This time it's former Reagan aide Ken Duberstein endorsing Barack Obama. Part of his reasoning?
Well, it went like this:
"And, Duberstein was brutal -- just brutal -- about McCain's pick of
Palin on MSNBC. "For example, a job at McDonald's requires more
interviews than Palin had."
Wow. Well. To start with, the job of a vice-presidential candidate is very different than that of a worker at McDonald's. Sarah Palin isn't a teenager with little work history and/or possibly a drug possession charge or the like in her background. And in any case, yes, she had been "interviewed"--that is, she had run campaigns, and won, election to the Wasilla city council, to the post of mayor of Wasilla, and then won a primary campaign, and a general election, which included several debates, to become Alaska's governor.
Let's be clear. Prominent Republicans and conservatives, if they claim to still be conservatives, have every right to endorse whomever they wish for the presidency. But it would be nice to see them advance cogent and convincing arguments, rather than condescending sneers, snarks, equivocations, thin hope disguised as argument (too often we hear variants on "well, maybe Obama will be so smart as to not be as liberal as he sounds and as his record indicates"), and what look to me like attempts to hop on an Obama train before it leaves the station.
But too often we get the latter.
