Caught a bit of Chris Matthews’ (yeah, I know, he’s a condescending bore) show last night. Hardball was interviewing Brian Williams and that new political analyst Todd something or other (or maybe it’s something or other Todd) about the NBC interview of Sarah Palin and John McCain.
The Republican ticket finally consented to allowing NBC interviewing both candidates together and then Sarah Palin alone. Williams noted that he was only given 28 minutes to do the interview of the pair together. His description made a big deal of the body language and although I didn’t see what he described in the short segment shown early this morning on The Today Show, I’ll be watching NBC tonight for a larger portion. Williams’ view is that McCain and Palin showed no sense of connection, togetherness or camaraderie. Oohhh, yeah, I know. Camaraderie has such socialist texture to it.
As I watched the short Today Show clip, a few things stuck out.
When McCain was asked about Powell’s endorsement, he counted off the stump speech ”pluses:” executive experience, took on the governor of her own party, budgets, supervised 24,000 employees, fought corruption, raised 5 children, her own son is in harm’s way, etc., etc. You’ve heard ‘em all and probably have read a few more in other places. Palin interrupted to state how she’s appreciative (huh?) for all the endorsements McCain’s received.
Among things McCain did not touch on were how Sarah Palin operates a socialist government in Alaska. He made a very quick mention of how Palin spread oil revenue to the citizens of Alaska. That, my friends, falls square within the definition of socialism. The oil companies in Alaska pay what is described as a royalty for the hydrocarbons pumped from the ground. But during Palin’s short stint as governor, she added a tax onto those companies – in what sure appears to be a strong-arm move – and then doled the proceeds of those taxes out to every living human in Alaska, and even a few thousand who do not actually live in Alaska. The Republicans can complain all they’d like about the democrats and Obama maybe “spreading out the wealth” if elected, without looking at their own candidates, but this is exactly what their VP candidate is doing as governor of Alaska.
McCain also said nothing about how Joe Biden’s words would apply to Sarah Palin should he – McCain – drop dead from one of his medical conditions. A recent poll showed that the majority of Americans have a serious concern about her readiness. Would Sarah Palin be ready to lead? Does she have any experience to help her make the right decisions when the enemies of this country decide to test her during her first few days as President?
Hell no !!!!!!!!!!
As we can see from her few actual days as governor of Alaska, she can’t even put qualified people into the important positions of state government. And in the one case where she did, she fired him because he would not fire her former brother-in-law. Nothing about how Sarah Palin was found by a non-partisan group to have violated Alaska’s weak ethics laws in that firing.
McCain also did not disclose that Sarah Palin is THE FACE, along with her indicted mentor, Senator Ted Stevens, of public corruption in Alaska. Sarah Palin is exactly what she claims to be fighting in Alaskan politics. Don’t believe me? Why not read the words of real Alaskans? Try starting with http://mudflats.wordpress.com. Pick any of the posts in mudflats and it will soon become clear how corrupt and narcissistic Sarah Palin truly is.
Another thing that caught my attention was McCain’s claim that Sarah Palin has raised 5 children. I’m sorry and don’t mean to be snarky about this, but is the infant Trig “raised”?? What about Bristol? Or the daughter in between? And has Track actually shipped out to Iraq, or is he still in training down south? If he’s down south, then he’s hardly “in harm’s way.”
McCain also backtracked from his earlier claim to be in a plane on the deck during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Guess he, or someone in his campaign, thought better of that claim once they were informed that the news media submitted a request for confirmation to the Pentagon. But then, fluffing things up has been a hallmark of the current McCain campaign for president.
