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Palin announces run for Governor
in her living room - 2005
in her living room - 2005
On p. 109 of GR, Sarah writes, "By the end of that summer, the bottom line for me was clear: voters wanted change, and they should have a straightforward choice about what kind of change it would be. As always, Todd supported me and encouraged me to do it. So on Alaska Day, October 18, 2005, I kicked off the gubernatorial campaign with about fifty friends, family, and reporters in my living room. It also was Bristol's fifteenth birthday, so of course we had cake."
Again what wisdom is contained and embraced in the limpid simplicity of these few lines!!!
The Governor demonstrates the deep bond and connection between strong, loving FAMILIES, on the one hand, and the welfare and survival and success of the State, of the Res Publica, on the other hand.
Todd supports her and encourages her, as he always does.
And that wonderful CAKE!!!
She announces her run, and they eat birthday cake--Bristol's B-Day is not forgotten.
And now, the VETERA, letter "L" in the "Latin Sarah" series:
SARAH LITERATA: SARAH THE LEARNED/SARAH THE "LETTERED"
Ah, how this Literata will make the likes of chris matthews and others of his ilk grind their teeth and fume and rage. According to these benighted souls, the Governor cannot even READ a book, much less WRITE one.
This is the lady who used to devour entire newspapers, word for word, in the early dawn of her youth, according to the testimony of her sisters; this is the lady who won a plaque in third grade from the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) for a poem she wrote on Betsy Ross, the creator of our bonny national banner; this is the lady who wrote the magnificent and inspiring volume "Going Rogue," and followed it up with another scintillating opus, "America By Heart."
We are all, I think, familiar with people who have a certain amount of "book learning," but are in fact quite stupid and clueless when it comes to practical sagacity and wisdom.
Let us consider, by way of contrast, the MULTIPLE CLASSROOMS in which our dear Sarah has been educated and raised to the task, as many of us believe, of serving as President of the United States, and rescuing her country in one of its hours of gravest and most dire peril!!
Sarah was educated in the "classroom" and bosom of a brave and fearless family, at the knees of a mom and dad who, despising any hint of fear because of the Great Good Friday Anchorage Earthquake of 1964, boldly moved to the Land of Alaska, the Land of Adventure, the Land of the Last Frontier. Her dad was and is a teacher of teachers, and is worthy, IMHO, to be compared to the great figure of cinematic fiction, the scholar, archaeologist, and MAN OF ACTION, Indiana Jones.
Sarah was educated in the "classroom" that sits enthroned under the vaulted dome and sky of the splendid Land of Seward's Dreams, the Land of America's Dreams--hunting, fishing, mountain climbing--so many exalting activities of the splendid and ennobling "outdoors"!!
Sarah was educated in the formal and official classrooms of Wasilla High School and in fine universities, even if they were not "Ivy League." Yes, she changed schools, and took a bit longer to finish than some kids do--BECAUSE SHE WAS WORKING TO PAY HER OWN WAY THROUGH SCHOOL. This was itself an "education," a "classroom" for Sarah: An education in self-reliance; an education in responsibility, an education in guts and cojones!!!
Sarah was educated in the "classroom" of the campus and field of battle of so many interior and exterior wars she has fought: Member of the Wasilla City Council; Mayor of Wasilla; Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission; Governor of Alaska; candidate for Vice President of the United States … unique and fearless and dauntless warrior, unparalleled and unmatched in our generation, peerless warrior against the usurping and dangerous and deadly obama "administration."
This is a lady who knows "letters," i.e., literature; who knows politics; who knows ethics; who knows history; who knows courage; WHO KNOWS THE HEART AND SOUL AND MIND AND STRENGTH AND ESSENCE OF THE COUNTRY SHE LOVES WITH EVERY DROP OF HER BLOOD AND SPIRIT, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
This is a lady who, IMV, has received a unique and perfect education in the fields and arenas of human endeavor that are required for her lofty calling and vocation--a precious and singular education for a special task and mantle that is being laid on her shoulders by the Providence of the All-Highest!!
SARAH PALIN, SARAH LITERATA; MY PRESIDENT; YOUR PRESIDENT; OUR PRESIDENT!!
