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Speaker failed, hands down

Sun., Feb. 14, 2010

The Spokesman-Review

Addressing a Tea Party gathering last Saturday (Feb. 6), Sarah Palin sneered, “We need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.”

Given that she had to scribble cheat notes on the palm of her hand, I can understand her dislike of professors. The truly sad part was, this wasn’t an esoteric answer to an anticipated “hard question.” This was the answer to “What are your top political priorities?” She actually had to write them down. Sadder yet, she couldn’t even write them down correctly. Where she meant to write “tax cut,” she wrote “budget cut” and then crossed “budget” out.

I prefer a commander in chief who has the intelligence to know what he/she actually stands for.

James Dodds

Cheney

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