Here She Goes Again...

Today was one heck of a day for Governor Palin.

First, she took issue with Barack Obama's position as a feminist, asserting that if he were a real feminist, he would have picked Hillary Clinton to be his running mate: “Our opponents think they have the women’s vote all locked up, which is a little presumptuous since only our side has a woman on the ticket,” she said. She added, referring to Mr. Obama: “When it came time for choosing a vice president, somehow he couldn’t bring himself to choose a woman who got 18 million votes in the primaries.” Really, Governor? You're taking issue with the Senator Obama's choice of running mate? You'd rather have gone up against Hillary Clinton in the Vice Presidential debate? I guess you must be curious to know what it feels like to be chewed up and then spit out. Also, I think it's a little presumptous of you to assume that the Obama campaign feel like they have the women's vote locked up - I don't think they're taking anything for granted, starting from the top down - but it's especially presumptous of you to assume that women are going to vote for you, or should vote for you, just because you're a woman.

Second, she has once again displayed a stunning ignorance about what the job of the Vice President is when it comes to the V.P.'s role in the Senate:



It's right there in the Constitution, Governor, Article 1, Section 3: "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided." You wouldn't be "in charge of the Senate," nor would you be entitled to "really get in there with the Senators and make a lot of really good policy changes." Just wanted to clear that up for you.

-EB