A few weeks ago, when the unvetted Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s running mate, I said she was a “base pick”. Some of my readers on the right disagreed with me, arguing that Palin would appeal to independents, and even the McCain campaign seemed to believe that the intellectually uncurious Sarah Palin would appeal to disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters.
As events have played out, it turns out I was right. Sarah Palin exists on the Republican ticket to get conservatives riled up. She acts something like a wind-up version of the Fox News Channel, railing at the “liberal media”, whipping up right-wing radio style frenzies about the scary, strange black world of Barack Obama. Palin is the walking and talking symbol of the 20-something percent of people who still think Bush is a good president.
The upside for Democrats is that Palin is precisely the sort of person who turns off independents and motivates Democrats. If some had been lured into a false sense of security that John McCain would run an honest, moderate campaign as he once promised, Palin tells us that that John McCain died a long time ago. McCain/Palin is a promise that the slash and burn politics of the George Bush era, the era in which the president of the United States has taken an unprecedented role as the divider of the nation, would get worse. For the right Bush/Cheney is now the standard.
Thats a heck of a motivator for the rest of us in normal America.
I wanna smack the taste outta those two punk ass kids.
Do those boys look Aryan to you? Or, am I being racist?
I love being with Willis in the “normal America”! One of the best things about the Obama campaign for me personally is working with the diverse Obama volunteers: black, white, old, young. We’re all working together, and it’s been really cool for me personally (a middle-aged white lady).
As I’ve written in some other blogs, I fell like I’m in some corny Coke-a-Cola commercial, with everybody singing, arms entertwined! Corny, sweet and true.
I would bet what little remains of my investments that if you actually asked those two guys in the photo just why they are so opposed to Obama they simply wouldn’t be able to say. Because the honestly just wouldn’t know.
Incapable of thought or forming their own opinions.
I would bet what little remains of my investments that if you actually asked those two guys in the photo just why they are so opposed to Obama they simply wouldn’t be able to say.
To be fair, when you’re a young teen, you have a keen awareness of what sort of actions are asinine, and you kind of have a temptation to do those things simply because you know it’s obnoxious.
I would bet what little remains of my investments that if you actually asked those two guys in the photo just why they are so opposed to Obama they simply wouldn’t be able to say.
Oh, I so disagree, Sean. I bet they could tell you, in…ahem..colorful terms why they oppose Mr. Obama. I grew up menaced by little ticks like those two.
That’s the most hateful photo I’ve seen in a long while. I genuinely want to reach in there and punch them both in the face.
I’d bet they could tell you also.
“”cuz my dad says he a mooslim.”
That’s the most hateful photo I’ve seen in a long while. I genuinely want to reach in there and punch them both in the face.
–Nimrod Gently
Nimrod Gently, agent of tolerance. High school kids being, well, high school kids makes him want to do physical harm. I’m sure that’s just an isolated instance for Nimrod, he’s usually more forgiving of kids.
But William Ayers stomping on the American flag for an article in a Chicago magazine? No problem there. Nothing hateful in that photo.
Though I generally believe in diplomacy before attack, I’m with the rest of you; I desperately want to slap those little boys in the face.
And Dennis, give us all a break with your Ayers nonsense. You’re grasping at straws now.
Dennis has never joked about wishing harm on another, ever, in his entire life, EVER. NOT ONCE.
Can we take heart that somebody actually had to contribute to Obama’s campaign to pay for the t-shirts that they defaced? That’s an irony I wouldn’t mind contemplating.
And yes, it’s become apparent that Sarah is all about baseness.
“make the white choice this november for a whiter America”-Sarah Palin
re: previous entry. Wishful thinking. Those particular tees aren’t sold on Obama’s website.
Whiter America is right…let’s start by making those two drink a gallon of bleach
You’ve hit the nail on the head. I knew from day 1 that palin was the last thing that would draw former clintonites from the dems. She is absolutely- as these latest attacks prove- a cheerleader for right wing-nuts. Eye candy pure and simple. There’s also a “sex sells” angle there, which is the cherry on top of the massive sundae of reasons I will be voting for Obama come election day. Thanks for this great post.
More of those “small town family values” I keep hearing about, no doubt.
Can anyone shed some light on the context of the foto apart from it being some sort of juniors tennis match?
Palin rally in CA yesterday.