Land of Oz

Small Town Values

In her [Palin] convention speech, she quoted anonymously Westbrook Pegler, the long-gone Hearst newspaper columnist and scourge of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity."

Small town values may be OK for ice cream shops and drug stores, but do you really want that in a country's president? Like it or not, the president has to deal with kings and queens, dictators, war mongers and mentally unbalanced demigods and do all of this on a world stage.

Besides what is so great about small town people? I grew up in a small town (2300) that makes Wasilla (9700) look big. I'd have to say that our percentage of idiots was as high there as it is in any city. The only reason there's less idiots is that there's less people. A small town upbringing doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be a nice person. If anything, if you've lived in that small town most of your life, you're liable to have a pretty small view of the world. Let's see... would I rather have a person who spent most of their life in a small town in Alaska or one who's lived and experienced life internationally as the leader of the free world?

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