Monday, May 24, 2010

Sarah Palin's Supposed Energy Expertise Backfires. Again.

by Avenging Angel

During the 2008 campaign, John McCain said of his running mate Sarah Palin, "She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America."  As it turns out, not so much.  The half-term Alaska Governor literally had no idea how much energy her state produced and suffered from selective amnesia over the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill that devastated her coastlines.  Now, after Palin accused President Obama of being in bed with big oil, even the Wall Street Journal took her to task for getting it comically wrong.

continued at Daily Kos....