There are many interesting ideas in this world. This blog is dedicated to pursuing them wherever they go. Politics, philosophy, religion, environment, and anything else that captures imaginations and leads to healthy discussions. Never take the world for what it is, there's always a better way to do something.
Although I don’t think much of her political views, I definitively believe Sarah Palin doesn’t get enough credit for her brains. Anyone who thinks she’s a stupid or naive woman, is very mistaken about her. Her rise from obscurity has been meteoric, and while I highly doubt (though future can often be very surprising) that she has any real chance to winning the presidency, she will be an important player in American politics for a long, long time to come. Anyone who doubts that should take a look at how she has handled her publicity since that fateful Election of 2008.
I think she was the sole winner out of the four people on the election ballot. While Obama has won the presidency, he has also earned all the criticism, pressure, and just general bad karma that comes with the job. While the American President might be the most powerful man in the world, he definitively is also the most stressed out. As for Biden and McCain, it seems that the public is largely apathetic towards them. As for Sarah? I think she’s very quickly making herself one of the more relevant leaders of the conservative right.
In the last few days there have been rumors flying around a ’seminar paper’ written by Obama in his Columbia days. According to the bloggers that have helped spread the story, in the paper, Obama wrote about the plight of the poor, the faults of the current economic system, and about taking another look at the founding fathers. The story garnered enough buzz and interest to make it all way up to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show. Since Mr. Limbaugh keeps his focus on the negative things about Obama, and anything democrat/liberal in general, it becomes clear that this ‘potential thesis’ wouldn’t been seen as good.
First of all, it was untrue. Rush Limbaugh was told in the middle of his show that it was a hoax, although he said it was believable. For my part, I am disappointed it was a hoax. From the little exert that was passed around.. I don’t see any destructive or negative ideas. Here’s what Obama didn’t actually write:
