The Palin Memorandum
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That’s it! That’s all I can stands I can’t stands no more. Did any of you see Governor Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS that other night? Yipes! Republicans of all stripes must have been cringing in their chairs at the ineffable twaddle that came out of that woman’s mouth in answer to questions about the bailout bill. It even had me, a dedicated Democrat, embarrassed for her. I mean the current GOP VP candidate makes Dan Quail, who gave us the incomparable ” Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.” look like Winston Churchill. It was so bad, that Tina Fey was able to lift whole chunks of the Governors answer to Couric verbatim to use in her Saturday Night Live parody of Palin garnering laughs galore from the SNL audience.
In her questioning about the bailout, Couric suggested that the $700-billion might be better funneled through middle-class families instead of Wall Street firms.
Governor Palin: “That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh — it’s got to be all about job creation too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, um, scary thing, but 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.”
SAY WHAT?It sounds to me as if the Governor went to school at the Norm Crosby School of Public Speaking. The Crosby School, as we all know, is unparalyzed in the art of headressing a crowd. It is only at the Crosby School Ms. Palin could have taken a class in Electrocution so she could learn to reject from her diagram so well. With this technique Governor Palin can expect to plummet to the top in an instinct. With this skull, her speech will be recarded like a blabbing brook and she will be disesteemed as a woman of great statute.
I also hold the Crosby School in high astream and feel that the Governor’s answer to Ms. Couric’s question was as suspenderful, it was a real cliff-dweller, as it was completely beyond my apprehension.
Ah well, such are the ways of political folk. Full of spells and incantations that are a mystery to us all.