The president won the nomination of his party in part because of identity politics. It doesn't take a cynic to detect identity politics at work in his nominations to the Supreme Court. The image presented is that Sonia Sotomayor (D-Greenwich Village) and Elena Kagan (D-Harvard Square) are to represent women on the High Court. Whereas Sarah Palin strangely elicits jeers of "female imposter" on the Left, no such derision, thankfully, is heaped upon Sotomayor and Kagan. Judging by the silence, the duo, apparently, are what "real" women look like to the authors of such mean-spirited comments. But the Left's, and Obama's, idea of a representative of women, as if such a person existed, is very different from the average American woman. Husbandless, childless, and without experience as a family matriarch, Sotomayor and Kagan appear in stark contrast to the women the Left has launched much vitriol against.
You can add Janet Napolitano to the husbandless,childless club.
Amazing how babes like these slipped through the cracks and weren't scooped up.
The real issue here is that, like Obama, Kagan has a sparse paper trail and we know little about her. Especially as the administration and it's lapdog media have kept silent with the exception of the accolades and kudos they've heaped on her.
And like Obama, it won't be until she's locked into a position at the high court before her radical leftism will be apparent.
It isn't that Palin was a 'female imposter', but just straight up an imposter. She knows little, reads little, and has little interest in the benefits of people outside of her radical agenda. She pretended to be up on current events, which was a farce as we all saw. She was a puppet being force fed conservative talking points leaving no room for independent thought, hence an imposter.
She was not a good Vice Presidential candidate for a number of reasons and I would say that it was the McCain campaign that mis-handled her and made her look less that dymanic.
But, I'm sorry - you don't get to be the Governor of a state, successfully fight a gathering of powerful entrenched polititians and get big Energy in line without having something on the ball.
I'd venture to say that most people who criticize Sarah Palin could not hold a candle to her in real accomplishments.
asdf...exactly! Now, Jesse Ventura is a different story, banking on his previous fame to become a state governor and then proving himself a loon afterwards.
Even Blogoyavich (sp?) must have had something on the ball to rise to where he got.
Palin was not a good running mate owing mostly to her lack of experience on the World scene, just like Obama is not a great President for much the same reason.
Let's see...promised we'd be out of Iraq ASAP. Nope.
Promised we'd be out of Afghanistan ASAP. Nope.
Promised to shut down Guantanimo ASAP. Nope.
Promised to work with the Republicans in a bi-partisan manner. Nope.
About the only thing he's done is guarantee the mid term elections will swing Republican and that he'll be a one termer.
