In the VP debate, the question was: "Governor, you mentioned a moment ago the constitution might give the vice president more power than it has in the past. Do you believe as Vice President Cheney does, that the Executive Branch does not hold complete sway over the office of the vice presidency, that it it is also a member of the Legislative Branch?"
And the answer was: "Palin: Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the office of the vice president."
With the Alaska report we are all fairly warned, Sarah Palin will stretch her authority and power to promote her own agenda. In the VP debate, she promised Americans that she would do the same with the position of VP.
And the response to this pattern of behavior: If you don't agree with me you are promoting a partisan agenda. A person who looks at her position as a public servant as an opportunity to milk it within its most tenuous bonds of legality to gear it to her own self-interest is dangerous. And while this legal cheating has not risen to the level of criminal action because of our own lowered standards and expectations from public servants, Sarah Palin has given us warning...she'll seek reimbursement for personal expenses to pad her pocketbook, she'll execute a personal vendetta against an ex brother-in-law, and she has promised to follow Cheney's example of stretching the role of VP to promote her agenda. Her agenda is Sarah Palin, have no doubt of that.
As a country our ethics have been fed with fear, fear of terrorism, fear of poverty, fear of illegal immigrants but our national response to that fear has been to abdicate our own values and our own knowledge for some reassuring words and the idea that there's a quick fix that will somehow throw us back into some safer time.
Sarah Palin has a track record. It is a record of shameless self-promotion and working the system to her own benefit. And what will she do for health care? Nothing. She doesn't care about health care because she has government insurance, she is fine and that's why we hear the threadbare promise ending with the punctuated number of $5000.
