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City Council-woman Palin
On p. 65 of GR, Sarah is discussing her first experiences as a newly-elected member of the Wasilla City Council.
She writes, "The council met twice a month on Monday nights, and among its members, I stuck out like a Brownie at a Cub Scout meeting. Most of the guys were around my grandfather's age. In some ways, they had a kind of paternalistic way of governing.
For example, they wanted to regulate how many kids a mom could babysit in her home, whether signs on businesses should be allowed to flash, and whether the town barber pole should be permitted to spin--should one ever be installed. But Valley residents, like other Alaskans, are not 'master-planned-community' kind of people. We are extremely independent, no community organizers necessary."
As so often in the pages of this masterpiece of writing (take that chris matthews; are you listening, Pulitzer-Prize committee?), Sarah says so much in so few words, and she does it with a marvelous and understated and subtle sense of humor and a prancing panache!!
A whole philosophy and a way of living and governing are contained and captured and encapsulated in these few deceptively simple words.
Here are just a few brief observations.
First, behold the sure, subtle needle that she sticks into the pompous pretentions of the "good old boys." In the space of less than one line, she compares them to a den of little Cub Scouts and also to a pack of superannuated stuffed-shirts!! Sarah is the "Brownie" in their midst…but watch out, guys, for this innocent "Brownie": She will hand you your heads and your haughtiness before ya know what hit ya!!
Next, see how she rips into tatters, with the blade of a few well-chosen syllables, the pretensions of over-intrusive Big Government! Sarah is a perfect philosopher-teacher. Even as we laugh and "roll on the floor," we absorb the profound lessons of these deceptively simple lines.
Especially noteworthy is the last example of overregulation, that of the barber pole. Not content with micromanaging and meddling with already-existing situations, the "city fathers" want to make provision for a "future contingency."
These words of Sarah are a superb example of her perfect sense of tone and pitch when it comes to popping bombastic balloons. Again, she says, "…they wanted to regulate…whether the town barber pole should be permitted to spin--should one ever be installed."
This little coda, "should one ever be installed," is quintessential Sarah in Going Rogue!!
Not content with being mere SOBs, these guys want to play God and control the future too!!
Finally, note how she relentlessly and fearlessly pricks and mocks the "organizer-in-chief." What I mean by "fearlessly" is this:
The act that, above all others perhaps, brought down the undying fury and enmity of the Left upon our Sarah was the way she mocked obama and exposed him in the course of her immortal VP acceptance speech to the RNC on 3 September, 2008.
Is our gallant Lady Warrior intimidated by these heartless thugs, who tried to obliterate her and destroy her, politically and personally, during and after the campaign of '08??????
NO, NO, NO!!!!!
She comes right back in '09 in Going Rogue and gives it to obama again, mocking and ridiculing the little commie "community organizer."
"…no community organizers necessary."
AMEN, Sister Sarah, AMEN.
Guys, Sarah Louise Heath Palin is a once-in-many-lifetimes heroine and leader.
Let us please never take her for granted.
Let us pray and sacrifice, sacrifice and pray for her day and night, night and day. As I have said here before, I believe that we must constitute ourselves as "Sarah's Spiritual Secret Service"!!
The hatred of the Left for her would be truly frightening…without the all-comforting truth:
"THE LORD REIGNS; THE LORD RULES; PRAISE BE TO HIM FOREVER!!!!!"
