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I think you're right on all counts. Sometimes the best things public figures can do in a response to an event is STFU. >
>Well, if they STFU long enough, they won't be public figures for very long (then again, in her case, that wouldn't be a bad idea)
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>I guess we just see this differently then. Obama visited her yesterday, and he certainly has a bigger entourage than Palin. I still say it would have been the right thing to do.
Yeah, but Obama has a public office, so certain things are expected of him. ( and for that matter may actually know her )
Sarah Palin privately sending any kind of condolences or good wishes would be the right thing to do. I just don't think a public gesture would come across well, no matter how sincere or well-meant.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
