Oct 01 2008
“If bs were currency, Sarah Palin could bail out Wall Street by herself”
Published by Jason Welker at 3:11 am under Politics
With three television interviews under her belt, there is much concern about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s ability to understand, much less help resolve, America’s dire economic situation.
Jack Cafferty Loves Sarah Palin, Part II
Think Cafferty and other Palin critics are over-reacting? Judge her econ-cred for yourself. See if you can keep up with her stream of conciousness, covering every economic issue she can think of in under one minute.
Sarah Palin Talks Bailout Proposal
About the author: Jason Welker teaches International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement Economics at Zurich International School in Switzerland. In addition to publishing various online resources for economics students and teachers, Jason developed the online version of the Economics course for the IB and is has authored two Economics textbooks: Pearson Baccalaureate’s Economics for the IB Diploma and REA’s AP Macroeconomics Crash Course.
Jason is a native of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and is a passionate adventurer, who considers himself a skier / mountain biker who teaches Economics in his free time. He and his wife keep a ski chalet in the mountains of Northern Idaho, which now that they live in the Swiss Alps gets far too little use. Read more posts by this authorRelated posts:
She has made it incredibly difficult to teach economics and remain unbiased. I've had some students talk about how great they think she is and I've had an extremely difficult time reinforcing her 'strong points'…With McCain, Obama, and Biden, it is easy to tell the students where their strengths lie as well as their weaker points. When discussing them, I can at least present a balanced viewpoint from each side so that I can let the students decide for themselves this coming November. I haven't been able to see any of her real contributions to the GOP ticket. Palin has an extreme amount of pressure to perform at the upcoming VP debate – she will be unedited in the spotlight with everyone tearing apart everything she says…I'll be very surprised if her performance helps their ticket in the polls…
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@Mr. D. My sentiments exactly. Try discussing these issues with a class full of European students. It is hard to get them to take the American elections seriously at all with Palin running for the second highest office in the US, and putting her near the highest of echelons of global power. Her public gaffs in every interview she's done and her inability to grasp the basic issues behind our financial crisis are a bit embarrassing for me as an American teacher whose brightest high school students could probably explain better how the proposed bailout will "shore up" the US economy than Palin does above!
That said, we're all looking very forward to Thursday night's debate! It is even worth staying up till 2:30 in the morning for here in Europe.
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So said Kathleen Parker (and she was correct).
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