Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Don't Buy This Item - Family Beliefs Book Critique

By Hailey Reed


The signature is printed. It is not a genuine, hand-signed autograph.

Let's say there is something wrong with a car, do we look try to see what the problem with the car is while we are trying to use it for transportation or after it went through a compactor? I don't understand conservatives (who never fail to dissent from a war they disagree with) who think that our freedoms of speech really shouldn't apply when at war. If so, she is MY parrot and a lot of true American patriots will buy this book for her unabashed belief that people who live in glass trailers shouldn't throw beer bottles. Either Palin didn't read her own book or Jessica Gavora, the ghost writer, wrote things in a "satirical" sense that Palin didn't understand.

If she is, we have one very special lady that we are dealing with. She is going to become a more and more formidable force in politics in the years ahead. After all, Christian conservatives like her never worked to get those things inserted when the pledge and our currency didn't have them, wait, that's exactly what they did! I expect fully to get negative ratings with this review because to criticize Palin to a far right-winger is like criticizing Jesus himself.

Where's the level of discourse that she so admires in the Declaration of Independence and which would help establish common ground for solving national and world difficulties? If she thinks we should invade Iran, how would she do this with more success than in Iraq, and how would she balance the budget at the same time?

Most other conservatives who actually read the book will appreciate what she has to say. I'm a conservative who likes Palin, actually read the book cover-to-cover, was inspired by it, and found it to be all I expected.

Sarah Palin's America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag does just that. The writer's voice is warm and welcoming. Sarah Palin is truly a woman of our times. I hope America will take advantage of her wisdom, faith in America and leadership in these times of great needs. Finally, it is Sarah Palin's character - the woman behind the political titles, TV spots, and public speeches - that one comes to know through America by Heart. When she speaks of Harriet Tubman, she is humble: "Her wonderful little prayer is a good reminder to those of us with less courage and less strength that we can accomplish more if we just do the same." What Palin adds is some description of the destruction to people and country caused when we forget the truth of those old verities. People who want to believe in quick fixes, who hate the idea of competition and believe that we can all just get along if only we hold hands and sing Kumbaya, are not going to like this book. Nothing else matters." Sarah Palin makes no apologies for her faith, her belief in "commonsense constitutional conservatives," or her commitment to the values that built this country.

This is a uniquely crafted book that serves more as a cultural, historical, and religious manifesto, rather than a personal one -- which is what I was actually expecting. Political science students won't get it. Because of books like this we will be remembered in history by someone who had the guts, wisdom and heart to listen to her fellow Americans and HEAR us. I really don't care if she runs for office or for President. Hit movies now have sex, murder, torture porn, computer graphics, and are fantasy. I saw Mr Smith a long time ago and it was a good movie.




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