“Barack Obama may be doing the one thing that might have seemed impossible: he’s picking a running mate whose ideas about Iraq are even worse than, and stupider than, John McCain’s. ”

Palin, as far as we know, has not been involved in the killing and maiming of countless children and innocents, in countries throughout the world. She appears a little witless, but so far harmless.

On the the hand, we have a man, Joseph Biden who has been one of the major hawks in the Senate. He is certainly no man of peace and it can be said that he has done with his vote and influence what Dems fear bate McCain will do.

Obama selected such a man to represent him and have him apart of his decision making process on foreign affairs. He has also, thus far, selected many of the Clinton hawk advisers and economic free-trade Wall Street fundamentalists.

While we can chose to vote for a third party candidate. What we’re looking at is an Obama/Biden administration that has offered us more of the same. Additionally, Obama seems to have no sense of the depth of the economic crisis and though able to provide a speech little no ability to provide a sense of direction and vision.

Let’s face it this established duopoly has given us what we have in spades and totally and completely incapable of moving in another direction. This is the Twilight of the American Empire.

Somehow Palin just doesn’t seem very important; in fact she’s more a slight distraction from the deep problems we are about to face, long overdue, but clearly on the horizon with the force of a Katina + Ike.

“The VP Debate: Dishonest Foreign Policies”
by Stephen Zunes [Foreign Policy in Focus]
http://www.commondreams.org/print/33109

‘ The October 3 debate [1] between Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Delaware Senator Joe Biden was disturbing for those of us hoping for a more enlightened and honest foreign policy during the next four years. In its aftermath, pundits mainly focused on Palin’s failure to self-destruct and Biden’s relatively cogent arguments. Here’s an annotation of the foreign policy issues raised during the vice-presidential debate, which was packed with demonstrably false and misleading statements. …’

[Well worth the full read -- Zunes' corrections of those conspicuous falsehoods are quite commendable.]

Likewise, an excellent assessment from Walter Brasch. The American people — or at least the Republican Party — have gone even dumber than H.L. Mencken could EVER have imagined via this vice-presidential selection:

“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.

“On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

-H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Sun, 1920