Pod Person Palin Strikes Again

I have, since her nomination as running-mate to John McCain, made no bones about criticizing Sarah Palin at every turn. She has shown no evidence whatsoever of understanding life outside of her home state of Alaska, and let’s be frank, life in Alaska is wholly dissimilar to life in the rest of the United States. She has stumbled embarrassingly through the very few interviews she has deigned to accept, and her cookie-cutter acceptance speech (written a week prior to her nomination for whomever may have been chosen, then tailored to fit Palin’s biography) for the Republican National Convention left me nauseous.

That being said, after last night’s Vice Presidential debates, I find myself for the first time impressed with Sarah Palin’s performance. Aside from mistaking the long dead civil war general McClellan for the (probably very offended) General McKiernan, and her overuse of the words “Maverick”, “Alaska”, “Main Street”, and “Shoring up” not to mention her offensive insinuation that she is just like any other middle class American (who lives in a mansion), Palin at least seemed to be quick with her responses. This is not to suggest that I am impressed as I would be by the invention of the cure for cancer, or by the government allotting my constitutional civil rights to me as a homosexual, but more impressed the way I was when my 3 year-old niece learned to use the grown-up potty for the first time. Yes, Mrs. Palin, you did do it all by yourself! Good job! Sure I’ll wipe for you, you can’t be bothered with such difficult things at an exciting time like this!

As quickly responsive and focused as Sarah Palin was last night she by no means convinced me that she would be qualified to hold the venerable position of Vice President of the United States or, God forbid, President. She summed it up herself, “I’m a Washington outsider and someone just not used to the way you guys operate.” Is that supposed to be comforting? I sincerely hope that I can have faith in my fellow Americans to avoid the catastrophe that would be a McCain-Palin administration.

Oh and, Mrs Palin, it’s pronounced nu-clee-er not nu-cue-ler. Pass that on to your God-King Bush, would you?