The NBC poll showing that 55% of Americans do not believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president is notable to me for one reason: 40% of Americans DO think she’s qualified. That’s a lot of people! Like if America were a baseball team then you could say that the outfielders, the pitcher and the catcher don’t think she’s qualified but the entire infield does.
And what does it mean to "Love America"? Or more to the point what are "Un-American views"? Is it un-American to be self-critical? If so, then we should still have slavery and women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Or by that logic then I guess it’s un-American to oppose Roe v. Wade? It’s in the Constitution after all. Still, the implications that Barack Obama holds un-American views persist. What’s the idea there? That he’s going to become president so that he can bomb… himself?
If you’ve been watching her interviews you’ll notice that Sarah Palin’s favorite word is "Ahmadinejad". She just loves saying that word. And I mean let’s face it: it is a very hard word to pronounce. It reminds me of a story about James Ellroy’s LA Confidential. It involves the word "valediction". The gist of the story is that using big words like "valediction" (or "Ahmadinejad") can sometimes con an audience into thinking things make sense when in fact they don’t. "Boy, that’s a long word, she must know what she’s talking about."
With the latest revelation that Sarah Palin has spent more than four times what Joe the Plumber makes in a year, $175,000 to be exact, on her wardrobe so far, I couldn’t help but thinking of another book: The Bonfire Of The Vanities. I also thought of the movie, or to be more exact, the making of the movie. The making of the movie version of Bonfire of the Vanities as detailed in the book The Devil’s Candy by Julie Salamon is the story of a pretty good idea that became a really, really bad idea really fast. I think that the publisher’s comments sum it up well: "When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe’s best-selling The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big. How could it lose? But instead Salamon got a front-row seat at the Hollywood disaster of the decade…This riveting insider’s portrait provides a timeless account of an industry where art, talent, ego, and money combine and clash on a monumental scale."
If only John McCain’s presidential bid were just a movie. Then again who thought really thought that the movie about the chihuahua would do so well?
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