Palin is the best at a freaky craft.

We live in the age of entertainment. All it takes to reach the top is to be a good entertainer. That makes one relatively famous. To have name recognition. It's a way to achieve power. Politically. And economically. Doesn't matter if one is stupid. Without an original thought. In our American society, all that counts is to be entertaining. Be like Sarah Palin or George Bush. You automatically become endearing if you write an entertaining book and have your own 'reality' TV show. That's why I don't discount the Sarah Palin phenomenon. She's ridiculously absurd. But she's entertaining. She's a freak. But freaks are entertaining in their freakish ways. They stir the imagination. Imagine a freak in the White House. Even Obama is a freak, of sorts. Palin is still a different kind of freak. But she has a following because she's such an unusual freak. I'm a freak, too. In my own little environs. In a niche. I catch attention. Because I'm unusual. Unorthodox. Different. And that's entertaining, to a degree. But no one can match Sarah Palin. She has mastered the art of freakishness. Because she's a natural born freak. She has the instincts. And the entertaining schtick. That may well catapult her to the presidency of the USA. George Bush was a master of the craft. But Palin is even better at it. --Jim Broede