Don’t know if you have seen the video mak­ing the rounds of  Sarah P.‘s snafu where she had writ­ten notes to her­self, for her speech, on the palm of her hand, and then must have for­got­ten as she was ges­tur­ing and it was there for all to see? Well, it is pretty funny. They also showed other inter­views where she glances down at her palm, and what you might mis­con­strue as a demure glance at her lap, is indeed, note reading.

Well, I hardly know where to begin. My hus­band, who was watch­ing, said “what’s wrong with her doing that?” Are you kid­ding me? So I asked. “Were she (God for­bid and shudder)to ever be Pres­i­dent, would  you want some­one who writes notes to them­selves on their hand when a teleprompter is nowhere to be found? Some­one not smart enough to remem­ber what they want to say, much less artic­u­late it? Meet­ing with heads of coun­tries?” I can see it now…the Queen of Eng­land asks her a ques­tion and she says “oh, excuse me”, as she turns away to cough dis­creetly into her hand when she is really  look­ing for an answer writ­ten there? Really? You really want some­one who can­not think on their feet?

But even that sopho­moric writ­ing on her hand isn’t what wor­ries me most.  What wor­ries me is her not wash­ing her hands!! Good heav­ens!! The woman meets hun­dreds of peo­ple, some­times in any given day!! Does she only wash one hand after going to the bath­room? Very tal­ented lady to be sure!! And when she gets down from the podium after giv­ing her speech and shakes all those hands, does she ever, not once, use hand san­i­tizer? I don’t know about you but I tend to put san­i­tizer on both hands. I’ve watched these mul­ti­ple hand­shake peo­ple and although they shake with one hand, they usu­ally grasp the top of the clasped hands too.  Does she ever leave ink marks on top of peo­ples hands? Do they then enshrine their hands, never to wash it again, thus suc­cess­fully pulling off a Sarah P.?

In an attempt to make light of get­ting caught “cheat­ing”, at her next speech she wrote “Hi Mom” on her palm and showed it to those watch­ing. As funny as she may have thought that was, I thought it sad. She can no longer write notes on her palm as every­one will be look­ing! What ever will she do? Poor Sarah.