MSNBC: "Is Sarah Palin the next Barack Obama?" I shit you not. DAMNED liberal media!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Is Sarah Palin the next Barack Obama?
'History does not repeat itself,' said Mark Twain, 'but it does rhyme'

By Robert Schmuhl
updated 28 minutes ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39230166/ns/politics-politics_daily/

When Sarah Palin takes the stage in Des Moines on Friday night to keynote the Iowa Republican Party's Reagan Dinner, she'll send the clearest signal so far that she can see the White House from her home in Wasilla, Alaska.

With C-SPAN planning live coverage of her speech (at 7 p.m. Central time), the former governor has a chance to woo not only Hawkeye voters who will be involved in the first nominating caucuses for 2012, but also a national audience curious about an intriguing figure's future.

For someone who tries to follow and make sense of American political trends, the now-probable run by Palin provokes some questions: Have we seen this movie before? Will the upcoming presidential campaign look strangely like the last one? Not to be impertinent or impolitic, could Sarah Palin be the next Barack Obama?

"History does not repeat itself," Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, "but it does rhyme." Look closely and the rhyme scheme for Palin and Obama is stunningly similar — despite their continent-spanning differences on issues and ideology.

Both figures emerged quickly on the national scene and used their considerable charisma to become media-magnified political celebrities.

Both were tapped to deliver major speeches at national party conventions — Obama's keynote address to Democrats in 2004 and Palin's acceptance of the GOP's vice-presidential nomination in 2008 — and in each case Americans at large took notice of their rhetorical abilities and other qualities.

Both followed up their initial national exposure with well-publicized books to tell the public more about their lives and views. Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" came out in 2006, and Palin's "Going Rogue" was published last year.

[bushisanidiot]

1. I'm glad that nutcase is getting so much press. Keep her talking!!

Just because she has a fan-base that follows her around, it doesn't mean she will get any more than 15% of the electorate if she were to run for president. She is our biggest dream come true.

So I say, keep putting that idiot on t.v.!! Karl Rove HATES her, so it must be good for us!! :)

[marmar]

2. They are determined to force this woman on us....like New Coke or the McRib sandwich.

nt

[monmouth]

3. I don't take kindly to this insult toward our President...Please....n/t

[madokie]

I agree with you

Our President if a good man trying to get some relief for the majority of us while word salad sarah is only interested in herself and what someone whispers in her ear.

[lapfog_1]

4. The analogy falls apart, however...

one is actually smart and, uh, sane.

The other is stupid and insane.

[lillypaddle]

6. yes, BUT

they are both people, so therefore they are exactly the same!

[JBoy]

5. What a ridiculous "observation".

Only thing I can see that's in any way similar is that they both have 5 letters in their last name.

[sufrommich]

7. Now with 50% less brain cells. nt

[KharmaTrain]

8. Flash Vs. Substance...

FIrstly, whomever wrote this trope is intellectually dishonest or just plain lazy. President Obama has more experience and intellect in his pinky than Grifterella could ever dream of. She's a celebrity politician...a creation of the corporate media and rushpublican handlers who are attempting to legitimize this loser and to gloss over her many major defecits. Hell, here's someone who claims to have government experience and then quit when she actually had to do the job. Her "knowledge" of most issues have never been challenged in the bubble world she lives in and spews word salads of talking points that she doesn't even know what it means.

Even within the rushpublican party many have had their fill of Mooselini as she has rarely polled over 20%...even among the most rabid "conservative" groups. If the teabaggers get lucky and win a seat or two in November it only sets up a cage match between the baggers and the "establishment" going into 2012.

[Erose999]

9. With a "liberal media" like MSNBC, who need Fox News?. So sick of all the "puff pieces" on Palin and

the 'Baggers. That article doesn't tell us anything we don't already know, except that Palin is speaking at some dinner and her speech will be televised. No need to draw hamfisted parallels between Palin and Obama to get that info across.

[Arkana]

10. Yeah, except Obama didn't make himself into a national joke.

He became the President and Palin became a cheap celebrity.