The majority of Americans have probably never used the word vetted before this past week. Now that’s all we hear about. Yesterday and today, all I have read and heard was how John McCain didn’t “properly vet” Governor Sarah Palin before announcing her as a running mate. The American Standard Dictionary defines “vet”: “To examine or appraise expertly.”
The liberally biased, obsessed media are trying for a double whammy! One, they are looking to find anything on Sarah Palin, her husband, her children, any other family members, the dog and you better hope you aren’t a neighbor. Two, they want to paint a picture of McCain as being incapable of properly “vetting” a vice presidential candidate.
This vetting process is interesting. The media evidently feels it is their job to vet the vetted. That’s alright. There certainly is nothing wrong with taking a close look at any candidate for president or vice president. I think dragging in the kids and the cat into the vetting process is going too far.
So, can we now assume that once the obsessed, elite media is finished “vetting” the Palin family, they will then turn their attention back to vetting Barack Obama? We’ve all been waiting! Here’s a guy who has hundreds of unanswered questions of which no media outlet has spent an ounce of energy into trying to get to the truth on.
It took only a matter of hours before our vetting of the vetting vetters discovered that Sarah Palin’s husband once was charged with OUI, yet we’re actually still not 100% sure Obama is even a U.S. citizen.
It also has been brought out, with no details at all, that the Alaska governor was once charged with fishing without a license, yet no media has vetted Obama on his ties to organized crime and terrorism.
How does that old saying go? Something to the effect that you must be doing something right. Enough people are making an awful lot of noise about it.
The vetting process by the media will continue because they know that the more “National Inquirer” kind of crud they can dig up on a candidate they don’t agree with politically, the happier they will feel and the more issues they can sell.
We live in a world of double standards and elitism, where the divide between the snobs and the common people is growing exponentially. I’m a common folk. Always have been and I plan to always remain that way. I know where I came from and where I’m going. Much of the negative attention the Palin family is receiving is because they are probably considered common people by many of the elitists in Washington and in the press.
The press is so out of touch with reality, they run scared when they meet up with someone like the Palins. In short, they don’t like them. They don’t act and play the same as others in their circles do.
Just last night I was thinking about how many times I have sat in a coffee shop or around a campfire with friends and family and made a statement that this country needs a real person in office. Someone who isn’t raised with a silver spoon, someone not raised by the Beltway Bullies and someone who really is, well, just a common folk, completely removed from what we have all come to despise in politics.
Did we ever mean that? I think so but it becomes scary when we begin looking at what this would mean. Think of it for a moment. Picture Sarah Palin, Vice President of the United States. Only a short while ago she was sweating her butt off as a commercial fisherman. Imagine in four or eight years, Ms. Palin sitting in the Oval Office delivering a speech to the nation. You want to talk about change? An egg is an egg. You can fry it, scramble it, poach it or boil it but it’s still an egg. Maybe it’s time to try something that’s not an egg.
Not everyone is going to fall in love with Sarah Palin and that is to be expected. Those not so infatuated should disagree with her on the grounds that she doesn’t agree with you on issues and political ideologue.
Now we should wait and listen. Let’s see if the press will get over their hatred of Palin, complete their digging up of any and every skeleton they can find and then get on with vetting out Barack Obama and Joe Biden. That is their job isn’t it?
Tom Remington
