Keith Olbermann comments on Sarah Palin, Mccain's VP pick

McCain's minimal vetting of Palin. All you can say from this - regardless of what happens with this Desperate Housewives subplot beginning to play out - is that McCain is more incompetent as an executive than Bush:

As the Palin pick turns 72 hours old, McCain's campaign is learning as much about her from the media and from Democrats as they are from what minimal political preparation they had...

They've bragged that Palin opposed the famous "Bridge to Nowhere," only to learn that Palin supported the project and even told residents of Ketchikan that they weren't "nowhere" to her. After the national outcry, she decided to spend the funds allocated to the bridge for something else. Actually, maybe it's more fair to say that coincident with the national outcry, she changed her mind. The story shows her political judgment, but it is not a reformer's credential.

Likewise, though she cut taxes as mayor of Wassila, she raised the sales tax, making her hardly a tax cutter.

She denied pressuring the state's chief of public safety to fire her sister-in-law's husband even though there's mounting evidence that the impetus did indeed come from her.
Ostensibly to clear her name, Palin asked her attorney general to open an independent investigation—the legislature had already been investigating. (I am told that the campaign was aware of the ethics complaint filed against her but accepts Palin's account.)

McCain's campaign seemed unaware that she supported a windfalls profits tax on oil companies and that she is more skeptical about human contributions to global warming than McCain is.

They did not know that she took trips as the mayor of Wasilla to beg for earmarks.

They did not know that she told a television interviewer this summer that she did not fully understand what it is that a vice president does.




You know what this pick remind me of? Invading a country with no plans for what to do once you got there.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/what-mccain-did....

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[arkybarky]

VOTE: Obama & Biden for 2008!

[noprahwinfrey2007]

He SHOULD go to jail!

[manmanguy]

It's hilarious how the RNC thought Palin could reign in the Hillary votes. Way to F yourselves in the A McCain campaign.  Ron Paul 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[daoudrafik]

Not long after this speech McCain discovered that that glass ceiling couldn't be cracked because he'd picked a crackhead as his running mate. He did his best to fix those cracks but this hardhat was beyond repair.

[mrspock61]

@whiteliberal1 damn i couldn't say it any better!!! welcome to hillbilly nation in my culture we would call her a DUMB ASS HO!! repbulican men don't for the most part care what comes out of her mouth, they just want to put something in her mouth thats about all she would be good for, I wouldn't waste the KY on the bitch

[mgallant01]

Keith - its a good thing you have no viewers and low ratings so nobody has to see your idiocy....

[Allanlegacy43]

this is beyond painful to watch!

[whiteliberal1]

At 1:45, the woman in the backround cracks me up. Put a redneck, country singer on stage to sing a song-hang a picture of an American Bald Eagle in the backround and watch these stupid fools lose their minds! LMAO.......

[jfeltes2]

No he was privileged by blood. He had to go to Yale so he could join a secret society and become president. He wouldn't be president if he didn't join the secret society. His blood got him in school.