My friend Sheryl sent this to me this morning. I read it out loud to my fella and my son. He has written down what I have been feeling and thinking about.
Follow this link if you want to see the original form: http://www.chopra.com/node/1064
“Deepok Chopra on the Palin effect”
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin’s pluck has been admired, and her forthrigh tness, but her real appeal goes deeper.
She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, (more…)