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As the 2008 Presidential Campaign continues on, I find it interesting that many people are adamant to have an outsider sitting in the Oval office next go-around, someone who has yet to be tained by Capitol Hill.
Governor Palin, the Republican Vice-presidential nominee is an outsider having spent little time outside Alaska. She has been governor for just over two years and was mayor of her hometown of Wasilla for six. Senator Obama (D) also claims to be an outsider though he has spent the last three years in the U.S. Senate.
While Republicans and Democrats claim that their respective “outsider” candidate will be able to reform and transform Washington because of their status, isn’t it true that either would become insiders upon their election?
Governor Palin and Senator Obama can only claim outsider status if they stay outside, but both want in. Both are willing to lose whatever outsider status they currently claim to have in order to be in the White House. That’s okay with me, but it seems that outsiders become insiders upon winning the vote.
