The Sarah Palin Flow Chart
If you’re as sick of Sarah Palin as I am, then you’ll enjoy this. I couldn’t resist posting Aden Nak’s flow chart of Sarah Palin’s speech process here for all of my loyal readers (read: my grandma [I love you Granny!]) to see:
While I’m on the subject, let me say this: the Vice Presidential debate Thursday night was hilarious. Palin made strong (and sometimes, sadly, successful) efforts to get out of answering questions. She tried to change the subject at practically every turn. Hell, she still doesn’t know what the VP does. Watch as Joe Biden takes her to school (start at the 2:50 mark):
That makes me LOL. I hear her talk, and all she says are buzzwords. It’s all she seems to know. Just like the flow chart above, she just reads buzzwords off of her cards – “agenda”, “usher”, “flexibility”, “tapping into”, “administer” – big words that don’t really mean anything substantial.
It’s not just that she doesn’t say anything worth saying, but that she’s wrong when she does say something semi-meaningful. She thinks that she can expand the role of the VP further into the Senate, but then Biden comes in to take her to school: “[The legislative role of the Vice President is] to preside over the Senate only in a time when, in fact, there’s a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit. The only authority the Vice President has from a legislative standpoint is to vote only when there is a tie vote.” Owned.
I now know three new things about Palin:
- She’s “straight up”. (Her words, not mine.)
- She’s “tolerant“. (Gee, that’s nice. Again, her words.)
- She believes that homosexuality is a choice.
So remind me, why should anyone vote for McCain/Palin? 
My brother was a hardcore Republican a couple years ago, which was the last time we talked politics. He has very different views than me, so politics can be a heated issue. However, I am really interested to hear his political views this year, especially considering the state of the American economy and the inclusion of Palin.
Appendix:
Letterman happened to be on TV as I was finishing this post and I saw something amazing. It would be wrong of me to not find and share this little treasure of editing magic:
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