{"id":367,"date":"2010-03-02T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=367"},"modified":"2010-03-02T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T13:38:12","slug":"south-from-alaska-sarahs-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2010\/03\/02\/south-from-alaska-sarahs-song\/","title":{"rendered":"South From Alaska (Sarah’s Song)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin…what thoughts does that name invoke?\u00a0 Obviously, that depends on your politics.\u00a0 But in a just world her name would invoke much more than an unthinking reaction based on her\u2014 and your \u2014 place on the political continuum.\u00a0 Politics aside, she should be respected for her quite remarkable accomplishments.\u00a0 Athlete (cross-country and Alaska state championship basketball team), beauty pageant winner, sports reporter (TV and print), city mayor, governor of Alaska (first woman and youngest at 42), candidate for vice president, best-selling author, television commentator, self-made millionaire.\u00a0 If you dismiss that record of accomplishment based on politics, it says much more about you than it does about her.<\/p>\n

With these thoughts rolling around in my head, my iPod shuffle offered up Johnny Horton’s North to Alaska<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 So here, with apologies to Johnny, is:<\/p>\n

South from Alaska<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah left Wasilla, with important work to do
\nThe first woman and the youngest, state governor at forty-two
\nShe traveled south to Juneau, to try things new and bold
\nShe fought for all Alaskans
\nAnd her years up there were gold<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah crossed Alaska’s mountains, to St. Paul she was bound
\nWith husband Todd and children, the newest face around
\nShe spoke about her family, and the need to set things right
\nThe hockey mom from Alaska, brought down the house that night<\/em><\/p>\n

CHORUS<\/span>
\nThe country is fallin’
\nThe people are callin’
\nSouth from Alaska
\nGo south to lead the charge
\nSouth from Alaska
\nGo south to lead the charge<\/em><\/p>\n

This country needs a leader, who loves this blessed land
\nWho with heart and soul believes it is, the last best hope of man
\nWho will stand proud and proclaim it, over land and air and seas
\nOur principles are simple, and those principles are these<\/em><\/p>\n

I am my brother’s keeper, you can leave that up to me
\nThose who seek to harm us, will soon the eagle see
\nThe wealth of this great nation, must be in the people’s hands
\nThere’s peace on earth before us, if one with God we’ll stand<\/em><\/p>\n

CHORUS (end)<\/p>\n

Well that’s my modest contribution to the Sarah Palin story.\u00a0 It is modest indeed, and there are a number of lines that are weak and just don’t click. Send me your markups (info@EncoreTechResources.com) and we’ll beef up the lyrics together (giving you credit of course), and Insights<\/em> will publish our much improved version of Sarah’s song.<\/p>\n

By the way, as pro-Palin as this posting sounds, I personally don’t think she should run.\u00a0 I see her role as\u00a0a conservative gadfly, prodding the next Republican administration to hew to its libertarian principles. \u2014 Dennis Owen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Palin…what thoughts does that name invoke?\u00a0 Obviously, that depends on your politics.\u00a0 But in a just world her name would invoke much more than an unthinking reaction based on her\u2014 and your \u2014 place on the political continuum.\u00a0 Politics aside, she should be respected for her quite remarkable accomplishments.\u00a0 Athlete (cross-country and Alaska state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}