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I can't help repeating how attractive Ms Palin is, but that only makes me sexist. More to the point though, do I think she would make a suitable President of USA?
Interesting question that, and it depends on whether we continue to propagate the conventional wisdom that only those with political smarts are suitable subjects when most of us secretly despise those who have reached any sort of political heights because they must by definition have been engaged in corrupt acts just to get there.
If somebody "normal" appears on the political landscape he/she is treated as a target for personal barbs. I wonder why? When you and I, the normal people who populate our countries whatever our shade of politics may be, find someone we like, we embrace them. We ask them to a bbq or something similar. The fact that we may fundamentally disagree on political leanings becomes meaningless unless either one of us is so extreme they repel contact.
Most of my friends are rampant right wingers and many are the "full and frank exchange of views" that have eventuated as a result. In the end those views are of the average Joe in the street. I find it a pity that slickly processed and sanitised opinions run through fifteen spin doctors are the only views allowed to be expressed by politicians, especially when they are a potential President.
I haven't lost any friends as a result of these disagreements and that is how things should be. We don't kill each other in the west for differing political views, we just have another drink. Long may that be the case.
I am here to say that no matter what transpires on these pages and whatever harsh words are said, I can think of only one person I would refuse to have a drink or fifteen with. Outright racism I won't put up with; all other views are discussable. (Is that a word?)
And if you think that sounds like a permanent invitation to anybody venturing into my neck of the woods, you are right.
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