Posted by
Bob Wood aka TrekTek on Monday, October 20, 2008 1:58:48 PM
Dr. Thomas Sowell has written an excellent analysis of the election in
Record versus Rhetoric for Jewish World Review. I can't help myself; I must add commentary, even though Dr. Sowell needs no help from me!
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Dr. Sowell wrote:
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| Apparently there is something about Sarah Palin that causes some people to think of her as either the best of candidates or the worst of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral hostility in the media. |
Which explains one of the major reasons that newspaper circulations and network broadcast ratings are down. The media are disconnected from the people they are supposed to be serving. Instead, they would prefer to TELL US WHAT TO THINK, as the companies for which they work continue to dwindle.
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| The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact that she would be "a heartbeat away from the presidency" if Senator John McCain were elected. But Barack Obama has even less experience — none in an executive capacity — and his would itself be the heartbeat of the presidency if he were elected. |
Everyday people like us understand this a lot better than the "enlightened" media crowd. In fact, Gov. Sarah Palin has more executive experience than the other three candidates combined! Unfortunately, the media are too dumb to realize that we recognize what they are trying to do.
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| Whatever the shortcomings of John McCain and Sarah Palin, they are people whose values are the values of this nation, whose loyalty and dedication to this country's fundamental institutions are beyond question because they have not spent decades working with people who hate America. |
Therein lies the tale. Most of us, regardless of the daily challenges we face, lead a pretty good life as a result of the incomparable opportunity that is America. We don't mope around all day whining, "Woe is me. When is the government going to fix my miserable life?"
We get up everyday, go to work at a job we are thankful to have that makes it possible for us to meet our obligations, and we dream of ways to improve our lot in life. Then we make plans for achieving those dreams, and we embark on a course of action to make it happen.
We just wish that government would get out of our way and not steal a little more from us every time we see a bit of improvement. I will never forget my first pay-raise as a relatively new employee of the local power company many years ago. I took home less money as a result of the higher tax bracket into which it threw me. That is just wrong!
But tens of millions of us perservere every day.
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| Nor are (McCain and Palin) people whose judgments have been proved wrong consistently during decades of Beltway "experience." |
But their opponents have been - time and again. And Dr. Sowell has the facts to prove it.