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Do you like your issues real, or fake?
Most regular followers of the news are aware that both Obama and McCain used the “lipstick on a pig” metaphor well before Palin came on the scene and that the Republicans are not angered by the remark so much as they are overjoyed that they have something to talk about besides Palin’s qualifications. It’s obvious that Obama was referring to Palin’s lack of qualifications, and sadly, the list of Palin's shortcomings is so long as to make it intractable in this day of sound bite politics.
The list of Palin’s actual qualifications is much more manageable. Regarding her experience, the Republicans dismissed the relevance of experience as a state governor, and mayor when Tim Kaine was under consideration for the VP slot on Obama’s ticket. Virginia is the 12th most populous state VS Alaska 47th and Richmond – Kaine was Richmond’s mayor before he became governor – is roughly 40 times bigger than Wasilla, Alaska.
That leaves us with hockey mom, laudable, but irrelevant, and pathological liar, the latter being evinced by Palin’s unswerving insistence that she flatly refused $200 million in funding for the bridge to nowhere when she actively sought it.
The sad fact is that dissembling has become the trademark of McCain campaign. With Obama being unassailable on substantive issues, McCain-Palin has resorted to manufactured pig-lipstick brouhaha’s and out-and-out lies, the most recent of those being the ad attacking Obama’s education speech.
Unfortunately, it’s a strategy that can work. It gave us eight years of the Bush presidency, the most inept administration in living memory. That should give Obama’s campaign theme of real change all the gravitas it needs.
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