"...in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves."**********
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
FROM THE COMMENTS:
My favorite lines:**********
"This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign."
"My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of 'personal discovery.'"
RELATED: It's not simply a perception...
...she is different.
It is in that densely layered Alaskan mix that Ms. Palin rose, governed and must be understood, academics and people in both parties say — not as merely a governor, or a woman, but as an Alaskan.*
“The frontier mentality, whether myth or not, is still alive,” said Donald Linky, director of the Program on the Governor, at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
Political organizations and the careful grooming of rising stars have long been part of the political culture in creating governors-to-be in many other states, Mr. Linky said.
Not so in Alaska, and elsewhere in the West.