Avis Jones DeWeever - "It's Time For This Insanity to End"

When it comes to policy issues that impact women of color, Avis Jones DeWeever won't settle for vague platitudes. Professionally and personally speaking, she can't. As the director of the Research, Public Policy, and Information Center for African American Women, she understands what's at stake in this year's presidential race. And since she found little substantive content in Sarah Palin's remarks during the VP debate, like Katie Couric she's still waiting - waiting for Palin to deliver specific details on how she and McCain will implement change:

Maverick or not, Palin failed to provide any daylight between the domestic and foreign policy failings of the Bush Administration and just where she and John McCain plan to take the nation in the critical years ahead.

If there is one thing we’ve learned since the earliest of days of this historic electoral season, it is the hard and fast fact that Americans want change. And for good reason. Over the past eight years we’ve gone from peace and prosperity to none of the above. In this year alone, we’ve lost over 600,000 jobs, hit a five-year high unemployment rate, and had millions of families face the personal tragedy of foreclosure. In Iraq we’ve seen the number of American deaths top 4,000, had over 30,000 suffer injuries, and approached a record number of former service men and women who could no longer live with the lingering horrors of war; and as a result, took their own lives.

It’s time for this insanity to end....

For all her winks, smiles, and good-ole-girl vernacular, Palin failed to make a convincing case for McCain’s faltering campaign. We’ve already seen what it’s like to have Joe Six-Pack and a Grumpy Old Man run the nation. Reversing the order on the ticket and changing Joe to Jane, just isn’t good enough.