By Carl Cannon, AOL Politics Daily
Sarah Palin’s rambling abdication speech was hard to follow, let alone acclaim, but in her abrupt announcement that she is withdrawing from public office, the Republican governor of Alaska was hardly the only player in a 10-month drama who demonstrated a lack of self-awareness. Democrats scoffed at her “politics of personal destruction” line, but it’s a maxim they originally popularized, and one they will undoubtedly trot out again the next time it happens to one of their own. But the true villains in this political morality play may have been the press.
The mainstream media is undergoing its demise, drip by drip, day by day, and its practitioners, which include most of my friends in life, are under considerable pressure. In my opinion, however, these pressures do not excuse the treatment accorded Sarah Palin. On the contrary, to me the entire Sarah saga revealed that it wasn’t only the traditional media’s business model that is broken. Our journalism model is busted, too.
In the 2008 election, we took sides, straight and simple, particularly with regard to the vice presidential race. I don’t know that we played a decisive role in that campaign, and I’m not saying the better side lost. What I am saying is that we simply didn’t hold Joe Biden to the same standard as Sarah Palin, and for me, the real loser in this sordid tale is my chosen profession.
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Now You Govt And State Workers Or Colored Folks Living Off Pres Obamas Stash, Yikees, Wake-Up And Smell The Roses Because Sarah "Barracuda" Palin Is Got Dead Aim On Balancing Obamacares Crazy Spend And Vacation Until You Drop Attitude Will Not Fly, Yippee, So Some Cuts Must Be Made And The Last Hired Is The First Fired, Sarah Pallin Will Balance Obamas Runaway Spending, Yippee, Without Spinning The Tax Payers, Correction Election 2012 Sarah Palin, Drill Baby Drill.
I go along with everything but the drilling for more oil. Cars have been developed to run on alcohol, air, water, urine, why do we need gas? The earth needs oil for the plates to slide on. No to nuclear too.
Hemp can make all the fuel we need. Alcohol burns hotter than gas without poisoning us. Prohibition eliminated alcohol stations for cars. Everything about marijuana was a lie. Driving under the influence of it will cause one to err on the side of caution and safety if there is an error at all. Cell phones, kids and crooked politicians are more the cause for alarm. (crooked politicians make me so mad I can't see straight.)