Sarah Palin: The New Old America

Kind of like "New Country" to his Merle Haggard, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was swept in the spotlight today as John McCain's vice presidential nominee/running mate.

Watching her acceptance speech, I couldn't help but be reminded of a certain episode of The Simpsons where Cletus "The Slack Jawed Yokel" calls his children for dinner. Download (or click to listen) to that soundclip here.



So after she introduced her husband Todd, a snowmachine world champion, she named off her kids: Track, Bristol, Piper, Willow, and Trig. And I think those monikers speak for themselves.

On a more serious side note, I'm not even going to get into how disgusting it is that the mainstream media (eg. CNN) is already implying that Palin's youngest child's down syndrome is somehow a testament to her strong principles and pro-life, anti-abortion stance. Like somehow not-aborting your disabled child is some great mark of distinction.

The real exciting part of her nomination is that now the two-on-two basketball game between Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin looks a little more competitive [see picture left / see video].

Looks like Palin will run the point against Obama, and McCain and Biden will bang inside.