From the usually sensible Volokh Conspiracy, regarding the last weeks’ financial weirdness:
And I don’t know about you all, but really, I sure wish that we had someone like Sarah Palin calling the shots here — nothing like someone who knows absolutely nothing about the issues to steer us through a potentially planet-wide financial meltdown, eh?
As opposed to Barrack Obama, John McCain, or, really, any number of political whiz kids who understand this issue completely? I agree that I’m not confident in Palin’s knowledge of this issue, but I can’t name a single politician whose knowledge I would be confident in. Perhaps Phil Gramm, but I wouldn’t trust his political abilities to get his fixes through.
The Palin attacks that drive me nuts are the ones that are applicable to everyone but only get pointed out for her. After her speech the Democrat talking point was that she *gasp* had a speechwriter. Now she doesn’t know anything about the financial “crisis.” But, of course, the last president who had a broad understanding of economics before being elected was Herbert Hoover, and look where that got us.
What’s more distressing than Palin’s presumed ignorance on this subject is Obama and McCain pretending like they’re not ignorant of the subject. If one of the candidates knew what he didn’t know, that would be a lot more comforting.
Posted by Apollo in Audacity of Hype, Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!