Re: The Tragedy of Sarah Palin

"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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Well, the only reason people kew of Bill Clinton was the Designing Women
name drop they did.

Governors are rarely that well known.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Peter T. Chattaway
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:55 PM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] The Tragedy of Sarah Palin

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Karl Swenson wrote:

>>> Yes, of course, because Alaska being the last American frontier, 
>>> they don't have tv yet.
>>
>> TV, schmee-vee.  The question is, how involved in national political 
>> affairs can you be when you govern a sparse and barely-populated 
>> territory that is physically cut off from the rest of your nation?
>
> **and the point is that in the modern age, that is irrelevant.  She 
> has all the same communications devices as any other governor.  It is 
> an insulting question, like Alaska is filled with hicks who use string 
> and cups.

I've got lots of devices too; always have.  And I would *kill* to work in an
office again.  Working at home just isn't the same.  (And it wasn't the
same, even when I was single and didn't have a family distracting me.)

> ***she was a well known politician, she had been tagged as a rising 
> star before, and had been a keynote speaker.  At least I had heard of 
> her prior to her being tagged as a possible running mate.

Yeah, well, you're a politics junkie.  :)

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