Palin and Obama-- What Really is Wisdom?

by Victor Davis Hanson - September 22nd, 2008 - Real Clear Politics

I have been asked by many why I have such confidence in a rookie Alaskan governor, given the rigors of the campaign to follow. (Many Republican pundits apparently do not.) I think we are starting to see the answers to that question. The proverbial "they" hacked into her private email accounts. They swore that her daughter was the real mother of her Down Syndrome baby. They sent legions of reporters and lawyers to Alaska to dig up dirt. They wrote columns suggesting that she was stupid, uneducated, dishonest, a liar, and worse still. All this was the work of moralists, who, in their more extreme manifestations, tried to flood a Chicago radio station to disrupt guests, who doctored photos of McCain to subvert his portrait, who disgraced the Atlantic brand by trafficking in pregnancy rumors, and who now publish the private email of Palin.

And? She is still smiling and apparently unmoved.

Victor Davis Hanson has become one of my favorite writers because of his ability to make sense of complex issues and explain them with simple and specific logic. It is the magic of truly great thinkers who help us all to understand the world around us. When article after article is sound and logical, you reach a point of confidence about a man such as Victor Davis Hanson.

He reminds me of my favorite writer Thomas Sowell. Mr. Sowell has written for years and yet I can find no incident where he allowed emotion and prejudice to lead him into writing something that he later regretted. He uses simple and specific logic to explain the world. When I read something he has written, I usually find that if I agreed before, I can better explain my own position more definitively. When I disagree with Sowell on some issue, I have almost always gone back, found the error of my logic (sometimes embarrassingly so) and changed my mind.

It is writers like these two who help a representative Republic like ours work out the future. We do not all have time to reason out each and every issue. We need to find leaders and thinkers that we trust. We need analysts like Thomas Sowell and Victor Davis Hanson to help us in this process. What is interesting is that writers such as these rarely get published in the Main Stream Media (MSM). The New York Times and the Washington Post would not publish either except to shoot them down.

Hanson admires Governor Sarah Palin. He explains in this article why we all should admire her. On the same day that evidence surfaces of the petty little Democrat brat who stole Palin's family emails . . . and evidence of Obama's attack dog smearing Palin with video's that are complete frauds is released . . . Hanson explains the reason some of us admire her grit and determination. Last night I was talking with a feisty lady Republican over in Williamston about Governor Palin. During the conversation, we talked for a while about Dr. Ada Fisher, the grass roots candidate for National Committee Woman from North Carolina. Dr. Fisher happens to be black, but she was not elected because she is black. She was elected because for years she has helped other grass roots Republicans.

Dr. Fisher is not a fat-cat Republican. She is a popular down to earth hard working and practical friend of Republicans who just happens to be black and is now one of North Carolina's two National Committee members. Like Governor Sarah Palin I would trust Dr. Fisher to be President before I would trust many of the candidates like Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Biden or Barack Obama. Our state press ignores Dr. Fisher just like the National Press would love to ignore Governor Palin.

It really is about wisdom. The difference is that I see no one in the Democrat Party who exhibits wisdom any more. The Democrats ran out of their party a large intellectual contingent called neo-conservatives because they wanted to talk . . . just talk . . . about issues that Democrats insisted were politically incorrect to even discuss.

I have my own reasons for feeling Governor Sarah Palin is filled with more wisdom than Barack Obama. I trust her to be President much more than anyone who is a disciple of Saul Alinsky, an American hating communist. Obama admires people who hate America. Palin does not.

It is not totally that simple, but that explains the logic nearly as well as any more complex argument ever could. However a better explanation is contained in this article by Victor Davis Hanson. In the world of Presidential Politics, it is a must read.