One Heartbeat Away: Reflections on the Palin Nomination
Paul Street

COUNTRY FIRST”

John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is one of the most transparently crass and cynical moves in United States political history.“Country “First” was the white-nationalist rallying cry at the Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota two weeks ago.

“WHAT WOULD SHE DO TO THE NATION?”

The slogan is coldly contradicted by McCain’s chilling proposal to put a remarkably inexperienced, arch-secretive, vindictive, petty, distant, and ignorant politician one heartbeat away from the presidency.Lyda Green is the Alaska state senate’s Republican president. She thought it was a prank when she heard that Palin had tapped for her party’s presidential ticke. “She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president?” asked Green, who comes from Palin’s home town of Wasila. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation? (Cockerham and Loy 2008).

Green’s concerns were richly validated by Palin’s recent interview with ABC news anchor Charles Gibson, where she revealed amateurish misunderstanding of basic facts of U.S. policy and economic life (ABC News/Huffington Post 2008).

“WHERE’S SARAH?”

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