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From conservative columnist at the Dallas Morning News, Kathleen Parker (she also posts at Townhall.com):
Some of the passionately feminist critics of Ms. Palin who attacked her personally deserved some of the backlash they received. But circumstances have changed since Ms. Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick – what a difference a financial crisis makes – and a more complicated picture has emerged.
As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that she is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion.
And about that thing I keep saying about conclusory retorts from Palin:
Ms. Palin didn’t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it.
It was fun while it lasted.
Ms. Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been pulling for Ms. Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.
Ms. Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage, and there’s not much content there. Here’s but one example from her interview with Mr. Hannity:
“Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about today. And that’s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.”
Dave, you’ve got your perspective, but it’s not widely shared – at least, not widely shared enough to get McCain elected, which is what Palin was supposed to help him do.
EDITED IN: But more importantly, Parker suggests that Palin drop out:
Only Ms. Palin can save Mr. McCain, her party and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.
Do it for your country.
I tweeted that yesterday – if McCain wants to suspend the campaign, he should expel Palin.
Bonus from Crunchy Con (as in, conservative) Rod Dreher in Palin Debacle on CBS Evening News (also edited in, he also writes for the Dallas Morning News):
Watch the Couric interview here. Couric’s questions are straightforward and responsible. Palin is mediocre, again, regurgitating talking points mechanically, not thinking. Palin’s just babbling. She makes George W. Bush sound like Cicero.
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I remember the morning I woke up in my college dorm room and went in to take my final exam in my Formal Logic class. I knew I was unready. Massively unready. And now I was going to be put to the ultimate test. I sat down in Dr. Sarkar’s class and resolved to wing it. Of course I failed the exam and failed the class, because I had no idea what I was talking about. I wasn’t a bad kid, or even a stupid kid. I was just badly unprepared, and in way over my head. Seeing the Palin interview on CBS, I thought of myself in Dr. Sarkar’s exam. But see, I was a college undergraduate who had the chance to take the class again, which I did, and passed (barely). I wasn’t running for vice president of the United States.
UPDATE: New Palin excerpt up, in which she discusses why having Russia next to Alaska gives her relevant foreign policy experience. I am well and truly embarrassed for her. I think she’s a good woman who might well be a great governor of Alaska. But good grief, just watch this train wreck [followed by video clip]
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:39 am September 26th, 2008 in Sarah Palin
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Jill, Jill, Jill. My IQ already dropped at least a dozen points watching the Palin interview, but then you send me to that Nixguys blog? ARGH!
My mom always said that people see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear. He’s a very good example of that. I can’t believe anyone would think her interviews are anything but a disaster.
Shalom Jill,
God bless Andrew Sullivan.
B’shalom,
Jeff
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What’s scary his her view of the bail out, as if these few banks were holding our entire economy together. They deserve what they get, let them take their lumps like the millions of homeowners who were foreclosed on. They were not given a bail out.
This is strong evidence this country is run by the banks, we have the illusion of politicians but they are on the bank’s payroll as well.
Her globalist view is what made the hairs on my neck stand on end. She’s worried about the impact on the global economy? What about the impact on the American people; the ones fitting the bill?
I’m reminded of a great story, our politicians need to read, less they forget their role:
http://www.juntosociety.com/patriotism/inytg.html
I’m not at all convinced Palin is a “good” woman. “Good” women do not purposefully lie even when they have been called out; they do not use their power vindictively; they don’t find themselves in positions where they have to try to derail legitimate investigations to protect themselves. They also do not mock, ridicule and sneer at regular people banding together as “community organizers”, whether it’s to register people to vote, get Mittal Steel to cut pollution or to raise money to build a new playground.
As for being a “great” governor, I suppose it’s easy to have a veneer of greatness when you send each citizen a check for a couple of thousand dollars since your state is so flush, but then request more money per capita than any other governor in the US from the federal governor for all your big projects. Ohioans who are subsidizing the welfare state of Alaska with their tax dollars might not be so enthused. Anyway, my definition of “great” also doesn’t include lying, hypocrisy, vindictiveness, secrecy, cronyism and abuse of power.
lets wait and see what happens on Tuesday for the debate between Palin/Biden Palin already has one foot in the mouth lets see her put to in
I think that debate would be painful to watch,
The bad debit, what is missing is what happens to the homes after the banks get the money? There is potential for so much fraud in this, who will process these foreclosures, if people that default get back into home ownership we then have a society that believes they can just walk away.
There needs to be a process in place and it cannot be opportunist those that have no respect for value of homes and neighborhoods. They cannot have no regard for qualifications in order to own a home.
Wall Street sees only paper and investments, these loans represent that and are liquidable, just not as liquidable as they would like. They are secured investments the government can buy these investments and they should be careful it’s the institutions that’s proverbial asses are against the wall, not the entire nation.
The issue is that of processing who will do it? I would not allow the banks they will dump them for nothing sell them to greedy venture capitalist and we the tax payer will take that loss!
These properties need to be processed locally under federal scrutiny, a repository in each county that the liens are filed! Not all the funds should go to financial institutions some should go into properties. Loans processed through the same repository, these repositories could be also loan originators and also housing inspectors and code enforcers.
What is crucial is that each mortgage… that each property does not recover less than what was compensated to that financial institution that abandoned it to the repository.
If some banks fail then what is left get bought up or sold to other institutions. They can clean them through the repository. But not in blocks they would be evaluated by employees at the repository in the locality they exist. The banks can be offered a price and take it or leave it.
It’s not fast enough…then too bad slow down. All we have is time.
That same repository could do audit trails, if the loan is fraudulent then track it back and pull licenses and levy fines.
These repositories should also become linked to real data, IRS and credit bureaus, they should actually replace credit bureaus and be the central qualifier for all loan originations.
This would streamline banking and also reduce costs, the cost or industry shift from tertiary to tangible, the added value/cost becomes compliance to code and physical value to the structures. You do not need a realtor…you need a contractor. You do not need a title search or income verification, you need a new roof, furnace siding, driveway….
Banking is nothing more than lending and borrowing, stop with all the singing and dancing it is not glamorous and should not be that lucrative.
The repository would be relational data based off the parcel data that exist in each county, it would be regional and a precursor for regional government, it could be a central tax authority as well, streamlining tax systems.