I’m adding this to the list, I just had to put it on the front page.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, [Governor Sarah Palin] appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
It reminds me of Brownie, whose experience going into FEMA was running horse shows.
Maybe that’s why Palin is so adamant that she’s experienced enough to be VP. If “really likes cows” gets into the State Div of Agriculture in Alaska, surely she’s the most qualified person on the planet by those standards.