President 'Palin': A Chill Wind Blows through Chappaqua

There’s a chill wind blowing through Casa Clinton tonight.

Last week Hillary Clinton was passed over – blatantly and callously by Obama - as THE obvious Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate. Then, adding insult to injury, the Republicans – the ‘boy’s club’ - stole the Democratic convention thunder by announcing a woman - Sarah Louise Palin - as the Republican choice for VP.

Ms. Palin’s selection piled salt into the already festering wound of Mrs. Clinton’s political ambitions and self-esteem.

The move by McCain not only accommodated the female voter - indeed checkmated the potential Democratic Party’s lock on it - it was done using someone with credentials that would be a mere footnote on Mrs. Clinton’s resume.

The boldness of the selection left many Democrats stunned, gasping like beached fish. Who’d have thought McCain could have come up with such a plan? Republics historically, despite having numbers of excellent female members, are known for their selection of women for administrative positions as mere window dressing, a la Rice, while the boys do the important jobs.

With the female vote already stirred up and with 50% of voter’s female, hiring a female VP was an obvious move that Obama missed. Did he think that by passing over Hillary that these motivated voters would simply go away? The stupidity of his lack of foresight is mind-boggling.

Democrats were stunned further in their horrified realization that the golden and historic opportunity to break two glass ceilings in one fell swoop had been lost forever. Gone. They had handed the victorious playing piece of the first female president to the opposition, gift-wrapped, with a bow.

Ms. Palin seems tailor made for the job.Pretty. A life member of the NRA (what are the chances?). The mother of a large Christian family. The all-American woman; well traveled. Pretty. A pregnant daughter does no harm; it proves she’s part of the real world. Sarah has killed her own meat, is an expert at firing an M-16 and drives big snow machines. Pretty. The Republicans must be salivating.

As long as she doesn’t prove to be as dumb as a pile of rocks, the Republican’s can start practicing singing “Hail to the Chief” tomorrow after lunch.

After Hillary’s speech at the Democratic convention last week it was glaringly clear to all that Obama had made a whopping mistake in selecting Biden. Here, throwing her clout behind him was a political giant; eloquent, wise, experienced, fierce and tough. With enough political momentum to bulldoze the Republicans out of the White House for 16 years – 4 terms. And in what will become know in history as the ‘mother of all screw-ups,’ Obama ignored her. He turned away a king maker. What a dope.

Speaking of which, Palin admitted to smoking the wacky-backy openly and without repercussion. Nobody cared. There are few Americans who have not wrapped their lips around a cracking dube, including a significant number of members of congress. Indeed it is alleged that our illustrious sitting President may have smoked a bale or two of Jamaican Gold back in the day, before he found Jesus and Dick Cheney.

Sarah, a seemingly pleasant governor from the largest, oil-rich, U.S. state, could well become what Hillary Rodham Clinton should have been - what had been Hillary’s manifest destiny; the first female President of the United States of America.

Good for her.