What does Sarah Palin not know and when did she not know it?

[Bread and Circus]

Frankly, I've never seen a candidate be so "off limits" to questioning such as this. It says one thing, they don't want Palin off script because she doesn't know jack shit. I'm already resigned to the sad expectation that no matter what her debate performance will be it will be spun as a major victory for her and McCain. Our one chance to have her face real questioning will be all-for-naught because of the way the media will handle it. Her lack of knowledge of the issues will be spun as folksy appeal and if she does hit one or two talking points really well, she will be hailed as the second coming of Reagan.

[whistle]

1. Everything and always

[Goblinmonger]

2. It pisses me off

but as long as she doesn't soil herself on stage during the debates, everyone will talk about how it was a victory for her. I often marvel at our society's desire to be adequate rather than exemplary.

Edit: didn't use a possessive and it drove me nuts.

[RichGirl]

3. I think that intelligence is so underplayed in this election....

that even democrats are baffled by Palin. It's simple. Based on her school record, she was average or below average. Now the McCain campaign is expecting straight "A" performance from her. Memorizing isn't the same as knowing and understanding.

[mscuedawg]

4. Im hoping more for the second coming of Dan Quayle... eom

[nc4bo]

5. Why does Sarah hate Alaska?

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/palin/index.html

Sept. 19, 2008 | WASILLA, Alaska -- Every morning she's at home here, Sarah Palin wakes up to a postcard view from her lakeside home. Out the windows of her two-story wood-framed house stretch the serene, birch-lined waters of Lake Lucille. Ducks go gliding by the red-and-white Piper Cub floatplane docked outside. With the snow-frosted Chugach and Talkeetna mountains looming in the distance, the scene seems to define the Alaska that Palin celebrates: rugged, majestic, unspoiled.

And, yet, the lake Sarah Palin lives on is dead.

"Lake Lucille is basically a dead lake -- it can't support a fish population," said Michelle Church, a Mat-Su Valley borough assembly member and environmentalist. "It's a runway for floatplanes."

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Palin recently told the New Yorker magazine that Alaskans "have such a love, a respect for our environment, for our lands, for our wildlife, for our clean water and our clean air. We know what we've got up here and we want to protect that, so we're gonna make sure that our developments up here do not adversely affect that environment at all. I don't want development if there's going to be that threat to harming our environment."

But as mayor of her hometown, say many local critics, Palin showed no such stewardship.

"Sarah's legacy as mayor was big-box stores and runaway growth," said Patty Stoll, a retired Wasilla schoolteacher who once worked in the same school with Palin's parents, Chuck and Sally Heath. "The truth is, Wasilla is just plain ugly, it's not a pleasant place to live. It's not thought out. And that's a shame.

"Sarah fouled her own nest, and I can't understand why. I hate to think it was simply greed or ambition."

Among the environmental casualties of Wasilla's frenzied development was Palin's own front yard, Lake Lucille. The lake was listed as "impaired" in 1994 by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and it still carries that grim label. State environmental officials say that leaching sewer lines and fertilizer runoff caused an explosion of plant growth in the lake, which sucked the oxygen out of the water and led to periodic fish kills.

More at the link.

Priceless that the beautiful lake you see every day, park your plane on and let your kids play near is DEAD?

Gotta love that Sarah Wolfkiller gal.