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.
This is an excerpt. The rest is here:
I watched some of the Palin-O’Reilly interview. If Palin run’s against him she’ll win. When she’s unplugged she’ll rattle Obama’s cage. He can’t handle it. McCrap never did it. No one has. He’s a spoiled child that get’s what he wants.
Interesting
I think Palin will clean Obummer’s clock in a debate, and she won’t have to glue herself to a teleprompter in order to do so. She is glib, fast thinking, and prepared, and doesn’t “um” and “uh” her way through her statements the way Chairman Mao(Mao) does. That aside, her populace stance on the issues will be too much for the Empty Suit In Chief to overcome. Oh, and one other point: She has the TRUTH on her side, as well. Palin in 2012.
Simply on narrative, Palin looms over Stuttering Barry like a colossus. I would simply love to see a Palin vs. Obama Presidential election. It would be the first time Barry ever had to fight for anything in his life, and I think he’d wither like the little girl he truly is.
I would pay to see a Palin vs. Obama debate. That is likely terrifying all moderately thinking libs from the media to the fish sender Rhaam.
Just that Pledge of Allegiance picture with the Anointed Zero holding his crotch should have been enough to do him in. McCaine obviously has his problems, but it's still a mystery to me why Hillary didn't destroy him.
ML/NJ
I loved it. Well worth the read. A side by side (glaring)comparison.
I’ve just started Sarah’s book but haven’t had much time this week to sit and read. Can’t wait.
I will be spending more good money to help advance that opportunity. Sarah now has 1,070,793 supporters on FaceBook.
Pictures are worth a 1,000 words.....these tell us everything we need to know about MAO-bama.
Amen!
I agree, I really enjoyed it too. Very sincere and honest about herself. Refreshing.
“She enters the Miss Alaska contest to help pay tuition”
She’s self-supporting - able to earn an honest living, not a welfare case like Barack Hussein Obama or a marriage sponge like John Francois Kerry (Boycott Heinz Ketchup)!
“...she’ll rattle Obama’s cage. He can’t handle it.”
True, she has TONS of material already to riddle him with even if the campaign started yesterday. No A-hole Steve Scmidt to hold her back.
There’s even a part in her book where (spoiler alert) she says Piper was rapping around the house: “You say Obama I say Ayers, Obama Ayers Obama Ayers” from SNL. I was even kind of shocked she put that in the book! It’s a sign that a Grizzly has been awoken and was attacked by the left and plans on fighting back hard.
The only reason I can think of is that he had more on her than she had on him. Nothing else could possible explain how quietly she folded her tent and stole away into the dark night. Those behind Obama in all this are rich and powerful and those attributes have lots of side benefits, including access to lots of info that would never be released but rather held in reserve for the the day it's really needed.
There's a race going on here, between Obama and his string pullers and America. The forces behind Obama are making their move. It's a full court press and it's for all the marbles.
I suspect there is a mother thread somewhere that holds the entire Obama et al game plan together. Pull that and the sweater begins to unravel. What they've done though is put false mother threads all over the place, in plain view to trick us into spending time and resources pulling at those false threads. But they've all got to be tugged, one of them is the real thing and the effect will be quick and impressive. Actually, I figure they've made the false threads as attractive as possible. Got to look for the less obvious threads, they've made efforts to make that thread as inconspicuous as possible. Or, they've made so obvious that serious people can't believe it's that simple.
ML/NJ
Possibly. I think it had more to do with the Media choosing sides. Hillary is a really bad candidate. If it weren't for the NY Media deciding to carry her water for her she wouldn't have won that NY Senate seat.
I view the dirt angle as the equivalance of "Mutual Assured Destruction". Once one of them started overtly attacking the other it would have been a free-for-all and both would have been crippled against Lonesome-John McCain.
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