The Washington Post, which never passes up an opportunity to attack Sarah Palin, has gone after her for criticizing President Barack Obama’s “Sputnik” reference in the State of the Union Address.  Palin noted accurately that what Obama was calling for was “big government” as the solution to our problems.  She further pointed out big government socialistic solutions are what in part did the Soviet empire in. Those comments sent Steve Stromberg at the Washington Post into a hyperbolic fit, declaring that her analysis is “weird.”  But his response indicates that he knows as little about the Soviet Union and Sputnik as President Obama’s speechwriters.

Stromberg says that Palin  misconstrues Obama’s main point that  “the Americans who responded to early Soviet success in space exploration by educating themselves and out-innovating the Soviets.”  But Stromberg misses Palin’s larger and more important point about history: Sputnik was really meaningless in the larger scheme of things.  It was all hype, and it was basically used by people in Washington to advance their own political agenda.  Perhaps Stromberg should have consulted the Post’s own archives before he went after her.

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