My biggest question ever about Palin is: how can she be so popular? As a celebrity, as a potential presidential candidate, as a politician (and thus, leader). How? Some people may see her a joke, but a significant portion of the population, aka many many people, still consider her seriously. This is mind-boggling.
What don't I like about Palin? Not her political position, to be sure. Actually, I empathize with the right wing position: a small government (if possible) is good; a religious organization is important (topic for another day); honor and valor are always sexy. It is very understandable for a person to hold such beliefs! No, I don't have any problem with Palin's position. I am against her ability, personality, and style.
Let's talk about ability. What do I know about her ability? Maybe not that much, but I do know for sure that she is a bad educator and leader. How? Her daughter got pregnant pre-marital. That speaks for everything. Let's face it: A woman unable to teach her own child has no education/leading ability. A Chinese classic says: chaotic root can have no ordered branches. In other words, a person unable to stabilize his/her own family cannot stabilize a country. In the same fashion, a person not able to write a single line of C code can stop bragging about his/her future perfect operating system. It's impossible. Thousand mile journey starts with a single step (or, in our case, a single acceleration; seriously, we drive these days). If you cannot teach your daughter, tend your family, stop dreaming of the White House. It's stupid, for yourself, your friends, your people, and your country. Oh, and your party, too, since you splitting the precious votes. So much for Palin's ability.
How about her personality? After all, we can always assemble for her an all-star cabinet, and just let her keep check on everything, right? Well, so long as she is a good person. Is she? During McCain's campaign, she burned a big hole in his already lacking budget, for what? Men's underwear? Expensive clothes? What kind of people would do those things, you think? Not frugal, prudent, and careful ones. After all, you can dress decently without those things. I don't mean second hand stuffs, of course, but designers' clothes are really unnecessary. How about men underwear? Is it really okay to use other people's campaign money to dress up your husband?
No, we are not done with Palin's personality. What happened to McCain after his campaign? Well, he got a lot older, generally shut up, and tried to get his job done. Sure sure, he is no longer maverick, but he does his job. What has Palin been up to lately? She resigned right after an ethic investigation (or during it, anyway, you get the idea). If Palin indeed wants to run for president, is it not better that she gathers some more experience, given her track of record? But no, she resigned, and then started to do a bunch of PR things. Very flashy. In fact, flashy is the right word to describe Palin's action. Always big. Attention sucker. Now, in my book, those people are untrustable. Furthermore, how can you trust the person who don't even seem to care for the very man who put her into spotlight? Have you ever seen any news in which Palin shows any kind of remorse over McCain's lost? No, she was too busy blaming him for it, and preparing for her own (potential) campaign. Nice personality, eh?
Lastly, on personality issue, let's talk about the email incident. Palin used Yahoo! mail address, with easy to break password, to deal with Alaskan official matters. In my book, that means sloppiness. Oh, talking about sloppiness, since when is politics, national politics, has become a picnic matter? We are dealing with the largest economy in the world, with the most powerful army, with the most nuclear power, with the most pollution, with the most, well, you get the idea. And she kept on her stupid "soccer mom" drama. You know, Washington might be farmer, but when he was Mr. President, he acted like one. A gentleman with stately affairs to attend, not a silly little farmer doing big jobs. It shows that you take the role seriously. Not Palin. Apparently, when she was running for Vice President, she didn't even know Vice President role! This is extreme lack of care, extreme sloppiness, extreme disrespect.
Lastly, I despite Palin's style. Fire blowing one. Listen to her speech. Look at manner. It is either stupid act of soccer mom, or "look at my pretty face," or inflammation, overly hot stuffs. BTW, I have no problem with soccer mom: if you are one, good job. Taking care of the home, the kids, and the big kid (aka husband) is very difficult. Thank you for your hard work. However, please don't try to run for White House at the same time. Let your useless husband, who knows nothing about the hard-work at home, do it. Thank you. If you want to run for White House, cool, then let someone else (preferably your husband) take your kids to soccer. You have more serious affairs, most of which are not safe to discuss at soccer matches, to consider. Oh, and please act like a President, too. You are the face of the greatest nation on Earth, so please do act like the most serious person, not a silly woman needing to send her kids to soccer matches. Secondly, stop clinging to your feminine status. Some pundits argued that Palin showed that feminine was accepted in political sphere: while Ms. Clinton worked like a man to her current position, Palin winked to it. Excuse me, but do Presidents of China, Russia, Brazil, Venezuela, etc. care? No. They are important men with important matters. Do you know that just because Kennedy acted like a kid in front of Soviet president that we had the Cuba Missile Crisis? Yeah, and now we are talking about presenting a woman with immature, silly, soccer mom style. When was the last time you hear a soccer mom winning a serious negotiation? Yeah, never.
However, her most dangerous style is the inflaming one. You see, the world is already a chaotic place. Next to China are Tibet and Vietnam; next to Russia is East Europe; around Iraq is Middle East (and Osama somewhere); south of America has Venezuela. We have enough flame, thank you very much, can we please work on putting them out? Criticize Obama all you want, but for one thing: he actually seems to try to calm the world down. Europe and Middle East are sick of America (obviously, that means the US) mucking around with Muslim, so he reduces the troops there. Everyone (by that I mean everyone) worries about global warming, so he sets example. By the way, look at how he deals with China: instead of bullying her into green measure, Obama first shows example. China can kick all it can, but it will have to submit: for everyone else does. That's putting out flame. Palin? Apparently, the only way she knows how to solve problem is to burn. Oh, then tell everyone that it's God's will. First, stop calling that name, it's disrespecting. Second, until you can show an angel descending from the sky holding The Lord's order, stop pretending that you are doing The Lord's will. Oh, and don't address "His" or "He", it's sexist. The Lord is neither male or female, remember?
In the end of the day, I fail to see anything positive about Palin. Well, she's pretty, and she does seem very friendly, which might make her a good soccer mom. But leading? Spare me. Spare my world.
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