The pedant and the demagogue

Not satisfied with six, read them, six editorial columns
yesterday bashing the McCain-Palin ticket and promoting
Obama-Biden, the Erie Times-News also ran a lengthy puff
piece, complete with mug shot, about a former schoolboy
buddy of Joe Biden's, Jim Lanahan, an administrator at
Mercyhurst North East.

The article had about as much substance as Obama's
tissue-thin resume. Its shaky premise hardly
justified so much space in the paper unless it was
intended primarily as a pretext to bolster even
further that day's six Op-Ed columns pumping up
the Democrat presidential ticket.

Lanahan both pushed the Obama-Biden candidacy and
dumped a ton of sour grapes on Palin, replicating the
vicious sexist attacks which the far left media have
piled on Palin since McCain elevated her to her historic role.

I find it interesting that Lanahan would denigrate
Governor Palin's alleged lack of experience, but
ignore that obvious deficiency in both members of
the Obama-Biden ticket.

Palin has more executive experience than both of them
put together, and is a proven political reformer, having
among other things challenged and defeated the incumbent
Republican governor with 22 years' seniority as a U.S.
senator from Alaska, a certified member of the old boys'
club, and blown the whistle on the chairman of the Alaska
Republican Party for ethics violations.

Biden, on the other hand, was caught plagiarizng material
while at law school and publicly misrepresenting his
collegiate academic status as a candidate for Congress.

Isn't it ironic that a college administrator
would advance as a role model someone with a resume as
checkered with academic pettifoggery as Biden's?

Obama has never led a reform effort of any kind, and
epitomizes the self-serving old boys' club which Palin
and McCain are committed to decimating in the nation's capital.

In a glowing reminisence of schoolboy days, Lanahan told
the Times-News that Biden eventually conquered a stuttering
handicap that plagued him as a youth. Senator Biden is to be
congratulated for overcoming that handicap. Now if he would
only do something about that demagoguery.