"Can I call you Joe?" [View All]

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"Can I call you Joe?" she asked with the innocence of a snakeoil salesman. With her folksy crackerbarrel style, she gushed into the auditorium on a cloud of bouffant hair. With rehearsed lines and stock phrases, she mugged and winked for the camera, turned on her false charm and attempted to seduce the electorate with her beauty pageant strategies, the vacuous answers delivered with a false lipstick smeared smile and the flashing of white teeth, the ever so cute batting of the eyelashes.

Contrast the sober dignity of the man standing beside her whose answers reflected his years of experience in the Senate, a man respected for his leadership. The statesmen versus the high schoolprom queen.

What was clear from watching the debate aside from gaining a new appreciation and respect for a man like Joseph Biden who dedicated his life to public service, who seemed to grasp so easily the gravity of the times and the pressing problems Americans face, one could not help but be struck by the fact that Sarah Palin's demeanor reflected her surprising lack of humility given her inexperience and ignorance displayed for voters continuously during the debate. Simply put, she had no answers to the troubling questions of how to fix the economy, end the war, deal with the energy crisis. She offered nothing but uninformed campaign slogans delivered in a breathy babytalk voice more appropriate to a flirtatious high school girl than a woman who has put any serious consideration into what is being asked of her.

"Oh Joe," she chided "There you go again." She smirked, smiling smugly as she impersonated her hero the master salesman of the old Trickle Down snakeoil brand she was selling. Coming from her, it sounded like the popular girl in school commenting on the fact that the poor girl was wearing the same dress twice in one week.

Her lack of respect toward Senator Biden was an embarrassment considering the circumstances. A woman who had to be taken on a field trip to the UN to meet world leaders, who confessed to being an expert based on five weeks of cramming slogans and cliches into her head, who practiced relentlessly like a cheerleader at a baton twirling competition to string coherent sentences together, this woman had the nerve to stand in front of a man who was smarter, more well informed, with many more years of experience, and most important more aware of the enormity of the problems this country is facing, while this woman chose to respond by giggling in his face like a schoolgirl, and scolding him like a little girl talking to her teddy bear. Although she used her feminine charms, her cute perkiness to try and gain points, she acted as if Sen. Biden was the lightweight. After the debate, the general consensus of many in the media seemed to be that she won over many viewers. It appeared that more men wanted to fuck her than vote for her after watching the debate. One small step backward for women in the long difficult struggle to be treated with dignity and respect.

Sarah, can we call you babe?