This cleverly photo-shopped picture has been traveling the internet as a parody of the TV show and as a parody of our politics.It seems like the only people you hear about in the news these days are Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. Now it's understandable that the (mainly) liberal media in this country would spend their time concentrating on Obama's activities - but why are they also so obsessed with Sarah Palin?
I'll tell you why - FEAR. I am not a Sarah Palin fan, especially as a presidential candidate, but if you look at the polls Palin's ratings are almost the same as Obama's - both positive and negative. Whether you like her or not, a lot of the "folks" do. I have a son who cannot stand Sarah Palin and shutters at the thought of her ever being president. So of course as a good father I forward every Palin article I can find to him (he is working on a "Palin" filter to stop my emails). He is also a Libertarian and cannot stand Barack Obama and would vote him out of office in a minute.
But what if his only choice is Palin or Obama in the next election? His response would be; "Then I won't vote". But not voting means the Washington "elites" that want to run this country win.
Palin is not an articulate speaker; she has little international experience, but has managed a city as a mayor and a state as a governor. Obama is an articulate speaker (as long as a teleprompter tells him what to say), and he had some international experience when he became president, but he had no management experience whatsoever and after two years his incompetence as a manager has risen to the surface and put this country in huge peril. Do any of the readers of this blog believe Sarah Palin or any other conservative could have done a worse job?
Palin in a recent interview was asked by Barbara Walters if she thought she could beat Obama in an election; she said "yes". You have to give her an "A" for self confidence. I don't think she will be the republican nominee in 2012 but if she decides to run it will be interesting to see if the "folks" can push her over the top. If they do, I believe one of my sons will start making plans to leave the country...but as Ronald Reagan once said; "If we ever lose our freedoms here there will be no other place to go".
As for Obama, to paraphrase one of my favorite commentators; "The Obama presidency will eventually be nothing more than graffiti on the wall of American history".
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I would never "not vote." I would simply vote for an alternative candidate, like I did in 2008. I guess that would mean the "elites" (I hate that buzzword almost as much as the tired phrase "tax cuts for the rich") would win also, and I'd be "throwing away my vote."
This country is becoming a laughingstock, and is on a fast track to becoming a second-rate republic. A President Palin in 2012 will solidify the former, and a President Obama in 2012 will solidify the latter. In either case, yes, I may start scouting out a new home elsewhere. If the country I gave four years to becomes a joke, then I'll have no more pride. If the country becomes broke and I get taxed to death, I might as well live in some high-tax European country where at least I get a better standard of living for the high taxes.
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