Sarah Palin is a very smart person
Sarah Palin is a very smart person:
If you could have one job in the White House tomorrow, what would it be? – Alisha Cordoncillo, Copperas Cove, Tex.
[PALIN:] It would be chief of staff, so I could start appointing people who would recognize those things that America needs to get our economy back on the right track and to secure our nation.
I’m surprised she didn’t answer “manager of human resources”...
Sarah Palin is a very smart person [via Instaputz]:
I did not want to sound like Katie Couric and ask what [Palin’s] read, but I broached the subject and she went right into mentioning Thomas Sowell and Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. She said she has read some of the foundational stuff, but she sees no need to focus on the old writings. She likes “the modern stuff too.”
Let me know what other smart things I missed in the comments!
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For starters, Palin’s ghost-polished descriptions of Alaska’s landscape and cultural peculiarities are delivered with roughly the same verve as I’d expect to find in a mediocre historical novel written by someone who, at most, had visited the state on a cruise ship. We learn for example, the astonishing and widely-underpublicized fact that Alaskan nights are incredibly short during the summertime,
creating a euphoria that runs through our veins. Hour after hour, there is still more time and more daylight to accomplish one more thing. If we told our kids to be home before dark, we wouldn’t see them for weeks.
Perhaps I haven’t had enough experience with the “euphoria” of “accomplish[ing] one more thing” recently, but there’s something really underwhelming about Palin’s trek through the list of Generically Oddball Stuff about Alaska. Yes, people up here shoot a lot of megafauna; yes, people up here chop a lot of firewood; yes, people up here can grow gigantic heads of cabbage; yes, people up here are impressed by grazing sheep. But people up here also do tons of meth, beat the shit out of their kids, and half-purposely ram their cars into trees. When you remember that Sarah Palin is earning well over $1 million for this book, it’s hard not to feel cheated when she reminds everyone that Alaska has glaciers bigger than Delaware.
MORE: From the book signing line in Grand Rapids, MI...
Katie is such a huge Palin fan that she’s pasted a Palin poster on her bedroom ceiling so the politician is the last thing she sees at night and the first thing in the morning.
Posted by Kevin K. on 11/18/09 at 08:26 AM • Permalink
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