SIXTY-EIGHT
Wasilla City Council
On p. 68 of GR, Sarah wraps up the first section of Chapter Two with some insightful and stirring reflections on her days as a member of the Wasilla City Council and on the civic responsibilities of public servants.
If our current crowd of political hacks both in the Democratic Party and in the GOP would take Sarah's luminous words and inscribe them on the pages of their minds and their hearts, our country would be a better, brighter, and stronger place.
She writes, "That's why I poured my heart into the responsibilities of Seat E [on the City Council]. Maybe the nerd in me kicked in again, but I made it my business to know every line item in the budget, to review every word of proposed regulations and ordinances, and to really know my constituents' concerns.
"One Christmas Eve, a man called me at home to give me his take on the city's burdensome sewer system. I talked to him for two hours. Here I was surrounded by little kids and all the wonderful clutter of Christmas and Todd making 'wind it up' signals, and I'm talking to this guy about sewer systems. I knew I couldn't be rude, so I gritted my teeth and let him talk, thinking, 'Someday I'm going to look back on this as proof that I really cared about my job.'
"In local politics, your constituents are your neighbors, family, friends, and sometimes even your enemies. You see them at the grocery store, the post office, and the hockey rink. Often politicians who make it to state and national office forget that those good people--the gas station mechanic, the local farmer, the scores of mom-and-pop shop owners who form the backbone of our economy--put them into office, and they are the ones who should be at the forefront of our minds.
"At the time, I had no political aspirations beyond local public service. But when hard work, life, and Providence later took me to the governor's mansion and the vice presidential trail, I vowed not to forget that."
Wow!! She reviewed "every word of proposed regulations and ordinances." I am sure you are all probably thinking, as I am, of the abominable obama-pelosi-reid "health-care" bill of last year. Who bothered actually to read it, and to hold its authors and supporters accountable for its contents?!? These people were formed in a far different world and in a far different tradition from that of Sarah Palin of Alaska.
For Sarah, words mean what they say, and they have consequences, consequences for families and for communities and for nations. For Sarah, public service is public trust, and it is only a faithful and conscientious and true heart that can earn and hold that trust.
Next let us notice what she did once upon a Christmas Eve. She talked to a constituent of hers for TWO HOURS on the phone!! Beautiful-souled Sarah "couldn't be rude," she couldn't hang up on this guy.
Contrast the white-collared savages in Congress and in the media who, earlier this year, went far beyond the boundaries of mere rudeness and into the jungle of mendacity, of slander, and of character assassination when they tried to plaster onto Sarah's golden character the foul odium of and the responsibility for the January Tucson tragedy!!
These hypocritical, lying slaves tried to soil the soul and wreck the reputation of the Lady of the North Country, whom they have truly "targeted" for destruction ever since Sarah Palin Day, 29 August, 2008. How dare these creeps, these thugs, these hired hit men and women presume to lay their filthy hands and their filthy words on a good woman, a brave woman, a free woman, a lady whose very name they are not worthy to utter!!!
Finally, we may note that Sarah has not forgotten and will never forget the little folk, yes, the Hobbits, who are the heart and soul and backbone of the Res Publica Americana. We have the once-in-a-generation, nay even once-in-a-lifetime opportunity next year to send to the White House a lady who not only will not disgrace and soil the seat of Washington, of Lincoln, of Reagan, but even add her own special and spirited grace and glory to that lofty office!!
We have the opportunity to elect someone who is both quite ordinary and one of us, and yet also unique and unparalleled, someone, to speak again in "Tolkienesque," who is both a little Hobbit and also a mighty Eowyn, a fearless and faithful Lady Warrior!!
AWAY WITH THE COMMIES; AWAY WITH THE LIARS; AWAY WITH THE THUGS; AWAY WITH THE BLACK-HEARTED, SELF-SERVING, MEAN-SOULED LITTLE TRAITORS.
WE WILL HAVE AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT; WE WILL HAVE OUR SARAH!!!
