"Palin has the self-confidence of the millennial generation, and the fire of the baby boom generation, but she gives speeches like she's a Gen-X slacker..."I think Marc Ambinder is brilliant at observation, even if I don't think slacker equates to saracasm. Palin is no slacker. She's banked a reported $12 million since July when she stepped down as governor of Alaska.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Gen X slacker stereotype lives on in Palin
The politics editor of The Atlantic, a Gen Xer himself, has written a piece about Sarah Palin in which he identifies the tenor of her voice as sarcastic. He goes on to say:
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I don't quite understand the reference to sarcasm and Gen-X but then I'm a pre-senior clueless Boomer.
I find Palin fascinating. She has great charisma and can certainly get a crowd behind her but seems focused only on herself rather than any big message.
I keep hoping that the she'll quit whining about how she was screwed over by everybody and grab onto something meaningful.
I wonder when the tea baggers are going to realize they have been had by the politicians that use them and then ignore them. For instance, Scott Brown has yet to attend a teabagger event and I doubt that has anything to do with the important stuff he has going on in Washington.
Just because Palin made 12 million dollars last year doesn't mean she's not a slacker. This is a woman who was a complete wash out in college, who gives the same sneering, spiteful speech but doesn't offer an salient ideas, who is a lousy mother, who can't tell Katie Couric what newspapers she reads, needed the VP debate dumbed-down, and who quit being governor after only a half-term. Has there ever been someone who has offered so little but has been rewarded so much?
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