Palin Attacks
Sarah Palin winks at the camera during her vice presidential debate with Joseph Biden, 10/02/08. (photo: Network feed)
Saying 'Constitution' While Meaning 'Lawlessness': Palin Attacks Obama
arah Palin's turn before the teabaggers was an exercise in emptying the US Constitution of meaning while seeming to exalt it.
She praised US military personnel for defending the constitution.
But she complained that constitutional protections were offered to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underpants bomber. She said it is 'our' constitution, reducing it from a universal document (the Declaration of Independence says 'all men' are endowed with inalienable rights) to a tribal one.
She said Abdulmutallab could otherwise have been questioned. But why should he have answered, rights or no? Holder's methods got him talking. (Nor is it likely constitutional to arrest a lawbreaker on US soil and whisk him off to military detention.)
Then she said we need a commander in chief, not a professor of constitutional law.
But Obama is designated by the constitution as commander in chief. Is she denying that status to him?
And if the constitution is so great and worth dying for, why is it bad to study it systematically?
So at every turn she invoked the constitution to undermine the constitution.
She is not about law, but is about power. We've had enough narcissistic sociopaths in politics.
And note that Jerry Brown, e.g. Would not be put on CNN addressing 600 leftwing democrats in prime time. I'm afraid of Time Warner now.
Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute.
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Comments
Right on, Joe! We have more pressing problems to worry about than the antics of Palin, like 45,000 Americans dying every year for lack of timely health care and Oh, so Christian Senators opposing anything that might let some of them live.
Why are we paying attention to this right winged wing nut... ignore her and she will go away.
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That's what some thought about Hitler.
Don't kid yourself, the lady has a brain, she just hasn't been taught how to use it. She is smart but ignorant.
I believe many people, when listening to Sarah Palin, have made the error of mistaking ambition for ability. She is ruthlessly ambitious. Her abilities lie in the area of knowing how to market herself for maximum monetary gain. In that respect she's doing well. She and the whole tea bag movement are using each other to further their goals. Just imagine if they really had to govern.
It is because of her take on the constitution that makes her so dangerous.
She is speaking for that mass of undereducatedv Americans who only get their "news" from foxnews....check how many watch Fox every day...all day...
Palin is the epitome of the termite eating from within while we sleep....
Wake up. Work against her.
The world is at the tip of your fingers over the keyboard. Thre are dozens of orgaqnizations working to keep her from being powerful.you have the tools to end her run. Constitutionall y. Use it!
It is not just lower class whites that Palin plays to, it is all those who are overwhelmed by the sheer conceptual complexity of life in these times. All the anchors of American identity are in the global blender and not even the highly educated know what is really going on or what to do. If progressives had more compassion for the anxiety that accompanies what the Internatinoal Futures Forum calls the "global conceptual emergency" and began to offer some help in working it through instead of adding to it, the power of a Palin would shrink to normal proportions. Countering "teabaggers" with "brown baggers" just adds to the anxiety that the voiceless (of all classes) already feel about a world that is changing too fast to grasp.
They said something like that about Hitler.
I'm sure you know the reason why wingnut Palin continues to garner so much media attention. She's telegenic and full of catch phrases. What else do you need to sell soap and improve ratings?
Adolph Hitler was considered a right wing nutjob by most Germans throughout the 1920s. If the economy worsens and/or Americans let their fear erase their common sense, then scoundrels like Palin, wrapped hypocritically in our flag, will take over. We ignore her and the teabaggers at our peril.
That's the scary part -- she is not going to go away. Blinded by power and the drive for celebrity.
She is a scary charismatic individual.
The sad part is, too many citizens take her to heart. Not near enough to make her a viable candidate, thankfully, but enough to keep her in the 'news'.
Too many voters remember what happened the last time an unprepared clueless person was allowed to "win" a national election.
Common sense-Her common sense is very one-sided. When it suits HER (or your)agenda.
Tenacity-A bulldog has tenacity. It doesn't make them qualified to do whatever Palin is trying to do.
Integrity-She QUIT the governorship so she could make money. Not to mention all of her shady dealings AS governor.
Capitalism-You have capitalism mixed up with entrepreneurshi p. America needs entrepreneurs, not corporations sending jobs overseas, becoming monopolies and putting little business out of business.
Let her run. Let her talk. I'm giddy. If this is what the Republicans have to offer, they'll lose the next election. Let's watch this wink-wink Pentecostal, elaborate more on foreign policy from her Alaskan view over the Bering Sea. She'll point her finger at the camera and pull the trigger on all those äbortion lovers." The oil and coal lobbyists stuff her blouse with greenbacks and I'm just laughing(to myself as I don't want to insult my Republican buddies).
Common Sense????? Tenacity, yes. She is somehow smart enough to phrase her idiotic comments in a way that appeals to the angry and frustrated but ignorant mobs.
"cutesy wink wink" needs to disappear from public view. She's set women back 25 years.
Keep shining a light on them.
Palin did not reference the economic crisis we all face – not really. Sarcasm and innuendo were the substance of her talk. I think the looks on the faces of the people who paid over $500 for their seats was, Is she really getting $100,000.00 for this ghost-written gruel?
Here in the U.S. we are in for some very hard times. I watched it during the Great Depression, I'm 80, and I see a much more serious economic situation facing us today. .
Thus our problem.
To many of us simple Americans it seems as though the Democrats either have no plans for action or are just a bunch of bullied cowards. Either that or they are simply blustery braggards whose fear of a good fight has made them impotent--male and female!
Sarah is a symptom of a deep cancer running through our american culture. What happens when you ignore cancer?
Does it really "go away"?
Bravo!!This crank needs to go back to Alaska and watch the Russians from her back yard while eating Moose Chilli and slurping down PBRs!!
She can not even take Rush Limbaugh to task for using the expression "retard".
Arrogance, self-satisfaction and stupidity cost us Massachusetts and a super-majority in the U.S. Senate.
We've got a dog in this fight, and, believe me, it IS going to be a continual dog fight.
Correcting a politician's grammar or logic just doesn't get any traction, just doesn't cut it with middle America.
That ain't going to help us. We have to ignore the narcissistic, smug better-than-you twits that weigh down the Democratic Party.
We've got to engage the enemy.
Even when it's us.
Leo Ray, You are so right about the anti-intellectual attitude of this country. My question is How do you engage
this enemy? even when it's us.?
Palin makes the Tea party come across like a group of crazy old people voting to take away their own Social Security and Medicare. At least get someone that did more than walk out as governor to sell high priced hate and people will take them serious.
Famous quotes:
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the American people.
There's a sucker born every minute.
We are the country of traveling medicine shows, tent revivals, astoundingly bizarre cults, barbaric military practices, corrupt politicians, narcissistic celebrities, reality shows, bubbas and bimbos.
Why wouldn't we respond to someone with whom we have a lot in common.
I think Juan's last sentence is the most important one. Democrat vs. Republican is a distraction from the corporatocravy / plutocracy that has already taken over this country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
http://www.progressiveliving.org/plutocracy_defined.htm
Listen to the chewing America, do not turn your eyes from this parasite.
The bug-spray is informed vigilance and informed response.
The tea-baggers get their way, Half of us will wind up in camps.
AMEN! These people are reactionaries at best and out-=and-out fascists at their worst. Oh oh...what is being fascists IS their best?
The ignorance of voters who support Palin is enormous. So is their number.
"Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at," -- Job 15:12
"Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land." -- Psalms 35:19-20
"He[she] that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow:" -- Proverbs 10:10
"A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He[she] winketh with his[her] eyes," -- Proverbs 6:12-13
can be a PRESIDENT of anything .
In my own opinion,Sarah Palin IS NOT even
qualified to be a school principal period !
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