The 'perfect' Vice Presidential candidate
Sarah Palin, the American Republican Vice Presidential candidate, is a show-stealer. I caught snatches (over Internet video clips) of her superb performance at the Republic National Convention last night. Since everyone is anyway going ga-ga over the 'well-delivered' speech, I will admit I felt like tipping my hat to her as I watched the clips. She sure knows how to draw in the various vote banks she was playing to, and that too with emotion. I thought she had it down pat - the right tones, the stresses, the pauses, the cadences, the proud-to-be-American-at-war thing, the hockey mom thing..perfect.
But here is something I had been mulling over the last couple of days (and I can see its a hotly debated issue out there). Five children, one four-month-old infant with Downs Syndrome, a 17-year old unwed, pregnant daughter and a full-time job as the Vice President of the USA... wow, I sure think even the 'lipsticked pit bull', as she refers to herself, is gonna need loads of energy and more than 24 hours in a day to handle all that!
I am going to be watching with interest how she performs during the rest of the campaign - without speech-writers and teleprompters and slickly managed conventions.
I like American election years. They are a year-long, exciting, pure-politiking, sometimes-rabble-rousing, roller-coaster ride, complete with glitz and hi-jinks. Since I started following them during my college years and after, I have always watched, with interest and admiration, the American political process roll out. Of late, I feel, their primaries and conventions and national debates have become such carefully choreographed events, its almost a vicarious pleasure to watch, as if one is watching a glamorous reality show.
But here is something I had been mulling over the last couple of days (and I can see its a hotly debated issue out there). Five children, one four-month-old infant with Downs Syndrome, a 17-year old unwed, pregnant daughter and a full-time job as the Vice President of the USA... wow, I sure think even the 'lipsticked pit bull', as she refers to herself, is gonna need loads of energy and more than 24 hours in a day to handle all that!
I am going to be watching with interest how she performs during the rest of the campaign - without speech-writers and teleprompters and slickly managed conventions.
I like American election years. They are a year-long, exciting, pure-politiking, sometimes-rabble-rousing, roller-coaster ride, complete with glitz and hi-jinks. Since I started following them during my college years and after, I have always watched, with interest and admiration, the American political process roll out. Of late, I feel, their primaries and conventions and national debates have become such carefully choreographed events, its almost a vicarious pleasure to watch, as if one is watching a glamorous reality show.
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