Here’s a little background on Sarah Palin…
She was born Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, third of four children of Sarah Heath, a school secretary, and Charles R. Heath, a science teacher and track coach. Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. As a child, she would sometimes go moose hunting with her father before school, and the family regularly ran 5K and 10K races.
Palin attended High School in Wasilla, Alaska, where she was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school, and the point guard and captain of the school’s basketball team. She helped the team win the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game, despite having an ankle stress fracture at the time. She earned the nickname “Sarah Barracuda” because of her intense play and was the leader of team prayer before games.
In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest (playing the flute), then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the Miss Congeniality award. She attended Hawaii Pacific College in Honolulu for a semester in 1982, majoring in Business Administration. She transferred in 1983 to North Idaho Colleg. In 1987, Palin received a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, with a minor in political science. In 1988, she worked briefly as a sports reporter for an Anchorage, Alaska (KTUU-TV). She has also participated in her husband’s family commercial fishing business.
Palin served two terms on city council (1992-1996) and two as manor (1996-2002) of a small town, Wasilla Alaska. Then after running unsuccessful for Lieutenant governor (2002), she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, while serving as Ethics Supervisor of the commission (2003-2004). Then in 2006, she was elected governor Alaska, the first woman and youngest person to hold that office. She defeated an incumbent governor in the primary and former governor in the general election.
Okay, sure Sarah Palin has five children, and her seventeen-year-old daughter is pregnant daughter. Horrible, isn’t it? I’m sure that doesn’t happen much in modern America, let a lone the world.
But what would you think of a politician (married, with children) whose father made his fortune bootlegging, that while intoxicated, drove into a creek, then then disappeared while his lady friend died in his car? It’s hard to spell Chappaquiddick isn’t it? But I don’t want to too hard on good old Ted…
How another politician, an omitted (former) Cocaine user, with a close relationship to Bill Ayers (the leader of the Weather Underground Organization), who gave almost a million dollars to his cousin (Raila Uding) that is now in a Kenyan prison for election rigging, whose first major financial contributors was Antoin “Tony” Rezko (also in prison), and whose father was a polygamist-alcoholic. I don’t want to too hard on this guy either, but it’s hard to spell his (entire) name isn’t it?
I’m sure glad the national media is exposing all of political candidate’s dirty little secrets…
