Monday, September 08, 2008
PALIN HEARTBREAK
I have shared in the enthusiasm of the simple-minded right wing of American politics over the last week over John McCain's selection of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Like the majority of Americans, I have also been disgusted by the media's digging into her personal life, but have taken comfort in the clear fact that this partisan personalistic attack on her has ricocheted and hurt the Democrats.
But now, I'm afraid a personal detail about Palin has surfaced that I can't ignore, and that will cause me to completely rethink the impact she's had on my enthusiasm for McCain's candidacy.
She has a tattoo.
The Big Dipper is tattooed on her ankle.
See the second-to-last point in the document discussed in this news story:
I have to confess that this is a crushing revelation about Palin, something that will likely negate the ten-point lead that the McCain-Palin ticket is now showing among likely voters in the most recent Gallup poll, and rightly so. When compared to the kind of personal details of Barak Obama's open book of a life (actually, two open books, and a third on the way), this tattoo scandal shows the utter irrelevancy of the kind of "dirt" the hate-filled right wing has been "digging up" on Obama.
I'm ashamed. Ashamed of myself, and ashamed for my country, that such a person could have, even for a moment, been so close to the highest office in the land.
Antroy, I'm sorry.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:11 AM
