it's really hot in here
I got a twitter account!
Yesterday, the Asian duck tour & dim sum. I also watched Rashomon with Maki for class and can't for the life of me grasp what's so wonderful about it. Unique, maybe. Influential, sure. A masterpiece, though?
My internet has been down for the last two days or so. I don't feel as if this Frank Rich column has been brought up enough.
She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.
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The McCain campaign’s claims of a “full vetting process” for Palin were as much a lie as the biographical details they’ve invented for her. There was no F.B.I. background check. The Times found no evidence that a McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State Legislature or business community. Nor did anyone talk to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically “a Google,” he wasn’t joking.
I don't think any of that makes Palin a particularly awful choice or person per se, but the poor fabrications and little research done by the McCain campaign is worrying, isn't it? If you're going to lie, lie well. Better yet, pick someone whose credentials are impressive without embellishing?
Yesterday, the Asian duck tour & dim sum. I also watched Rashomon with Maki for class and can't for the life of me grasp what's so wonderful about it. Unique, maybe. Influential, sure. A masterpiece, though?
My internet has been down for the last two days or so. I don't feel as if this Frank Rich column has been brought up enough.
She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.
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The McCain campaign’s claims of a “full vetting process” for Palin were as much a lie as the biographical details they’ve invented for her. There was no F.B.I. background check. The Times found no evidence that a McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State Legislature or business community. Nor did anyone talk to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically “a Google,” he wasn’t joking.
I don't think any of that makes Palin a particularly awful choice or person per se, but the poor fabrications and little research done by the McCain campaign is worrying, isn't it? If you're going to lie, lie well. Better yet, pick someone whose credentials are impressive without embellishing?