Friday, October 3, 2008
On the debate: Except for once when it sounded like she thought "Al Kayda" was a dictator in some middle eastern country, Palin mostly didn't shoot herself in the foot. She was able to stick to a topic and form complete sentences that made sense. Unfortunately, the subject she stuck to often had nothing to do with the question except for the presence of the keyword or two she took off on, and she imparted no specifics. I kept yelling at the television "Answer the question!"
Everyone picked up on her getting the name of the commander in Afghanistan wrong. But worse than getting the name wrong was getting what he said wrong. She said he said an Iraq-style surge in Afghanistan would work.
WASHINGTON – The new top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said yesterday that more U.S. troops are urgently required to combat a worsening insurgency, but he stated emphatically that no Iraq-style “surge” of forces will end the conflict there. "Afghanistan is not Iraq,” said Gen. David McKiernan, who led ground forces during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and took over four months ago as head of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan.
Also, she said that Obama was wrong that US air strikes were killing civilians. In fact, US air strikes are wreaking enough havoc on the civilian population, killing men, women, and children indiscriminately, that the US is severely impacting NATO goals with the Afghani government.
What she did best: There are a very large number of people who don't find intelligence, experience, or expertise to be desirable. They want someone "just like me". Most of her demeanor and delivery was carefully calculated to appeal to those "just like me" people. Wink, wink.
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Want to know who your neighbors made political contributions to, and how much? Go to http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/ and put in a zip code, or town name, or street name, or even a specific address (careful - some people didn't use their home address), or a last name.
Pretty cool.
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To correct a misconception - if the president dies, and then the vice-president dies, Nancy Pelosi does NOT necessarily become president. She would become president only if BOTH the president and vice-president die at pretty much the same time.
If the president dies, one of the first duties of the vice-president upon being sworn in is to appoint a new vice-president. Then if the new president would die, the appointed vice-president becomes the new president and appoints... etc. So it's possible to have a president who was never elected.
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Some female (young, single) idiot (Diana Falzone?) on "Mike and Juliet" today just said that if you don't like your in-laws, you probably don't really like your spouse. She also said you should not keep in touch with an ex.
She's so naive! I have disliked in-laws. One, Ex#2's mother, because she repeatedly snubbed me and made my husband's life miserable, and another because I loved Jay, and I could clearly see that the reason Jay couldn't make decisions was that his father viciously attacked every decision he'd ever made. It was next to impossible to please the man.
And certainly you MUST keep in touch with an ex-spouse if there are children, and if there's no children it's still ok if you both can keep it on a friends-only level. Even ex-dates can be friends, if you were friends before the dating.
That young lady has a lot to learn, even if she does have an advice book out. Writing a book doesn't automatically make you an expert!
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