First Rate All The Way - Family Book Critique

By David Brown


You must finish high school. You must marry before, not after you have a child.

She believes the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are defining documents. The Constitution is the wall that separates freedom from tyranny.

I highly doubt she has done the reading that she claims she has. I could tolerate maybe 10 minutes of reading this book and then I had to put it down. Well I believe my title says it all. But I haven't been a big fan of hers I figured what the heck I'll give her a chance. Still, you need to read this book to learn why fans like me are so earnest! Palin relies heavily on quotations to make her points, featuring quotes from the founding fathers to contemporary pop culture personalities. This book wasn't about Sarah Palin. This book was about me (except for being the parent of a special needs child). The book seems to be another whine-fest. She can't even get out of the introduction without casting negative aspersions on her grandson's father.

Rarely do we get a reasoned, candid and evocative narrative from the American heartland. Sarah Palin outdoes herself from "Going Rogue" and helps dispel many of the major myths distorting our basic family values. In reading this book, I saw myself. When I was growing up there were so many criticisms of our country, so many things that certain people zeroed in as "proof" that America was not really that great a country. The liberals drink red wine and laugh at your stupidity; the Republicans eat meat and drink beer and sympathize with your ideals. The liberals want to extend handouts to favored friends, leaving you with the bill; the Republicans want to kick out special interest groups and let you control your own income. For her, parroting patriotic slogans, attacking her opponents and promoting failed policies from the past is what passes for political discourse. It's astonishing that so many Americans take her seriously. Unless one is within walking distance of bankruptcy-bound Borders Books, which display heaps and heaps of copies of "America By Heart." Some stores are GIVING them away, and numerous shoppers decline to take them. In one chapter she rants about self-centeredness in people yet she is always talking about pro-American. When's the last time you heard commentary in other countries about pro-Canadians, pro-French, or pro-Japanese?

She is respectful about those that oppose her views, but adamant about fighting for the values and policies that she believes in. There is no co-author, so one has to assume that she is the author.

This must be the stupidest, most copied, least original book that I have ever read. Waste of money and time.




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