Sarah Pallin Joins the Team

Once the Pokergirl was sure that Condoleeza was really serious about not being a candidate, it became a matter of curiosity as to how McCain could fill his ticket with someone who had enough experience to know how government works (or doesn't) but didn't appear to be an "old school" candidate. Sarah Pallin filled that order quite nicely. She is highly respected, has at least run a government at the state level, and most importantly, she is a woman. Now, I'm not so stupid that I think just BEING female is a qualification. Had that been true, Hillary would have not been put in her place. But neither is being biracial a qualification. So here we have 4 people running to lead the nation- and of the 4, we have the following:

50% white Senators- both experienced

25% biracial (1/8 of the ticket is black- but not American black)

25% female



So, 50% of the tickets are thinking outside of the box, so to speak.

I'd have to say that despite the insistence that white guys have ruined the world, we owe a debt of gratitude to white European men. If you look into the history of invention and medical developments, financial theories and promotion of the foundations of personal freedom, there is usually an old white guy at the forefront. You can mention slavery, but slavery exists all over the world, in all forms and in most cultures. No country has done more to try to rectify a historical wrong. All with legislation passed by white guys. So thanks white guys, you have done a great job.

I love my country. The Pokergirl was, in the past, a Registered Nurse. She worked in charity hospitals, went in ambulances all over rural Mississippi to pick up critically ill newborns, went into rural Louisiana for public health nursing, has had a gun put in her face by patients who didn't want to just spit in a jar for their TB check up, and has personally delivered a baby because the doctor wasn't in the hall at the right time. I can't be accused of not knowing what poverty is. I ate ramen noodles and spaghetti and was 20 pounds underweight in graduate school because I couldn't afford more food. I paid most of my way through college and graduate school. No, I don't know what it is to be black. And frankly, neither does a biracial person who went to an elite prep school and an ivy league college and then went into politics. Let's not pretend here. I know Obama doesn't like me- I'm white. I'm not sure what the female part inspires in him- he has two charming children who don't seem to notice they are biracial or that female is an issue. I know Obama has seen America from a distance- from reading books that I had to read in the angry 70s in an elective class in black history. Those books inspired Obama to claim black as his race- while being fed, clothed and loved, by white grandparents and claiming to love his white mother. Illegitimacy can make very angry and insecure boys.
SO, it would come as no surprise that a sensible woman, one who is honest and fights government corruption and bloated budgets, and who did not wish to abort her handicapped child, would be the one who appeals to me. She sounds like a super hero to me.
As the campaign unfolds, we will all find out who means what. But remember, President's cannot do anything without the support of Congress.
I also don't want any more money taken out of my pocket. And you cannot cut taxes for 95% of the populace (as Obama promises) and NOT tax the hell out of someone. Ah, I ramble.

Congratulations to the candidates. It is historic and really, despite my dismal view of Obama as being a socialist, amazing. I'm voting for the woman.