It's stunning to me, watching Sarah Palin resign, how much she reminds me of Timothy Treadwell, the titular Grizzly Man of Herzog's film. They have an amazingly similar naive and simplified sense of the world and their place(s) in it. Maybe it's an Alaska thing. You decide:
Okay, we're getting our first indication of what happened. It seems like a colossal sulk on Palin's part, or perhaps better to say an effort on her part to ingeniously combine anti-liberal media bias agitation with Christianist politics by portraying herself as having been crucified by the liberal media. Said Palin, according to a reporter at the press conference, "You are naive if you don't see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard."
A must read editorial in the Baltimore Sun from one time McCain supporter Frank Schaeffer. Via TPM.
John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations. Change the atmosphere of your campaign. Talk about the issues at hand. Make your case. But stop stirring up the lunatic fringe of haters, or risk suffering the judgment of history and the loathing of the American people - forever.
Update: Christopher Buckley, son of esteemed conservative intellectual William F., endorses Obama.
