What stuck out in particular is this passage:
“She came in saying that the entire system was corrupt, and that Republicans were evil, and she was going to just mix everything up and get us a gas pipeline and end of story. And she got to power, she was elected overwhelmingly by independents, beat Tony Knowles, who had been governor before.”

I still think Obama will be elected and his record indicates that that alone may be his big achievement.
and this:
“She gave a two-finger salute to Conoco Phllips and Exxon Mobile, raised their taxes on their oil, put in place a transparent way to bid for the seed money and the licenses to finally, finally, put in a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. And it was won by a Canadian company. And she went to the mat and made it happen. She has been systematically pulling the drilling licenses of Conoco Phillips and Exxon Mobile for areas that they haven’t touched. I mean, they’ve been hoarding reserves, and she says, you know, use it or lose it, and she has been sending the attorney general time after time to revoke these things. It’s absolutely fascinating.”

Taking that into account, along with her short history in the other state positions she held and Palin comes across as someone who says she is going to do something and then does it.

In contrast, Obama, as every position he has held, has consistently shied away from anything like such leadership. Instead, he has chosen the easiest most politically expedient path every time. In his longer history of elected office he does not have anything close to the record for achievement of Palin. In the last twenty years his only achievement has been his own advancement.

So, when my friends and colleagues tell me that they think Obama will achieve [insert fervent hope here], I have to wonder upon what, in his past, they are basing this faith.

Don’t know if this link will work.

We should attack from both flanks. All blogs, fire at will!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aTg7HGQDObGI&refer=canada

90% percent of all occupations in the US can be learned in 90 days are less and this is no different for the top two executive position in government. Politics, after all, isn’t rocket science. The key to understanding political life is making something complicated simple, and something simple complicated.

Sarah Palin at least has executive experience, which is more than the community organizer-in-chief and the lifelong Senator have combined.

Danny L. McDaniel
Lafayette, Indiana

1. North American energy and trade policy. The most important substantive accomplishment of her administration has been the natural-gas pipeline deal with Canada, that she was a key figure in brokering and pushing. The Financial Times gave her credit for this accomplishment weeks ago, when nobody thought she had a chance for the VP slot. Have her make a speech as soon as possible before a major energy or trade meeting in Canada, where she will give a preview of the McCain-Palin policy for energy cooperation with Canada. Cite her pipeline experience frequently. Get in digs at Obama for playing the anti-NAFTA card in the primaries, and against Biden for having voted against the pipeline when it was first an issue decades ago. Play up her experience as an Arctic governor and show sympathy for Canada’s Arctic issues, including the undersea resource claims we and Canada will soon be disputing with Putin. Maybe follow that with a trip to Iqaluit, being sure to bring her husband. Up there, talk about America and Canada’s common Arctic and Inuit/Eskimo heritage.

Obama has done nothing as important or complex, or as international, as the pipeline deal. Not to mention Biden.

2. Middle-class/blue-collar issues. The Republicans need to hone their “Sam’s Club” agenda. She’s the person to do it. Adopt the Romney proposal for a realistic (at least 10K per kid) child credit, and be sure it’s deductible against parroll tax. And pledge to revisit and reform Joe Biden’s (D-MNBA) bankruptcy bill, making sure to repeat ten zillion times that it was Biden’s baby. She can take credit for convincing McCain to revisit his previous position and decide it needs reforming.

3. Native community issues. Not only are her husband (and kids) part-Eskimo, Palin had to deal costantly with the powerful “native corporations” as governor. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and its programs are an ongoing national disgrace. Let Palin head up a task force to entirely revamp [programs for native communities. This might sway enough votes in New Mexico to swing the state their way, and would count in several other Western states that are leaners.

So here are three “mules” for Sister Sarah to ride – - to office.

Around 1967 at the University of Chicago, I was talking to one of the radical guys in my dormitory, call him Brad. He argued that only a radical change in government would bring about a better society. I disagreed.

He said that his movement would become stronger, and eventually I would agree with him. I asked, what if I didn’t agree with him, even later? He flashed anger and told me that if I didn’t agree on my own, he would make me agree. I saw that as the end of the discussion.
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Continued at EasyOpinions – Leading the People)