Sarah Palin seems to have an agenda all her own, as well as some interesting new twists on traditional interpretation of the constitution of the United States of America. During the debates Palin explained that she agreed with Dick Cheney’s belief that there is a great deal of flexibility in the office of the vice president and the powers thereof. I am not sure what she is talking about.   Yes, Cheney has been able to pull off some incredible stunts while Americans have been in this stupor over security and terrorism these past few years, but now we have someone who has taken what are incredible and inexcusable exceptions to the rules and embracing them as some sort of leap forward in government.

Sarah went on to clarify what she meant on a Fox news interview the morning after the debates (yeah, please, we need some clarification on this one!). Sadly, her clarification dug the hole deeper and made what could have been just another one of her little air head moments and turned it into what seemed to me to be the ranting of a tyrant on the make. I know that Alaska is far away but as Sarah herself has kindly reminded us all during her amazing interview with Katie Curic, that it is not a foreign country. Yet, it is apparently a place in which its governor has access to a specialized version of the U.S. Constitution that seems to include secret amendments that allow someone who is CLEARLY a member of the legislative branch to migrate at will into legislation. 

The group of people who set down the foundations of our system of government wisely separated power into three very distinct branches of government with very clear checks and balances in place to protect the public from any possible abuses in any one of those branches; though over the years these lines have been somewhat smudged, never before has it gone this far. The sad thing is that she can make these kinds of statements in front of millions of Americans who have little or no knowledge of how our government works and they will simply take it all as a matter of fact and won’t even flinch when it finally happens. 

We cannot let this kind of nonsense go unanswered, nor can we allow a person like this to inhabit the second most important office in our country and by way of extension, perhaps the second most powerful position in the world. If you are a McCain supporter I urge you to carefully consider what Sarah Palin has said, and ask yourself what it could mean for our country to have an executive ride rough shod over the legislative branch of our government. How long will it be before she eyes up the Supreme Court?