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How he does it: Barack Obama shares his methods of escape

September 6, 2008 - 2:28 pm - by Roger Kimball
Ellen Curry
2008-09-07 13:43:22

The one thing the right wing has learned to do so effectively in the last 25 years is build a straw man and knock it to smithereens. Here, the straw man is this “chap” in “Shelton,” who ostensibly represents why people on the left (and a lot of people in the middle but apparently none on the right) are aghast that a person with absolutley no discernible qualification to be president, indeed whose name none of us even KNEW two weeks ago, and who apparently is refusing to take any questions about her qualification, could be the next president of the United States in six months time. The truth that none of you care to address (hence your ongoing debate with the nonexistent “chap” from nowhere) is that Sarah Palin is grossly unqualified to be Vice President. Is it true that she got her first passport 2 years ago and has been out of the country just once? That she attended 5 different colleges in as many years before she got a degree? And that her main qualification is that she was mayor of a town of 6000 people in Alaska? No wonder they are keeping her underwraps. No one on the left gives a rat’s ass about her daughter, or who the father of any of her children is. Personally, I couldn’t care less if the cat dragged in baby Treg. You can just keep on inventing all of the “chaps” you want who purportedly say differently. John McCain has dishonored himself by naming a person who everyone, including all of you if you’ll stop lying for just one minute, know is not qualified to be president on day one. Also, is every right wing blog populated by as big a bunch of whiners as this one? Boo Hoo, the “MSM” aren’t investigating allegations that Obama was supposed to be the 5th hijacker on the plane that crashed into the pentagon . . . . . . Sheesh!