Will the American people say enough?
Is there no limit to how far things will go?
I will put aside, for the moment, McCain advertising lying to make Obama out to be some form of supporter of teaching unvarnished sexual education to kindergardeners (when, in fact, Obama was supporting efforts to teach young child how to understand and then report pedophiles); the viciously deceptive attacks about "can't put lipstick on the pig"; the deception and lies that the McCain campaign and the Republican Party have at the core of their campaign strategy. The absurdity of calling Sarah Palin some form of "Energy Expert" has gone from ridiculous to beyond the realm of absurd. I have to ask, however, how in the world anyone could assert this with a straight face:
[Sarah Palin] knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. [John McCain, Sept 08
This is beyond comical and beyond insulting.
Okay, John, are you going to put her up in a debate with some lesser figure who evidently knows less than Expert Sarah?
Why don't we try some of my fellow bloggers? For example, Joseph Romm, PhD, and former Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Why not a 'simple' blogger like BruceMcF? David Sasson at SolveClimate? How about simply selecting a random edictor from The Oil Drum. Or ...
Moving past "bloggers", are you ready to put Sarah Palin up against Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Insitute? Are you saying that Sarah "Pit Bull with Lipstick" Palin is more knowledgeable than your own advisor and support, Jim Woolsey? How about looking toward your opponent's (very deep) stable of energy advisors, such asDaniel Kammen, who is advising Barack Obama? Or ...
In the political arena, would you allow Sarah to go face-to-face with Al Gore? Ed Markey? John Kerry? How about trying to tackle an Energy Smart candidate?
In fact, if we really started this process seriously, the list of more knowledgeable people would likely extend into the 10,000s rather workers in industry, government employees, academic experts, and others.
John, you need to ask yourself: At what point will no one be able to take anything that you say at face value? Has this point already passed?
Now, John, you have already agreed to allow Sarah to face one person who certainly knows more about energy (and a raft of other issues) than Sarah Palin: Joe Biden. Let us hope that the media judge that debate, that confrontation on the terms that the McCain-Palin camp have chosen to set:
[Sarah Palin] knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.
Watch out Joe, you're going to face the nation's top expert on energy. Be scared ... be very scared.
If this weren't such a serious issue, I would be falling off my chair with uncontrollable laughter.
NOTE: AmericaBlog had this earlier ...; video here.