Image counts, especially when it comes to politics. When you talk about image, you also have to talk about dress, because the two are inseparable. President Barrack Obama knows that dress as an artifact does magic in shaping a person's good image. That is why you could see him in very expensive designer suits during the 2008 presidential elections.
Does Sarah have the same knowledge that image, and dress/cloth for that matter counts when it comes to politics? Absolutelly. That is why the GOP was accussed of spending millions of dollars on her clothings and hair, an allegation that she rubbished.
But why for goodness sake didn't Newsweek margazine publishers realize that Sarah Parlin values her image, and went a head to publish a cover page image that send a negative signal to Parlin's political career? See Parlin's Newsweek cover page image on; http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091117/pl_ynews/ynews_pl984
Newsweek used Parlin's image that portrayed her more as an athletee in relation to her political career. Parlin was quick to see the controversy and fired salvos at Newsweek by terming the incidence as "unfortunate and sexist. She claimed that the image leaned more on health and fitness than politics.
I understand Parlin's frustration, but not in entirety. I would suggest that instead of solely focusing on the negative aspect of the image, she should try to tilt her focus towards the positive aspects of the image. What if Newsweek argued that they wanted to portray her as athletic, competive, and tough for that matter, characteristics that are mostly associated with politics? As a matter of fact, the cover page image portrays her as health and fit, qualities that resonates well with politics because as we all know, no electorate will want to vote for unhealthy and unfit candidate.
Before Sarah Parlin makes a big deal out of her Newsweek cover page image, let her first of all visit Barrack Obama's The Washngtonian cover page image on; http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2009/11/nearly-flawless-masculinity-barack.html
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