Reply #16: Actually, Palin might well be a good choice for some role in the energy dept.

[eridani]

Sharing the wealth from natural resources? Sounds like a great idea to me! Why stop with oil!

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/11/03/081103taco_talk_hertzberg?printable=true

One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.