Courtesy of the
AP:
Brewer focused heavily on her fight against Washington on the immigration issue, and the book hardly touched on her 2010 successful election campaign. It made no mention of an embarrassing pause during a televised debate that drew national attention.
Brewer blames Obama and his administration for fanning controversy surrounding the immigration law, which grew to include ongoing court challenges, mass protests and boycotts of Arizona.
The Republican governor said Obama, labor unions and other critics of the bill were serving their own agendas by mischaracterizing its provisions while trying to deflect attention from weaknesses in border security.
Okay clearly it is NOT a cookbook, though I have to admit I found the title bizarre and a little nauseating.
I was going to ask why in the world somebody writing a book would sabotage its potential sales by having Palin's name on the cover (I mean didn't she pay attention to how poorly Bristol's book sold?), but then after reading the description of what was inside, I realized that no other nationally recognized politician, or ex-politician, would have allowed their name anywhere near this ridiculous anti-Obama screed.
And boy does Palin's ghostwriter deliver! Just check out this riveting prose:
Her strong conservative values are matched by a driving optimism that seems to know no end. Above all else, Jan Brewer is an authentic leader. She talks straight and does what she believes is right for the people she serves--even when it's the hard thing to do.
Wow, the words simply leap from the page and stabs your brain cells to death one at a time with a pointy stick. Still as bad as it is, I feel it is still too well constructed to have been written by Palin.
Piper perhaps?
Let's face it there can only be the tiniest sliver of potential book buyers waiting to read Brewer's book. And anybody who demonstrates such a complete lack of intelligence and good taste will probably not be too put off by Palin's sad little foreward.
These books are written for an audience made up of barely literate paint chip eaters, who like to look at pretty pictures, and to fondle books filled with anti-Obama, anti-liberal, and anti-intellectual smears. (They cannot actually read the words, but when they lick the cover they can taste the hate.)
Now that both Sarah and Bristol have apparently abandoned their plans to move to Arizona, and John McCain refuses to return any of Palin's voice messages, it seems that Governor Brewer is Palin's last remaining tie to the state. Which kind of makes me wonder exactly WHAT was it that convinced the Grizzled Mama that Arizona would be a far less hospitable environment then even Wasilla, where she is much reviled by the local populace?
Oh yeah, that's right.
By the way Giffords husband has also
written a book, one that I would like to imagine would burn the flesh from her hands if Sarah Palin were to pick it up, and one that I believe is well worth the purchase price. Here is a small sampling of what is inside:
In the book, Kelly recalls trying to tell his wife several times what had happened that Jan. 8 morning, when Giffords was shot in the head while meeting constituents. But she didn't fully understand until March 12.
Kelly asked Giffords if she remembered being shot, and she replied that she did. When he asked what she remembered about it, she said three words: "Shot. Shocked. Scary."
Later that same day, Kelly was reading to her from a New York Times article about her recovery and skipped over a paragraph that said six others were killed. Giffords, following along, knew he left something out and pushed him to tell her what it was.
Kelly writes that after she learned of the deaths, Giffords was overcome with emotion and had trouble getting through her therapy. That night as they lay in bed, she told Kelly that she felt awful about all the people who were killed. He held her as she cried.
Six months later, after being released from the Houston hospital to Kelly's home 25 miles away, Giffords wanted to know who had been killed that day. He warned her that it would be tough on her because she knew two of the victims.
He started by telling her that her staff member Gabe Zimmerman died, which caused her to moan and cry in a wave of emotion. Then he told her about her friend, federal Judge John Roll, and the four other people she didn't know.
Finally, he told her that Christina Taylor-Green, a 9-year-old girl born on Sept. 11, 2001, was among the dead.
After she got the news, Kelly writes that he held her as she processed the information and wept.
It is good that Sarah Palin's influence is so rapidly fading away, and that only a handful of angry people, like Jan Brewer, still want anything to do with her. Hopefully in the very near future she will be only an ugly memory we all share, but never speak of, and we can all move forward to a better, happier day in America.
Perhaps Gabby Giffords will serve as the example of the forward movement for our country. So that we can follow her lead, and hopefully do as she states in the book she is planning to do:
"I will get stronger. I will return," she vows
And so will we Gabby, so will we.
