Sarah and politics

Last night, Sarah gave a very good speech.

She talked a lot about her family, who were all there attending. Even the teenage future husband of her teenage daughter was there. I wonder if anybody asked his opinion about being there. All week, though, Republican figures had asked the media to leave her family alone. "That's out of bounds. There's no need to be intrusive and pry into that," said Tim Pawlenty.

She said: "To the families of special-needs children across the country, I have a message for you: for years, you've sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. And I pledge to you that, if we're elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."

She said her husband, Todd, "is a world champion snow machine racer." She said: "Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package. And we met in hight school. And two decades and five children later, he's still my guy."

She also talked about her parents. She said that they taught her that only in America, "every woman can walk every door of opportunity."

She said she "had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I was just your average hockey mom and signed up for the PTA."

She said "a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," referring to Barack's past helping people in the South side of Chicago.

She said that the media are plotting against her and her running mate. She said that "the pollsters and the pundits, they overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off. They overlooked the caliber of the man himself, the determination, and resolve, and the sheer guts of Senator John McCain."

She said she's "not a member of the permanent political establishment." And she said "if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone."

She said: "Americans, we need to produce more of our own oil and gas. And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: We've got lots of both." Some of them are even in wildlife reserves.

She said that "victory [was] within sight" in Iraq.

She said about Barack: "This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word 'victory.'" Huh? I wonder if that might be because victories are hard to find in the recent American history.

She said that while Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America" Barack is "worried that someone won't read them their rights."

She said that John "is not looking for a fight, but he's not afraid of one either."

She said that JoeBarack Obiden are talking a lot about "fighting for you, but there's only one man in this election who really fought for you," referring to John's experience in Vietnam.

She said that her opponents plan "to make government bigger, and take more of your money and give you more orders from Washington, and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world."

Those quotes from her speech hardly need any comment on my part. Any intelligent reader -- and my two, okay five readers are intelligent -- can understand what they truly mean and what is behind them. But half of the voters do not question them.

They do not see that big government can be good as far as health care is concerned.

They don't see that small Conservative government is still big enough to give them orders such as Don't abort! Pray at school! Don't you gay people marry! Learn creationism! Forget science!

They don't see that there are as many conservative media as liberal ones.

They don't see that Conservative America is making the world dangerous by pretending to make it safer.

They don't see that what Sarah does when she talks about not reading their rights to prisoners of the war on terror, she is dismissing the habeas corpus, which is at the basis of the ideals of America that the Conservatives claim to protect, at the basis of democracy and freedom, two words whose meanings such speeches are betraying and turning their back to.

When Sarah says that her opponents want to increase government spendings, don't they see that for the last five years, the government -- a Conservative one -- has been spending huge amounts of money in a war without victory.

They don't see that it does not make any sense to define McCain as a maverick when he has supported the policies of the last eight years. They don't see that lashing at the Washington establishment when their presidential candidate has been in Washington for about 30 years is kind of stupid.

They don't see how meaningless it is to claim over and over again that the United States is "the greatest nation in the history of the earth" (Mitt Romney), that only in America can a black man or a woman be successful -- and both camps are to be blamed for such assertions, by the way.
They don't see that democracy does exist in some other places, they don't see that democracy is actually healthier in other places than in America.

They don't see that a former POW does not necessarily make a good president.

They don't see that a good mommy does not necessarily make a good Vice-President.

Attacks on the opponents as being friends of the media and part of the elite has worked before. The elite sucks! Stupid America rocks!

Sarah gave a great speech because she said exactly what approximately half of the Americans want to hear.
And that is the scary part.