Politics and You....well, me

OK so it is not a secret that all my life I have remained blissfully and willfully ignorant of politics. This year, with advent of Barack Obama, who is not spouting the Same Old Shit I turned a deaf ear to, and the desperate feeling that we CAN'T have 4 more years of a Republican Regime, have caused me to try to pay attention to what is going on.

So to inform myself, I listened to the Democratic AND Republican conventions, and have been paying rapt attention to the whole Sarah Palin business. I didn't want to jump on any Palin-bashing bandwagon, but Holy Mother of God that woman makes me CRINGE!!! I watched her interview with Charlie Gibson the other night, and I was actually embarrassed for her when she didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was. Of course, neither did I, but then I'm not running for Vice President and have never claimed to have paid attention to politics. For those of you who may not know (and I'm betting that number is VERY low), the Bush Doctrine, in the words of Charlie Gibson: "...is we have the right to self-defense, pre-emptive strike against any country we think is going to attack us." So she hemmed and hawed and tried to cover but was obviously ignorant of it. Also, when asked if she'd met heads of state, she seemed almost proud that she hadn't, and said that she bet a lot of other VPs hadn't either (further research found that this was not true; all VPs had had some experience with foreign heads of state). I think the other embarrassing thing about her interview was this:

"GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

For fuck's sake. The woman is 44. I am 39 years old, have no experience in any kind of government, but even I wouldn't say something so ridiculously, retardedly stupid.

So the point of this post, is that in my politial awakening, I have to give Sara Palin 2 thumbs down, and this opinion has been formed from a conglomeration of Bonetti's input, a bunch of Alaska blogs, and just watching her on TV and listening to her speak. ESPECIALLY listening to her speak. A pitt bull with lipstick? How embarrassing.