The Palin Problem

The Republicans and Palin make fun of cosmopolitan yet when America has such reach into the world it would not be a bad thing to have leaders who have a deep understanding in various areas on the globe. At least an interest. What is troubling about Palin is her disinterest in foreign affairs and her snide remarks about people who care about global experience as if being globally aware is unamerican. Running on ignorance as a virtue can only be a political ploy not a serious reason to be a leader. Palin represents a very specific identity group(conservative christianist)that prides itself in being certain on everything with no need for evidence and has a very small definition on what it means to be American... her leadership would be limited to that faction. But even in that faction Palin is below the standard because there are christianists who at least show an interest and a working knowledge in international relations. In the age of globalization Palin would be a problem not just for the world but for America itself.


The Katie Couric interview is very revealing. Saturday Night Live did its job in responding to the interview with art imitating life.





Kathleen Parker, a conservative writer for the National Review, stated, "Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there...If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."


Palin claims she understands the world by reading not by traveling or experience...so when pressed by Katie Couric what she reads to supplement her lack of experience she is not able to reference one source...