Sarah Palin

Born Sarah Louise Heath on February 11, 1964, in Sandpoint, Idaho, her parents moved to Skagwag, Alaska when she was only three months old. Her father was a science teacher and her mother was a school secretary.

Sarah graduated from Wasilla High School in 1982. In 1984 she was crowned Miss Wasilla and was runner-up for Miss Alaska. In 1987 she graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism.

In 1988 she eloped to marry her childhood sweetheart, Todd Palin.

She won a seat on the Wasilla City Council in 1992. She became mayor of Wasilla four years later. As mayor she learned firsthand about Congressional earmarks. Taxpayers for Common Sense identified $26.9 million in earmarks for Wasilla, including $15 million for a commuter rail project for the town of 4,028 people (1990 Census). Now, the commuter rail project was not just for Wasilla. It was a regional project that she simply signed onto. The benefit for Wasilla was to move the train tracks out of downtown Wasilla.

2002 found Sarah running for Lt. Governor. She lost. The next year she was appointed to the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a position she resigned a year later. She was elected Alaska’s governor in 2006, a position she resigned in 2009. (continued below)

I disagree with her on too many issues to ever vote for her, but I do admire how she has risen from obscurity to becoming a millionaire. She knew how to open the door when opportunity knocked. Far too many people fail to do that and, of course, there are an awful lot of people living in America who never get that knock.

While I believe the decisions we have available to us today are limited by decisions we made in the past, not everyone had the opportunity to make those same decisions. I cannot be a heart surgeon today because I made a decision long ago to pursue a different profession. I grew up in the South during the time of segregated schools. The educational opportunities were not equal. I saw a large number of young people drafted shortly after graduating from high school, sent off to Vietnam, and return a shell of their former selves.

They could not afford to go to college and get a student deferment. Financial opportunities were not equal. Housing opportunities were not equal. The opportunity that knocked on someone else’s door was, perhaps, of much lower quality than opportunities that knocked on the doors of others.

America had an opportunity and, I hope, still does to provide more equality in health care for American citizens. Yet there are those pounding the pulpits, the lecturns and the drums saying they don’t want all American citizens to have that same opportunity. THAT I do not understand.

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