People have been hounded to resignation over things very much like this - and less wideranging but similar in character - in Germany or Britain.
Not everytime, mind.
Palin isn't running in Germany or Britain. Now, if Obama wants to use more European sensibilities, that's fine.
sorry, I didn't know banning books was an American sensibility.
Actually, I was referring to hiring unqualified family and friends, and firing unpolitical government employees in order to creating vacancies for unqualified family and friends. That a mayor has no power over what exactly the library stocks is so self-evident that it didn't cross my mind to draw a parallel.
And note that I was thinking of resigning from the office she currently holds. Not the Republican Presidential ticket.
Although a state governor would presumably be able to outride the storm here, actually - a member of his cabinet might not.
