Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Palin by comparison

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=610

[melaniephillips.com] 9 Sep 2008--Are ordinary people beginning to fight back at last against the forces which, over the past halfcentury, have turned their world totally upside down?

Across the Atlantic, Americans have been convulsed by the overnight sensation of Sarah Palin.

At a stroke, this hockey-mom ‘pitbull with lipstick’ has galvanised John McCain’s presidential ticket and given the Obama Democrats their biggest and maybe insuperable problem.

But her significance does not stop there. Despite obvious differences between the U.S. and the UK, her triumph carries important lessons for British politics, too.

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