Posted by
Conservative Wordsmith Susan Baldwin on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:16:56 PM
Conservative Wordsmith Susan Baldwin writes: In the middle of a political conversation taking place this morning at a local grocery store, I asked an elderly lady what she thought of Sarah Palin. She said that Sarah Palin is "a breath of fresh air." Barack Obama loses on this score.
Even though Barack Obama is less experienced in the political arena than Sarah Palin, and was also relatively unknown when first chosen as the liberal leftist-to-the-extreme hero of the Democratic Party, he never really seemed like a breath of fresh air. There was always something indefinably stale about Barack Obama, in spite of his past, and present, constant, ceaseless chatter about change.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, really does bring the concept of change with her into the political arena, and everyone, especially Barack Obama and Joe Biden, recognizes this fact. Sarah Palin is definitely someone that liberals should be afraid of, because, until John McCain chose her as his running mate, things were looking much better for liberal Democrats.
Conservatives that previously did not like John McCain, even downright disliked him, are now being persuaded, because of his decision to pick Sarah Palin, to take another look at the man who is frequently referred to as a "maverick." If Barack Obama had been as much of a maverick as John McCain, he would have humbled himself and chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate, but Barack Obama, a man who claims to be a force for change, could evidently not bring himself to change enough.
To pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate would have meant that Barack Obama was an insightful presidential candidate, believing in change even when it meant that he would have to swallow his own pride. Instead, he picked the easy way out, the comfort zone of no political change, when he chose Joe Biden. What a shock it must have been when John McCain announced that Sarah Palin would now be the new breath of fresh air for the Republican party!
John McCain could not have picked a more perfect running mate than Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. In the meantime, I imagine that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will need to start preaching something else besides change, change, change. I predict that more and more Americans, even liberals, are going to become fed up with Barack Obama/Joe Biden and their boring, empty speeches, and will find, in spite of themselves, that they are listening more intently to what Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin have to say.
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