FIFTY-SEVEN
"Track was the clingy one and always needed me in his sight, while Bristol was quite independent."
On p. 57 of GR, Sarah has just recounted the birth of their first daughter, Bristol. She talks about the inchoate characters of her two eldest children: "With Todd away, I was busy with two active little ones in our first house…Track was the clingy one and always needed me in his sight, while Bristol was quite independent."
Here we have a seemingly simple statement; nevertheless, I think it can provide insight for us into Sarah's own character, and give us a glimpse of one of the many qualities that, taken together, have placed her in a position to assume the mantle and majesty of the Presidency of the United States.
Notice that there is not a hint here of any censure either of Track's character or of Bristol's. Sarah takes each one as he or she is. I imagine that some people might have become worried about Track's early need to cling to his mom; Sarah did not. She allowed both Track and Bristol to develop along the natural grooves and tracks (no pun intended!) and timetables planted in them by an all-wise Creator. There is no hint that I can discern of any sentiment on Sarah's part that she should be worried about Track, or should force him prematurely into being as independent as Bristol was at this time.
Behold the magnificent results of her prudent and wise patience!!
Track enlisted in the United States Army and served his country honorably in Iraq. He is assuming the responsibility for the family fishing business. He is going to be studying at the University of Alaska. He is now married!! Sarah and Todd let him develop at his own pace, and now he is a model young man and citizen of his State and of his country!
May we not draw a comparison and parallel between the variegated characters of different children, and the multifarious natures of the many States in our Union?
We are confronted today with power-hungry Washington political hacks, led by "president" barack obama, who do not understand the character of our great country; who despise the Tenth Amendment; who scorn the individual history and "genius" of each of the magnificent fifty stars and States that combine and coalesce to constitute the glory and constellation of our flag and of our Union!
They want to impose an imperial homogeneity, an unnatural "oneness," on the many States. In place of the free United STATES (plural) of America, they seek to eradicate all natural distinctions and differences between regions and peoples, and create one Communist "STATE" (singular) of "Amerika"!!
The young Sarah wisely understood and respected the individual natures of her kids.
The ever-young, but older Sarah (guys, if I may insert something here, she seems to me to be even more "young" and lovely and beautiful in her forties than she was in her twenties!!)--the ever-young, but still older Sarah well understands the unique genius of the United STATES of America. She understands, respects, loves our Constitution. She is of one mind with the Founders about the nature of the country, about the proper relationship between the States, and about the nature of their federal Union.
She was a wise mom then; she is a wise mom today.
GEORGE WASHINGTON: FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY.
SARAH LOUISE HEATH PALIN: MOTHER OF HER COUNTRY !!!
