Thoughts on Palin

I am continually amazed at the democrats and their unrelenting attacks on Sarah Palin. I ask myself why this is occurring and the answer continues to come back to fear and jealousy.

They are fearful that the Republicans have chosen such a strong candidate who most represents everyday Americans. They are fearful she will connect with everyday moms and wives and garner the votes of many democratic women who would have voted for Hilary.

She is well-educated, well-spoken, beautiful and unrelenting in her convictions and resolve. She is complimentary to those women who paved the way before her whether they were democrat or republican.

She values life, she values family, and she is unafraid of speaking out against corruption.

She has more leadership and decision-making experience than Obama and she is roughly the same young age. She has been the mayor of a city and the Governor of the largest state in the Union. Under her leadership, Alaska invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding, and implemented the Senior Benefits Program that provides support for low-income older Alaskans. She created Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office to provide oversight and maintenance of oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure, and the Climate Change Subcabinet to prepare a climate change strategy for Alaska. During her first legislative session, Governor Palin’s administration passed two major pieces of legislation – an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws and a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline. Obama’s leadership experience is limited to a community organizer and what he says he led there has been less than successful, as noted in the following article. . Read article.

In Obama’s book, he says being a community organizer taught him how to motivate the powerless and work the government to help them and he gave his chief example as the effort to remove asbestos from Altgeld Gardens, an all-black public housing project on Chicago's South Side. The problem with this is that those who were involved in the effort say Obama played a minor role in working the problem and never accomplished his goal.

A pre-existing group at Altgeld Gardens and a local newspaper, the Chicago Reporter, were working on the problem before Obama came on the scene, yet Obama does not mention them in his book, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."

"Just because someone writes it, doesn't make it true," says Altgeld resident Hazel Johnson, who had been pushing for a cleanup of the cancer-producing substance years before Obama showed up

In a second article from the Boston Globe, another Obama housing project is a catastrophic failure and highlights how governmental intervention is not a successful approach and is not fiscally responsible. http://clintondems.com/2008/06/grim-proving-ground-for-obamas-housing-policy/

The hypocrisy of the Democrats advocating for women yet criticizing Sarah Palin and personally attacking her family really highlights their true color. They only want women to advance and be successful if they have the same fundamental beliefs; otherwise they want to crush any progress.
The media bias is also blantantly obvious. Obama's lack of experience is completely given a pass by mainstream media because he is a male while Sarah Palin is microscopically scrutinized even though she has more leadership experience simply because she is female.

I think the democrats and mainstream media are fearful that a republican woman, with very grounded fundamental values, is a heartbeat away from the presidency. It has nothing to do with experience. If that were the case, their candidate for the number one slot would have been disqualified before he started.

Sarah Palin resonates with voters, has more experience than Obama, is a mother of 5, grounded in her principles and is well-liked by her home state.

The democrats and mainstream media are jealous that the first female vice-president is going to be a republican!