Greta and Sarah's Excellent Adventure

I was channel surfing when I happened upon Greta Van Susteran's Excellent Adventure in Alaska. As I watched her pal around with Sarah Palin's clan at their rustic chateau in slack jawed amazement, I thought I had stumbled upon a lost episode of the Roseanne show on Nick at Night. And, Lord help me, if I ever have to sit through the dueling banjos of Van Susteran's Wisconsin accent coupled with Gov Pal's Alaskan twang again, I will shoot myself.

Throwing Sarah Under the Bus

I am watching FOX News (I do enjoy their comedy stylings) and

they are reporting that John McCain's campaign aides are trying

to cover their backsides by calling Sarah Palin everything but a

competent candidate for the second highest office in America.

According to FOX (and I believe them because FOX News is
nothing if not "fair and balanced"), these aides claim Governor

Palin had serious gaps in her knowledge. They assert that she

not only didn't know the nations involved in the North American

Free Trade Agreement - she didn't know the names of the three

countries that make up North America (the United States, Canada

and Mexico for those of you scoring at home). They claim, among

other things, Gov.Gotcha didn't know Africa was a continent and

not a country. (Say it isn't so, Joe)!

While Gov Pal was clearly an individual who quickly found herself

out of her depth - I always suspected there were serious gaps

in her curriculum vitae - it is disheartening to see the swiftness

with which the long knives have come out. Sarah Barracuda is,

after all, somebody's mother, a hockey mom and all that, and

nobody's mother should be treated like this.

I mean, it is not like she was palling around with terrorists or

something.