It's not often that the voters in America let their illusions of voice fade, drop all pretensions of having a vote, and actually embrace the fact that we have elected representatives. We might be better off doing that today. The masses simply influence the vote of our congressmen and senators; we act as but one adviser, one out of many.


It must be said strongly and loudly: if the block that we all take part in decides to vote on the Sarah Palin/John McCain Ticket, our representatives must deny them that position. They must put Obama/Biden in office. Sarah Palin mocks the seriousness of politics with her tattooed perma-smile and her offensive, flirtatious winking. Can you believe it? Winking as a political strategy? As if we are in with her on a secret? Although we might all suspect that politics is a theater, we know that it is at least a grim one. The only reason John Stewart and anyone else turns politics into comedy is because we are overwhelmed by the utter seriousness. It's so bad that we have to laugh. To simply see politicians joking every once in a while can be unnerving, but we realize that they are only human, that they wrestle with the weight and have to laugh. But politics is not really funny at all. Underneath these joking exteriors these people are playing with power that can change not only the quality of life but the length. They hold triggers wired to lethal firepower, the bullet and the dollar. Decisions are more about "Who, out of everyone that has to die, should we try and avoid killing." How can anyone with a plastic smile plastered on head full of short term prep represent the awful seriousness of the political world? She is a parody of the nightmares we all have of Washington. Those up on Capital Hill may be crooks with too much power. But at least they take their jobs seriously. They realize the impacts that their decisions can make.


How serious about her job is she who cannot name a single periodical, but unflinchingly smiles and cutely spurts that she read "all of them"? How serious someone who names Cheney's duck hunting incident as the worst thing he did in office? Only someone who receives all their news by gossip and word of mouth. Cheney's story was ridiculous and popular enough that it livened up Palin's dinner table. Roe V. Wade, the only Supreme Court case that Palin could site, made it into the Palin bubble, too. These revealing lines are not gotcha moments. They illustrate a mindset. When she has absorbed enough gossip to avoid resorting to the "glittering generality," that's when she exposes herself. It is in those few moments that Palin feels confident. She can actually mention a fully-formed detail! It is those moments we see her limitations. Weak minds react to complexity by trimming it down and disguising confusion in layers of grins and gloss. If the insane happens and the soccer mom legion drops Palin off at the White House, we must break her bubbly heart and close the gates.