Joe Scott: The Body Politic

Is Palin Ready?

30 August 2008 |permalink | email article

Palin dissed the VP job in a cable news interview just a month ago.

Larry Kudlow of CNBC asked the hard right conservative about the possibility of being McCain’s running mate.

Palin replied: “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer the question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that a VP does every day?

Dan Gerstein, a former adviser to Joe Lieberman, put it more bluntly in the New York Daily News:

“In picking an unknown, untested, half a term governor of Alaska to be his running mate, John McCain is following in a long line of reckless men who have rolled the dice for a beauty queen. Except in this case, McCain is taking one of the biggest, boldest gambles in modern American political history.”

The original slogan for the Republican convention starting Monday in St. Paul is, ironically, “He’s Not Ready” – aimed at Barack Obama.

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Aristotle's Politics (Book 1, Chapter 1) is clear that "man is a political animal in a greater measure than any bee or any gregarious animal. For nature does nothing without purpose, and man alone of the animals possesses speech."

The blogosphere watches as a divided America reexamines its soul. After 35 years as a journalist I have broken a long silence to comment again on critical moral and political issues that impact the U.S. body politic. Reflections on JoeScott3.com, an independent, non-profit blog, are posted frequently, not daily. I hope global readers, accepting Aristotle's definition of a political animal, will find this quick scan both provocative and mindful.

About Joe Scott

A 1952 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Joe Scott spent many years as a columnist for the Herald-Examiner (1978-1989), and later the Los Angeles Times and other California dailies.He was the critically-acclaimed editor and publisher of the Political Animal and California Eye, newsletters (1973-1992). He worked as a political consultant and ran several successful political campaigns in California. Joe Scott is a third-generation Angeleno. He is working on a novel about public corruption in Los Angeles during the late 1930's. You can contact Joe Scott here. All content of the site, Joe Scott, 2006

Joe Scott 3: The Body Politic