"This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America," she told the Clearwater crowd. "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." The crowd replied with boos.Milbank doesn't repeat the charge that it's somehow racist to talk about Obama's association with Bill Ayers, but he does immediately start talking about how it's racist to make anything out of Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright:
McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more."Either Palin's political judgment is different from McCain's or her judgment is being exercised at a different point in time. Is it racist for her to want to use this material? But Milbank doesn't say it is, only that the material is "racially explosive." If Palin dares to talk about such things, what bad things people might think.
Worse, 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."Hmm. I'd like to see the video of that. Now that the press has been attacked as biased, how will it defend itself? By connecting the candidate to the "ugliness" of the gathered throng, which it will describe: It shouts abuse, and some hurl obscenities. (Obscenities are always hurled, never merely thrown, tossed or lobbed.) The press will find that one guy who "shouted a racial epithet" and called a black man "boy." (Do we really know that guy is a Palin supporter and not a dirty trickster?) Look out, Sarah, if you inspire noise from the crowd, the press will choose which words to report. You might want to keep them soothed and calm.
McCain's swoon is largely out of his control...Swoon... McCain's the girl around here. Palin's the real man. Is Milbank making a gender-tinged remark?
... the result of an economic collapse that ignited new fears Monday when the Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in four years....Yes, dammit, why can't Palin simply resign herself to the fate of the campaign? The stock market has crashed, therefore Obama's time has arrived. Yet Palin responds with "rage." Anger is stage 1. Get with it, lady. You belong at stage 5, resignation, where the nice, genteel Mr. McCain is.
But the campaign has reacted with recriminations (the St. Petersburg Times reported that the Florida Republican Party chairman, after questioning Palin's aptitude, was told that he couldn't fly on her plane) and now Palin's rage.
"One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she 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.)If Palin excites the crowd, the press will listen hard for the nastiest remark. She'd better rein it in then, Milbank hints, or the press will keep hearing these things and calling her ugly. She needs to be more like McCain and back out of the states that the polls show they are losing. Obama has won the election, and it's long past time for the little lady from Alaska to accept defeat gracefully.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
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By the way, should we assume that Palin didn't realize that McCain had declined to use Jeremiah Wright against Obama? Maybe she did know, and she intended to imply that McCain has not run a sufficiently vigorous campaign and to set herself apart as someone who could have fought to a victory but came in too late and weighed down by an inadequate running mate.
Her political interests are different from him, and I've been getting the impression that she is running with her eyes on 2012. (And with this post, I create the "2012 campaign" tag to go with the old "2004 campaign" and "2008 campaign" tag. The campaign blogging never stops.)
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 218 of 218When you say "socialist" are you saying you or no one in your family or any of your friends (if you actually have any) take advantage of any of the "socialist" programs Americans available?
Silly things like........:
Michael, in all honesty, why do you continue to insist that those programs which you listed are considered socialist?
I think she [Palin] has done a whole lot to damage the conservative brand.
I think I can safely assume you don't know many conservatives or much about conservatism.
Actually, the word "tribe" and it's use is really interesting.
Of course there is the use that has primitive or elemental connotations... people get tribal tattoos (and I'd include other sorts of ink and piercings) and seem to be searching for a certain primal meaning, a primitive understanding of life itself.
As such it's the opposite of cerebral or refined, civilized.
I've been thinking a bit lately about how, at certain times, our society has been self-consciously futuristic. (And a lot of the Obama posters get an "atomic age" vibe for that reason.) At present I think a good segment of our society is almost self-consciously primitive. It can express in different ways but if you look I think you'll see it too.
Tribe is often used in a very positive fashion by people who might say, when you express joy at finding people you feel you can relate to and who can relate to you... and you have that sense of belonging... "How nice you have found your tribe."
Tribe is actually used as the positive version of "other". A tribe is good, because it means connection. Separation of people into the "other" is bad.
That all said... if anyone EVER suggested that Obama appealed to tribal ANYTHING it would be proof positive that we hadn't gained a single thing since the Civil War.
So I'm in line at Safeway, and Time magazine is there with a cover story on how we're all going to die in the coming economic apocalypse and I pick it up and it's like ten pages total magazine. It's $4.95. You wonder why these guys care so much whether Obama wins? Without rapid institutionally enforced control over the new media as competition, the old media is toast. T.O.A.S.T.
Like I would believe anything that Dana Milbank says.
You know Ann...may I call you Ann?
well....if I didnt think you were way smarter than that....I'd think that you bought palin's scam.....that she doesn't need to talk to the hostile elitist media.
How smart are you Ann?
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/the_28th_amendment_to_the_cons.php
To sk: Yes, but I've never heard of a Republican or conservative impersonating a Democrat or liberal at a public event for the benefit of the MSM press, e.g. as an interviewee. And blogs like Zombietime certainly do, but the MSM never reports the despicable things said/done in rallies etc. on the left. E.g. they're always noble, those protesters.
Again, as I said, I'm convinced these are mobies-- the repetition of the talking point by astroturfers convinces me, these are tailored to be "evidence" of the current Obama campaign/MSM meme: McCain/Palin/Republicans are racists. Manufacturing the evidence of your opponent's racism-- I can't think of anything lower. I used to like Obama.... the tactics of his campaign, his supporters, and the abetting of the media have ruined him for me forever.
(I didn't follow the Dem primaries too closely, since I didn't really have a dog in the fight... But I remember being surprised at the anger and frustration among Hillary supporters, the expressed sense of immense personal offense, the anger they felt toward Obama. Now, in their place, I can relate. And of course this is much worse than anything Hillary had to undergo...)
Dana Milbank has always been a whiney, self-aggrandizing pissant.
synova.....I am a sociobiologist.
trust me, you do not want to know what i think, and i very much doubt that you would be able to understand it if i told you.
OTOH, i am not running for vice president.
may i point out....that is Palin is.
The press deserve any scorn thrown their way because of their unprofessional lack of journalistic integrity they have chosen. As one of their "messiah"'s mentors was fond of saying, their "chickens are coming home to roost!"
And for you idiot leftist, the MSM had the opportunity for interviews with Governor Palin beginning with Charlie Gibson. Blame him because he and they blew it! An informative interview highlighting her views to the American public would have lead to other interviews but instead Gibson wanted to show his bonafides in climbing up Obama's backside and acted like a d*mn fool.
Even with video, other ABC and other MSM lied about her answers in their zeal to destroy this threat their candidate, Obama. Palin no longer needs to subject herself to such nonsense.
Freder wrote: "Radical anti-abortionists, of which you can find many in churches just like the one Palin attended, have killed many more people than the Weathermen ever did (which may be as high as four if you include the three members who blew themselves up)."
Freder, how many churches have you been to? How many Evangelical churches? How many times have you sat in a service where people speak in tongues?
I have been in many of these churches and never heard anyone mention violence against anyone. Never. I would leave if I did. I think you are speaking way outside your knowledge base.
Speaking of which, let's get some data in regards to anti-abortion murders and weathermen murders.
In five years, between 1993 and 1998, anti-abortion idiots killed 7people. Between 1969 and 1972, the Weathermen idiots killed 4 people. The anti-abortion idiots killed three more people than the Weathermen idiots. Now the Weathermen idiots were bigger idiots in that they killed more of themselves than they did other people, but that is not germane. This is a moral difference to you?
The abortion foes killed .71 people a year while they were killing people and the Weathermen killed 1.3 while they were killing people. So what? They are all murderers. Or do you only condemn right wing murderers?
Trey
wheeler turned his narcissism to 11 and wrote "I am a sociobiologist.
trust me, you do not want to know what i think, and i very much doubt that you would be able to understand it if i told you.:
Well gee, I am just a licensed clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. and a separate M.A, maybe I have enough training and education to be able to understand your lofty and oh so complex thought process.
I am sure you have three or four Ph.Ds, but I will try.
Trey
madawaskan said...
"Republicans-the Party of Lincoln-have nominated a Vice President that has toyed with secessionism.
The irony."
Democrats-the Party of Jefferson-have nominated a candidate for the presidency who is a racist.
The utter lack of irony.
synova.....I am a sociobiologist.
trust me, you do not want to know what i think, and i very much doubt that you would be able to understand it if i told you.
OTOH, i am not running for vice president.
may i point out....that is Palin is.
If you are a sociobiologist and you don't know why what you just wrote is the reason that Palin does as well as she does... I hope to heck you're not a sociobiologist that's getting paid for it.
Imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama was revealed to have joined a black nationalist party whose founder preached armed secession from the United States and who enlisted the government of Iran in his cause?
Particularly if Barack Obama himself was videotaped giving the anti-American secessionists his wholehearted support just months ago.
Where's the outrage, Sarah Palin has been asking this week, in her attacks on Obama's fuzzy ties to Ayers? The question is more appropriate when applied to her own disturbing associations.
which race heled?
his white or black side?
you are as moronic as PALIN
While waiting from the sociobiological wisdom to waft down from the ether, I would like to share a different reaction to seccession.
I think it could be the height of patriotism. Ending a government that has become mildly to moderately posionous to the people of this country would be a boon to Americans.
I have much more loyalty to the people of America than I do the politicians and current political implementation of America. The contest is not even close.
Trey
Wow. Palin may not know anything that is true, but she is a gutsy, dog-whistling maverick. And since the Worst President Ever set the bar for his successor so low, merely not knowing anything is no longer a barrier for this crowd.
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