SJSU-ites should know that Dr. Cheers is hosting a viewing of said debate in room 222, or somewhere on the second floor of Dwight Bentel Hall.
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