Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee last year, originally set to serve through the end of 2010  said on Friday that she would be “passing the ball” to the  Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell on July 26.

In her speech on Friday, Palin rambled, as usual, over countless topics that shared no real relation to one another. The speech held too many topics to count such as: foreign relations, debt, basketball, family and continuing her fight outside of the office.

A article in the New York Times said her speech was rocky and ill planned to say the least. She had very little structure if any and seemed unsure of the topic at hand.  Palin sounded like a candidate with continued national aspirations, as when she suggested she could “fight for all our children’s future from outside the governor’s office.” 

Honestly, Sarah Palin scares me. Not because she’s smart (obviously) and not because she seems to have won the hearts of so many Republicans, but because our country could actually back a person who can barely deliver a speech that touches any of her original topics. She knows almost nothing about the country and its affairs. 

Why does our country keep forgetting that a pretty smile and a flash of religious conformity is not what makes  a good president? Lets all pray to our gods that Sarah Palin doesn’t run for the presidency and if she does, she fails.

Mays is the 4th ‘celebrity’  in the past week to die. Ed Mcmahon died last Monday and Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died on Thursday leaving people to wonder if death comes in threes should we be prepared for two more deaths?

While the previous three deaths were understandably devastating to society, Billy Mays, is a sales person. Yes he did die, that is sad, but he wasn’t a pop culture icon by any means. 

Society has placed way to much power in the famous. Whether they are actors, singers, designers or even salesmen we cry when they cry, we scream when they scream and when they die we feel as if they were part of our lives. Yes, in some small way ‘celebrities’ are part of our lives but they are no different from every other person in the country. 

Over the last 10 years the word celebrity has been tossed around in the direction of anyone who receives any kind of nation attention for anything. In my opinion a celebrity should be an artist, of any kind, that through talent and determination has earned respect from society. When and why did that all change?

My question is, when does your love of the famous turn into obsession and how can we as American’s become a less vain, materialistic, celebrity worshipping society?

My question is how long before passion becomes anger? How long before peace becomes violent? Recently The Coalition to Save Our Schools banned together in an effort to ‘peacefully’ protest the budget cuts.  If those protests had continued would they too have eventually turned violent. Will standing up for what you believe in almost always turn into fighting for what you believe in? 

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