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"I chose the troops, the other guys chose the luncheon."
On p. 117 of GR, Sarah continues her discussion of the 2006 campaign for the Governorship of Alaska. She writes, "One beautiful but solemn day about six weeks before the final vote, 3,500 Alaska-based troops were about to be deployed to a war zone overseas.
"I sat in the crowd on that chilly autumn day on the military base to honor those brave souls, knowing that far too many wouldn't be seen by us again until their pictures flashed across some news screen announcing they had made the ultimate sacrifice for America.
"The candidates and I had already met numerous times in various public forums. There were a dozen more scheduled in the upcoming weeks. The chamber of commerce held its weekly luncheon, and the candidates were invited to attend our umpteenth event to debate pretty much the same topics in front of pretty much the same crowd.
"The forum was on the same day as the Airborne Infantry Brigade's deployment ceremony. I chose the troops, the other guys chose the luncheon."
What a simple yet profound statement:
"I chose the troops, the other guys chose the luncheon."
Our Sarah has radiated forth in brilliant buoyancy as the anti-obama in so many ways since her debut on the national stage, Sarah Palin Day, 29 August, 2008, when Senator McCain announced his selection of her as the VP nominee of the Republican Party.
However, it is perhaps in her attitude to the Armed Forces of the United States that the contrast between Sarah Palin of Alaska and barack obama of Chicago is most clear.
obama comes from a world whose milieu, whose mindset, whose mentality is totally hostile to the virtues that sustain and crown our military: Courage, honor, self-sacrifice, devotion to duty, devotion to Flag, devotion to country. obama, a disciple of the vicious 60s-style radical bill ayers, and his ilk are cowards.
They have no honor; they are sybaritic self-indulgers; they know nothing of duty, except to the radical tenets of their own anti-Western "creed"; their kind burned our Flag in the 60s; they hate America and are plotting to subject her to a "fundamental transformation"--they are our enemies.
It is, by the way, obama-types who infest university academia today (with some honorable exceptions, e.g., Professor Thomas Sowell, Professor Victor Davis Hanson, Dr. Larry Arn and others); they infest the media; they infest the entertainment industry; and now they infest the People's House, the White House.
These people are like a MAFIA: They ruthlessly enforce an anti-American "orthodoxy"; they defend their own intellectually vapid and spineless kind; they viciously attempt to exclude dissenters from any positions in the fiefdoms they control.
"They are fascists in the worst and darkest sense of the word; they loathe Freedom. Just try, for example, to express pro-life, not to mention pro-Sarah Palin (Mein Himmel!!!) opinions in places like the faculty lounges at Harvard or Yale.
To return to our military, in addition to this general antipathy to all that is noble and best about America's warriors, America's finest, obama and his thugs, as our friend stlouisix has demonstrated, have subjected our military forces to insane "PC" rules of engagement. They have dared to toy and play with the lives of America's sons and daughters, and to use the military as a laboratory for experimentation with their radical and destructive notions.
Against this evil, evil, evil OBAMUNIST world there rises, like a brilliant Northern Light, the beautiful life and soul of Lady Sarah of Wasilla!!
Sarah is a woman filled with personal guts, cojones, courage, and fortitude--greater, IMHO, than that of any other public figure in America today.
She is an honorable and ethical and moral person.
She is a noble and self-sacrificing Patriot.
She is devoted to Duty:
Duty to her God;
Duty to her family;
Duty to her friends;
Duty to her city;
Duty to her State;
Duty to her country.
That choice that she made on that day back in 2006 is just one of myriads of examples of the precious moral character and fearless fiber and fine and noble spirit of Sarah Palin, who represents and incarnates, IMV, the best of contemporary America.
"I chose the troops, the other guys chose the luncheon."
"I chose the troops, the other guys chose the luncheon."
"I chose the troops, the other guys chose the luncheon."
