Rosanne Cash: Why I'd Be a Better VP than Sarah Palin

[marmar]

from The Nation:



Why I'd Be a Better VP than Sarah Palin
(Or, The Bridge to New Zealand)
By Rosanne Cash

October 10, 2008




I'd like to formally submit myself to replace Sarah Palin on the GOP ticket. I feel confident that John McCain will see that the very attributes he desired in his VP choice can be met, and even exceeded in some areas, by me. For your consideration, my big, fat résumé:


1. Focus on the Family

I am the mother of five children, just like Governor Palin. I have known the demands of managing a full-time career and motherhood at the same time. I have juggled a breast pump and a BlackBerry, and I know when to put the BlackBerry down. (To be perfectly honest, I did once send a text to the baby and tried to nurse my bass player. You learn from your mistakes.)

2. Reproductive Issues

I also believe that a teenager's pregnancy is a "private family matter." In fact, I believe that every woman's pregnancy is a "private, family matter." (I bet the GOP never thought of making that leap!)

3. Church and State

Like the Governor, I now also believe that my will is perfectly aligned with God's will. When Governor Palin said that it was God's will for the Alaska pipeline to be built and asked for people to pray for that to happen, I was really inspired by her confidence in the absolute, seamless integration of her will and God's will. I have begun practicing this kind of supreme confidence on a smaller scale, but I am sure that I can quickly move to national issues. Starting with the sartorial, I know that it is God's will that I have the entire Chanel collection for the fall season, including those adorable high-heeled booties that were all over the runway shows.

(A couple things I'm still having trouble with regarding the will of God: I knew it was God's will that I win the Grammy in 2007 for my last record, but Bob Dylan won. This is clearly the work of Satan, but shouldn't my will/God's will have been strong enough to override that? And this Alaska pipeline--if it is God's will to have the pipeline built, then why isn't it built already? On a related topic, I don't own a single piece of Chanel.)

4. Environment

Along with Governor Palin, I don't believe that humans cause climate change.

(Okay, that is a bold-faced lie, but I've been paying really close attention to the campaign stump speeches, and I feel certain I am allowed a generous allotment of bold-faced lies.) .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081027/cash

[dbt]

1. And the planes used by the state airline

Have her dad's picture on the tails--how much more can I LOVE this woman!

:loveya:

[jules1962]

2. Yeah Roseanne

This is funny. I never knew she had such a great sense of humor.

[Toucano]

3. She's a gifted writer.

Her "Black Cadillac" album is a masterpiece.

From "Like Fugitives"

Once we all were daughters
Now we'll never hear thy name
I never think I could have learned
I just turned into the game
Don't send me no more letters
With your ignorance and rage
I don't want your tired religion
Not a soul you need to save

It's a strange new world we live in
Where the church sends you to hell
And the lawyers get the money
For the lives they divide and sell
And the only truth believed in
Is the one upon the screen
So we live our lives like fugitives
And we were born to live like queens

[Ishoutandscream2]

10. No kidding. That article was so beautifully written

Intelligent, thoughtful, and very funny. What a talented woman.

[dbt]

14. You are DEAD ON about "Black Cadillac!"

That is the single saddest thing I've heard since I left Ireland. She even managed to love the Johnny Cash who set fires in the family home. This album is the most elegant pain that I've ever come across:

It was a black Cadillac drove you away
Everybody's talkin'
But they don't have much to say
There was a black sky of rain
None of it fell
One of us gets to go to heaven
One has to stay here in hell

It was a black Cadillac
Like one you used to drive
Now you were always rollin'
But those wheels burned up your life
Oh, it's a black heart of pain that I'm wearin'
Suits me just fine
Oh, there was nothin' I could do for you
When you were still alive

At the end of this piece, she brings in the trumpets from "Ring Of Fire." Utter devastation of the heart. May the Houses of Cash stand forever!

[Toucano]

15. So true. If you haven't heard her "Interiors", you should.

As "Black Cadillac" chronicles the loss of her parents, "Interiors" chronicled the death of her marriage.

Cheers!

[Toucano]

4. I can't resist including this bit.

From the OP linked piece:

"Entertainment law is a blood sport, people. (Speaking of blood sports, I have to give it up to the Governor on the hunting issue. I have never shot a wolf from a helicopter, but I have thrown my cat off the bed. Hundreds of times.)"

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. Love Roseanne Cash. I'd vote for her! nt

[Divernan]

7. I love her too. She did a great benefit performance for a children's shelter in Pittsburgh.

[bemildred]

6. And, she can sing ... nt

[Bushfire]

8. She's charming & talented

Having had the pleasure to meet her a couple years ago, she's down to earth while talented beyond words. She even did a John Lennon song in protest to the war that night in concert.

[mzmolly]

9. K and R. I've alway liked Rosanne.

:toast: to a great article.

[brettdale]

11. Cool

Hope she does a concert here.

[tilsammans]

12. Terrific writing!

Thanks for posting!

:kick:

[donheld]

13. Wonderful

Great Post