…that a virtual unknown, small-town, attractive woman is so well received as the potential next Vice President of our country while someone with the political background and experience had to fight tooth and nail to narrowly lose the nomination on the Democratic ticket?  It’s not ironic to me. It’s society.

I rarely address political views, my own personal or otherwise in this medium but I can’t help but feel a little sorry for Hilary Clinton, and for the record I wasn’t one of her supporters.  Many people, myself included, feel as though she rode Bill’s coat-tails to reach the political place she has, and maybe to a degree she did.  But  facts are facts, and Hilary Clinton is vastly more qualified to manage this country than Sarah Palin is, she’s just not as pretty.

I won’t bother with listing either woman’s qualifications (or lack therof) here but  one tidbit sticks out in my mind, while Clinton was attending Wellesley College several of her classmates “thought she would be the first female President”—th at was 1969. Sarah Palin was voted “Miss Congeniality” and came in second in the Miss Alaska contest—pretty and a good personality, some girls have it all.

I don’t dislike Sarah Palin, that is not the point I’m trying to convey, I just feel like it’s very hard for us to teach our daughters and grand-daughters that you can be anything you want to be as long as you try hard enough.  It’s clear that adage isn’t entirely true. Sadly, our society still puts more stock in ‘face’ value than they do hard work, determination and experience.