Carl Bernstein writes:
Three weeks after the 2008 Republican convention, on the cusp (maybe) of the first presidential debate, it is time to confront an awkward but profound question: whether in picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has committed -- by his own professed standards of duty and honor -- a singularly unpatriotic act.He goes on, teasing out what he can from a fairly black and white issue, before ending with this:
Ultimately it is the choice of Palin, made in the moment when action speaks loudest, that may undermine a quarter-century of assertions by John McCain about the preeminence of duty, honor and country in his political schema.Ultimately Bernstein never directly answers the question he raises, which is unfortunate. Selecting to be vice president a woman who two years ago was mayor of a tiny hamlet in rural Alaska is prima facie unpatriotic. Bernstein is 1000 words too long and a month too late. But it's still worth noting that he might be the only entrenched journalist to call McCain out.
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