Sarah Palin is the ultimate “American Idol” politician. Plucked from relative obscurity...
A mayor/city manager runs for Lt. Gov.and loses, then unseats a sitting governor of her own party. Not content with that, she takes on big oil and puts them in their place, resetting how much they have to pay Alaskans for their resources. She puts together a pipeline project (the largest in history) that has been talked about for decades but no one had been able to get passed. She gets it passed. She balances budgets and cuts spending. To this writer, that’s obscurity.
So the ruling class definition of obscurity is accomplishing great things but doing it outside of NY, DC,LA or SF.