We Should All Be Proud of Our Transformations
One of the many disturbing aspects of the American government/political life is the scorn and embarrassment a politician has on a certain potentially embarrassing aspects of his or her life when they were younger popping back up in their political lives.
Now although those aspects will manifest further as today's teenagers and young adults place random or pivotal stuff about their lives on the open internet, the scares of early life have already plagued the previous generations initially (especially in the TV/VCR/tapedeck age who can't have their past erased from the public's minds).
The bay boomers are the first to have their past visually reappear to the rest of society, and most have certainly cringed at the thought of their former days used against them in a campaign.
That is why I further respect the already terrific Jennifer Granholm (at least as a person and not about her overall record as Michigan's governor before Snyder's disastrous current tenure) for the video that has emerged today of her time on "The Dating Show" back in 1978 when she was 19.
Now in that video, there wasn't anything really at all embarrassing about the already smart Granholm there in my mind. In fact, a lot of fun, quirky characteristics she had back then are prevalent with her today. Moreover, her ability to see crap (or BS) in a person was as keen as it was back then as it is now (see the smug San Antonio Guy #3 she definitely did not like thanks to his obnoxious and peculiar answers).
Yet rival campaigns over the years have tried to use her appearance on that famous game show to damage and ruin her political life, only to fail in humiliating fashion. Rather than shun her past, Granholm has embraced it because she embraces herself at all phases of her life, whether proud or embarrassed by it. And we all should be comfortable in that fact too instead of running away from it forever.
This commentary about this particular topic was spurred on by a great comment from a lady named Karen Dunman on how great a transformation Granholm has made from promising actress to one of America's most thoughtful public officials and political figures.
Then again, I really don't think Jennifer Granholm's life has partaken a full transformation. The core, great characteristics of what made her a late adolescent on "The Dating Show" have never changed from the proud working mom she is today.
Now although those aspects will manifest further as today's teenagers and young adults place random or pivotal stuff about their lives on the open internet, the scares of early life have already plagued the previous generations initially (especially in the TV/VCR/tapedeck age who can't have their past erased from the public's minds).
The bay boomers are the first to have their past visually reappear to the rest of society, and most have certainly cringed at the thought of their former days used against them in a campaign.
That is why I further respect the already terrific Jennifer Granholm (at least as a person and not about her overall record as Michigan's governor before Snyder's disastrous current tenure) for the video that has emerged today of her time on "The Dating Show" back in 1978 when she was 19.
Now in that video, there wasn't anything really at all embarrassing about the already smart Granholm there in my mind. In fact, a lot of fun, quirky characteristics she had back then are prevalent with her today. Moreover, her ability to see crap (or BS) in a person was as keen as it was back then as it is now (see the smug San Antonio Guy #3 she definitely did not like thanks to his obnoxious and peculiar answers).
Yet rival campaigns over the years have tried to use her appearance on that famous game show to damage and ruin her political life, only to fail in humiliating fashion. Rather than shun her past, Granholm has embraced it because she embraces herself at all phases of her life, whether proud or embarrassed by it. And we all should be comfortable in that fact too instead of running away from it forever.
This commentary about this particular topic was spurred on by a great comment from a lady named Karen Dunman on how great a transformation Granholm has made from promising actress to one of America's most thoughtful public officials and political figures.
Then again, I really don't think Jennifer Granholm's life has partaken a full transformation. The core, great characteristics of what made her a late adolescent on "The Dating Show" have never changed from the proud working mom she is today.
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