Posted on 11/27/2009 4:41:31 AM PST by quesney
From a classical perspective, Palin's is the more compelling narrative. The obstacles that she must overcome to fulfill her destiny are many, varied, and real. Raised in the frozen outback by a schoolteacher father and a school secretary mom, Palin accomplishes nothing without a good deal of work, often under difficult physical circumstances.
Palin takes a semester or two off to pay for college. She works at a diner over the summer. She enters the Miss Alaska contest to help pay tuition and is awarded second runner-up and "Miss Congeniality." She interns during other summers to become a sports reporter.
After college, Palin joins fiancé Todd on his Bristol Bay salmon boat. During slow salmon runs, she works "messy, obscure seafood jobs" until she can find a job as sports reporter, and even then she keeps returning to Bristol Bay when the salmon are in season.
Throughout this period, despite the hard work and harsh environment, Palin never loses her sense of wonder about the spectacular natural theater in which she is so very much at home. When asked about the state's best attributes during a Miss Alaska pageant, Palin responds, "its beauty and everything that the great Alaska outdoors has to offer." Prophetically, she also plugs the state's "potential in drilling for oil," which, even then, "Outsiders don't understand."
Back in Hawaii, either through his grandparents' connections or by dint of affirmative action, Obama spends grades five through twelve at Hawaii's poshest prep school. Like Palin, he plays basketball, but while she is leading her school to the state championship, he is a second stringer on a team whose wins and losses go unremarked. The only scores Obama shares are the imagined racial ones that need to be settled, a working out of his "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against [his] mother's race."
In his recent book Barack and Michelle, Chistopher Andersen quotes a black friend who rejected Obama's claimed reason for being benched in a particular game.
No, Barry, it's not because you're black. It's because you missed two shots in a row.
Obama admits to "marginal report cards" in prep school, but his underperformance does not diminish his dreams. He hits the mainland in the late 1970s with the "diversity" movement in full flower. Diversity's rationale is that people of varied cultures enrich the educational experience. Obama's upbringing, however, has been thoroughly white and elitist. The diversity bean-counters couldn't care less. His skin color improves their "metrics." Obama will ride this pony far.
After two druggy, uninspired years at Occidental College, Obama transfers to the Ivy League -- Columbia, to be precise. In Dreams, Obama dedicates one half of a sentence to a summer job on a construction site. Otherwise, he is silent on how his tuition might have been paid for. As to his grades and SAT scores, it would be easier to pry North Korea's nuclear secrets out of Kim Jong-Il.
“it’s still a mystery to me why Hillary didn’t destroy him.”
I also pondered that questioned .
Either Hilary was OVERRATED by the media or the fix was in(ACORN).
I tend to believe Hillary was overrated.
I have read it, and two things stand out: a real affection for the American people, which our present POTUS and elite clealry do not share; a willingness and history of working very hard.
Excellent! Thanks for posting.
What a contrast bump...Sarah Palin is REAL. Obama is manufactured. Grass roots versus Astro turf.
Anyone who can field strip a Moose should automatically be POTUS, as long as it’s Sarah Palin.
If Obama was white, Hilary would have destroyed him. She couldn’t risk being called racist by the dem base.
Hiliary had a war machine that rivaled Hitlers. She had people looking into every aspect of a possible contenders life. Clinton is a power hungry person whose life depends on achiving power and mantain it.
It was amazing to see her allow to be defeated. Obama had little or none experinace and was not well known outside of Ill.But he was more agressive and had the power of an yet unseen hand guiding him. Obama beat Clinton because she underestimated him. A lot of people whp ran against did the same.
The GOP and the conservatives should study this prick. Learn his tricks and know how to react and go on the offensive. We have to be more aggresssive even in the face of being called racists.
Editorializing aside, this is a very interesting summary contrast between the lives of Palin and Obama. Basically, Obama had a silver spoon his whole life, while Sarah lifted herself up with her own
bootstraps.
I don’t really know why the feminists hate her so much, unless they are simply jealous of her success as a
self-made woman. Which is an interesting thought, since “self-made” man use to be such a compliment.
fascinating read.
Great article. A must read.
I think you missed it. Bill, at least, was accused of injecting race several times according to my recollection.
ML/NJ
Back in Hawaii, either through his grandparents' connections or by dint of affirmative action, Obama spends grades five through twelve at Hawaii's poshest prep school. Like Palin, he plays basketball, but while she is leading her school to the state championship, he is a second stringer on a team whose wins and losses go unremarked. The only scores Obama shares are the imagined racial ones that need to be settled, a working out of his "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against [his] mother's race." ...Obama admits to "marginal report cards" in prep school, but his underperformance does not diminish his dreams. He hits the mainland in the late 1970s with the "diversity" movement in full flower. Diversity's rationale is that people of varied cultures enrich the educational experience. Obama's upbringing, however, has been thoroughly white and elitist. The diversity bean-counters couldn't care less. His skin color improves their "metrics." Obama will ride this pony far. After two druggy, uninspired years at Occidental College, Obama transfers to the Ivy League -- Columbia, to be precise. In Dreams, Obama dedicates one half of a sentence to a summer job on a construction site. Otherwise, he is silent on how his tuition might have been paid for. As to his grades and SAT scores, it would be easier to pry North Korea's nuclear secrets out of Kim Jong-Il.
Thanks for this post. It provides some insight I’d not considered.
Love it!!
Fantastic article, thanks for posting it!
A 50-ish mentally retarded gentleman lives in my community.
Before the elections, he would get very worked up during any political discussion and say “Obomber, Obomber, Obomber! He’s just gonna BOMB everything!”
Figuratively speaking, he was correct.
A retarded guy gets it. Why can’t the other 50% of the voters?
Show us the TRANSCRIPTS! (and, um, the birth certificate while you are at it).
SHOW US THE TRANSCRIPTS!
I would LOVE to see what kind of grades that a-hole earned, especially after hearing from the left how DUMB GWB was!
Would also like to know if he attended Columbia since NOBODY seems to remember him being there!
SHOW US THE “BLEEPING” TRANSCRIPTS!!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
Frank Peretti’s books come to mind.
We are DEFINITELY battling evil forces with this POTUS in office! I have no doubts.
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