Sara Palin is a genius!

I don’t know about you, but I kind of grew up with the impression that it took some brains to be president.  I am just baffled by how things go in this country sometimes.  I don’t understand why so many people supported the invasion of Iraq in the name of fighting ‘terrorism’.  I don’t understand how Bush declared ‘Mission Accomplished’, what like 5 years ago almost?, and we’re still losing lives there.  I don’t understand how we stopped counting votes in the 2000 election and no one complained.  WE STOPPED COUUNTING VOTES.  In a DEMOCRACY.  Which  we claim the need to spread around the world.   You all know these facts.  Now, we are again in an election year and  I don’t know what to think again.

 On the one hand, we have Obama, who to me, seems to say ‘change’ over and over.  I’m still not clear on what that means.  On the other, we have McCain, who during the convention in his biography video stressed that he ‘lived in a box’ which I guess means that he has a superior world view.  In the past week he said the economy was fundamentally sound.  Then we have Palin.  

Apparently the fact that you can read a tele-prompter and speak makes you qualified to be president.  I didn’t get all the praise she got for the convention speech…true, she spoke well.  She read well.  A speech someone else most likely wrote.  People were IMPRESSED by this.  How did we get to this being a great thing? Anyway, it seems like many people are ignoring the fact that she is going to be next in line for president if something happens to McCain.  And she doesn’t even speak in sentences.  And she doesn’t even answer the questions asked.  

Here:   This is a direct excerpt from Katie Couric’s One-On-One interview with Sarah Palin, which aired Wednesday on CBS.

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess? 

Gov. Sarah Palin: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the — it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.

If McCain wins, this woman will be a 72-year- old heartbeat away from being president of the United States.

And here: A Question Reprised, but the Words Come None Too Easily for Palin

It just amazes me that the polling could even be so close.   Well, there ya go.  I’m gonna go hunt a moose and say I’m a foreign policy expert because NY borders Canada.