The Palin family are back. Brushing off the dust from 2008, Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol, came out of the Alaskan woods this week to publicise their perspectives.
Sarah Palin emerged to criticise Barack Obama’s latest defence policy. Obama has announced that the USA will not respond to an attack using nuclear weapons, in a bid to stop global production and tension, as advised by his Secretary of Defence. However, Palin is angered by this, stating, “This is unbelievable”, and that no previous government administration would ever consider such a policy. It appears that Sarah Palin wants the best weapons to aim at the enemy, especially neighbouring Russia, in order to prove who the dominant power is; however, Obama chooses to seek advice from the professionals, who believe nuclear weapons are not the answer.
Tina Fey could not resist the temptation of Palin’s recent outcry, and created a skit as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live for the first time in nearly two years. Fey, as Palin, introduced the new ‘Sarah Palin Network’ which includes the exciting shows ‘Are You Smarter than a Half-Term Governor?’, ‘Tea Party Wheel of Fortune’ (with such topics as ‘Obama is a terrorist’), ‘Hey Journalist, I Gotcha!’ (‘‘Where I re-edit my interviews with journalists to make it look like they were the ones unprepared’’) and ‘Man in a Helicopter with a Sniper Rifle vs. Wild’.
Finally, Bristol Palin, 19, has joined forces with The Candie’s Foundation to create a Public Service Announcement, campaigning against Teen Pregnancy. The PSA shows a well-dressed Bristol holding her son, Tripp, and stating, “Pause, before you play”. Many have been quick to praise Bristol, stating that she is attempting to address a serious situation; however, others show the irony. Bristol is already a mother, with a high-income family, and so others are translating her message as ‘its ok for me to get pregnant, because I can afford to, but you can’t”. Exciting things await the avid Republican American.