Epic Leadership Fail (Part 26,825)

clipped from www.pajamasmedia.com BRENDAN LOY ON TONIGHT'S DEBATE: "This is presidential politics in America -- fundamentally unserious, at a time of grave peril for the nation." And it's hard to argue with this: "It isn't just that McCain and Obama are flawed candidates; it's that there aren't really any better alternatives. Who would you rather see up there? Hillary Clinton? Mitt Romney? John Edwards? Mike Huckabee? Joe Biden? Sarah Palin? Nancy Pelosi? John Boehner? Harry Reid? Mitch McConnell? George W. Bush? John Kerry? Dick Cheney? Al Gore? Please. Our political class is totally failing us, almost as much as we're failing ourselves." Yes, the political class isn't attracting the best talent in the nation. It's not even attracting the second-best.

I think the Sarah Palin nomination just showed us why we're not getting talent. As I've said for a long time: If you're smart enough to be president, you're smart enough not to want to be president.

For instance, why would you want to have your family and reputation assassinated by ruthless idiots as we have watched with Sarah. You could be Jesus Christ himself and the same would happen. ESPECIALLY if you were Jesus Christ in fact.

But even worse, there is now a complete "impedance mismatch" between the economy and the government. Due to the complexity generated by (even just what there is left of) the free market, the government can't understand all the unintended consequences that it has on the market even if it had the best of intentions -- which of course it doesn't.