It is painful to watch. The rage that she showed yesterday is exposed as totally underinformed. She was the one who ranted against Arlen Specter (Specter-PA): What will you do to restore the country to the intent of the founders?
Some choice bits from memory. Paraphrased.
KA: This is the first time I have been interested in politics.
LOD: So 9/11 did not get you involved? Two wars?
KA: I started watching the news in 1991 with the First Gulf War, and it seems that we have been in conflict ever since.
(She is 35, so that would have been when she was 17 or 18)
LOD: Are your parents on Medicare?
KA: They are close.
LOD: Will you advise them not to enroll, since it is a single payer system?
KA: I don't talk to them about politics. I don't know.
LOD: I agree that Medicare is a socialist system, but it is a smart one.
Kati Abrams looked uncorfortable, no doubt in part because she was appearing on national tv, but moreso because O'Donnell demonstrated her lack of grasp of the facts.
It is easy to get on camera for a 15 second sound-bite of passion, but much harder to back it up with calm discussion of, and firm command of, the facts.