I always enjoy reading Paglia's columns, although she is way to the left - she has an honesty which is refreshing to me. I think she saw these things during the campaign, but did not want to bring them up because she wanted Obama to win no matter what. She may have told herself that Obama would produce his birth certificate at the last minute with a great "I told you so!" Now, she's beginning to wonder why he hasn't.
She has written before about Palin & the irrational hatred of her by the left & she is dead-on correct about it.
It's going to be interesting to read her perceptions of Obama as he governs as president.
Paglia is always articulate and insightful. She is frank about her beliefs, but I often find them frustratingly “half the way there”. One glaring example is abortion, where she admits the humanity of the embryo but defends the practice. Another would be, if as you suspect, she knew about Obama’s dangers but consciously didn’t make them an issue in order to protect him at this point. It will be interesting to watch her evolvement during the Obama tenure, all the more so for her insightful appreciation of Palin’s importance to the Fem movement.