Sarah Palin reminds me of Anna Nicole

I'm bewildered by all the Sarah Palin updates I get in a day. My people are threatened by her platform, her archaic beliefs, her failure of integrity. It's clear that when she calls for change, she is calling for new levels in abuse of power. I know, hard to imagine given the crisis at hand.

Yet the fear that women will blindly throw their support behind her on the basis of gender, well, to me seems irrational. Is there truly a demographic of ignorant women who also happen to exhibit gender favoritism at the polls? I'm insulted by the thought. Each Palin media update I receive only makes her seem more absurd to me. I haven't seen such a disastrous void of self awareness coupled with excess of resources to waste since Anna Nicole. Too much noise. Perhaps the VP candidate debates will clear some of it up. This is a campaign of hope after all.

It's 2008. We need a collective awakening to personal responsibility and a willingness to be accountable for the care of others. Will that happen under leadership that still doesn't comprehend how we got here? This week I listened to a couple of podcasts from NPR about the mortgage crisis and the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac bail out. They were stories about understanding root causes. I listened to the analysis of downstream effects of irresponsible deregulation. I came away understanding how personal responsibility is equally integral in the financial crisis. It seemed obvious, the profound parallel between the environment and the financial markets - we're all connected and the impact of our behavior is not limited to what we can see.