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Sarah Palin’s place of honor…
This afternoon I attended my annual fantasy baseball draft at a home in a Dayton suburb. There were a dozen of us guys who got together to draft our fantasy National League baseball clubs.
We certainly were a cross section of average guys; an accountant, some roofers, a Dayton cop, an Ohio highway patrolman, a member of the military, a book reviewer. OK, not average, but rather typical I should think.
We spent six hours together. There were a couple of fellows who phoned it in so to speak; we could see them down in Florida linked up via Skype on a computer screen in the kitchen.
We talked about the usual guy things; women, baseball, Obama’s health plan, baseball, women, Obama, baseball, alcoholic beverages, taxes on capital gains; typical guy talk. One guy was doing imitations of Dave Chappelle. The average age of the group was probably in the early to mid 30’s.
There was something that really struck me about this gathering in a typical Dayton area family room; over on a side table in what was clearly a place of honor a copy of Sarah Palin’s recent memoir “Going Rogue” was on display. The book was being presented as a sort of iconic mini-monument.
It helped me to realize that Sarah Palin has really struck a chord with some typical Americans..
Then I looked away-and thought about baseball.
Vick Mickunas
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By Mark from St Paul
March 29, 2010 2:33 PM | Link to this
A servant of which god? I’ve never read anything about the churches she’s connected to in Alaska that reminded me in way, shape or form of my strict Lutheran upbringing.
By Alice
March 29, 2010 12:44 PM | Link to this
Squirrelly! Where do you come from???? You never cease to amaze me! Do you get Sarah Palin alerts on your phone and how are you able to simultaneously be on 12 threads at once!!!! I can only hope that one day I will be able to discover once and for all whether you are a real human being or not…
By Squirrellygirl
March 29, 2010 8:34 AM | Link to this
Look away. There’s a tree! Look! There’s another tree! And yet another! Sarah will haunt your dreams. Sarah can see you, and she’s praying for you. That’s why you can’t let her go. She’s a servant of God, and she’s not going away.