[Publib] Palin's history

[Philip Cheney]

How many public librarians are planning displays for the Presidential election this
year?  Will you have biographies of the nominees, including Ralph Nader and candidates from other political parties?  Do you plan to provide links to campaign web sites?
 
Philip Cheney
South Carolina
 



Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:52:31 -0500From: rtomerlin at pcpls.lib.in.usCC: publib at webjunction.orgSubject: Re: [Publib] Palin's history
There is a difference between opinion and news (At least, there should be). Palin attempting to fire a librarian during the same time frame that this librarian repeatedly refused to ban books is relevant to my occupation but opinions on Palin's faith, and her personal motivations are not.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=sloginIt seems like Peggy Noonan's article is opinion and the NYTimes article is a piece of news. Forgive me if I offend.However, whether you agree with my Noonan assessment or not, I do believe that we need to distinguish the difference between opinion articles and new articles. There is a good reason that they are usually found on different pages.Tim Spindle wrote: 


Peggy Noonan.
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What political pundit wrote this???
 
Fred Beisser wrote:> You may be right, Sue.>> Some commentary from a well-known political pundit:>>> Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a>> feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload>> This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie>> and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an>> Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats>> mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because>> she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because>> conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of>> them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their>> beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present>> danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.>>>> I'll tell you how powerful Mrs. Palin already is: she reignited the>> culture wars just by showing up. She scrambled the battle lines, too.>> The crustiest old Republican men are shouting "Sexism!" when she's>> slammed. Pro-woman Democrats are saying she must be a bad mother to>> be all ambitious with kids in the house. Great respect goes to Barack>> Obama not only for saying criticism of candidates' children is out of>> bounds in political campaigns, but for making it personal, and>> therefore believable. "My mother had me when she was eighteen…" That>> was the lovely sound of class in American politics.>>>> Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the>> chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of>> the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble>> people. We are Bubbleheads. We know this and try to compensate for it>> by taking road trips through the continent -- we're on one now, in>> Minneapolis -- where we talk to normal people. But we soon forget the>> pithy, knowing thing the garage mechanic said in the diner, and>> anyway we weren't there long enough in the continent to KNOW, to>> absorb. We view through a prism of hyper-sophistication, and judge by>> the rules of Chevy Chase and Greenwich, of Cleveland Park and McLean,>> of Bronxville and Manhattan.>>>> And again we know this, we know this is our limit, our lack.>>> Another Bubblehead blind spot. I'm bumping into a lot of _critics who>> do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship_ (Palin had two>> terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and _executive as>> opposed to legislative experience. But executives, even of small>> towns, run something_. There are 262 cities in this country with a>> population of 100,000 or more. But there are close to a hundred>> thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. "You do the>> math," the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me. "We are a>> nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos.">> Looks to me as if the author is saying that mainstream America will be> voting.....>> Fred-- 
Rebecca Tomerlin, Automation Assistant
Porter County Public Library System
rtomerlin at pcpls.lib.in.us
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