Going Rogue CD: An American Life

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• Robert D. Steele says:

  November 20, 2009 at 00:02

  EDIT of 18 Nov 09. Book in hand. It’s a two-evening book. First half is her life up to getting “the call” from McCain, second half thereafter. Will do all my notes at the same time. The book I read and appreciated earlier, Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down was instrumental in her selection, along with the heroic work of a band of bloggers, covers most of this ground so the first half will be old hat to those who followed Palin before she became VP.

  I tried to help her, as did so many others, but when I volunteered at the McCain campaign headquarters I was told that the Vice-Presidential Operations section had been fully staffed (by Bushies) three months before she was selected, and I knew in that moment that McCain was being set up as a fall guy. Obama still has not accounted for $300 million of his nearly inexplicable $750 million campaign fund, and every decision he has made has been “Empire as Usual–Wall Street Ubber Alles.”

  Not having an index is very bad, the book loses one star for that, but I have found a partial index online and want to be sure buyers and prospective buyers of this book are aware it exists. Search for POLITICO A guide to who gets whacked.

  If McCain had purged his staff of the Bushies, let Palin be “First Mom” and herself, history might have been different. Still, seeing Obama-Biden as a continuation of Bush-Cheney (White House as theater and out of control) might yet be the best thing that could have happened, a necessary stimulus for the sleeping Republic.

  More later.

  See also:
  
  A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
  
  The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
  
  Society’s Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
  
  Conscious Evolution: Awakening Our Social Potential
  
  We the Purple: Faith, Politics, and the Independent Voter
  
  Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women’s Thinking to Psychological Thoery and Education
  
  Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World
  
  Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
  
  The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country
  Rating: 4 / 5
• Reynaldo Rodriguez says:

  November 20, 2009 at 00:47

  Excellent book …
  
  Sarah recounts her personal experiences in this book.
  
  I encourage all who purchase this fine book.
  
  You will never regret ….
  Rating: 5 / 5
• Gunner says:

  November 20, 2009 at 03:13

  It took Jimmy Carter to bring us Ronald Reagan. Now is it going to take Barack Obama to bring us Sarah Palin?

  Gingrich because he knows how to get things done in Washington, D.C.

  Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin (Hardcover – Nov 17, 2009)

  Going Rogue: An American Life
  
  by Sarah Palin
  
  Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257

  By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah” campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp’s decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor’s staff all bottled up. Meanwhile, the question of which news outlet would land the first interview was a big deal, as it always is with a major party candidate.

  From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News. The campaign’s general strategy involved coming out with a network anchor, someone they felt had treated John well on the trail thus far. My suggestion was that we be consistent with that strategy and start talking to outlets like FOX and the Wall Street Journal. I really didn’t have a say in which press I was going to talk to, but for some reason Nicolle seemed compelled to get me on the Katie bandwagon.

  “Katie really likes you,” she said to me one day. “she’s a working mom and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you. She just relates to you,” Nicolle said. “believe me, I know her very well. I’ve worked with her.” Nicolle had left her gig at CBS just a few months earlier to hook up with the McCain campaign. I had to trust her experience, as she had dealt with national politics more than I had. But something always struck me as peculiar about the way she recalled her days in the White House, when she was speaking on behalf of President George W. Bush. She didn’t have much to say that was positive about her former boss or the job in general. Whenever I wanted to give a shout-out to the White House’s homeland security efforts after 9/11, we were told we couldn’t do it. I didn’t know if that was Nicolle’s call.

  Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. “She just has such low self-esteem,” Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. “She just feels she can’t trust anybody.”

  I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain’s campaign how?

  Nicolle said. “She wants you to like her.”

  Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn’t going very well.

  “You know what? We’ll schedule a segment with her,” Nicolle said. “If it doesn’t go well, if there’s no chemistry, we won’t do any others.”

  Meanwhile, the media blackout continued. It got so bad that a couple of times I had a friend in Anchorage track down phone numbers for me, and then I snuck in calls to folks like Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and someone I thought was Larry Kudlow but turned out to be Neil Cavuto’s producer. I had a friend call Bill O’Reilly after I was inundated with supporters in Alaska asking why the campaign was “ignoring” his on-air requests for a McCain campaign interview. I had another friend scrambling to find Mark Levin’s number. Aboard the campaign plane I was within twenty-five feet of reporters for hours on end. Headquarters’ strategy was that I should not go to the back of the aircraft and talk to the press. At first this was subtle, but as the campaign wore on, Tracey or Tucker would call headquarters to request permission, and someone in DC would respond, “No! Absolutely not- block her if she tries to go back.”

  Going Rouge
  
  Sarah Palin
  
  (2009)

  It took Jimmy Carter to bring us Ronald Reagan, it might take us Barack H. Obama to bring us Gingrich/Palin, I sure hope that’s the ticket.

  Sarah Louise Palin ( née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician who served as Governor the state of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009 and was the Republican candidate for Vice President in 2008.
  
  Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska city council 1992 to 1996 and the city’s mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 2003 until her resignation in 2004. She was elected Governor of Alaska in November 2006. Palin became the first female governor of Alaska and the youngest person ever elected governor of that state.
  
  In 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Palin as his running mate in that year’s presidential election, making her the second female candidate and the first Alaskan candidate of either major party on a national ticket, as well as the first female vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party. Since the defeat of the Republican ticket in the 2008 election, there has been speculation that she may run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Palin resigned as Governor on July 26, 2009, saying that the ethics complaints being filed against her were hindering her ability to govern

  From her humble beginnings to her time in the spotlight as the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin has led an extraordinary life. Going Rogue recounts her political experiences, her time as Mayor of Wasilla and as the first female governor of Alaska, as well as her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign. Additionally, she shares insights into the personal challenges she’s faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war’s impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability and supporting her teenage daughter through an unplanned pregnancy.

  Palin has received much attention through the media, but never before has her complete story been told in her own words. The memoir is both a personal and political chronicle of her life.

  I highly recommend this book and Sarah Palin as the antidote to Barack H.Obama.

  Gunner November, 2009
  
  Rating: 5 / 5
• hdtravel says:

  November 20, 2009 at 04:46

  I do not recommend this book.

  Not well written and full of self gloating fantasy.

  Better skip this one. There are far better things to read out there.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• H. Rich says:

  November 20, 2009 at 05:41

  This book is brutally honest and refreshing coming from a politician. Sarah is the real deal!
  Rating: 5 / 5