Does Sarah Palin have the strength and confidence to appear on the Meet the Press? Well, it would seem that the answer is "no"

Someone ought to tell Palin that the Alaska Permanent Fund isn't her program. It's been around a long time and she doesn't determine how much is put into the checks. Palin failed to note that the Fund was to promote the economy when oil prices are low, not when they are high. But she's as knowledgeable on Alaskan issues as she is foreign issues.

According to the Alaskan Constitution if Palin is found to have abused her position in office she must be impeached. The advantage of the Alaskan Constitution is that the people who created are still alive and know how it is to be interpreted.

how many other canadians here hate that they can't watch these daily show clips?

So with Sarah Palin we are getting more of the same thing we had with Bush: a public servant who is anything but public. We elect these people and then they are handled half-to-death by those who are really running things behind the scenes. Bush hasn't made a truly public speaking engagement since the wars began. He has only appeared in extremely controlled situations where there hasn't been any sort of opposition to call him out on his lies. The only audience the Bush people have allowed to hear him speak are military groups, civilian military contractors, or right-wing propaganda mills (otherwise known as “think tanks.” I hate that name for groups who do very little thinking). And forget about Dick Cheney; he hasn't come out from behind the curtain in so long we've almost forgotten about him completely.

And now we have Sarah Palin who seems to be almost completely a figment of the conservatives' imagination: a loving mother, a maverick elected official unafraid to take on the powers that be (curious since “the powers that be” are the folks in her own party), morally steadfast, a proud defender of America, and—because we are in the TV age—hot. She is being treated by her handlers as if she were some Saudi princess who cannot have contact with anyone outside of her immediate family. In her two interviews with the twin morons of Hannity and Gibson she has yet to offer anything but the most puerile thoughts on the position she may soon fill.

I really appreciate that The Daily Show is absolutely the only news source that takes the piss out of what we are being presented as news, but Fox News is too terrifying in its scope and they don't give a shit about what the little TDS thinks of their maneuvering. Plenty of Americans seem all to willing to accept this completely mediocre woman as our next vice president (and, perhaps soon afterwards, president). Why wouldn't they? They have already accepted far less in the case of the current White House resident.

Hannity might as well have pulled out a feather tickler and started tickling Palin's fanny.

This shameless and intellectually dishonest display sure plays to the conservative base, who are not in the least bit interested in reality as long as they are goosed and coddled and hear their key words and phrases.

If this obviously pathological and completely vapid woman becomes our Vice President, please, please, please don't let McCain croak or we're in a world of shit--if we aren't already.

Thanks mat,

I could use a raise for the work I do here. Maybe you could write some letters ;-)

I thought your views in the electric car thread were pretty informative.

But no more compliments! You're a fiend, a fiend I say!

:-)

I thought his information in the electric car thread was slipshod at best, and I wasn't impressed at all with the side-scuttling maneuvers he used to avoid acknowledging that fact.

People who are too fundamentally dishonest to admit their errors even when they are plainly exposed, warrant no serious credibility. Occasionally Syngas rises above that level of drivel, but mostly he exudes the vapid artifices his name implies.

Honesty: without it, you're a schmuck.