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• Monday, September 1, 2008 10:57 PM

  We Know Gov. Palin Is Efficient

  She's been the VP pick for only 4 days and she's ALREADY embarrassing her boss.

  I genuinely feel sorry for her daughter. Poor girl, a week ago, she had her anonymity. Now not only does the whole country know her name, but they know she's pregnant. And she's going to be the Nanny for her disabled infant brother. AND she has to deal with her fears about motherhood and her own future while her mother is gadding about campaigning. That's way more than a seventeen year old girl should have to contend with all at once. A shotgun wedding is such a 1950's solution.

  But while I have sympathy for Miss Palin, I'm feeling far less forgiving toward the adults invovled in this situation. Fine, Palin has kids, but ambition seems a lot stronger for her than motherhood, right now. She has two children at once who really need her right now.

  As for McCain who was so eager to grab the spotlight away from Obama before all the folding chairs had even been put away in Denver by announcing his "bold" (cynical) VP choice of a politically unknown and seriously underqualified woman governor with no national political chops, let alone international gravitas and political views that are medieval. I hope he has an industrial strength headache, right now. But you wanted this spotlight, Senator McCain. So bask in it. Next winter as you watch President Obama make his inaugural address, just remember, you did this to yourself. Better luck vetting your NEXT veep choice.

  —Shiral Read Shiral's other letters
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