We've had Ferraro (sp?), Hillary, now Palin. Three very different women with three very different upbringings, entrances into politics, family lives, side concerns, and I'll bet that none of them have the same college courses under their belts. If Rice decided to run at some future date, we'd have yet another set of background/beliefs/politics/side issues and college courses which won't match exactly any of the candidates named above.

It's the same thing as coming at a text. I've found that age alone might make a huge difference in the way I interpret a text compared to the other students in my classes. I suspect it's more age plus region of upbringing plus the fact that I have children that I've completely raised and have grandchildren plus the life experiences I've had with various types of people and events that give me what is definitely a minority opinion on text in both my King Arthur lit class and the creative writing class. Heck, I even like or don't notice things the other students think are significant either negatively or positively.