NYT Editorial: Gov. Palin’s Worldview

[kskiska]

As we watched Sarah Palin on TV the last couple of days, we kept wondering what on earth John McCain was thinking.

(snip)

What made it so much worse is the strategy for which the Republicans have made Ms. Palin the frontwoman: win the White House not on ideas, but by denigrating experience, judgment and qualifications.

The idea that Americans want leaders who have none of those things — who are so blindly certain of what Ms. Palin calls “the mission” that they won’t even pause for reflection — shows a contempt for voters and raises frightening questions about how Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin plan to run this country.

One of the many bizarre moments in the questioning by ABC News’s Charles Gibson was when Ms. Palin, the governor of Alaska, excused her lack of international experience by sneering that Americans don’t want “somebody’s big fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment where, yes, they’ve had opportunities to meet heads of state.”

We know we were all supposed to think of Joe Biden. But it sure sounded like a good description of Mr. McCain. Those decades of experience earned the Arizona senator the admiration of people in both parties. They are why he was our preferred candidate in the Republican primaries.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/opinion/13sat1.html?hp

[dkf]

1. link?

[Muttocracy]

2. here's one; I like the 2nd paragraph

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/opinion/13sat1.html?ref=opinion

If he seriously thought this first-term governor — with less than two years in office — was qualified to be president, if necessary, at such a dangerous time, it raises profound questions about his judgment. If the choice was, as we suspect, a tactical move, then it was shockingly irresponsible.

[ladjf]

4. He knew. But, he thought the gambit might win the election.

[Muttocracy]

3. I'd like to see the NYT roll back their endorsement of McCain, or at least endorse Obama now. nt

[Tutonic]

5. I'd like to see Rupuert Murdoch acquire the NYT. So that he

can put his stamp of approval on the nonsense that they call journalism. After all, they're no better than the Post, World News or FOX news.