Sarah Palin or how we got Obama

She is the darling of the right, a testament to motherhood, a woman who can do it all, the next coming of Ronald Reagan, verbal and intelligent, able to articulate every conservative value from the war in Afghanistan to the right to life, with a child with a severe impairment to prove it. Yet, the right is missing an opportunity. A person with every correct conservative value is not as important as a person who can win. Romney has an experience of carrying a liberal state, and running the state budget of Massachuesettes. Romney is more verbal in things important to liberal states, Romney can contest every state in the union, because he has an experience of running large corporations; but most importantly, there is a perception by all Americans, that he can do what he says. Guilliani is another Republican that can appeal to all Americans, and he has demonstrated quite effectively, that he can take an impossible task, and do it, he turned NYC around. However, Sarah Palin is touted as the darling of the right, the next candidate for president for the Republican Party. The reason why McCain lost, we are told, is that Palin was muzzled and not allowed to be herself, and as the conservative Fox media is constantly introducing her to us, we are told how wrong he was for doing that. But, the problem here is that no matter how you cut it, she was discounted as a serious candidate because of a perceived lack of experience. Her debate with Biden kind of clinched that perception, she treated him as if he was her grandfather, an elderly pundit on foreign affairs. She should have trounced Biden, all she had to do was speak her mind, and if he attacked her views, he would have been perceived as a bully and antiwomen, as it stood, I think that was a turning point in the election. Biden was on that night, and he cemented the perception she has been trying to overcome ever since, the question is does she really knows what she is talking about? So, the American People elected a person just as inexperienced as her, who gave them a perception of competence. We know better now, Obama was not ready for prime time either, when Iran's election results were in, he had an opportunity that Ronald Reagan had when he got the Russians to tear down the Berlin Wall. If Obama had taken advantage of the time, instead of waiting three days to react, he could have solved the Middle East once and for all, he didn't, so the quagmire gets worse. If he wanted to assist the dissidents in Iran, all he had to do was have some major military manuveers on the Eastern Border of Iraq, and mobilize a few of the Air Craft Carriers off of Iran's Coast, the show of force, would have forced Iran to mobilize defensively, and it would have forced them to negotiate with the other factions in their country, instead, we are witnessing a repeat of Tianiman Square, except there is no hope of this nation liberalizing anything. President Obama has two answers to every crisis that confronts him, Bush set up the system, and its failure is due to Bush's failure. The other answer to a crisis, is that folks are questioning his failures to fix problems because of his race. Clearly, there is a disconnect here. If Bush is still responsible for everything that is happening, why was a democratic congress and President elected? At what point do they take over? At what point do they adjust what is broken? Are they indefinitely not responsible? So far, last year, we have had two instances of terrorism on our soil. At what point does this President acknowledge that we are at war? If he does acknowledge that we are at war, at what point does he treat enemy combatants as soldiers, and not criminals? Will he continue to release our enemies so they can return to kill us? If this trial in NY does not go as planned, if the terrorist who planned 9/11 are placed on trial, and declared not guilty by a court of law, how will he treat the verdict? Won't that destroy our legal system, if he doesn't abide by the verdict? Will he blame this on Bush too? Lastly, Biden appears to embarrass this president every time he talks, so how could Palin lose to him in a debate, she is not the equivalent of Ronald Reagan, who clearly could be prepared to debate, and win.