Opposing Reactions to Michael Jackson's Real Death & Sarah Palin's Political One
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
There will be no more news until tomorrow--until the Michael Jackson Memorial is completed at not one but two stadia in downtown Los Angeles.
But it's worth comparing how Jackson's actual death and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's self-inflicted political death have had almost polar opposite effects on the American public.
In actual death, Michael Jackson has resurrected his career to a stratospheric level that he probably could not have achieved in real life. He was, as we've all heard zillions of times by now, about to embark on a global tour to try to reinvigorate his sagging star status. After death, however, his music shot back to the top of the sales charts and the sordid part of his personal life, remembered first and foremost while he was still alive, was buried much more quickly than was his body.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, has been called a "quitter" by her own people—hard-right conservatives—and worse, actually, by lots of other folks, bloggers, etc.
It's completely unclear what she intends to do with the rest of her life. Quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a darn. Could she secure the GOP presidential nomination? She surely has that potential and could pray her way into the hearts of the Christian evangelical right with demon zeal. But could she win a general election? Not a chance. She would be, as a former GOP co-chair said to me about former Sen. Robert Dole, what former Vice President Walter Mondale was to the Democratic Party: "He had to win the nomination and he had to lose the general."
Sarah Palin may turn out to be as politically dead as Michael Jackson is actually dead. And if she is, she's OK with that:
"I said before I stood in front of the mic the other day, you know, politically speaking—if I die, I die. So be it," Palin said.
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Fear of Being Nuked
Fear of Being Nuked.
By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.
Given the Korean nuclear missiles are within range of Alaska who can really blame Sarah Palin for resigning in afraid of her relatives being nuked. In additions to other factors. As far as Myself as Prophet is concern, Palin is an extremely likable and competition government official and politician.
This come to the Americans especially Democrats are extremely chauvinistic racists who must be frown upon by the entire. All those American liberty, freedom and justice will soon be gone if Obama and his supporters especially Blacks continue to insists on using illegal conspiracy such as Blackmails, harassments, threats of body harm, and corruption against qualified candidates. As far as the Environment is concern, all Obama supporters should be eliminated.
Sarah saw what death did for Michaels career
and thought, why not me?
This worthless opinion was in my paper today
To what purpose are you comparing Jackson to Palin? You claim in the middle of this nonsense that .."quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a darn." If true, you should not have written this trash.
I can only assume that you are one of the counter-culture's Neo-Nazi propagandists who slander, defame, insult and ridicule anyone who disagrees with the leftist Marxist agenda. Otherwise, you are just a fool. On second thought, you are just a fool.
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