The Sarah swindle

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The Sarah swindle
Sarah Palin
by Jack Lessenberry | September 17, 2008


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Months ago, I steeled myself for the McCainiac revelation, presumably on Election Day, that Obama has fathered two black children, and has sex with a lawyer. That's what you expect these days. Last week, I talked about the opportunism and cheap cynicism of choosing the woefully inexperienced and undereducated Alaska governor as vice president.

That's all that was merited saying about Sarah Palin, I thought. At least for a while. Then I saw her interviewed by ABC-TV's Charles Gibson, and was incredibly shocked and angry.

It wasn't that she didn't know anything, though she knew damned little. Her handlers had worked hard at teaching her how to pronounce the last names of the leaders of Iran (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and Georgia (Mikheil Saakashvili) and she proudly showed off her parrot-like linguistic skills.

But apart from that, she was not only ignorant, but defiantly arrogant about her lack of knowledge and experience. She exhibited total contempt for those who are competent and, uh, think before making decisions that could possibly blow up the world. No, she had never met any foreign leaders, but asserted that Americans "don't want somebody's big fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades" of Washington experience.

Obnoxiously calling the interviewer "Charlie," over and over, she said that she never hesitated when offered the vice presidency. Not for a second, even though she had a newborn with Down syndrome and a pregnant, unmarried daughter still in high school. Not for a second, though her highest-level educational experience was three semesters at the University of Idaho, where she got a BA in communication.

The fact that she was essentially an ignoramus didn't faze her. As she told old Charlie, "You have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission that you can't blink."

Huh? Was she being asked to parachute into France on D-Day? No, she was being asked to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, from having her finger on the nuclear button.

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