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Watch her pres­ence closely. It’s all sur­face cute, this woman Sara Palin, who’s cur­rently cam­paign­ing for vice president.

Her pos­ture is that she’s right off Main St. Amer­ica. But the aver­age per­son walk­ing down Main St. dif­fers from her on two impor­tant ways. They have much less ambi­tion and much more humil­ity. The aver­age per­son, that per­son on Main St. Palin is play­ing to and who she says she rep­re­sents, is more aware of their cir­cum­stances and abil­i­ties. They may believe that given the right set of facts, they could apply more com­mon sense to make bet­ter deci­sions than your aver­age, co-opted politi­cian. But, they don’t want the prob­lems that come with that position…they want the peo­ple in that posi­tion to behave with dig­nity and good sense. And, with a sen­si­ble amount of dig­nity and self-awareness, they rec­og­nize that they don’t know what they would need to know to do the job.

Not Palin. She’s obdu­rate in her self-arrogance. She’s wink­ing, laugh­ing, going all folksy and down home. Like me. Rec­og­nize me. And, above all, do not ques­tion me.

It’s not what we need.