Palin vs Obama: a sharp contrast

  American Thinker has a great piece up about the future of the Democrat party. As we mentioned yesterday (and as the Party of Stupid hasn't noticed yet EITHER), the new DNC chair is a real piece of work. She spouts off nonsense without seeming to notice it's nonsense. 
  The charming Mr. Obama, whose personal charisma is his only primary qualification for office, is leading us merrily toward national ruin, without regard to little things called bottom lines and balance sheets.
  Unions are oblivious to the upper class they have created that the middle class must support in perpetuity through pensions and benefits. Unions continue to play class warfare to trick those middle class voters into maintaining the unsustainable.
  So here's a portion of the American Thinker piece entitled "Will Obama sink the Democrats :

The media are playing "divide and conquer" games against Republicans now, a strategy that worked in 2008 by leaving us with John McCain as the only candidate.  This time they are swinging between viciously attacking Sarah Palin and her family, and hyping real or imaginary divisions between Republicans -- never among the Democrats, who present the image of a united front with Stalinesque unity.  But you can bet there's a lot of vicious in-fighting among Obama, the Clintons, and all the rest, because Obama may be destroying the Democratic Party as we know it.

  Two video clips yesterday were particularly striking.
  One was of Sarah Palin, laughing about enjoying the smell of emissions, surrounded by grey haired hurly burly former soldiers trying to get her ear.
  The other was the Charming Mr. Obama, mugging for the camera, chin jutted out, eyes fixed on some unknown higher place. Oh, the speech was fancy, with high sounding words and lofty ideals; he was in the right place, in Joplin on Sunday, trying to hug people enough so that some sycophantic writer at the Christian Science Monitor could praise him for his cool detachment in the face of tragedy, just before he jetted outta there to play golf on Memorial Day.
  Oddly, the second video was staged, while the first, though it may also have been, had a certain warmth and camaraderie about it.
  The differences were sharp, the lines distinct.
  One is real; one is a fabrication. One is a warm blooded straight talker; one excels at obfuscation and cool detachment. 
  This CS Monitor article, which has to be read to be believed, describes The One this way:

A friend, a center-right voter, told me recently, “The reason I voted for Obama is because he has no hatred in him.”

  Well, I guess we know the truth about that. The whole rewarding friends and punishing enemies thing, which refers to US out here in the hinterlands. And Texas; there's Texas, where Obama wouldn't send FEMA or funding after weeks of fires but across whose lands Obama WOULD send aid to Mexico. 
  One of the reasons this writer describes Obama as a good leader is that he has "good taste."
  Palin, with a rough and tumble family, may or may not have "good taste."
  But she loves this country. Not too many would argue about that.
  The One? Loves this country?
  Well, maybe when he's in charge of it.
  Otherwise, maybe not.