At first she was an unknown. More recently she was funny while revealing to us her staggering lack of qualifications to hold any high office while still coming off to some as cute.
She is no longer funny or cute. As she is showing us this week on her "Hate 08'" tour, this bitch is fucking dangerous. “Hey we are losing the election, let’s start a race war! That should shift the focus from the economy!” Essentially calling Obama a terrorist that hates America, the McCain campaign is now stirring up the fear and hate festering in the belly of the neo-racist youtube underground.
From the Washington Post:
Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
How dare the media make a white woman look stupid by asking her questions.
And reporting from another event:
"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.
"Boooo!" said the crowd.
"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.
"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
Palin went on to say that "Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's living room, and they've worked together on various projects in Chicago." Here, Palin began to connect the dots. "These are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes -- remember that's what Joe Biden had said. "And" -- she paused and sighed -- "I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."
"Boooo!" said the audience.
Greg Sargent wrote this morning that the race has come to resemble quicksand: the more McCain and Palin thrash around, the quicker they sink. He might be right, but they are firing automatic weapons into the crowd on the way down.
26 comments:
Give her the benefit of the doubt; maybe she was referring to these two items...http://mpinkeyes.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/barack-obamas-campaign-headquarters-displays-a-communist-flag/
So Obama wasn't tied pretty deep to a known terrorist? Even CNN says the ties go farther than Obama is claiming.
Would it be racist too if McCain started his political career in the home of someone who bombed the capitol and the pentagon?
Jeez dude, come to the ghetto someday, or have you kids grow up in the same neighborhoods I did and maybe you'll be able to fully understand what true racism is.
It is not a tool to be used when someone has a political disagreement.
I grew up in the husk of inner city Racine. A close friend of mine was beaten into a coma walking home from Horlick High School after dark. I was jumped myself and beaten by a gang in Racine across the street from school because I had a Mohawk and wore boots (which made me an alleged nazi apparently). In the same week this took place, I had my life threatened by a skinhead group from Milwaukee because I was in a punk band of “baldies” and my girlfriend was Mexican and lived on MLK Blvd. We had skinheads show up at our concerts to scare people, calling me a “dirty race mixer” and yelling hate speech in a high school gymnasium. Don’t lecture me on what true racism is.
Palin knows what she is doing. She is plucking the strings of old fears, racial tensions, and religious divides in the name of misguided nationalism. She is doing it because the sheer sensationalism of it wins the headlines of the day while suppressing Obama’s vote by manufacturing hate. If she wants to talk about the facts like the Obama campaign is doing with the Keating 5, that’s fine. This kind of language is something else:
"I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."
So you've had people beat you ass because you're white and you still don't understand what real racism is?
You assumption that terrorists can only be people of color is so over the top insulting to the black and muslim community.
Did you know that Ayers is white? Did you know that another domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was white? What about the IRA, they were all white.
I could go on and on. Yes, I realize that Al-Quida is mostly of Arab and African decent, but come on, that doesn't mean that all black people and Middle easterners are terrorists.
You have to get that out of you head.
I'm still waiting for you to answer,
"Would it be racist too if McCain started his political career in the home of someone who bombed the capitol and the pentagon?"
That is not my assumption. McCain/Palin are exploiting the fact that many Americans do make that assumption.
You are exhibiting enough thoughtfulness here that you seem to contradict your own defenses of these campaign tactics. You must be bullshiting.
"Would it be racist too if McCain started his political career in the home of someone who bombed the capitol and the pentagon?"
Your question doesn't make any sense. I don't speak all-your-base-are-belongs-to-us.
However, from what I can roughly translate we aren't even talking about the same thing.
This is all pretty confusing.
Were those black skin heads beating you up?
Or are you claiming racism when being beat up by your own race because you are not actually white but simply trapped in a white body?
So let me get this straight, you are beat up for being mistaken for a Nazi and that is racism?
There could be other explanations for this stuff:
What if they were beating you up because they thought you looked gay? That wouldn't be racism, would it?
Now what if the skinheads thought you were giving skinheads a bad name? What if they just really hated bad music?
Also, who knows what you said from the mic. Maybe you inferred they were racist which upset them.
It also sounds like they could have been upset about a bad mix. A dirty mix means a muddy sound. They could have just been audiophiles.
Thanks for your insight Jim.
These were just some examples to refute Jeremy's assumption that I'm a sheltered suburban chump.
Anyway, you don't need a resume from the street to see what the McCain campaign is trying to do. It's obvious to any thinking person that isn't afraid to talk about it.
Oh, no problem.
I bet they were audiophiles.
Kerry, so far the only one who's made that assumption is you.
You've declared Palin's comments as, "starting a race war". Palin is speaking of a white domestic terrorist. So everyone who reads that assumes you think only Blacks and Muslims are terrorists.
If she's starting a "race war" by calling out Ayers as a terrorist then how is this question confusing:
"Would it be racist if McCain started his political career in the home of someone who bombed the capitol and the pentagon?"
Please define the term "un-American."
The problem is that your focus here is a bit narrow. Stretch it out a bit for me. Tell me please what qualities make a person less American than yourself. Or, what makes you or the politicians you support more American than someone else?
Palin is handing out torches to the people that say Obama is Muslim and un-American. I'm talking about the ones that mumble about lapel pins or terrorists when you ask them to explain. Racists are notorious cowards, and Palin is using events loosely based in fact as a springboard to use folks prejudices to suppress the vote. She is helping people to justify their hatred for anything different, be it race, religion or both.
Simply saying: "Obama served on a board with a Ayers" is not racism nor did I ever imply it was. Palin is enabling, and she knows it. I'm pretty sure you guys know it too.
It is amazing the stuff you learn here. Now help me understand, if they don't mumble about lapel pins then what, no torch for you? I am going to CNN right now to learn more about this strange development.
I also want to learn more about this loosely based spring board using folks to suppress the vote.
Kerry said...
Palin is handing out torches to the people that say Obama is Muslim and un-American. I'm talking about the ones that mumble about lapel pins or terrorists when you ask them to explain. Racists are notorious cowards, and Palin is using events loosely based in fact as a springboard to use folks prejudices to suppress the vote. She is helping people to justify their hatred for anything different, be it race, religion or both.
Simply saying: "Obama served on a board with a Ayers" is not racism nor did I ever imply it was. Palin is enabling, and she knows it. I'm pretty sure you guys know it too.
You are in the wrong class Jim.
Claiming Palin is starting a "race war" might be an overstatement - but when she says things like Obama is "not like us" or he "doesn't share our values", she is signaling to her primarily white audiences in Englewood, CO or where ever that that they should be worried and fearful of Obama. Lock up your women and children and beware the "dangerous", black, closet Muslim who is "paling around with terrorists".
Politics is dirty. And I'm not saying Obama is running an absolutely clean, not at all misleading campaign, but the McCain campaign is desperate and resorting to propagating fear and hate as a means of getting votes; tactics that McCain himself criticized Bush, Rove, etc for using back in 2000!*
* "Sooner or later people are going to figure out that if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future, or you're not ready to articulate it." - John McCain, 2000
What is this John McCain, 2000?
Was that the model that came with integrity?
I for one wish Palin and McCain wouldn't imply anything, but just come out and say it. Obama is a racist America hating Muslim. Don't mince your words. The guy is a communist dressed in capitalist clothing.
Dance! Bdog Dance!
Ummm again, Obama didn't just serve on a board with Ayers.
He's had a long history of alliance with the man. Even the major networks are reporting those facts.
Amelia, Obama has told his constituents many times that he is not like us. He's told them that he's not the guy on the dollar bill. The attacks dogs he uses have told us over and over again that Republicans are racist. Pointing out that Obama pals around with radical terrorists is not even close to saying he's a Muslim. I've yet to hear anyone on the Republican ticket use the race card. You guys seem to interpret things as such, but so far it's been only Obama's people blatantly using it.
I agree with Palin when she says things, "not like us" or, "doesn't share our values". There's no way I would associate in anyway with someone like Ayers. If I found out a prick like that was near anything I was involved with I would be kickin' some ass. If that makes me a racist so be it.
Kerry, answer the question: If McCain started his political career in the home of an admitted terrorist would or should he be the Republican Nominee for President?
Kerry,
I guess over the last few weeks 3 should be thinking that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but come on, trying to work my signature lines. I think I am due some royalties.
Wait if Palin is pointing out that Obama has friends and associates that are hate mongers, inapologetic terrorists, avoid comminists and convicted middle eastern fellons arrested trying to flee to Syria, isn't that something that should be vetted?
Or are you afraid she is talking about Obama's pals and maybe the average person won't be on the same wavelength?
What side has the haters again?
BlackBerry text editing. That's why my comments are in Canadian.
Okay, so lately we've heard commercials from Obama about how McCain doesn't support stem cell research. It's a total lie. Anyone with brains knows that McCain has supported Stem cell legislation. That's one of the many reasons the Republicans hated him for a long time.
Anyone, So is Obama trying to point out a fundamental difference between he and McCain or is he trying to enabling his followers to believe he hates people with Diabetes?
Obama runs another set of commercials that says McCain doesn't support legislation giving women the same pay as men.
Is Obama trying to point out a fundamental difference between he and McCain or is he enabling his followers to believe he hates women?
Sometimes people have differences, but it doesn't mean they are acting racist because they don't agree with you or agree with your associations.
You guys say Palin is trying to enable her followers and the kooks in the Republican party but you are doing the exact thing you are criticizing. You are being enabled by the Washington liberals to think everything thing is connected to racism and to scream it every time someone disagrees with you.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/McCaskills_edge.html
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