The Wind-up Doll

(or, "The Wind-up Bird-Brain")

by Jack Jameson

In the entries and articles that follow this one are numerous reasons to question and to examine Sarah Palin as a candidate for Vice President. After the stunning victories in the primaries that Hillary Clinton won, despite the ultimate loss to Senator Obama, there is little doubt that a woman could take on the job of President of the United States. Clinton showed her ability in debate after debate and in the extensive scrutiny of her record as a senator.
Sarah Palin pales by comparison to Hillary Clinton. Despite the McCain campaign's strict protection of Palin for over a month, allowing only rare, tame interviews with their chosen networks, Palin has already revealed her incompetence. In just three lame interviews she has shown that she is unprepared and unfit for such a serious international leadership post. At best, she has sounded like a press secretary giving out the policies dictated to her and of which she has little understanding. On international issues,she has shown frightening incomprehension and foolishness (her comments about Russia are just one example). When confronted with her own statements contradicting her current stance (like the bridge to nowhere) she has been evasive, vague and even persisted in denying what the camera and the press show. She is Cheney without the intelligence or the wit to cover up her contradictions and falsehoods.
the Palin/McCain ticket is now the ticket to nowhere, or worse, the ticket to war, world disgust and isolation, and to a religious fundamentalism that opposes science, the environment, and any sort of secular enlightenment. It is the ticket to more corporate greed, to worsening pollution, to the continued elimination of the middle class in our country.
Barach Obama, compared to Palin, is as knowledgeable and as articulate as Abraham Lincoln, and the best hope for our nation since Franklin Roosevelt rescued us from the Republican excesses and financial disaster of an equally incompetent, corrupt administration.
The coming debates will prove this, I'm sure, assuming McCain and Palin don't run away from them.

See for yourself how well Palin did:



Wait; there's more:



Enough said.

Jack