ProgressiveAlaska eviscerates SP's WaPo oped - this one is really good

[Blue_In_AK]

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/07/saradise-lost-book-3-chapter-20-raise.html

Like almost everything she does or says, soon-to-be-ex Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's op-ed in today's Washington Post, is gaining traction with right-wing blogs and writers looking for the next Jim Jones/Ronald Reagan, and derision from sites on the left that are either totally fed up with her bullshit and are tearing the op-ed to shreds, or who are attempting to trace down the real author.

The fact that lefty political blogs which excel in humor aren't totally ecstatic over the article is the best proof I've yet seen or read that Palin herself didn't write the piece. There's not a single sentence in the piece that gets me to ask the most typical Palin question there is when she speaks or writes - "What did she mean?"

I'll join others on the web who are going through this essay, written by, as my friend TBogg has put it, a person with a "journalism degree from Hawaii Pacific North Idaho University of Idaho Matanuska-Susitna of Idaho."

Here's Sarah Palin's Washington Post Op-ed, with my comments (in red or blue):

There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.


(comment: This is the result of decades of flight of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy, through actions of Reagan, both Bushes, and Bill Clinton, abetted by the GOP and Democratic Party Blue Dogs.)

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

(comment: Media like Runners World, People Magazine, Sports Illustrated and Vogue?)

<snip - much more here http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/07/saradise-lost-book-3-chapter-20-raise.html>

Yes, we can. Just not with Barack Obama's energy cap-and-tax plan.

(comment: What it appears we are going to get is not "Barack Obama's" plan. It will be a typical clusterfuck product of the collaboration in Washington DC between lobbyists and the congressional figures who are in bed with them.

And - No I Can't! - believe that the Sarah Palin I've known for 18 years penned this op-ed.)