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overshadowing

Submitted September 3, 2008 - 5:57 pm by Jason Eley (not verified)

The danger is of any nonsense drama about her family overshadowing the very real stories that have emerged. Palin has been the pick for five days and literally every day since has brought new revelations about how corrupt and incompetent she is, from the Bridge to Nowhere to her $27 million in earmarks to leaving Wasilla $22 million in debt to her undisclosed ownership of that car wash to her repeated firings of officials to her desire to ban books to etc. Nobody should care about her daughter, but everybody should care about these issues.

When the McCain campaign overreacts to a CNN reporter asking for evidence of Palin's much-vaunted executive experience, they're not running against the media, they're running against the truth. They didn't do their homework and are left with a running mate with a load of baggage. Maybe she can rise above it and none of this will matter in the end, but that doesn't mean plenty of legitimate issues haven't been raised in the past few days.

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