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John Seery: Sarah Palin: The Face of Ugly Americanism
huffingtonpost.com — Yes, she can bring a bunch of people to their feet chanting USA, USA, USA. Good for her. But true leadership in these difficult times will require actual knowledge, not just personality.
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- curledup, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10I've got small-town, big geography/small population state creds, too (graduated from high school in a South Dakota town of 850 with 13 of my fellow classmates), so I know the goods and bads of that kind of thinking as well. Too bad that the "self-assured provincialism" you see in Sarah Palin (and, unfortunately, too many others) isn't restricted to small towns - it's what got us there (2000) to here (2008). Thanks for the eloquent analysis of the phenomenon.
- Brocolli, on 09/05/2008, -1/+1I think I'm having a flashback to the Dukes of Hazard. Is that Daisy Mae?
- QuadZeroRoute, on 09/05/2008, -3/+1I think I've found the ugliest American and it's a tie between the affirmative action candidate Barack Obama and his pastor Jeremiah Wright. In the words of Dennis Miller, "I'm pretty sure you're not smart enough to be my president. Because that is a massive Macy's balloon sized tea leaf that you failed to read there...."
If Baracka Obama a racist disagreed with what Rev. Jeremiah Wright was saying then why did Baracka Obama "a typical black person" give $27,500 to the church ($22,500 in 2006 and $5,000 in 2005) to Africanzied Trinty United Church? A church run by an antiAmerican, racist, man of the past, a conspiracy theorist, a black-nationalist and black-supremacist who infects the younger generation with racial prejudice and animus and then say he came unto us to transcend racism? Sounds like Baracka Obama got caught in another big lie. Maybe you haven't heard everything that Wright said? I suggest that you listen:
YouTube - Best of Jeremiah Wright at NAACP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElcoLN-KXIw
YouTube - Best of Jeremiah Wright's Sermons Pt. 1
Government creates AIDS for blacks @40 seconds in; Govt of KKK @1:32; Govt plants weapons on blacks and will do so on Sadamm Hussein @2:05; God Damm America @2:09
http://youtube.com/watch?v=617eK2XIaLk
YouTube - Best of Jeremiah Wright's Sermons Pt. 2
Government gives blacks drugs and creates jails for the drug addicted @0:01; God Damm America @0:14; Hillary aint never been called a ***** @0:55; we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and never batted an eye @2:19; we supported state terroriam against the Palestinians and black South Africans @2:20; Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky @2:50
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vaNBzU6iryo
YouTube - Israel is responsible for 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r6s
YouTube - Jeremiah Wright - Hillary Clinton ain't never been called...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5BxM- Brocolli, on 09/06/2008, -0/+0Dear QuadZeroRoute,
Sorry you feel that way. You refer to Dennis Miller as though he actually knows something. Since when should a former Saturday Night Live comedian be given credit for having insight into someone as educated and principled as Obama? Freedom of speech allows Miller to say things like that, but do you think you sound smart when you quote him?
With reference to Obama and Wright, there is a huge difference between supporting a church and supporting a position by a pastor that you may not agree with. A church is much more than a singular position of its pastor. It is the congregation, the community and the evidence of their good commitment seen through their actions. Rev. Wright is just one member of that congregation, but his views alone should not be used to judge the church and its congregation. The church must be judged by the entire body of works, good or bad, that the congregation has accomplished. I hope you will reconsider your point of view based on this.
I have donated money to many causes. Some of them, for example, the United Way, have had problems with individual leaders. This does not mean that the United Way or its supporters are all bad. In fact, the vast majority of things accomplished through United Way funding are wonderful, and those who donate have their hearts and minds in the right place. I'm sure you can extend this example to organizations you have supported.
The same analogy might even be applied to our government. You and I are Americans. We may not agree with many of the things certain leaders have done. I happen to think that Bush/Cheney are pretty close to criminals. At best, Bush is a C grade frat boy with less than a mediocre brain who rode the coat tails of his rich and influential family and the Republican machine into the White House. But I support our government and will work to fix it.
So to brand Barack Obama as bad or wrong for supporting his church because of some things said by one minister of that church is way off target.
- Brocolli, on 09/06/2008, -0/+0Dear QuadZeroRoute,
- Bzzi, on 09/05/2008, -2/+9I really would like to hear a Republican speech that didn't sound like a cheerleaders "Oh, Snap!!" competition...
- prem444, on 09/05/2008, -2/+6This article made my day.. wish more ppl see her for who she really is
- PolishLogic, on 09/05/2008, -3/+3That's funny, I say the same thing about Obama.
- QuadZeroRoute, on 09/05/2008, -2/+1I absolutely adore her. She is wonderful....compare her to the affirmative action candidate and there is no comparison. He shouldn't even be running in the race.
Liberals howl that Palin has no experience, no qualifications to be president of the United States. But the lady has more executive experience than McCain, Joe Biden and Obama put together.
None of them has ever started or run a business as Palin did. None of them has run a giant state like Alaska, which is larger than California and Texas put together. And though Alaska is not populous, Gov. Palin has as many constituents as Nancy Pelosi or Biden.
Lets compare Gov. Palin’s executive experience as a governor who oversees 24,000 state employees, 14 statewide cabinet agencies and a $ 10 billion budget to Barack Obama’s experience as a one-term junior senator from Illinois.”
She has no foreign policy experience, we are told. And though Alaska's neighbors are Canada and Russia, the point is valid. But from the day she takes office, Palin will get daily briefings and sit on the National Security Council with the president and secretaries of state, treasury and defense.
She will be up to speed in her first year.
And her experience as governor of Alaska, dealing with the oil industry and pipeline agreements with Canada, certainly compares favorably with that of Barack Obama, a community organizer who dealt in the mommy issues of food stamps and rent subsidies.
Where Obama has poodled along with the Daley Machine, Palin routed the Republican establishment, challenging and ousting a sitting GOP governor before defeating a former Democratic governor to become the first female and youngest governor in state history.
Gov. Sarah Palin is an exceptional governor with a record of accomplishment that exceeds, by far, the governing accomplishments of Sen. Obama. Her selection came after a six-month long rigorous vetting process where her extraordinary credentials and exceptionalism became clear. This vetting controversy is a faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee for vice president of the United States who has never been a part of the old boys' network that has come to dominate the news establishment in this country. Sen. McCain picked his governing partner after a long and thorough search. Gov. Palin looks forward to addressing the nation and laying out the fundamental choice this election represents for the American people.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13111.ht ...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=7 ...- bicyclethief, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2I stopped reading after you called a Harvard J.D. magna cum laude, Senator, Democratic presidential nominee the "affirmative action candidate."
You lost all credibility at that point. If you can't objective weigh Obama's merits, I obviously can't expect you to do so for Palin.
- bicyclethief, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2I stopped reading after you called a Harvard J.D. magna cum laude, Senator, Democratic presidential nominee the "affirmative action candidate."
- childofdalight, on 09/05/2008, -2/+5thank you for this wonderful and very perceptive article. we need more people like you in the world my friend.
- animalfriendly, on 09/05/2008, -2/+5One of the best articles on Palin (or her RNC speech) that I have read.
- sonny7g, on 09/05/2008, -1/+6It's like hearing an alien parasite from another galaxy, about to consume all of our resources on Earth.
Straight from the "twilight zone", complete with clueless, ignorant, adoring crowd of zombie clones.
Welcome to the republican party, with their globe shaped heads and strange, ridiculous disguises........ - justmarque, on 09/05/2008, -1/+3After all, she is a cheerleader...I can recognize great "policies" when I see them. Who cares what she believes in....it's all smoke and mirrors with these amazingly deft image manipulators, the Republicans!
- aember, on 09/05/2008, -1/+1Dead ON!
- Lspook63, on 09/05/2008, -1/+2Thank you Mr. Seery!
- FemaCampBoy, on 09/05/2008, -2/+2lol.. gimme a break. seery hates white people and thinks global warming is still the issue of the day. what a stooge... go back to clown college.
- plimpton777, on 09/05/2008, -1/+4Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Great line FTA--"But there's another kind of arrogance, perhaps harder to spot at first, an arrogance that apparently doesn't even recognize itself as such, a sanctified, self-satisfied presumptuousness that flows from sheer naïveté about oneself and the world and manifests itself in giddy ambition." - paintgrl, on 09/05/2008, -1/+3I agree with most of this article. She is definitely the embodiment of the ugly American. Just what we don't need. Anyone else notice that she hisses all her S's?
I strongly agree with this part..
"What I saw on that stage was the personification of small-minded smugness, an utter lack of humility, a kind of self-righteous entitlement based on little more than puffed-up narrowness. She struck me not as plucky but, rather, as stunningly immodest--to the point of arrogance." - ClosedCaption, on 09/05/2008, -1/+2I would support Palin as VP of Zingersville but not the US.
- PolishLogic, on 09/05/2008, -1/+5Nothing ugly about that face.
- failedpimp, on 09/05/2008, -0/+3U.S. PILF, U.S. PILF, U.S PILF - now that's something to chant about.
- glucoseboy, on 09/05/2008, -3/+2That's what hate will do to you.
- mikesoba, on 09/05/2008, -2/+1You haven't seen a recent close up.
- PolishLogic, on 09/05/2008, -1/+1If by recent, do you mean her speech? Or footage of her on the campaign trail?
- SheilaNoya, on 09/05/2008, -3/+6She certainly knows how to sound snotty and how to trash her fellow Americans with personal insults, lies, and smear attacks. Sorry, but I prefer someone who is willing to help heal this nation and try to unite us, not someone who enjoys tearing it further apart and who is willing to accuse anyone who disagrees with her party platform of being anti-American.
We've just endurred 8 years of this divisive crap. Let's not repeat the same mistake again.- vexingmodstwo, on 09/05/2008, -2/+4Oh look, someone who thinks Obama's speech was unifying...
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_08_31-2008 ...
Obama had more attacks than Palin.
***** off.
- vexingmodstwo, on 09/05/2008, -2/+4Oh look, someone who thinks Obama's speech was unifying...
- DealCracker, on 09/05/2008, -3/+5The Huffington Cesspool strikes again. Buried!
- failedpimp, on 09/05/2008, -2/+2THIS is why the terrorist hate us.
- welliwonder, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2She is a disgusting human being.
- StepCousin, on 09/05/2008, -1/+1Ugly??? Hmmmmmm.... Somehow, I was expecting to read an article about Michelle Obama. You gotta admit, you'd have to be one drunk SOB to screw that beast. YUCKKKK!!
- mikesoba, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Typical Neo-con policy thinking - only goes skin deep.
- StepCousin, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1You screw ugly chicks?
- dinot, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1You screw First Ladies?
- mikesoba, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1Stepcousin, we already know her family is loose with the sex, and we suspect she is -- are you now confirming it?
- mikesoba, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Typical Neo-con policy thinking - only goes skin deep.
- phishman3579, on 09/05/2008, -0/+1Yes, HE can bring a bunch of people to their feet chanting YES, WE, CAN. Good for HIM. But true leadership in these difficult times will require actual knowledge, not just personality.
- SpankkBankk, on 09/05/2008, -2/+1John Seery must be a homosexual plus the rest of you libtards that are digging this...
- frankb00th, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1You really have absolutely nothing intelligent to contribute.
Education actually scares you *****.
Poor sad little frightened man.
- frankb00th, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1You really have absolutely nothing intelligent to contribute.
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