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☛Book Review:
Having read (and enjoyed) Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue, I anxiously anticipated the release of her follow-up, America By Heart. To say that I was let down in an understatement.
While the conversational tone of the book makes it an easy read, Palin merely strings together quotes from more scholarly authors with her vapid insights and flawed logic. She tries to gain creditability by quoting the likes of the Founding Fathers, or “Founders” as she calls them. The words of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Alexis de Tocqueville are haphazardly strewn across the pages. And of course, need us forget all of the influences of Ronald Regan.
One such flawed argument comes when Palin addresses the “decline of family values in America,” sighting the spike in number of single mothers after the 1960s. She chastises single mothers for, well, being single. But, then, only a few pages away, Palin addresses the hot-button topic of abortion. As a staunch conservative, she is pro-life. So, let me get this straight: if I was a single woman who got knocked up, I shouldn’t get an abortion…but as soon as a pop that kid out, I’m a derelict in your opinion, Mrs. Palin? There seems to be an obvious disconnect in her thought process…
At the point where she criticizes American Beauty, one of my all-time favorite movies, I had to put the book down. I couldn’t go on… Palin tries to make some cockamamie assertion that if people watch American Beauty, they will idolize Lester Burnham and quit their job, start smoking weed and get shot by their new-next-door-neighbor-and-former-military-commando-turned-homosexual-that-went-crazy-because-of-don’t-ask-don’t-tell. Come on. It’s a movie. Anyone who understood American Beauty is intelligent enough to realize that. Apparently, Palin does not fall into this category.
I think Sarah Palin is a good person, and I agree with her on many points that she makes, i.e. the reduction of dependency on foreign energy sources and immigration reform. However, she should not be in a position of power. She is shortsighted and has a very pigeon-holed outlook on things. It will be very interesting to see what exactly her plans for 2012 will be.
Have you voted yet?
See? This is what happens when you elect a one term half-term Senator to the Presidency for the sake of ‘change.’ Experience is necessary — plain and simple.
