Sarah Palin, Liberal Obsession, and the Future of Deliberative Democracy

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From the way liberal blogs, websites, and groups have, since last week, obsessed over every minute detail about, or in, the book released publicly, one would think 100 years from now Going Rogue would be placed alongside War and Peace or The Souls of Black Folk. With vehemence unlike ever before seen, these esteemed folks, who should have more quality services begging their attention, have been engaging in fact-checking more vigorous and than the vetting process that transported her to the national stage 15 months ago. She won't get away with anything--not after the cowardly and hubristic insults lobbed at community organizers at the Republican National Convention last September; not after the callous indictments laid against Barack Obama in the 23rd hour of the '08 Presidential race; and not after the dubious "death-panel" theories that successfully knocked the ball out the Democrats' hands a few months back.

 
 

But is it any coincidence that Ms. Palin's book, which comes out tomorrow, arrives just in time for the announcement of Afghanistan escalation strategies President Obama is strongly considering?
  
While liberals fume over whether or not Sarah Palin is telling the truth about some controversy 12 months old, President Obama is prepared to announce the addition of 30,000-40,000 more troops to the already 68,000 stationed in Afghanistan--a decision reportedly costing $1,000,000 per soldier; far more than the $12,000 spent on Afghan soldiers. Many liberals and progressives reacted sharply when Dick Cheney last year bellowed "So?" to the two-thirds of Americans firm in opposition to the Iraq War, but equal amounts of righteous indignation are yet to be seen even as 63%, according to Pew Research, hold great skepticism about the Obama administration's "handling" of the Afghanistan conflict. With nearly 1000 U.S. soldiers dead--not to talk of the tens of thousands of precious Afghanistan civilian lives lost--the mounting public opposition has much merit.
 

And while Palin's book tour lectures/stump speeches are sure to make great cable news chatter and political theater, the New York Times is reporting that Congressmen and women, public servants paid by the blood and sweat of working class and disenfranchised families, read statements on the house floor in opposition to the health care bill "ghostwritten" by lobbyists--literally. [...]
 
Full Article: http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2009/11/sarah-palin-liberal-obsession-002394.php

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