Sarah Palin did not “[attach] herself to Donald Trump’s Birther conspiracy this weekend, throwing more fuel on a fire that won’t quit.” She was asked where she thinks Obama was born and she said “I think he was born in Hawaii”, going on to explain about the newspaper birth announcements. She was then asked what does she think about Trump making noise about the issue, and then spoke the words quoted in the article. Her comment about Trump was simply to say he can do with his money whatever interests him. She was clearly not agreeing with him.
The quotes in this article clearly are taken out of context to deliberately mislead. George Stephanopolis did the same thing on ABC this morning.
Why does it have to be one way or the other? Politicians run for office because they've chosen a particular program and want to put it into effect, or because they just like having power and position.
It's extremely unlikely that somebody gets elected because he or she wants to ruin the country. Most likely, people who think that a politician deliberately and consciously wants to destroy a country can't separate their own belief that the politicians ideas are destructive from the notion that the politician has to be some sort of melodrama villain who wants to do evil. There's something a little childish about that inability to see things in perspective.
But that doesn't mean we have to take politicians as men and women of good will who desire what's best for us. Rather, if they aren't just in it for power and position, they've adopted an ideology that gives them answers and moves them to take certain actions. They are what they are and they will be judged by the consequences of their actions. We don't have to see them as well-meaning saints or consciously evil-doing demons.
IDIOT!
So Arnie could be President after all