government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I think David Brooks sums up Sarah Palin quite well:

"Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness. "

I think she should stay in Alaska, she's very pro-Alaska, almost to a fault. She's the have a beer with you while eating your mooseburger type person, which is why she should not be the next VP or President. We have a beer drinking friend in the white house and you see where that got us.

I used Abraham Lincoln's words in the title to tie in with the notion of the people's president, a president who is like us and works for us. Bush, well he isn't like most but he's like a lot of us, and he's a terrible president. I believe Palin to be very similar in that regard, she's like a lot of "us," working mom, soccer hockey mom, wife, etc, but like Mr. Brooks said "she has not been engaged in national issues." Everything was about what the position can do for Alaska, not what she can do for the country. I guess living in Alaska is like living in your own country....wait wasn't she or her husband a member of that Alaskan Independent Party which believes in secession from the US????

Waaaaait a minute!

Thats my opinion, and I'm sticking to it!