Sarah Palin stepped down from the office of Governor of Alaska today, and in an official public ceremony she transferred power to Sean Parnell. The event was held in the city of Fairbanks at Pioneer Park, where it is estimated that about 5,000 people attended (newsminer.com). I was able to attend the event as well since I live in the area. I am embedding the two-part YouTube video of her speech.
Much of this, of course, will not be relevant to you if you are not an Alaskan. However, near the end of the first part she spoke for 2nd Amendment rights. In the second part she gave blunt criticism of large government, and she encouraged us to resist enslavement to dependence on the federal government, to be self-sufficient in economic policy, and to develop our God-given resources. And it is this focus on personal responsibility, freedom, and independence which is probably the greatest contribution of the speech.
It will probably help if I provide one or two details of the scenery which are not visible in the videos. To the right and back of the platform is the huge riverboat Nenana (now a museum) on top of which is an Air Force band which played earlier in the ceremony. Her family is seated on the right side of the platform. The new governor, an Alaska supreme court justice, and others are seated on the platform. Her platform is surrounded on three sides by thousands of spectators. Most of them were providing the cheering audible in the recording, but there was a contingent of detractors to the left holding signs with messages along the lines of "Get lost, we are glad to see you go." (And thus Palin's glance in Part 2, around 7:15.)
Much of this, of course, will not be relevant to you if you are not an Alaskan. However, near the end of the first part she spoke for 2nd Amendment rights. In the second part she gave blunt criticism of large government, and she encouraged us to resist enslavement to dependence on the federal government, to be self-sufficient in economic policy, and to develop our God-given resources. And it is this focus on personal responsibility, freedom, and independence which is probably the greatest contribution of the speech.
It will probably help if I provide one or two details of the scenery which are not visible in the videos. To the right and back of the platform is the huge riverboat Nenana (now a museum) on top of which is an Air Force band which played earlier in the ceremony. Her family is seated on the right side of the platform. The new governor, an Alaska supreme court justice, and others are seated on the platform. Her platform is surrounded on three sides by thousands of spectators. Most of them were providing the cheering audible in the recording, but there was a contingent of detractors to the left holding signs with messages along the lines of "Get lost, we are glad to see you go." (And thus Palin's glance in Part 2, around 7:15.)
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