Uh, Sarah? How about this Supreme Court case, from June 2008? You know, it only had a huge impact on YOUR state, the one that YOU are governor of.
Supreme Court Exxon 'Valdez' ruling sends shockwaves across the stateThe U.S. Supreme Court today united Alaskans in a sense of shock and sadness. In a 5-3 ruling, the justices slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award Exxon Mobil had been ordered to pay for the Exxon Valdez disaster.
Apparently Governor Palin missed those "shockwaves across [Alaska]." Duhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Not only can't she remember any other SC decisions aside from Roe v Wade, she also had some blather about decisions being made at the local level. Well, that's how they get to the SC - they start at a lower level and make their way up to the top court. It's bad enough that she has no knowledge of the roll the SC has played in our country's history, but she doesn't seem clear on the concept of how the whole thing works. That's one-third of the governmental structure of the United States that she does have a clue about.
Just wonderin'.
(Footnote: I have a cousin who is a psychiatric nurse in the Midwest. Most of her patients in recent years have been crystal meth addicts. That stuff really burns out brain cells at a rapid rate.)
They may have learned their lesson; she wasn't picked because she was good for Vice-President, she was picked because she appealed to a certain part of the base. Once picked, they promptly tried to make her into something she was not. I wonder if that remark means they are simply going to turn her loose for the debates, allow her to show all that passion, special humor, and (to be frank) nuttiness which fired up the Convention masses... let it all hang out, the hell with the rational rest of the country, just keep the base enthusiastic. Sort of like throwing in the towel, but another example of McCain's risk-taking.