Sarah Palin: Preparing for a Make or Break Moment

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  Joe E S10/03/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Sarah Palin: Preparing for a Make or Break Moment

  Joe Biden was "prepared" while Sarah Palin was "prepped." There is a big difference here in how you percieve the depth of their credibility.
  
  -Joe Slezak

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  RE: Sarah Palin: Preparing for a Make or Break Moment

  Acutally, I meant perceive... sorry about the typo.
  
  A further observation... facts in your head do not mean there's fire in the brain. Processing of data is what debate and dialogue is about, it is not about data recall and repeat.
  
  We don't want just data... we want meaning and value added to data. What do the facts mean for us, and what value does it have in our lives... that what political exchange should have.
  
  To an extent, both candidates showed spans of Prepare vs. Prepped and Recall vs. Repeat. It was the moments of "fire in the brain" when the debate (dialogue) had more interest, because meaning and value was added to data.

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  eric.hanson10/03/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Sarah Palin: Preparing for a Make or Break Moment

  Here's the deal - regardless of how either did in the question and answer section of the "beauty pageant" we like to call a campaign, the important factor is what these people BELIEVE.
  
  Go back and count how many times Mr. Biden said the word "fair" or any of it's derivatives (fairness, fairly, etc...). It speaks volumes about the disconnect between what he believes and the reality of life. The Democrat party and those who seem to be running it (who are far more left of center than the rank in file registered Democrat) have a painfully overdeveloped sense of fairness.
  
  Look around you. THE WORLD IS NOT FAIR. Nature will always favor those plants, animals, and yes - people, that are best prepared to deal with the curveballs nature is so fond of throwing.
  
  If you completely leveled the field of play around the world and gave everyone the same financial and natural resources as well as the same hurdles and obstacles to overcome you will find over time that a certain percentage will rise to the top while others will wallow in mediocrity. You can not legislate or govern your way around this and the more our government (or any government for that matter) attempts to do so the bigger the problem gets. It is like trying to repeal the basic laws of physics. You can make gravity illegal but you will never reduce the impact it has on our daily lives.
  
  Get over it. Life is not fair. Pain and sorrow will always exist and human suffering will continue no matter how hard we try to eliminate it.
  
  Please understand, I do not suggest that we blindly tolerate pain and suffering. Our treatment of those less fortunate is part of what makes being human such a special and unique experience. I simply believe we can not legislate fairness any more than we can legislate morality.
  
  Men and women like Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Jesus, Mohammed, Mother Theresa, and Pope John Paul II (to name but a few) have all proven what one person can do in the face of tremendous opposition when they are committed to doing what is RIGHT. This is because they were people of action, not legislation.
  
  Human history has countless easily remembered examples of man's inhumanity to man because these things make for great headlines. It is the basic goodness of human nature that is overlooked.
  
  If you want to make the world a better place it is within your power to make it so. If however, you want to force others to do the same by legislating a certain type of activity you will encounter another bit of human nature - the deep-seeded resistance to manipulation and the desire for the freedom to CHOOSE to do right thing versus being TOLD to do it. You may feel better for having passed a bit of legislation but good intentions have had horrible ramifications in the past.

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  RE: Sarah Palin: Preparing for a Make or Break Moment

  Either of the candidates are facing with an ill-fated period. I think the person who feeds the hopes persuasively and plausible will get the success.