Not Like Me

Sarah Palin, describing herself on a radio talk show this morning.

Todd and I, heck, we’re going through that right now even as we speak, which may put me again kind of on the outs of those Washington elite who don’t like the idea of just an everyday working class American running for such an office.

Well, the Washington Post dug up some facts. You remember those pesky little things? Here's our everyday, working class American:

Their combined income of nearly a quarter-million dollars last year was five times the median household income for Wasilla's 7,000 residents. They own a single-engine plane, two boats, two personal watercraft and a half-million-dollar, custom-built home on a lake that is worth three times the average of other homes in town. For the future, they also have a 401(k) retirement account compliments of Todd Palin's years as an engineer with oil giant BP.

If I'm going to be one of those people whose only criteria is "someone like me" in the oval office, she sure isn't the one. She's not like most of the people I know.

They might make more progress if they quit lying and treated the American people as if they had some sense. Who knows, we might live up to those expectations.