A Spin on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Palin
October 5, 2008 by amanda
Filed under Editorials
photo credit: Fox News
By Kim Ngai, News Editor
For the first time since she was announced to be Senator John McCain\’s running mate, Sarah Palin wasn\’t the topic of the day on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. She didn\’t make headlines on the LA Times, and she wasn\’t the subject of any major political pundits\’ broadcasts on CNN.
Sarah Palin was a sensation when she was picked. She was different— a hunter, a former beauty queen and varsity high school basketball player. She was from Alaska. And if that was the “change” the GOP was looking for, they got it.
They got everything by nominating Governor Palin except for experience—the very same thing they have been hounding Obama on for the past year. Her foreign policy experience is that the fact that Alaska is neighbors with Russia.
Well, I\’m pretty sure that Obama took a geography course once, too and learned that Alaska was next to Russia. And perhaps it would only be fair to add that since she\’s governor, she\’s also in charge of the National Guard. So is Arnold Schwarzenegger, my dear. And when was the last time you heard him talking about the last thing he did with California\’s National Guard?
I have to admit that Sarah Palin is interesting—but for all the wrong reasons. Never have I seen someone who so strongly believes global warming is a climactic cycle that will end when Mother Nature wills it. Never have I seen someone who so strongly advocated Georgia being involved with NATO. She says war is hell, but by accepting Georgia into NATO, she would only be promoting it by taunting Russia.
Someone who inherits an almost debt-free state and leaves it owing 13 million is definitely someone who is a heartbeat away from the presidency, the highest position in the United States of America.
Palin also attempted to comment on our economic crisis. And it was a failure at best. She claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” However, Andrew Jakabovics, an economic analyst, added that her remarks were “…somewhat nonsensical because up until yesterday there was no public funding there [ in Fannie and Freddie]. Even today they haven’t drawn down any of the credit line they have given to Treasury.”
The Sarah Palin excitement has finally died down. Unlike the unfathomable reasons for why John McCain would pick such an inexperienced individual to lead our nation, there was a large reason why Palin was on headline news. She was interesting because she hunted moose and has a teenage daughter pregnant out of wedlock.
We let her personal life influence our own judgments. Republicans blamed Obama for hosting a celebrity show, but there\’s nothing different than the Palin was being presented. It\’s about time both parties focus on the real issues.
