Tuned into the RNC fib-a-thon last night, but changed channels after (honestly) 30 seconds of watching the antics of Rudy, "Mayor of 9/11." The Travel Channel was doing a tour of doughnut shops around the U.S. which was more interesting.
So we missed the speech that someone wrote last week for a different gender VP, and had to rewrite when Sen. McAncient went with his "gut" at the last minute and selected Who? Hopefully, she talked about her Alaska National Guard "command" experience, because here's what her hometown newspaper had to say about that. Did she direct the deployment of a C-17 cargo plane for Hurricane Gustav relief? No, her chief of staff did. Was she involved in the decisionmaking to send her National Guard to handle erosion problems in western and northwestern Alaska? No, the general in command did that. OK, well did she even ask the Guard to provide security for the Mount Marathon Run (seriously)? No, that was the general, too. In the last year, the Governor hasn't directed the Alaska National Guard for anything, delegating the responsibility to the general.
