Richard Cohen on Sarah Palin

Tuesday October 7, 2008 | | Permalink | Digg It

From the Washington Post

In her debate against Joe Biden last week, she mischaracterized Barack Obama’s tax plan and his offer to meet with foreign adversaries of the United States. She found whole new powers for the vice president by misreading the Constitution, if she ever read it at all. She called one moment for the federal government to virtually disappear and a moment later lamented the lack of its oversight of the financial markets. She asserted that she “may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you [Biden] want to hear” because, apparently, the rules don’t apply to her on account of her being a hockey mom. Fer sure.

I doubt that Palin ever read the Constitution. If she has, then she seems to have the same disrespect for the document that Bush and Cheney have. I found Palin’s unwillingness to answer the questions asked of her disrespectful to Gwen Ifill, Joe Biden, and most importantly the American citizens. We expect that we will learn about a candidate through these debates. Instead, she just repeated the same soggy talking points that we heard the days and weeks before the debate. Shameful. Cohen continued:

Not enough? Okay. Palin also said that she “and others in the legislature” had called for the state of Alaska to divest itself of investments in companies that do business with Sudan. But, as the indefatigable truth-hunter at The Post found out, the divestiture effort was not led by Palin. In fact, her administration opposed the initiative, and Palin herself only came around to it after the bill had died.

This is a repeating theme with Palin — taking more credit than what is due, or just flat out lying about her achievements. Take the teleprompter lie as an example. She wanted to convince the American people that she was a great orator, capable of going off script and still deliver a great speech. To convince us, she concocted a lie.

Fuck Palin. She has never gone off script since she joined the McCain campaign — she’s a carbon copy of the Bush administration.

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