Jack Cashill writes:
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.
Obama, who wants to FIX the broken health care system in the USA. .
He is much more intelligent than Palin.
Palins comment about Canadas health care system are ridiclous!
http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:95ec266b…
90% of Canadians are happy with their health care system. They are not losing their homes because of outrageous medical bills.
They are in the top ten of longivity of their population. The USA is in the 40′s. Yet Palin sticks her nose into Canadas business and says they ought to have a heath care system like the USA !!
She is dumber than dumb and those who support her are very ill informed.
It’s not so much where you start from, but what you make of yourself. Obama is a top graduate of the nation’s best Law School. Sarah Palin is a nitwit.
Sarah. Obama’s writing reveals him to be a racist, among other things.
Someone who didn’t take 6 years to graduate, and does not want to govern solely by the Bible. So I’ll have to go with Obama.
SARAH, hands down!!
Could you pick two others?
Palin believes we are the home of the free and Obama believes that we are the home of everything for free.
Bravo !!! — Your question is most assuredly the top ” Question of the Month ” here @ Y/A.
I wish I could award you 100 points for this question.
The obvious answer is Sarah Palin.
Thank You for such an outstanding question. It is questions such as yours which make Y/A as informative as it sometimes is.
Barack was a Senator (7 years State and 2 years US) for 9 years!!!
Palin wasn’t.
But both are pretty good stories.
Clearly Palin is the more trustworthy of the two. Obama came through the Chicago political machine and Palin is a self made woman..
Your question is both interesting and is not being read by the Obamatons.
If they could not knee-jerk they might be motionless.
Clearly Sarah is both more accomplished and has a better resume’.
Chairman MAObama was given every job (including this one) by afirmative action.
And his rabid supporters do not care if he is incompetent, unready, and indifferent.
His unfounded arrogance matches theirs.
They would let him miss baskets all game – because he would KNOW he would still win.
And not winning is just about some score on a scoreboard, right?
Who cares about that when you have THE ONE.
” Otherwise, he is silent on how his tuition might have been paid for.”
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.”
Throw in his assorted marxist and anti American associates, mentors, and financial backers and you have a well rounded individual. Not one I’d like to see anywhere near the oval office though )
Anybody with a brain would choose Palin.
well, the e-mails leaked by members of the former mccain campaign directly contradict what she claims in her book.
Sarah P is using cons to make herself money(cons love of money is the root of their evil) and cons are dumb enough to give it to her.
Palin is a breath of fresh air. Her basis is common sense and fiscal responsibility. It is the reality of living.
how could you not trust sarah. sarah is so great. please please please fight to get her nominated.
besides, obama is 48.385473% arab…how can you trust that…he even lied about his birth
I trust the one who still believes in our constitution — Sarah Palin. She is also very intelligent, conservative, and has an optimistic outlook on life. I also like it that the GOP have been hesitant to promote her, which shows that she’s not in any one’s pocket.