Awkwardly incompetent authority is one theme in comedy that bonds us all in laughter. It makes The Office a successful sitcom and Sarah Palin an unsuccessful VP candidate. In her latest episode, Palin talks of "real" and "fake" America. Is anyone willing to tell me New York is any less "American" than Wasilla (or vice versa)? Whoever is holds a very narrow, exclusive, divisive and retrograde understanding of America. The fact is there are multiple and differentiated experiences of "America," not just one. Here's a plot twist: how about a candidate that understands the value of all areas of the country? Hmm, I think Colin Powell said it best:
"The approach of the Republican Party and Mr. McCain has become narrower and narrower. Mr. Obama at the same time has given us some more broader inclusive reach into the needs and aspirations of our people. He's crossing lines--ethnic lines, racial lines, generational lines. He's thinking about all villages have values, all towns have values, not just small towns have values. And I've also been disappointed frankly by some of the approaches that Senator McCain has taken recently, or his campaign has, on issues that are not central to the problems that the American people are worried about."
But what would Powell or I know? We're from the fake America.
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