Friday, August 29, 2008
Experience & Change... [Jonah Goldberg]
I think Ramesh and Jay make perfectly legitimate points about Palin's downsides. But what I find a bit vexing as I listen to CNN etc on XM (we're now in North Dakota heading for lunch in Bismarck en route to Fargo), is how seriously many commentators are taking the contradictions inherent to McCain's pick while they simply shrugged off the similar contradictions in Obama's pick of Biden. Obama insisted that experience didn't matter, then he picked someone solely on the basis of experience. Moreover Obama insisted for over a year that his opposition to the war proved he was qualified to be president, then he picked someone who voted for the war just like Hillary.
I could go on, but I think picking Biden discredits Obama's argument far more than Palin erases McCain's. But even if it's a wash, that doesn't seem to be the way the MSM is responding.
08/29 04:22 PM
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