Dowd smacks Palin: Bering Straight Talk

[tannybogus]

I’ve been in Alaska only a week, but I’m already feeling ever so much smarter about Russia.

I can’t quite see it from my hotel window, but, hey, I know it’s out there somewhere, beyond all the stuffed bears and cruise ships and glaciers and oil derricks.

The proximity of the country from which William Seward bartered to buy Alaska for $7 million — Seward’s icebox — is so illuminating that I suddenly realize that we would commit a grave error by overestimating Russia’s economic strength. After all, it represents only 2.8 percent of the world’s G.D.P., even though its gross domestic product has ballooned from $200 billion in 1999 to $1.7 trillion this year.

But I overanalyze.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/opinion/14dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

Never know which way Moreeeen will go. Smackdown on Palin this time.

[Fresh_Start]

1. Like W., Sarah has the power of positive unthinking.

But now we may want to think about where ignorance and pride and no self-doubt has gotten us.

[Paladin]

2. Nice To See That MoDo Is Still Capable Of Turning Out A Decent Column

Lately I've figured she'd lost the ability to do so....