I don’t know if Sarah Palin will ever be president but or not, but she could certainly have a future in comedy. She’s a natural.
Oh, and this is a good one. I didn’t write it. That’s probably why it’s good…
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Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama go to heaven…
God addresses Al first. ”Al, what do you believe in?”
Al replies: “Well, I believe that I won that election,
but that it was your will that I did not serve..
And I’ve come to understand that now.”God thinks for a second and says:
“Very good. Come and sit at my left.”God then addresses Bill. “Bill, what do you believe in?”
Bill replies: “I believe in forgiveness.
I’ve sinned, but I’ve never held a grudge against my fellow man,
and I hope no grudges are held against me.”God thinks for a second and says:
“You are forgiven, my son. Come and sit at my right.”Then God addresses Barrack. “Barrack, what do you believe in?”
Obama replies: “Uh, uhm, I believe you’re in my chair.”
Sarah Palin? “Mean girl” is who I think she is… this is an old article but have never believed her heart was in a good place.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/23/palin/
Regarding my guy – Obama – I think he’s far from arrogant and is isn’t his fault if others built him up that way. As you can see the left wing of the Dems are beating him up right and left now because he isn’t what they assumed him to be without even listening or reading anything he wrote… I about have as much disagreement with the far left of my party as I have with the republicans….well not that much maybe – but a lot.
Well, I think both Palin and Obama have a good heart and good intentions underneath it all. Palin goes overboard on the rough and gritty persona while Obama plays it too close to the cuff.
I like Palin for being human and I’d like Obama a whole lot more if he would just show some emotion once in a while or some spontaneous humor. I love going back and viewing some of Reagan’s press speeches – doesn’t mean I agree with his every policy, but he had a likable personality and could defuse a situation better than anyone else in modern history. Lincoln had the same kind of humor. Nobody has been better with words than Lincoln. Palin has a little bit of that in her too – the sense of humor part. She’s got something about her that is totally intriguing and fresh in politics. She’s certainly no cardboard cutout produced by a marketing department – like most politicians are.
I do like Obama. He’s a very smart guy but he doesn’t exactly walk away from the “god-like” persona some have placed on him. He’s kind of embraced it. The funny thing is, Palin is beginning to do the same thing. Let’s face it, to be a politician you have to have a big ego.
President Obama has impressed me by being more moderate than I thought he’d be on some topics. I’m glad he’s making the far-left and far-right mad. That means he’s doing his job by actually having a brain! Actually Palin governed fairly moderate too.
Funny you just see Obama much different than I do. I consider him thoughful but not at all emotionless. I think he looks at things in complex way that it closer to the truth then most politicans. I appreciate that he makes the effort to communicate that complexity. Kinda like Gloria Davis and the school kids – he raises the bar for citizens and EXPECTS us to make the effort to understand complex things. I like NOT being talked down to.
Here is a quote from the Audacity of hope on Lincoln that I think gives much clue as to who Obama is:
“I’m left then with Lincoln, who like no man before or since understood both the deliberative function of our democracy and the limits of such deliberation. We remember him for the firmness and depth of his convictions — his unyielding opposition to slavery and his determination that a house divided could not stand. But his presidency was guided by a practicality that would distress us today, a practicality that led him to test various bargains with the South in order to maintain the Union without war; to appoint and discard general after general, strategy after strategy, once war broke out; to stretch the Constitution to the breaking point in order to see the war through to a successful conclusion. I like to believe that for Lincoln, it was never a matter of abandoning principle for expediency. Rather, it was a matter of maintaining within himself the balance between two contradictory ideas — that we must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/obamas-lincolnesque-nobel_b_388628.html