"Torture" - Jacksons, 1984

To me, a potentially terrifying form of torture was seeing a headline on Yahoo News this morning which read "Can Palin resurrect the GOP? Does she want to?" Good Lord, folks. Haven't we Americans already been subjected to enough embarrassment from McCain's running mate?

And to add to my view was hearing - from an American work colleague visiting the Oxford office this week - that no less than conservative Fox News have released some information today which was carefully withheld until after the election was over.

Apparently, besides many reports of frustration coming from Palin staffers, two other important reasons that she was not qualified to be the Vice President of the US have emerged...

1. Sarah Palin didn't know that Africa is a continent.

2. Sarah Palin didn't know which countries make up NAFTA. For my non-American readers, the members are the US, Canada, and Mexico. And Canada is, of course, Alaska's neighbor. Oh - but remember that Palin tended to forget Canada when she talked about her foreign policy "experience", as she went on and on about how her state shares a border with Russia. But what about Canada? We never heard a word about Canada.

I'm sure the Republicans are conducting their post-mortem on the election as I write. I'm also sure they have come to realize that Sarah Palin's choice as VP was one of the reasons for their failure on Tuesday. If they were trying to lure the former "Hillary Democrats" by selecting Palin, I'm highly offended by their judgement. Or should I say lack of judgement.

I would be delighted to have a female VP. It just shouldn't be a token position for someone as unqualified as Sarah Palin.

British wit Tom Baker (and a former "Doctor") said it best recently when he quipped: "She puts the 'alas' in Alaska."


Janet

PS After posting this item, John has found something very interesting from a Wasilla, Alaska resident named Anne Kilkenny. It's worth a read.