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The NYT on “Gov. Palin and the Bridge to Nowhere” thingy:

She could explain, as well, why she was for the Bridge to Nowhere when it was first proposed and reversed field once it became a symbol of legislative abuse.

The NYT on “Obama and Biden voted for that ‘legislative abuse’” thingy:

While we’re piling on the Old Gray Hag, let’s look at what she had to say in 1984 (when Geraldine Ferrarro was running for VP) about the need for some kind of Senatorial experience to be VP:

Yet to be shrill is no worse than to be righteous, like the people who insist that the women Vice Presidential candidates so far proposed lack the requisite standing and experience. Why, it is said, none of them is even a senator.

Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? Surely Ronald Reagan does not subscribe to that maxim. Or where is it written that mere representatives aren’t qualified, like Geraldine Ferraro of Queens?
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Representative Morris Udall, who lost New Hampshire to Jimmy Carter by a hair in 1976, must surely disagree. So must a longtime Michigan Congressman named Gerald Ford. Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial?…Why shouldn’t a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow?

What sayeth the Hag today?

Voters have a right to hear Ms. Palin explain in detail her qualifications to be standby president with no national or foreign policy experience. More is required of any serious candidate for such a high office than one interview with questions put by one selected source. 

They’ve gone backwards in their rationale, and yet they call themselves “progressive”?  What a difference a party affiliation makes, huh?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 12, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, media bias, Obama, Palin