As the days before the election in November continue to count down, I’m starting to wonder if I’m not going to wear out before we get there – from of all of the political BS that’s being slung around these days. Despite my opinions about who I plan to vote for, and who I think is being more unfair at the given moment in this campaign, I think that both sides are equally at fault for all of this crap at different times. And it has me worried and wondering if we’re ever going to be able to unite again as a country or if, as one person I was speaking to recently said, it’s the “New American Civil War” – not fought with guns, but with words. So with this in mind, I once again found myself exasperated by what I saw on the Today Show this morning. Matt Lauer, Tim Pawlenty, and Bill Richardson – none of them were helping to clarify the situation – they were all just there to muck it up even more. I found what Pawlenty and Richardson had to say to be completely worthless – full of intellectual dishonesty – and other than depressing me at the state of political divisiveness with 48 days left to go, the only other thought I was left with was thank God these two aren’t the VP choices!
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Sarah Palin gave a great political speech last night. In it, she was feisty, charming, funny, open, and confident. As a convention speech, where the murmur behind the scenes was about whether she was ready for the national spotlight, I think she proved that she can more than hold her own. As a political speech, in execution, it was a home run. The problem I have is that I also found her speech to be smug, condescending, and containing what I’ve now learned is referred to as “intellectual dishonesty”, basically making something you say you’d support in one breath, sound like something you don’t in the other. (To read more about that idea, see Tom Hall’s IndieWire post - I do agree with the points he makes, but like many bloggers, he lets his anger veer him towards making statements that I don’t think are wholly fair. His points about the absurdity of calling Obama an elitist, however, are dead on!)
Michael J. Sonntag
Michael is a film & TV producer, casting director, teacher, and actor, who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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