With the emergence of Sarah Palin, this is officially the year of personal narrative in national politics–no more Bush or Clinton dynasties, but a quartet of compelling biographies to let voters choose from a menu of American success stories.
Last week it was all about Obama’s mixed racial heritage with heartland grandparents and an idealistic single mom, paired with Joe Biden’s journey, on Amtrak, from hardscrabble Scranton childhood through personal tragedy to decades of public service.
This week John McCain’s transition from POW patriot to straight-talking politician will be paired with the rapid rise of Sarah Palin from hockey mom to crusader against corruption who detoured from the Bridge to Nowhere to Somewhere Indeed.
In our llogorrheic panels’ eye view of the conventions through cable TV squeezed down into an hour of network coverage of highlight orations, there is little tolerance for all those boring speeches about policy and issues.
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