Update: Sarah Palin was brilliant in her RNC speech. Amazing. Beat them all - Giuliani, Romney, Thompson, and those parade of women who also made their presentations. I bet she'll outshine McCain too. What a pity, this tabloid story she brought with her. Nothing good has come off compromising this big a situation. Even the Old Testament kings had to mop up many after effects. What a pity. But her confidence suggests otherwise. I hope she knows what she's doing.
I said before that America is a robust country. It will somehow deflate its biggest obstacles. Maybe she's the one put there to deflect Obama. She really is too good to be true.
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Never has American politics appeared so strange. In the name of a pro-life, small-town, moose-eating, mother-of-five Alaska governor for the VP ticket, conservatives have literally gone batty.
Like right-wingers who advocated bad erotica ( Mohammed's encounter with his 6-year-old "wife"(!) - scroll down to "The problem with freedom of expression") in the name of freedom of speech, are at loss again when it comes to deciding what to do with a woman who is running the country without cleaning up her house.
In this battle of the tabloids, conservative bloggers [1, 2, 3, etc.] are decrying the media's favorable bias towards Obama's family while it's "trashing" Sarah Palin's.
Why are they so angry? Because Sarah is "conservative" and Obama is "liberal." What about the issues that Sarah is opening up, like a sore wound? Don't they count for discussion and judgment?
Just like defending the erotica novel "The Jewel of Medina", once we let go of our principles, then we're in dangerous waters. Why are conservatives defending unequivocally a trashy pornographic book? Why are they defending, unequivocally, with all discussion suspended, Sarah Palin's selection?
Let's think more about this Sarah Palin episode without being blinded by partisan views. American culture is more nuanced than what we're allowing with Palin's entry into the fray. A mother with a special-needs baby and an unwed pregnant teen, as Vice President? Amazing? Remember Murphy Brown? How the tables have turned!