Going Rogue: An American Life
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- ISBN13: 9780061939891
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On September 3, 2008 Alaska Administrator Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and straight away made her one of the most recognizable women in the world.
As chief executive of America′s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes additional politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the largest private sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also beat the political “excellent ol′ boys club” at their own game and brought Huge Oil to heel.
Like her GOP running mate, John McCain, Palin wasn′t a packaged and over-produced “candidate.” She was a Main Street American woman: a effective mom, wife of a blue collar union man, and mother of five children, the eldest of whom was serving his country in a yearlong deployment in Iraq and the youngest, an infant with special needs. Palin′s hometown tale touched a populist nerve, rallying hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans to the GOP ticket.
But as the battle unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. Supporters called her “refreshing,” “honest,” a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests. Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership. But none of them knew the real Sarah Palin.
In this keenly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong like; her choice to enter politics; the importance of faith and family tree; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile effective mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom′s-eye view of high-stakes national politics – from patriots dedicated to “Country First” to polished politicos bent on winning at any cost.
Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizen′s extraordinary journey, and imparts Palin′s vision of a way forwards for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on planet.
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I LOVE SARAH PALIN SO MUCH THAT I DECIDED TO GET HER ATTENTION LIKE THE MASS MEDIA! IT DOESN’T MATTER! AS LONG AS WE GIVE HER ATTENTION SHE CAN BE WHO SHE NEEDS TO BE! SHE IS AN UNDERDOG! YOU CAN’T STOP HER!
PALIN 2012!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
EDIT of 20 Nov 09. This is my final review. 57 of 302 this date.
The book consists of five parts.
Part I: Life up to the call from John McCain. The book I read and appreciated earlier, Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down was instrumental in her selection, along with the heroic work of a band of bloggers, covers most of this ground so the first half will be ancient hat to persons who followed Palin before she became VP. Stuff better told here includes Todd being the Huge Man on Campus (BMOC) with TWO “rides” when others had none; beauty contests paid for college; eloped, terrible pain of pregancy, lost second child, Exxon Valdez killed fish prices down 65%, lost some bids for office, and very meaningful for me, with respect to Downes syndrome, she questioned “why us” and Todd responded “why not us.”
Part II: Photos, very disappointing for pre-battle, better for battle but over-all TERRIBLE.
Part III: From the call through the battle to resignation and a honestly rotten “what lies yet to be section. I tried to help her, as did so many others, but when I volunteered at the McCain battle headquarters I was told that the Vice-Presidential Operations section had been fully staffed (by Bushies) three months before she was selected, and I knew in that moment that McCain was being set up as a fall guy. Although the book is relatively kind in its manner of language, the second half made me angrier….and angrier…and angrier, confirming my worst fears about McCain’s battle staff. She is way too nice, building nothing of the fact that she is “agreed” a staff and told what to say etc. There are a few things here I was not aware of, including a discussion of the CBS hit job in which a fantastic deal of flim was taken to be distilled down to the worst of the worst, and I feel sympathy. I will probably never be a candidate for President or Vice President, but if I were, I would follow Lee Iacocca’s model, and kick out the first person to dare to tell me what my positions are going to be. It’s time we send the “staff” to muck out the stables, and place only principals to deal with substance. She thinks Joe Lieberman is a nice guy–he may be nice, but he cannot be trusted and is more a representative of Israel and Wall Street than he is of Connecticut or the rest of us, this one sentence left me completely dismayed.
Part IV: Dewey Whetsell, “A View from Alaska” ends the book, with six brilliant summaries of excellent things Sarah Palin accomplished for Alaska, and that alone is worth the fee of the book.
Part V: Missing in Action–the parts not there. The Pointer is not here, but after reading the book, which is very light on substance, that is not as vital as it might be. There is a fantastic deal more that should have, could have been in this book, from more detail on the abuses she suffered at the hands of staff to more about the “alternative” battle she ongoing ginning up in self-defense, to more about Obama-Biden and some of the dirty tricks their battle pulled, and finally, a better discussion of why she resigned as Administrator as a replacement for of leading the Alaska Independence Party in declaring secession an option, inviting Christian Exodus to homestead on lands no longer “federal,” while also negotiating with Russia, Yukon and Nortwest Territories, Greenland, and Denmark to make a Northern Circle of opportunity and prosperity. Sorry to say this, I reflect resigning was a mistake, giving up the power of Alaska to invalidate federal over-reach.
There are two helpful references that go with this book.
1. The pointer of who gets praised, whacked and ignored, look online for “POLITICO A guide to who gets whacked”
2. Facts that are not, look online for “FACT CHECK: Palin’s book goes rogue on some facts”
Neither of the two references, while helpful, is fully satisfactory, and neither can be said to discredit the book in any significant way.
If McCain had purged his staff of the Bushies, let Palin be “First Mom” and herself, history might have been different. Still, seeing Obama-Biden as a continuation of Bush-Cheney (White House as theater and out of control) might yet be the best thing that could have happened, a necessary stimulus for the sleeping Republic.
I certainly agree with her condemnation of Rahm Emanuel, but have to observe that Newt Gingrich is the one who first ruined the bi-partisan model in leading the $300 million a year “buy out” of the government from schoolhouse to White House, and in destroying Speaker Jim Wright, a tale told in The Ambition and the Power: The Fall of Jim Wright : A Right Tale of Washington.
This is a very “lite” book that will be very satisfying to persons who see in Sarah Palin a populist who may not have all the world smarts (news flash: most in Washington do not either) but is, as she coins the term, a “Commonsense Conservative.” I like the term, I judge it has staying power.
Two political books that are better than this one are:
Stand For Something: The Battle for America’s Soul
America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions, Straight Answers
I am concerned that block Hagel is following Bill Bradley into discredited nothingness. Both smart men, both appear to have concluded that America cannot be saved from the axis of evil between Wall Street (and the Mafia) and the corrupt Congress and equally corrupt–if not beside the point–White House. Obama-Biden are Empire as Usual, the Bush-Clinton crime families continue to hum along with their gold certificates, and the only losers are us–We the People.
For persons who are mad at me for language truth and not being all goo-goo over Sarah Palin, suck it up. I like the quote from Fedor Dostoevsky: A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to admit truth, either in himself or in anyone else. Sarah Palin has a LOT of rough edges.
For persons who cannot comprehend my admiration of her and my acceptance of her as an emergent leader who speaks for tens of millions mad at being treated like second-class citizens, betrayed by Senators and Representatives who have sold out to Wall Street, allowed the hollowing out of pension funds, sold out to military-manufacturing, intelligence-manufacturing, prison-slavery, and hospital-pharmaceutical complexes, I also say, suck it up. She’s here to stay, if she does not drive Todd away with pretentious airs and being too much of a girl dog around the house.
Place simply, I embrace Sarah Palin as one who must be at the table, along with Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Jackie Salit, Cynthia McKinney, Al Sharpton, Carol Mosley-Braun, and a number of others who have been neglected by the fradulent media (include FOX and CNN, neither of which can place together any intelligent thoughts about the real world). The BAD NEWS is that none of these people plays well with others. Sarah Palin has enough star power to host a Sunshine Cabinet that makes Commonsense Conservative policy inside of a balanced budget, and I want to see her harness the Collective Intelligence of the Republic and be in Obama-Biden’s face every day. Biden is trying, but he is surrounded by partisan hacks, loyalists, sychophants, and serves a President who was bought for $750 million and knows his place, playing the role of major domo in the world’s most expensive and useless of theaters, the White House (Buckminster Fuller said this first).
I’m going to use my remaining seven links in three groups:
Group A: Death to the two parties
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
Group B: Harness the Collective
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Make a World That Works for All
Society’s Leap forwards!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
Conscious Evolution: Awakening Our Social Potential
Group C: Serious Reading for Sarah Palin
Election 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Substance of Governance; Legitimate Grievances; Candidates on the Issues; Balanced Budget 101; Call to Arms: Fund We Not Them; Annotated Bibliography)
I could have deleted my pre-review and the 307 negative votes, but I treasure the 57 smart people that understood what I was getting at, and “stand pat.” It is what is, I am what I am, get over it. May God bless the Republic and the Constitution, and protect us from the despicable creatures that have dishonored our flag, our morals, and the goodness of America the Gorgeous.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Paid $2.50 at my local library as a used book.Read and retired it to my trask can after cutting out some of Sarah’s photos.I like the photos of sarah because it help me picture her better when I am alone in my room or in the bath room .The writing is dull.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Brilliant book …
Sarah recounts her personal experiences in this book.
I encourage all who buy this fine book.
You will never regret ….
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
READING “BETWEEN THE LINES” SHE SEEMS TO ME TO BE A MEAN WOMAN DEEP DOWNS
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5