Comments on: Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part 3 of 3)

By: Judy5cents

Judy5cents — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:40:19 +0000

I grew up in a small town in Ohio, and rising to political prominence was not that difficult. In fact, it was kind of hard to avoid it. The mayor held office for 20 years, always running unopposed because no one else wanted the job. My dad was on the school board and our next door neighbor was a state senator.

And something else, members of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the town got along just fine. There was no demonizaton of The Others and everyone sat together in church on Sunday no matter what our political affiliation.

By: jojobo1

jojobo1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:12:11 +0000

Thisby Yes we are so much better. I grew up in a very small town smaller them Wasilla and yes everyone knew everyone else and also knew everyone’s business and what was going on.If a neighbor saw you doing something they thought was wrong they brought it to you parents attention.You couldn’t even sit for a few minuets in a car after a date but the tongues were wagging,But at least you were safe.I now live in the same village but with subdivisions and such it has grown considerably,a few people remember my parents and our home most are so called outsiders that moved in and now crime has sky rocketed.We all pay a price.I only lived in a big city for about 3 years in different states,Wi and CO. and I have to say except for the lack of work i prefer the small or midsized towns or cities to the large.Denver CO. was a nightmare for me as was LA. I don’t know what I would ever do in a city like NY..At least in Chicago I lived with and Aunt that knew the area so it wasn’t so bad,

By: Thisby

Thisby — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:07:39 +0000

Dear Wasilla,

Please accept my condolences for the ration of gratuitous turkey poop that is coming your way because of dear Sarah. I grew up and lived the first 30+ years of my life in a small town in Montana, population about 8,000. For quite a few years my cousin by marriage was the mayor, succeeded by my mechanic. We knew all the cops by name, as well as the bankers, the broadcasters, the city councilmen, the county commissioners, the merchants, the basketball players, the real estate sales people, the ministers, the railroaders, the ranchers, the drunks, the freaks, and the mentally ill “characters.” That’s the best part of small-town life, and it’s also the worst part.

My home town was known for having the next-to-the-last operating whorehouse in Montana (at least as far as was publicly known). Small-town life is something that the native city-dweller cannot comprehend, any more than we small-town denizens can comprehend living in a place where the 8,000 people you know live within a few city blocks. Does that make us superior? Hell, no. I’ve lived in a lot of places since those days. Sarah may think she speaks for “real America,” but she doesn’t know “real America” at all, at all. Her naivete and her hubris reveal nothing more than her small-town isolation. And the focus she has brought to Wasilla, unfortunately, helps to cement the unfortunate view of small towns as backwaters full of rubes.

I love small towns. I am crazy about big cities. I enjoy living in those “middle” places that are neither and both of the above. But I hate the version of Wasilla, of Alaska, and of America that Sarah portrays. We are so much more than that, aren’t we?

By: daisydem

daisydem — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:35:38 +0000

Happy Birthday lovemydogs.

By: laingirl

laingirl — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:37:52 +0000

AKM, thanks for doing this dirty job in such a fine fashion. I hope you recover quickly and don’t suffer any permanent brain damage.

By: Sus

Sus — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:36:09 +0000

What I find interesting in her constant reference to the supposedly unknown “HQ”. Who did she think they were???? Did she not realize SHE was not the candiadte — that the REAL campaign was actually for John McCain and she was just supposed to support his message???? She mentions him and his campaign so rarely — one would think she somehow thought the whole “show” was just about her. Her self-centeredness is totally unreal!

By: Screwball

Screwball — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:19 +0000

So, let me see if I understand this book. It contains 413 pages of nothing? Yet, all the Palinites line up for hours to buy said book of 413 pages of nothing?

And they say you should never judge a book by it’s cover. This time that may not be true.

By: silverfox67

silverfox67 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:42:02 +0000

Here’s a great post on Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/22/806996/-I-am-more-important-than-Sarah-Palin

By: g

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:52:08 +0000

Peculiar she would write so disdainfully of someone stretching – isn’t she a runner? You would think stretching would be a daily habit for her, so why would she make fun of someone else doing it?

What’s with the contradictory business about the speech. She says it’s her idea, she wanted to say this and wanted to say that, but then it wasn’t her idea it was Matthew Scully’s? Which I don’t believe for a second; speech-writers don’t outline the entire program. But it looks like now she’s trying to pass the blame for yet another thing.

Did it occur to her that McCain was trying to distance himself from GWB, and to give a “shout out” to the Bush administration would have been counter to that strategy? Is she that big an idiot?

By: Lilybart

Lilybart — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:49:16 +0000

It’s just like Audacity of Hope. Obama spent page after page talking trash about all his colleagues and teachers, commenting on lunch always on their tie, or how one was the gyro-guy.

Can you imagine?!