Another Palin Post

I am getting absolutely sick to death of the Pro-Palin crowd talking about how "real" she is. How she is "one of us" and is "just like me". Lets brush past the staggering narcissism apparent in that statement, and the full body hugging of anti-intellectualism of this crowd. The Governor herself even joined in on this chorus. She once was quoted as calling herself an "everyday working class american", and saying this in an interview with Sean Hannity and Fixed News.

HANNITY: Let me ask you this, Senator Obama had talked about people in Pennsylvania while he was in San Francisco as being bitter Americans clinging to guns and clinging to religion.Do you think that was a put-down of middle class people in the country?
PALIN: Well, you know, I'm one of those people, so -- I think that we just have great respect for a candidate who would not speak about us middle class Americans in one part of the country and then turn around and say something different about middle class America in another part of the country.

This all sounds mighty melodramatic, and it is. But it's also something else.

Its complete fucking fiction.

At last estimate, before she was picked to be the vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin had an estimated net worth of more than a million dollars. Now, quite a lot of you are saying "well, you know, a million dollars isn't what it used to be". Yes, congratulations for having a grasp of middle school economics. A million dollars does not make you filthy rich, but its sure more than I have. Statistically, its likely more than you have too. In fact, according to some recent CBO estimates, its more than 95% of Americans. Sarah Palin's family has to their name an enormous waterfront house with a Sweet Home Alabama style seaplane dock out front. She also owns the seaplane to go with it, two boats, two Sea-Doos, and multiple Snowmobiles. And that house is worth three times more than any other house in her hometown of Wasilla, AK.

Mind you, these are all assets. Sarah's income as governor is well into six figures, and her husbands income as a commercial fisherman and their capital gains mean that they make a combined income of $250,000 a year, an income which puts them into the top 2% of wage earners in this country.

Mind you, this was all before August. Sarah Palin is now reportedly looking around for an eleven million dollar book deal, and will likely do a speaking tour at roughly a hundred grand a pop.

I don't mind people with money. I really don't. What I do mind is people with money trying to pretend they don't have it.