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Chez has hit the nail on the head again…

In the bizarro world of contemporary politics, being “average” makes you better than someone who is part of the “elite”.  Let me see if I have this straight.

The candidate who “represents the Average Joe”:

• 26 year member of the United States Senate
• Son and Grandson of Navy Admirals
• Married to an heiress
• Owns so many houses and cars that he cannot apparently remember them all
• Has never been gainfully employed in the private sector

The candidate who “is part of the liberal elitist establishment”

• Son of a single mother
• In elected office (at any level) for just over 10 years
• Recently announced that he has just paid off his student loans
• Has a net worth that is not much higher than my own, and I work for a living
• Worked as a Community Organizer and college professor before going into politics

I’ll grant you that working as a professor (“Lecturer” to be completely accurate) and as a “Community Organizer” is only classified as work under the loosest possible definition, but it’s more than Senator McCain has done in all of his 72 years.

While I’m sure I could write several thousand words about Sarah Palin, if you aren’t hip to this scam by now, nothing I say here will make any difference.  This chuzzlewit is one 72-year-old-with-a-cancer-history heartbeat away from having access to the “Big Red Button”.  She makes Dan Quayle look presidential, for Christ’s sake.  If I wanted a sit-com (in the ‘stereotypical’ sense… not implying that she actually has the talent to act on television) mom in (or next to) the Oval Office, then why couldn’t it be Claire Huxtable?  At least she was intelligent.

In a last ditch attempt to convince the fence-sitters out there of the danger that Palin poses to the entire Western World, let me leave you with this…

She made Katie Couric look like a hard-nosed journalist.