Friday, September 19, 2008

From Titus

Dr. Levi drives home a good point.

Something that no one seems to have pointed out about her “executive experience” keeps bugging me: the focus has been on her tenure as the mayor of a city of some 6,000 persons. But what about Alaska? How hard could it be? Sure, it has more land than Texas, but it also has fewer people than any of LA County's Five Districts. And the thing that just jumps out at me is what’s been overlooked so far: the state is awash in oil money. Thus, there are no really hard decisions to make. And believe you me, the next administration will have to make hard decisions. Her experience as an executive is almost diametrically opposed to being able to do so; in fact, her tenure as governor has probably set up a body of experience that leaves her especially ill-equipped to deal with hard choices.

I said it on day one: she's a lightweight.
[N]o amount of political gamesmanship or weak attempts at egalitarianism will erase their failures since 2000 or their desire to continue those failures moving forward.

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