Okay, I have been trying to be objective. I have been sitting on the sofa with my laptop reading the leading opinion makers of America and browsing news stories about Sarah Palin. Granted these are all members of the "liberal media elite," but everyone seems to be apoplectic about the GOP's vice presidential nominee. Everyone seems to be as cranky about it as I am.
While the American public seems to be approaching the presidential election with the same consideration they gave the election of the senior class president, (Popular? Check. Cute smile? Check. Enthusiastic? Check. Not a geek? Double check!), they are caught up in the mania of a fresh face. I guess everyone has seen to many Alicia Silverstone movies and don't think competence matters.
Meanwhile, Bob Herbert of the New York Times frets that not only is dimwittedness taking over, it may now actually prevail. My favorite comment came from James Fallows who writes for The Atlantic. It's his opinion that while Palin is now boning up on economic issues and international relations, these are things she has really never ever cared about. Someone who has followed a subject such as government or sports or rock music their whole life has a complex depth of knowledge, unlike those of us who have ignored fashion, opera or home decorating. She may knock our socks off on the nomenclature of a snow machine engine, but the world economic system?