Yet again, I’m spending a good portion of the day stewing over the selection of someone who’s grossly unprepared to serve as our nation’s vice president and the terrifying reality that, by one means or another, there’s a real chance that she’ll win that title.
My latest source of frustration and anxiety (in the event that she actually, by some act of God or Karl Rove, manages to get elected) is her disastrous interview with Katie Couric.
I read part of a transcript of the interview yesterday and my immediate thought was, “My God, she sounds like a beauty pageant contestant.” (Which, of course, she was in the 1980s.) And that was just reading the transcript. I could only imagine the visceral discomfort I would have felt actually watching the interview.
I guess I was not alone in my assessment of her performance. And here you can not only watch it, but also a painful comparison with a more recent pageant contestant as well. (Luckily, Sarah Palin sounds better than Miss South Carolina, but not by as much as I would like in a vice presidential candidate.)
Right now I am really wishing Obama had picked Hillary Clinton to be his running mate.
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I’m still not sure that Hillary would have accepted the VP spot. I’m fairly certain that both camps had come to a “not me for VP” agreement during their nomination campaigning. While it would have pleased a lot of people (and now, how awesome would it be to see Palin get utterly destroyed in a debate against Hillary?), I don’t think it’s what either of them wanted.
Also, as much as I hate to say it, I really do think that a lot of people out there are racist, sexist, and hateful. A ticket with a black man and a woman may really have been too much for these ignorant voters. I really hate thinking that, because I’d like to have more faith in humanity… but humanity has yet to deserve that faith.
I’m holding onto a shred of faith as it is… that even the most ignorant people will see how destructive the McCain/Palin administration would be to this country. At this point, it’s best just to stay positive for Obama, get the word out as much as possible about the GOP lies and incompetence, and get to that voting booth in a few weeks.