Sarah Palin - Average Isn't Good Enough

No music in this one, just politics. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think it was important.

I do apologize for the abysmal audio quality. I was in a hurry to post this while people still have time to consider it.

This video is based around an article written by Sam Harris for the LA Times. The words are his, the illustrations mine.

FULL TEXT:
"So let us ask the question that should be on the mind of every thinking person in the world at this moment: If John McCain becomes the 44th president of the United States, what are the odds that a blood clot or falling object will make Sarah Palin the 45th?

The actuarial tables on the Social Security Administration website suggest that there is a better than 10% chance that McCain will die during his first term in office. Needless to say, the Reapers scything only grows more insistent thereafter. Should President McCain survive his first term and get elected to a second, there is a 27% chance that Palin will become the first female U.S. president by 2015. If we take into account McCains medical history and the pressures of the presidency, the odds probably increase considerably that this bright-eyed Alaskan will become the most powerful woman in history.

As many people have noted, placing Palin on the ticket has made these final months of the already overlong 2008 campaign much more interesting. Is Palin remotely qualified to be president of the United States? No. But thats precisely what is so interesting. McCain not only has thrown all sensible concerns about good governance aside merely to pander to a sliver of female and masses of conservative Christian voters, he has turned this period of American history into an episode of high-stakes reality television: Dont look now, but our cousin Sarah just became leader of the free world! Tune in next week and watch her get sassy with Pakistan!

Americans have an unhealthy desire to see average people promoted to positions of great authority. No one wants an average neurosurgeon or even an average carpenter, but when it comes time to vest a man or woman with more power and responsibility than any person has held in human history, Americans say they want a regular guy, someone just like themselves. President Bush kept his edge on the Who would you like to have a beer with? poll question in 2004, and won reelection.

This is one of the many points at which narcissism becomes indistinguishable from masochism. Let me put it plainly: If you want someone just like you to be president of the United States, or even vice president, you deserve whatever dysfunctional society you get. You deserve to be poor, to see the environment despoiled, to watch your children receive a fourth-rate education and to suffer as this country wages—and loses—both necessary and unnecessary wars.

McCain has so little respect for the presidency of the United States that he is willing to put the girl next door (soon, too, to be a grandma) into office beside him. He has so little respect for the average American voter that he thinks this reckless and cynical ploy will work.

And it might. Palins nomination has clearly excited Christian conservatives, and it may entice a few million gender-obsessed fans of Hillary Clinton to vote entirely on the basis of chromosomes. Throw in a few million more average Americans who will just love how the nice lady smiles, and 2009 could be a very interesting year.

Tune in next week and watch cousin Sarah fuss with our nuclear arsenal ..."

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[TyZi187]

wow you know nothing about politics your ignorance is sad

[ScienceClubX]

@TyZi187 Wow, you know nothing about capitalization, punctuation, grammar and reading video descriptions.

[conceptmuscle]

Scienceclub... You are ignorant. Really. Quit watching CNN. Do some of your own research. Echo echo echo. Unoriginal.

[ScienceClubX]

Thank you for the timely and relevant comment.

[nadalsucks]

Sarah Palin is a governor, and you say this makes her unqualified to be a vice president...

Ronald Reagan, one of the best presidents of all time was a governor. So I don't want to hear your sexist remarks about Sarah Palin

[ScienceClubX]

That's your argument, really? Be honest, did you even watch the video? I don't even know where to be begin with explaining how wrong you are.

[TyZi187]

@ScienceClubX i love how you think your a grammar teacher all of a sudden you know have no argument so you criticize my grammar hahaah loser this isnt english class its the internet… you probably dont know the first thing about her policies you just think what main stream media says is true your a true american idiot keep bitching about grammar idiot

[dehbee]

well said.

[Yaggsionhimen]

The more dangerous person is the person who knows people are pulling his strings. Because that is a whore out to fool you. I think organized religion is silly too but I can still see beyond my own beliefs. If I couldn't then I might as well subscribe to a religion. People have to see that voting for the lesser evil is a horrible idea. I'm supposed to vote Obama 'cause I'm not a conservative a-hole? Well, F that! I'M gonna make a difference and not be like the sheep who think they're not sheep.

[ScienceClubX]

I guess, but at least Obama knows it's people pulling his strings. Palin thinks it's an old white man living in the sky. And that's way more dangerous.