The GOP's Tabloid Patriot is an International Embarrassment
Sarah Palin has made it to the big time; she’s now being called out by international media. Yesterday, the Russian newspaper Pravda (this same paper has been quoted in numerous Right Wing publications when it criticized President Obama, and was considered a paper of merit at such time) eviscerated Sarah Palin for her unrelenting attacks upon the democratically elected President, at a time when America needs to stand together, united. When members of the International Press call Sarah Palin out for her lack of American patriotism, it’s time for the American Press to pay attention. It’s about time someone did.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey writes in Pravda:
“By attacking the democratically elected President of the United States of America at a sensitive time in her country’s history, she shows the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral….
And now she turns not only against the fibre and backbone of her country, but against its democratically elected President, accusing him of being incompetent for not stopping Wikileaks. Where was she and where was her GOP before and during the 9/11 attacks? She accuses President Obama of not taking “steps” to assure the leaks were not published. What “steps”?……
If anything is a threat to the national security of the United States of America, it is this screaming, unrefined oaf with as much class as a searing release of flatulence followed by hysterical giggling at a state banquet. Is this what the people of the USA deserve?
To attack the President of the country at a time when the USA needs to close ranks and stand together to consolidate the enormous strides his (President Obama’s) intelligent and respectful approach has achieved in building bridges, when her party’s period in government bombed them, Spankin’ Sarah Palin comes across as a pitifully inadequate anachronism from the times of the Far West.”
The American Press won’t say what the International Press will for a variety of reasons, but suffice it to say that there are many agendas at play here, causing truth to take a back-seat to dollars. As a noted US media critic once said, “everything to sell and nothing to tell.” And what a shame, because this isn’t about partisanship or even elitism; it’s about patriotism and who better to cover this issue than our domestic press?
Ms Palin cloaks her myth in her flag, but one has to question just what that symbol represents to Ms Palin, given that she won’t stop attacking this country’s sitting President during each crisis that presents itself. The word patriotism derives from the Greek patriōtēs meaning “fellow countryman”; that would include all of us, even President Obama. I’m afraid Ms Palin and her followers conflate their false community of nationalism with patriotism, and under the guise of said nationalism, justify harming America’s standing in the world along with the very unity of our nation. One can’t help but question Ms Palin’s true motives, along with her jingoistic, tabloid-driven patriotism, since she beats this drum of division in each public appearance she makes.
One wonders, can Sarah Palin can see what the Russians see: a shrill, desperate demagogue more interested in making money and getting famous than in the best interests of her country; a woman so jealous of a sitting President that she takes every blow her country faces and exploits it, turning it into an even more negative, frightening moment while distracting from the real work – never once stepping into the debate to lead, to soothe, to unite.
Never once has Ms Palin shown her love for this great country by standing by it and her President in a time of need. Instead, she views each crisis as a cynical opportunity to sow the seeds of division among fellow countrymen. During the oil spill crisis, she took to Fox News to spew nonsense about the Dutch not getting their phone calls received, claiming she knew how to fix the leak if only the President had called on her. Of course, since she was on Fox News, no one bothered to ask her why, then, she did nothing to stop the oil spills that took place during her brief tenure as Governor of Alaska.
When she went to Hong Kong for a speaking engagement, Ms. Palin attacked her President on foreign soil during a time of war. On her first book tour, Palin and her entourage of hit men (aka, her father, et al) attacked the Commander in Chief on military bases. In times of major decisions regarding the war in Afghanistan, Palin has mocked the President when he followed the course of action recommended by his Generals. On 9/11, Palin bashed the President. In her speeches, Ms Palin is sure to remind her followers that Obama’s foreign policy is weakening America while she accuses the President of not loving his country. During the WikiLeaks crisis, Palin blamed the President instead of calling for a united front for our country.
Ms Palin and her followers justify this unpatriotic behavior by claiming the President is “un-American”. We all know what that’s about but if we’re left with any doubt, we have only to listen to Ms Palin assure her listeners that they have every right to ask for the President’s birth certificate:
And here she is just weeks ago suggesting that the failure to vet the President and his associations has harmed our democracy. Talk about projection.
Ms Palin’s heavily moderated Facebook page was just months ago full of comments calling for the death of our President, sedition, and the overthrowing of the Obama administration as being God’s will. Those comments were left standing while comments questioning Ms Palin in any way were scrubbed. Ms Palin stands for a level of vitriolic, simmering revulsion so steeped in delusions of self-righteousness, it’s tough to swim to sanity once you’ve been washed in the blood of her particular lamb.
We are at war, facing a global economic crisis, still reeling from a devastating oil spill and now facing the challenges brought on by the WikiLeaks dump. Yet, on every issue of importance, Palin has inserted herself with jarring accusations against the President, offering nothing but malicious hate fueled by a failure to understand what she doesn’t understand.
Ms Palin’s particular brand of tabloid patriotism leaves out anyone who disagrees with her, beats her in a contest, dares to question her, or has the temerity to actually read and debate important issues. She’s become an international embarrassment:
“If Sarah Palin is not some kind of a massive political joke in the USA, wheeled out to liven up the political scene from time to time with nonsensical and pastiche (one hopes) displays of sheer and utter ignorance, then it is worrying.”
Sarah Palin is the figurehead for an unpatriotic movement here in the United States of America. A movement so bereft of love for this country that they would go to any means to see it fail, in order to elevate themselves into power. A movement which just yesterday met with the democratically elected President of this fine country and then immediately stabbed him in the back in their post-game press conference.
And nestled into this web of traitors is one particularly odious senator, Senator John McCain, upon whose shoulders the blame for this national embarrassment rests. Ms Palin is the front-runner of this group for Presidential candidate in 2012 according to polls. This makes sense, given the Republican Party’s current gamesmanship of our political system, wherein their only goal is to destroy the President – not to lead, not to govern – but to destroy. At any cost necessary.
When the Russians are calling you out for failing to support your country in a time of need, for attempting to bring her to her knees with petty attacks on the President, you have seriously jumped the patriotism shark. Sarah Palin is the traitorous figurehead of the GOP, whose only purpose seems to be to assist them in their goal to bring down President Barack Obama.
So while a scant few of them (Rove, Scarborough, and a few of the “elites” who are not elected officials; the elected officials are quivering in the corner rather than standing up to the myth of Palin lest they alienate what little remains of the Republican Party base) make the rounds distancing themselves from her now, do not forget how they set her into motion in 2008 to do exactly what she’s doing now. And do not forget that even as they take a slight step away from the noxious whiff of disgust that follows in Ms Palin’s wake, they’re not silencing her; they’re not calling her out for her attacks on the President. No, the most they can muster from their cowardly bunkers of fear from which they wage their war on America is mild outrage that she would insult the Bushes or Reagan.
Nary a word about her outrageously destructive actions toward our current President. And why is that? Because Ms Palin is doing the dirty work for the Republican weaklings; sowing seeds of division, suspicion, hatred, and rage against a sitting President.
And those, my friends, are not the actions of a patriot. True Glasnost has arrived when the International Press says what the American Press will not. Sarah Palin is no patriot.
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I wonder if you look at the opinion pieces of the person who wrote this article say 4 years ago if they were supporting there president then. This is a joke the way you people so blindly follow your party and won’t even respect the other peoples opinion or views. This to me is what is wrong with America a divide of morons who listen to propganda spiewed by people with agendas, form your own opinion but at least have enough class to respect others. HATERS.
You are a master of projection.
Stefan,
Although I disagreed with Bush Jr., I respected the office, and wouldn’t give time to those who suggested unfounded and ridiculous assertions about his administration, like the 911 truther movement, or the suggestion that he wished harm to the african americans in New Orleans. And I would denounce anyone who would say that these ideas are valid criticisms.
But what about the birthers? What about socialism? What about Death Panels? Do you consider this to be “rhetoric”? Is this part of a genuine discourse?
Did you believe that calling others “morons” was a show of respect? What is your “agenda”, Stefan? Because it clearly isn’t “respect of others opinions”…
What I take away from this hit piece and many of the vitriol comments is absolute fear disguised with punditry toward a political figure who threatens the progressive agenda in both parties. With liberals totaling just 20% of Americans,conservatives and independentst at 40% respectively, Obama’s approval numbers in the 30s, Kenysian economics failing spectacularly, and the sleeping giant awakened as the November midterm elections proved… it is no wonder that the assaults on Palin now accuse her of sedition.
I question your fact…and your math.
Or are you suggesting that the “40 percent” conservatives elected Obama?
Or were they simply sleeping in 2008 when he beat McCain?
If they were truly a. conservative, and b, a majority they would have voted, and Obama would never have won.
So get over the loss, and adjust to having the first minority president.
We have more things to worry about thanks to Bush.
agreed – this is a shit article that wouldnt pass muster for a high school paper on basic political science. how does this trash get published and disseminated as news? right, pravda, the russian government-sponsored paper, is who US citizens should really be turning to. RUBBISH
While it is our right as Americans to criticize the President, it is something far different to call for his death. It seems we are becoming too unsensitized by our habitual cries to defend our freedom of speech (which, by the way, needs little defense in this country) to wake up and see how bad this is getting.
Is it really okay to talk about killing the Commander in Chief and, as elected government officials, block all progress in our country in the name of competition?
When did politics become college football? This is a dangerous game you two parties are playing (oh, excuse me Tea Party… didn’t see you there on the shoulders of the GOP) with the rest of our lives. We Moderates are getting tired of the tantrums our tax dollars support.
Enough with the bs… Point to specific quotes where Palin calls for assassination. This is nothing more than a desperate pathetic hail mary pass at trying to discredit her (again) because your biggest fear is now realized. Polls have Palin tied with Obama for 2012. Marginalize and destroy no longer works…
It never said she called for any “assassinations,” just that her “heavily moderated Facebook page was just months ago full of comments calling for the death of our President, sedition, and the overthrowing of the Obama administration as being God’s will.” Those comments, I would take a guess, are from other users, not her. But her words are feeding them.
Polls do not have Palin tied with Obama. In fact, he is shown to have over 54% vs Palin, which is the largest lead he has compared to Romney, Huckabee or Gringrich. You’d be amazed the facts you’d learn if you just turned off Fox. Go to Gallup.com They’ve got some interesting polls on Palin, Obama and the elections. Most people are not drinking the kool-aid despite what you seem to believe. In fact, as of November, she’s at a 52% disapproval rating. Guess Obama’s 45% ain’t looking too bad huh?
Palin is too ignorant to be a traitor.
Obama is a traitor…look at his cabinet…a who’s who of banking interests and military industrial murderers.
Apparently, you don’t recall that these Wall Street guys, and the “mess” they were a part of, were in W’s cabinet and carried over by President Obama for continuity. Why do you think Paulson was so intense about getting TARP money to bailout his friends…he had money in Abacus hedge fund that he was about to loose…in the billions.
What an absolutely true and well written article! Not only is Palin out to line her pockets at the expense of this country, alongside her are rogues like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and too many others. The two things that bother me most about this situation are: 1) The fact that the Republican “party of no,” aptly named, is totally corrupt; and 2) That far too many Americans are uneducated and ignorant enough to be misled by these propagandists (a nice word for them). Of all times when the U.S. needs to pull together to solve the massive problems we have, most of which were created during the eight years of the Bush reign of terror, it is now!
yeah? palin is more dangerous than fox news? palin speaks to her constituents, hun. no one outside of the far right pays her ANY attention.
missed that part where she says palin is more dangerous than fox news. sarah palin has NO constituents. in order to have constituents, you have to be an elected official. and the last time she was elected to ANYTHING, she quit before her term was over.
and she didn’t say that we should be reading pravada. she was merely pointing out that even they think she’s a “screaming, unrefined oaf” with “the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral.” which sounds about right.
I just find it interesting that the international press wasn’t making a stink when democrats were calling GWBush an assortment of horrible names and questioning his competency.
Frankly, unless America is doing something truly heinous, other countries don’t need to butt in to our political process. One of the great things about this country is that you can say what you think without fear of being jailed. Everyone pretending to get along doesn’t solve anything. Discourse does.
I agree: the world’s nations should stay entirely out of each other’s hair. But this was a Russian publication for the people of Russia. Do American journalists comment upon the political events in other countries for an American audience? The answer to that question is resoundingly yes.
I find your statement that other nations don’t need to ‘butt in’ interesting in conjunction with your final statement that ‘discourse’ solves problems. You assert that the Russian critique of our domestic politics is unhelpful, but aren’t opposing view points valid under your assertion that discussion is a valid vehicle for resolving issues? They do, after all, make a valid point. Palin’s criticisms of Obama are not making matters any better for our nation. They angering much of the population, either at the Obama administration or on its behalf. Is this thought not valid in the political discourse of our nation?
I also agree that discourse is crucial to a democratic government. But when discourse on either side is aggressive and self-promoting, it becomes more of a hinderance than a help. Unfortunately, it seems as though such ‘discourse’ is the result of partisanship.
Do I know how to fix this problem? Not at all. I just think it is important to remember that, while ‘pretending to get along’ doesn’t solve anything, it is potentially more beneficial than what ‘discourse’ in our nation has become.
Sweetie, that’s because during Bush’s regime, he took us to war on lies. He ignored “Bin Laden determined to attack on US soil” and thousands died. He dismantled relationships with our foreign allies. His cabinet and himself were wholly corrupt and incompetent, and all the while they were lining their own pockets and full of self-congratulatory back-slapping. Heck of a job, Brownie.
Here’s the deal. President Obama is not being criticized by foreign press because he’s largely competent, intelligent, has no hidden agenda and is conciliatory. Bush deserved MUCH MORE criticism than he garnered. If you all had joined us Dems in criticizing Bush more, we probably wouldn’t have been cowed into two wars. But you all were okay with this. Bush and you deserve all the sunlight that we can possible shine on you. Even after the fact. We have GOT to learn from our mistakes. Too bad – pathetic, actually – that you are still denying that Bush made any.
No one was calling for someone to take him out or shilling an angry mob into sedition. Palin and the TPs are .
There is a difference between calling names and questioning competency, and invoking “2nd Amendment remedies.” Furthermore, and this is perhaps more important, I as a citizen can say anything I want about the President. It is however, extremely bad form for a contender for a leadership position, in this country, to do so.
At a Baseball game, I as a fan, can call the umpire a bum. I can boo when a heavy hitter for the other team comes up to bat. That’s participating in the game as a spectator. If the pitcher does so, he’s viewed as a classless bad sport. In this country, WE are the bosses. We can say whatever we want. They are the players. They cannot. They should offer clear cut examples of where their counterparts are in error, and what they would do differently, as ways of dealing with the issues – not resort to baseless name calling and threats.
When Natalie Maines made a simple comment that she was embarrassed by George Bush – on the eve of an illegal, immoral, and wrongheaded war, she was literally pilloried by the Right. Ms. Maines was NOT running for office. Ms. Palin is. The Right’s response, in the Maines case? Death threats. You guys are all about your misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment, but you seem to constantly deride the 1st.
You mention discourse. This is not discourse. It’s hateful and vile name calling, accompanied by threats and actual violence. The Right DOES hate America, and so does Palin. When you love something, you want to see it thrive and succeed, and you’re willing to make compromises so that it will. When you hate something, you do nothing positive for it, and only heap derision upon it.
An example would be your position on taxation. It seems to me, that a true Patriot would not only be willingly taxed, but would, in fact, see it as an opportunity to provide support to that nation he or she so loved. An honor, bestowed upon us as citizens of the greatest nation on Earth. You love this country, yet you would let it starve for want of support by its citizenry?
Yeah, but here’s the difference between GWB criticism and Obama criticism.
On Sept 12 2001, GWB had the support of not just practically every American, but the entire world. On 9/12/01, there weren’t Republicans and Democrats anymore, there were just Americans. And over the next five years we all agonizingly watched while that unity and single-mindedness was chipped away. We were all manipulated and turned against each other until we became the playground of squabbling fourth-graders that we are now. And it took a disastrous war, unfunded spending, Hurricane Katrina and God knows how many other messes for GWB to piss away the political capital that he had.
Obama, on the other hand, has had people like Palin, Limbaugh, Savage and their ilk gunning for him since his name first came up. So don’t give me that business about an equivalency between GWB hate and Obama hate, because it doesn’t wash.
So….
If Palin, who doesn’t hold an office and is by proxy a political commentator, is traitorous….
What would that make Keith Olbermann, during the Bush administration?
It would make Keith a hero. Besides the democrats did no,t and does not look to Keith Oberman for real answers to our democracy like the republicans do to Palin, Limbaugh, Fixed News etc.
Thank you for putting words to the disgust I have feeling in my stomach for so long.
Oure stupidity. Remeber when dissent – making the eeevvviiilll Bu$h look like a monkey, telling us that the war is lost, saying Bush and crew made/let 9/11 happen, calling on troops to kill officers, hanging outside Walter Reed telling the wounded soldiers to dessert, saying Bu$h lied and people died, telling the world the Bush was not your President, apologizing to the world for Bush, saying all manner of vile lies about Bush, recall when that was patriotic and that we should not DARE to question your patriotism for vocally disagreeing with s President? Remember? Oh, yeah, right, that was before; before the Promised One, and his teleprompter and crew of buffoons and screw-ups stumbled into office based on fairy tales and lies. You people are blinkered by your own choosing. Pathetic.
Thank you for making that point. It’s something that has been on my mind for some time but never seemed to be mentioned by anyone! It doesn’t seem fair that the same people who were bashing Bush ALL THE TIME are now getting so upset and not understanding why people would be bashing Obama. It’s because people have differing opinions about how things should/are run.
Bashing Bush for incompetence and lies is not the same as bashing Obama for pay. Bashing health care reform for mythical ‘death panels’ that NEVER EXISTED so instead of universal care we still have insurance companies running real death panels and denying coverage, yeah, it’s all equal.
Fox keeps talking about all of the Bush bashing just like you do. Obviously we know where you are getting your news “fact”. Since I am an engaged listener of political news and don’t recall anything near as bad or vitrolic or as fabricated as I have seen against Obama, I was curious and asked FOX News (twice) to present a program showing clips of these events. Surely, a truly “fair and balanced” true news organization would have loads of footage and would love to show this to the public. I haven’t seen anything yet. You can create statements out of your rear end all day long, but actual film footage is a whole lot harder. Apparently, though, some of you folks don’t need much to convince you of what you already want to believe.
[...] Politicus USA: Foreign press says what America’s won’t — Sarah Palin is a traitor – By attacking the democratically elected President of the United States of America at a sensitive time in her country’s history, she shows the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral…. Ms Palin cloaks her myth in her flag, but one has to question just what that symbol represents to Ms Palin, given that she won’t stop attacking this country’s sitting President during each crisis that presents itself. … One wonders, can Sarah Palin can see what the Russians see: a shrill, desperate demagogue more interested in making money and getting famous than in the best interests of her country; a woman so jealous of a sitting President that she takes every blow her country faces and exploits it, turning it into an even more negative, frightening moment while distracting from the real work – never once stepping into the debate to lead, to soothe, to unite.” [...]
I myself think that Palin is a self-centered person looking for a payday, that couldn’t make it in Politics. I was hoping that I would see a post
of all of the things that she has done for her country, for the good.. I can’t seem to find any. Anybody?? I do know that all her trash
talking is not doing a dam bit of good but make her rich!
Can anyone discuss without name calling? Name calling and sarcasm do not prove a more logical point is being made. I am not surprised to see a bunch of name calling disguised as valid arguments, given that the article above is based on an excerp from a Russian paper which uses the example of farting at a State Party as a metaphor for Palin’s behavior.
To Pravda and to the commentator on this site, I think if we really want to arrive at any kind of well thought out conclusion, we should leave emotional attacks out of it.
Criticizing one’s political system is not unpatriotic. Not at all. Wanting the best policy and leadership for your country and the world is as patriotic as it gets. Misleading the public in order to further one’s agenda is definitely unpatriotic. This is what I have a problem with. In this way, I would say many of our talking heads from media and politics (in every party) are not shining examples of patriotism.
This reads exactly like something Ann Coulter would have written several years ago. It was dishonest when she did it and it is still dishonest. That said, Sarah Palin is a buffoon.
[...] will not, stop criticizing at every turn until the Russian newspaper Pravda called her out as a traitor to her country. But Mr Murray wants us to pretend that we don’t have any idea whom she means. I mean, we can’t [...]
I hate to say it Sarah J (cause you’re heart is clearly in the right place) but you’re fanning the very flames you’d apparently like to put out. Other than the casual TLC fan, Sarah Palins traction is with a small part of the GOPs ultra right base. She’s a walking political suicide and I suspect it’s only a matter of time before the crash and burn. She’s simply unelectable. That she regularly has an extremely difficult time expressing thoughts coherently is just one reason why. But the more press and blogging she gets the longer the death march goes on. She needs to be ignored, not excoriated (deserved as it may be).
There are differences. When Bush was president he had the support of his country and the world after 9/11. He squandered it. We gave him the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Turned out he was wrong. Bush’s presidency was so filled with failure, that I was praying that he would have at least one success for the good of the country. Not one liberal commentator ever said, “We need him to fail, so that he doesn’t get reelected”. Rush Limbaugh has said that about Obama. And he said it very early on at a time when the country was hurting and needed the president to succeed. That is treason. It is very real that a lot of people share that view. Bush started out with a budget surplus and we all know that he did leave the country with huge deficits. In fact, he did leave the country in shambles. You cannot change that, it already happened and it is history. Try as you may, nobody can ever change history. Even physicist will tell you that it may be possible to travel to the future, but it is impossible to travel to the past. With Obama, the positive results of his policy changes are apparent already. That is a fact. Unless you want to blind yourself to them. Obama is succeeding where Bush failed, that is the difference. The evidence is overwhelming. People from other countrys have an outside perspective. It is hard for them to comprehend people who favor failed polices over policies that are working. They see through the Republican hogwash. No name calling here. Just calling hogwash what it is. Pure unadulterated hogwash. Some people are so full of it, it overflows. If Republican hogwash were money, it could pay off the national debt! LOL
Thank you for putting it out there. The word is TREASON! A criminal offense.
Sarah also seems to forget that her illegal Yahoo account which was used to circumvent the use of the publicly owned State email account was also hacked.
The person who hacked into stated that he just started answering the password questions like “where did you go on your first date” because Sarah had blabbed so much about her personal life.
This is a woman who blames Obama for Wikileaks yet wont admit how easy she made it for her email to be hacked.
Very well said. Everything written in this article is a sad fact abou this ridiculous character. All who deny who and what she is, condone her lack of wisdom and support her greedy, discourteous and inhospitable politics. Good news is all the denials don’t weaken the truth about her in any manner, they only strengthen every Americans shame when her name is even mentioned.
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Thanks for this article… I simply loved it. Funny, smart, articulate, alarming, deeply satisfying. All the Republican/Teabaggers writing on this post are freaking out, which is even more delicious. I’ve forwarded this to dozens of friends and family, who will all agree and enjoy this article.
For all you ‘baggers out there, spout off all you like. You only think you’re in the majority because you don’t bother to educate yourselves, turn off Fox News, listen and learn. Thankfully, you’re in an ever-expanding minority. Your power is fading as quickly as the looks on your conservative goddess. The bone-deep ugly that her hateful personal and political philosophy represents is becoming more and more shrill, marginalizing you and her. We cannot wait for you all to open your eyes, know the truth, and join the human race.
First of all, thank you theButterFly for saying it in few words and Ronnie for saying it all, or at least most of it. We all can find more screw ups of Bush if we try. And for Rickvid in Seattle, are you brain dead? Seriously, Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld, and many more lied about Iraq and got very rich. This is a fact! When The Dixie Chicks criticized Bush before going in to Iraq, and they were on foreign soil, (even though this soil was one of our biggest allies soil), the country wanted to shoot them for treason. How is what Palin does any less? She is supposed to be a politician not a rock star, (though I think she believes she is one). How about being married to a man who wants his state to suceed from the nation! In case you did not know Todd Palin was a seperatist until Mrs. P. started looking to Washington! Why do I never hear any tea baggers mention this little fact? Is this not treason? If Mrs. Obama said this Palin would plead for her imprisonment or death! This country is very complicated and electing people who really love it and have educated themselves on our constitution and want to conserve its spirit is a god thing! Even if you hate our president we are in a bad way. If you want to try and act like Obama got us in this mess you flunk US history 101. If it walks like an idiot and talks like an idiot, it’s an idiot, (even in Seattle)! I really hope in 2012 enough people are not blinded by the rhetoric of a bunch of self righteous fools who named their group after a type of sexual act usually performed by gay men, (no offense intended towards gay men), or we will go back in the hole that George W. and company put us in! On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan I would just like to say that I owned my own small business during his administration and I watched trickle down economics destroy one small business after another. I have never seen so many businesses go bancrupt in my 50 some years alive! It doesn’t work. The richer you are the more taxes you should pay, period! The oppurtunities of this countrfy is why you got rich so why are you so against giving back to help the nation that helped you get rich? Most of us work hard. Some just find ways to get rich while others toil just to survive. When I had my business I paid heavy taxes but I also lived a fine life! Taxes are as american as apple pie. I just believe our country runs better when the rich pay their fair share! Quit bitchin about President Obama unless you are ready to also admit the mistakes of our past presidents. If you don’t think Bush and Reagan, and Nixon made their share you are really ignorant! That is a fact! Peace!
Read Raw Story tonight. Bush just canceled a trip to Switzerland because there are some there that want him arrested lol
Thank you for this article. Well said and it is about time someone said it. THANK YOU !
I have never understood the appeal Sarah Palin has had that she is called upon to give speeches without substance, full of division, hate and bigotry and not a word towards real solutions to problems this country and the world faces. Yet people go to these events and pay her for these speeches. I do not get it! Have we stooped that low in this country-frightening? Have we lost the ability to think and revere those who are like us, uneducated non-thinkers? She does not think Fulbright scholars, Nobel Prize winners, Rhodes scholars are superior to her “common sense” thinking. How sad! While our President is leading us towards educational excellence, she does not see the point of such leadership. She and her followers are dangerous for this country, because they do not see that she is a sad joke.
Sarah Palin is the fast food of politics – fast, cheap, and totally lacking in nutrition. She feeds her supporters who crave for something greasy and well packaged at the expense of their own health and wellbeing. It defies logic…. but then again, look at how overweight our nation is.
she may be ‘fast’ & totally lacking, but she’s not ‘cheap’ (just ask Todd – LOL) – she’s very high-priced indeed.
As for freedom of speech – there are boundaries and SP & others have often approached & crossed those boundaries. It is perfectly fine to disagree with our political representatives over many issues – policy, tactics, statements, hairstyles. The line has been crossed when violence is advocated – targets on a poster naming sitting congress-folk, comments like ‘reload’, ’2nd amendment remedies’ and the like, and even the extreme political labels like ‘fascist’, ‘socialist’ & ‘communist’ {note – fascism & socialism are opposed to each other}.
Just as we can’t yell ‘fire’ without cause in a crowded arena, calling for violence against government official is a crime & needs to be prosecuted as such.
During the previous admin, we were admonished to respect the office regardless of the occupant. While I support anyone’s right to disagree with this or any admin, I still agree that we must support, honor & respect the offices of our government and refrain from extremist political statements.
pravda in russian means the “truth” “Izvestia, the other russian paper means “the news”. the russians usesd to put the two paper’s names in a sentence that translated to the following: There is no news in the truth and there is no truth in the news”
Viva Palin and viva the Tea Party.
True patriotism = Pro liberal democracy, pro republicanism (that’s right GOP! That is the essence of republicanism, eg respect the man in office, respect public elections), pro-pluralism, pro-religious freedom (WHICH includes atheism). In one aspect, to be an American “conservative” is to be a liberal. As the founding fathers of 1776 WERE liberals. They were an inspiration for the French revolution of 1779 which declared freedom for all, equality for all and citizenship for all.
Most of the GOPS, Tea-Baggers appear contradictorily, they are also digressive, corporatist and separatists. If it were 1776 they would have been Loyalists.
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That was…brutal. BRUTAL.
Palin is also an idiot, but she has been packaged for the morons with that down homey feel, like fresh bread. She is, and would be a puppet, a marketing ploy ~ packaged for general consumption. I would love to watch her try to match wits with Hillary, or anyone really. She would be found sorely lacking.
If you put a Private in charge of a Army Division tomorrow, the Private would look up and ask “What am I supposed to do?” The power behind the pulpit would be right there to guide and steer. That would be Palin, it was also Bush for the first few years. Crony-capitalism Banking, Big Oil, military industrial complex, Wall Street, and the agenda is globalist.
It’s a fallacy to believe that the distaste for Palin only comes from liberals. A growing number of conservatives have also come to the conclusion that she is anything but presidential. For those who think her right to free speech is being attacked, she can say whatever she wants. She should also be mindful of the inevitable consequences of seditious comments that are as stupid as they are malicious. That is the gist of all the comments criticizing her, and all the vitriol aimed at those who post truthful observations of her character doesn’t alter the truth of those observations. Facts operate independently of personal likes or dislikes, and it just so happens that facts are not friendly to the likes of Sarah Palin. All Pravda Online has done is to confirm that the unfavorable opinion of so many Americans toward her is shared by most foreigners and for exactly the same reasons.
No matter where or who this article comes from..It is very sad but very true..BUT palin is not alone in her disloyality and anti-American rants..Let us not leave out her founding fathers..of course the great voice of the fair and balanced Murdock of FOX and Friends..the lies, the disrespect, the daily ongoing bashing of the President of the United States is commonplace and relished by each of the palin barbie doll hosts and overpaid, self rigtheous, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it and they will believe, anchors..by the way..the man that has created this anti-American media..WAS NOT BORN IN THE USA..maybe that is why we have to rely on media info from another country….
As a 52 year old American, I now wonder if my memories of the United States putting a man on the moon were only a youthful hallucination. Looking back through today’s lens, I don’t think we were smart enough to do that. [Of course there are a bunch of idiots who would rather believe the Hollywood version portrayed in the film Capricorn 1, which relates to my point.}
Has our country — which could truly and rightfully claim its place among nations as No. 1 in education, medical care, science, technology, etc. during the 1960s — fallen this far, that the only No. 1 ranking of ours that remains is unbridled ignorance?
I haven’t much use for either of the modern versions of the Democratic (brains but no balls) or Republican (balls but no brains) political parties. Where the hell is Dwight Eisenhower when we need him? Today he would be branded a pinko leftist, because his party believed that collective bargaining is a fundamental right, and that America can not prosper unless all Americans prosper (from 1956 Republican platform). That’s now heresy.
We’ve fallen and we can’t get up, so it would seem. I find it extremely ironic that Tricky Dick Nixon — the guy who said “I am not a crook!” but was — had more integrity in his graft-stained fingers than most modern political figures of all stripes.
I remember the factual history of the United States over the past 40 years — I don’t have the convenience of an Orwellian memory hole on which to base an ideology.
Sarah Palin is a gauge of infinite scale useful for probing the abysmal depth of the tank of ignorance our country has become, no more, no less.
I dream of the day that we all can quit worrying about the likes of the Koch brothers owning every Rethuglican part of our government (Local, State, and Federal- including the House, Senate, and Supreme Court. This is why I have stopped using Koch brothers products and stopped shopping at Walmart. Return the power to the people.
Boycott Koch, Walmart, and the like. The way to get through them is through their pockets.
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It’s too funny. In the late summer of 2008 when candidate John McCain announced his curious choice of a running mate, I immediately ran to the computer to do a google-search of the name, “Sarah Palin”. I knew next-to-nothing about the woman other than the fact that she was the governor of Alaska. The first thing in her paper-thin biography that stood out for me was the date of her birth: February 11, 1964. I remember that day – distinctly! That was the day my beloved grandma, Loretta Doran Clements, died in South Bend, Indiana at the age of sixty-eight.
But other than that interesting coincidence there was not a heck of a lot in her biography that really stood out. Truth be told, I was more than a little puzzled as to why the GOP would think her an asset to the ticket. The moment she opened her mouth at her first campaign stop in Dayton, Ohio, I could only think of one thing:
Sally Field as “Gidget”.
When someone like Sarah Palin can make it as far as she has, it can mean only one thing and it’s not a particularly good sign: We are living in a culture that has been custom-tailored for idiots. When a person who can barely put two coherent sentences together without the aid of a teleprompter becomes one of the best-selling non-fiction authors of the decade, that’s usually a pretty good indicator that society is spiraling downward at a fairly decent clip. Fasten your seat belts, kiddies!
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Amen. Red suits, nylons, baby jesus and 3 cornered hats
You have said a mouthful. However, I would go farther to say that it is a VERY BAD sign that someone like Palin can make it as far as she has. That says as much about this culture and about Americans in general as it does her.
Well Said! YOU are a true patriot. Thank you for this!!
I work for a component of the American Press and called ALL of the naysayers in America out! Did you read my article “Shame On You America” in The Atlanta Inquirer Newspaper that was published several minths ago?
One of the greatest things about America is the freedom of speech. I may not like some of the things people have to say, but I sure as hell want to live in a country where speaking one’s mind is not a crime. Protected speech is absolutely, utterly critical. Imagine if things YOU said were unpopular and you could go to jail for them? You don’t wanna mess with freedom of speech. Palin is a raving nutjob in a bad wig, and I can say that publicly. I’m grateful to live in a country where free speech is protected outright. When people get to say unpopular things and not be punished for it, that’s when the freedom of speech is truly realized.
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