WW7:

I think i can demonstrate good character and sense through the Sarah Palin debate because I have been analyzing both sides of her appeal. I have tried to make myself not focus on the paparazzi side of Palin and instead on her political appeal. Also, my personal experience of being an Alaskan and meeting Palin (though it was just a hand shake) will contribute to my good character and sense in writing about this topic. I will be able to use my reason and voice to really demonstrate both sides of the issue.


In "The Sarah Palin Blog" found online, there is a post dated 2/21/2010 and is entitled "Sarah Palin and Intelligence. The blog runs down the line of what America finds is intelligence in a President and how there has been a "class war" in this country where the middle and lower class believe all republicans are dumb and all democrats are intelligent. The blog then goes into just why Sarah Palin is labeled as not intelligent due to her remarks and views and why America finds Obama very intelligent.

The replies to this post are angry. Out of the 30 comments left, 2 of them made jokes about the post and that the author "nailed America on the head." The other 28 simply negated the post by saying that Obama is on a "ego trip" and not intelligent at all based on his speeches and lack of support from his own party. Some others claim Palin is the most intelligent woman in the world and just taking her haters for a ride. The post ends and many comments agreed that "intelligence is the most over-rated word in use today."

All the comments do not go along with the stasis theory because none really get to the heart of any debate that the post was attempting to make. All the posts are filled with emotion and this is mostly anger. There was at once a back and forth between two people arguing and reasoning about the word "intelligence" and how a President should or should not be as intelligent as an everyday person. However, all comments expressed a good amount of voice in their responses. It seemed that not everyone who followed the Sarah Palin Blog were supporters of her, but wanted to express their concern for the possible future 2012 President hopeful.

In the end, did these comments have good sense and character? No, not really. The more you scroll down, the more they became angry words. Only a few would relate the topic of intelligence and presidency back to Lincoln and how he did not attend high school or other examples of less educated leaders of the world. The comments were intended to make both sides of Palin angry. There were haters and there were lovers of Palin and it became a almost like a fist fight between the two.