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The reading list hasn’t appeared for a while - I am driving myself crazy with work.  It is so long that my last reading list post was PP, i.e. pre-Palin.  Yes everything has changed in just a few weeks which is THE joy of the American political system.  Call it crazy, disorganized, or even a blood sport, but the political system in America is a spectacle that is not repeated in any other country on earth.  But here are a few things I have read that seem to say something worth hearing.  In keeping with the spirit of the these days I have created an all Palin reading list.

Sarah Palin, the new Thatcher; the new Reagan.  Unbelievable.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/republicans/2683692/Sarah-Palin-is-the-new-Margaret-Thatcher-and-Ronald-Reagan.html

Sarah Palin is a real Christian, no doubt about that.  That doesn’t necessarily make her a great policy maker, legislator, or executive.  On the other hand the fact the she actually believes and actually prays has sent some people into orbit.  Here’s a quick observation on this issue.  http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp#8605

I am somewhat ashamed to say that I sometimes think “moral issues” can be separated from the political issues that surround them.  For example, if my homosexual neighbour can be married in the eyes of the state then I suppose he or she is married even if I know that from a Christian perspective there is no marriage.  Forgive me, but on occasion I have thought in the same pluralistic way about abortion.  What Trig Palin’s life has reminded us of is that abortion is a stain, a deep blood red stain, on the soul of our nation.  Take a read at this http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090902519.html and especially this http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/008/003evzfl.asp .  Trig Palin’s mom could make a real difference to this issue. 

I could go on and on (and on and on), about Sarah Palin.  This issue is a reading list mother lode!  But I wont.  My parting thought concerns how the world and, it turns out, the east and west costs don’t understand America.  In one sentence - the one about “they do our most difficult work, they grow our food ….” - Sarah Palin touched all those people in the open vastness of the United States that is the heart of a great country.  It is understandable to me that the average Joe here in London just doesn’t understand America.  What is incomprehensible to me is that the big city guys in the same country just do not get it.   They eat the steaks from the cattle those people in middle America raise.  Those folks vote too and many of them are Christians who are now praying (and voting) for Sarah Palin.