You need more people

I watched Sarah Palin's speech and found her to be snide, sarcastic, dismissive, obnoxious and dishonest. For all her mocking of Obama as a community organizer, she fails to realize that the man is a U.S. senator with more and better credentials than she has who has represented far more people than she has ever governed. She was elected mayor by 600 votes. There are more people in my subdivision.

True enough, Obama started off as a community organizer working with poor folks from Chicago's south side, but he also graduated from Harvard Law school, was a constitutional law lecturer ( does she even know what that document means), a state senator and a U.S. Senator. As a state senator, he sponsored more than 800 bills and cast 4,000 votes for a district that had nearly as many people as her entire state. And he has sponsored legislation in the U.S. Senate addressing ethics reform and nuclear proliferation. So much for her theory about him not authoring anything other than his books -books which she probably would have had banned from her city's library since she was into that sort of thing.

Meanwhile, this Hockey Mom newcomer is embroiled in ethical scandals http://www.mahalo.com/Sarah_Palin, has a an unwed pregnant daughter that no one is supposed to discuss even as Palin trots her and the babydaddy out for photo ops, has ties to a secessionist group that wants to have a vote on allowing Alaska to be its own country, claims to be a reformer and yet hired lobbyists to get $27 million in earmarks for the city of Wasilla (population 5,500) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090103148.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008090103340&s_pos=which she also left Wasilla with $22 million in debt. Mind you, the city had no debt when the Hockey Mom took office. Also, for all her talk about her special needs child, as governor, she cut funding for special needs children AND pregnant teenagers. And I just read in the Washington Post that she was a director of disgraced Sen. Ted Stevens' 527 group http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html

I am not impressed by her ability to be bytchy while delivering someone else's lines because she didn't say much about her ability to govern. While she gets high marks for reading a teleprompter, the job of Vice President of the United States requires a broader skill set.

So Hockey Grandmom, in the words of that great American philosopher Sean Carter "We don't believe you- you need more people."