I’ll be on CNN’s “American Morning,” bright and early around 7 a.m. tomorrow, discussing the launch of Sarah Palin’s not-a-presidential-campaign-but-boy-does-it-look-like-one tour.
From the road, Sarah Palin’s posting to a blog over at SarahPAC, and you tell me this post about visiting Mount Vernon on the Potomac River in Virginia isn’t almost a tease for those wondering if she’s running for president:
I’ve said before that George Washington is my favorite Founding Father because he was reluctant to serve, and yet he rose to the great challenges before him. I can certainly see why he dreaded leaving his home on the Potomac. His servant’s heart is an inspiration to us all.
When Piper laid the wreath at George Washington’s tomb this afternoon, I wished that every American school student could be here to see and feel the spirit of our nation’s first father. Even Piper was able to grasp the significance of being in the presence of our first President – who had such diverse interests – when she told me later “how hard he must have worked to keep that farm going!” And then she added, “And can you believe he was a commercial fisherman, from DC?!”
There’s so much to learn and absorb at Mt. Vernon. Washington was a very busy man who had a healthy reluctance to serve as President after having dedicated so many precious years in service to others while he lead the military. When he accepted the call to be our nation’s first chief executive, he served for the right reasons. Though he loved his home at Mt. Vernon so much, this self-taught, “non politician” was willing to sacrifice his passion for farming, fishing, trade and commerce in order to answer another call of to lead the new nation.
Gee, who else is a busy person, who’s recently been seen on national television working in the commercial fish industry, who has, at least from some appearances, a healthy reluctance to serve as president?






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