http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-harris3-2008sep03,0,5745350.story"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."
I think this sums it up nicely and this is what we should be focusing on. McSame had the opportunity to choose a VP that lived up to his own standards, and he blew it for political gain. He isn't putting country first and the positions both McSame and Palin have will destroy our country. I believe we need to focus on these issues and how Palin is just like McSame...more of the same or worse.
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