Much was made over Obama’s apparent elitism, and due to his way of speaking eloquently, that charge can stick among those who speak in monosyllables…. But equally adhesive, are the charges that Palin is crass, intolerant, self-absorbed, for due to the way of speaking caustically, that charge can stick among those who have sympathetic natures…
Each group has their detractors, and each has their adherents… Obviously in keeping one’s base fired up, ones comments are simultaneously going to fire up your opponents base against you….
Therefore, of course the trick to winning in a polarized society, is to win more of the other side’s voters over to your cause, than they can woo from yours….
That said and done, we can see a difference in tactics between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin…. One acquires his power by outreach… teased as the Messiah, he has open meetings, invites criticism, responds back to it convincingly, and use the tools of logic, understanding, empathy, love, care, concern to get his vision across to undecideds…..
The other, survives on pre-preemptive attacks… Like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, they revel in their ability to strike without warning, impose maximum destruction, and get out before the opposition knows what happens. Also like the Japanese, they never think of the consequences of their actions; like what happens next when they decide to come after us……This group uses snide humor, catty remarks, imputed disgraces, and tend to rule by royal decree, spontaneous decisions, fear of their reprisals, to extract loyalty from their subjects… This personality considers themselves to be the law, and because they can not understand thoughts not coming from outside their pretty head,
they force you to understand that they are the ones to fear…..
Those are the two camps that each of these leader types appeal to.. They walk, work, and live around us every day, but what numbers are they distributed? How many of each personality-type exist across this broad, wide country?
I think my title puts it succintly… For today how many followers of Pontius Pilate are still around? After all,.. he had experience… He was “a governor”, you know? ….
kavips 
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September 7, 2008 at 8:07 am
Patricia Gearity
This country was not borne of Governors and mayors. It was borne from the blood and sweat of principled rabble-rousers. They accepted responsibility willingly and acted in accordance with principle. They didn’t need a paycheck, or public official’s nameplate. to validate their devotion to a better country and a better government. I was offended by Sarah Palin’s sanctimonious dissing of Obama’s work for the disadvantaged and poor. She’s a lovely person, but that comment was immature and arrogant. She should spend a few months with people in South Chicago instead of mouthing Rove-isms. Come to think of it, she should spend a few years talking to families at the soup kitchens and public shelters outside Alaska before she lectures the rest of us about why we should put her a heartbeat away the most powerful office in the world.
September 7, 2008 at 12:46 pm
kavips
Struck a nerve, did I?
the blood and sweat of principled rabble-rousers. They accepted responsibility willingly and acted in accordance with principle
This sounds a lot like you… 🙂
(Thanks for all you’ve done.)
September 8, 2008 at 7:17 am
Patricia Gearity
I had lots of help. It took a mountain to move a village.
(Bakacha, Your Ghostiness) 🙂