WW2: Palin Opinion

In this weeks Seattle Spectator, Fernando Sioson wrote an opinion article on former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. His views represent Palin’s recent accomplishments as an author and her vice presidential campaign run. Sioson also points out Palin’s criticisms, such as her resignation as Alaskan governor and her latest job as a correspondent on Fox News. His writing looks primarily at who still supports Palin in her new political adventures. This includes her fans on Facebook, her colleagues, and also her family.
I see a lot of truth in Sioson’s opinion article. He compares Palin’s journey through politics as a three-ring circus. I can see exactly where he is coming from when he writes that Palin should lay under the radar and rebuild her credibility and not be on the same level as Jay Leno and do late night comedy. I agree fully that Palin has become a worldwide joke and she is just putting a bad label on the entire Republican Party. She has resulted in childish antics of criticizing others politics when her experience in politics has been very short.
I look at Sioson and his argument as just an attack. There are a lot of emphases on the now and what Palin is currently doing. What about the past? Palin did get Alaskans an extra thousand dollars from oil revenue. Also, Palin opened up doors for women in politics for being the closest women to the Vice President position. Also, he does not look at if the future will be better than Palin’s past. Her position on Fox News could re-establish her as a prominent political figure. The truth of the matter is, Sioson’s personal attack on Palin only warrants the now and what she is currently doing. She was nominated for Vice President for a reason.
Fernando Sioson wrote this article in a very left sided liberal stance. He clearly was on the anti-Palin bandwagon since day one. He is probably not one of Palins 1.1 million Facebook followers, as he emphasizes in his article. He brings a fair amount of knowledge that the rest of the world is already in the know about. I do believe that Sioson wrote this more as a comical attack than knowledge based political opinion. I wish he could go into what Palin can do to get her out of being the butt of the countries joke. However, I find that as a student, he needed to demonstrate his writing skills and left sided comical approach to political attack.

Link to article:
http://www.su-spectator.com/opinion/sarah-palin-going-rogue-on-fox-news-1.1010704