Wailin' on Pailn

The unknown is usually a scary thing since it comes shrouded in so much uncertainty. In politics, however, reality is becoming less and less consequential. When John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, Republican poly-tricksters bombarded the air waves with her positive qualities, while Democrats tried to do the same with her negative qualities. It was amusing to watch the dance, to watch the spectacle as they each paraded in full costume, almost like mas bands with varying portrayals and all reality suspended with the audience in full awe of their craftmanship and paying no attention to their substance. That is what politics has become now, an art, not science. It cannot be science when a vice-presidential candidate is shielded from the press right after lighting up the political scene with a magnificent speech at the Republican National Convention. And again, science cannot be the focus when releasing previously protected candidate, only to have her fall flat on her face after which you claim unfair treatment and sexism.
Palin is at best, dotish, as evidenced by her interviews with Katie Couric. She can't provide clear and coherent answers to questions that a conscientious TEENAGER can handle. In her defense she claims that she is not elitist. Since when did elitist expand into being able to explain yourself? This is all art. Palin is a choice meant to simply appease the Republican conservative base. She is a gun-toting, evangelical politician. Complete with American backwoods 'sass', and narrowmindedness that people call small town charm, in her case its more like a sham. Palin has no substance. She can't remember what magazines she reads to be abreast of world issues and cites Alaska's geographical closeness to Russia, or at least she tries to explain it.
All this however makes Joe Biden's job harder in tonight's debate. All Palin has to do, after her last couple weeks of pin the tail on the idiot, is survive. All she has to do is survive! The onus is on Biden, as the elder statesman and experienced politician to take this debate. To graciously smash this woman who couldn't even win a beauty pageant under the stage of American politics. Yes my words sound harsh, but it is this sort of blood that journalists and supporters everywhere are hoping for. Conservative journalists will get the opening to accuse Biden of being sexist, while liberal journalists will get the nail in the Palin coffin that they've been searching for. Meanwhile, the public is at best entertained and at home, comfortable in their skin, thanful for the spectacle provided, God forbid that they would have to actually think for themselves.