Palin: The "Best Of America," The "Real America," Is In Small Towns
As we noted below, Sarah Palin appeared to describe some parts of the country as "pro-America" at a fundraiser last night, though the overall context was unclear.
Now The Huffington Post has obtained Palin's full remarks from the WaPo reporter who wrote the earlier story on the fundraiser. Here's what she said:
"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe" -- here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers -- "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."
Seems like Palin is saying that the "best of America," the "real America," the "pro-America" America, is in the small towns she visits, which perhaps means the rest of us are fake Americans, depending on what she meant by "real." It also seems worth pointing out that people who live in cities and suburbs have been known to join the armed services on occasion.
But as usual, it's virtually impossible to figure out what on earth the woman is talking about.
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR MCCAIN!!!
October 17, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, sir!
October 17, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's an awful thing to say. But more educated people gravitate to cities, in part because of opportunities for educated people there. And since the Sarah Palins of the world rely on people not being too educated, yep, they love small towns.
And they also love Alaskans and Texans who form state-wide majorities that match the levels of education and sophistication that Sarah and cohort friends bank their no-account careers upon.
October 17, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mentioned "Texans who form state-wide majorities...."
These are majorities that, if I might add, were formed by means of
blatantly partisan, bridge-burning gerrymandering that we must never, ever forget.
October 17, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hear, hear!
October 17, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
The victims of 911, the first responders, and the people of New York who suffered the attacks are part of the real America, Gov. Secessionist.
October 17, 2008 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ooooh.....that's good. That should go in an ad.
October 17, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
...she says from her real American small town...
October 17, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't have a clue what you mean.
October 17, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
So new york City is not a real American town, eh?
October 17, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
NEW york CITY!?! (get a rope)
*channeling a hot sauce commercial from years ago*
October 17, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Real Americans eat pro-American salsa!
October 17, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I’d like to know is this. Is Palin pro those parts of America that are not pro-America? If she is, she’s pro-anti-America, if she’s not, she’s just anti-America. Either way, not good.
October 17, 2008 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
So,,,,,,
the 86% of Americans who do NOT live in 'small towns' are 'Anti-American'????
As usual - Palin confronts the English language and logic - and loses.
October 17, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-sign. She's a freak with a sessionist husband.
Why was the Governor of a state addressing a political party (giving legitimacy to) that advocated sessesion? Why is this not in the news?
I guarandamntee ya if it were Obama it would be everywhere. You betcha!
October 17, 2008 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, you said it. They're still talking about freaking "bittergate". If Obama had said anything remotely like this (which, let's face it, had he, we'd all sure as shit understand it better), it would be 24/7 on Fox, with weekend specials and everything.
Makes me want to scream.
October 17, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not really. It translates as, "YAY White People!"
October 17, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why does Sarah Palin hate the 80 percent of Americans who live in metropolitan areas?
October 17, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe because we're not voting for her.
October 17, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
This has always driven me crazy and Palin isn't the first to pull this crap. If you live in an area that doesn't vote Republican on a regular basis, you are not part of the "real America"...you are not part of the "pro-American" areas of our country. When I stuff like this, it makes me think back to the map that somebody put together after the 2004 election that had the Northeast, the Great Lakes Region, and the West Coast joined with Canada in "The United States of Canada" and the rest of the country in deep red in a new country called, "Jesusland". Back then I actually thought that wasn't a bad idea. These days, I'm much more optimistic about the non-dark blue areas of the country. But I'd bet Palin and her crew would kind of like the idea of Jesusland.
And you have to love the irony of Palin out there chanting this BS. I mean, for the love of pete - AIP!!!
October 17, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, FU, Governor Palin.
I've got news for you, you provincial little twit: people who live in big cities are just as freaking patriotic as those mythical wonders living in small towns.
People living in big cities are also firefighters, doctors, nurses and teachers, and, you insufferable wingnut, "pro-america".
Take your disgusting view of America back to Alaska. "Real" Americans just aren't that into you, ya know? Wink, wink!
October 17, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is plannin' to receive electoral votes only from the places with the smallest populations. Sounds fair, doesn't it?
October 17, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really cannot stand this woman.
October 17, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah's whole career depends on the judgement of low-information voters who love hunting and fishing. Of course she is their chamption!
Without them, she'd be some nitwit who attended seven colleges to earn a dubious journalism degree.
October 17, 2008 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
When is someone going to call this bitch on this shit? She's trying to stir up a class war.
This pitbull needs a muzzle.
October 17, 2008 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, apparently Lorne Michaels isn't the one. She won't talk to reporters because she's too stupid to answer questions, but he and NBC are still gonna give the Moose Queen a leg up by having her host Saturday Night Live, according to reports.
You'd think the entertainment industry could have learned something from coddling Bush and mocking his opponents, but not Lorne, NBC, or SNL apparently.
October 17, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think she's hosting it at all. She's going to have an appearance. That's a big difference. If she was actually hosting it, she would have been rehearsing this week. Or at least today.
October 17, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - she is making an appearance. I bet Tina Fey is impersonating her and she comes in and they let her say Live from New York, yadda yadda yadda.
Or something along those lines.
October 17, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still tempted I must admit to use the "C" word here, but I'll leave that to the distinguished Senator.
October 17, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
SNL should, at the last minute, bring Tom Brokaw up on stage and instead of doing a skit have him start asking questions. Now that would be funny.
October 17, 2008 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Come, on, Tena. Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. ;-)
October 17, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
On the bright side, she hasn't called Jews unamerican yet. (unless they live in cities?)
October 17, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Know a lot of small town Jews in America, do you?
October 17, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
um, actually no. But I gotta claim ignorance on the issue too.
October 17, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, now that I think about it, I doubt that its really occurred to her to equate the fact that Jews in America tend to be clustered in the cities or the burbs with that strange, un-American exotic foreignness she so disdains. That would imply both thoughfulness (albeit of a malevolent variety) and a knowledge of demographic patterns inconsistent with her pattern of disparaging the patriotism of 3/4 of the voters.
October 17, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed, what a weird thing for the governor of Alaska to say.
October 17, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
That 'small town girl' thing didn't do too much for Hillary either:
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1740
October 17, 2008 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a setup for a new smear tactic: Bitter-gate 2.0, just wait.
October 17, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have such a good idea - let's tell Sarah she can keep her supporters - she must take them home with her to Alaska.
I think they'll all be very happy there together - it's about as white as it gets in America.
And then y'all can quit using Texas to set up your leftwing prison camps.
;)
October 17, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great idea! The racist Republicans can have Alaska as long as the lib-ruls get to keep San Fransisco. I love that town!
October 17, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
"let's tell Sarah she can keep her supporters - she must take them home with her to Alaska."
Imagine the trials of the long march through Afghanistan.
October 18, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
I couldn't leave the freaking small town my parents moved to when I was 13 fast enough! I've watched their minds and beliefs shrink and fossilize ever since then (Dad worked for NASA and Mom at the University of Michigan) and its just accelerated since they retired. Small towns are fine if you have no ambition or intellectual curiousity--but one could hope that that will change now in the days of the intertubes. Maybe in another generation. . .
Sarah Palin perfectly embodies all of the attributes that drove me crazy about the people in my parents' hometown!
October 17, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lou Reed had a rejoinder to John Melloncamp's utterly asinine ditty "Small Town."
Lou Reed's riposte ended crooning the words, "You hate it, and you need to leave."
October 17, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Be nice to John Mellencamp...he's a Dem and an Obama supporter. :) And the town he wrote that song about (Bloomington, IN) is actually one of the more liberal places in America.
I get your point though.
October 17, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Be nice to Lou Reed!! Ha-hah, thanks sincerely for your note, though, and I appreciate you saying you got my point!
"You hate it, and you need to leave." Hah-hah again!
October 17, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I feel your pain as I, too, grew up in a small town and now live in the big city. I will give small towns props for being quieter and simpler- in state of mind and in surroundings. Being so close to nature is nice as well.
I agree that there are not as many cultural or intellectual pasttimes or much to do at all, really. The people are usually nice as well, at least as long as you look like them. Minorities didn't and don't go over to well in my small town. Gays either- which is why I am no longer back home on the farm.
I wouldn't be smirch anyone for living were they want to live thoufh- people just go down different paths is all. Different strokes for different folks.
October 17, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right (and much more rational than I am at the moment--came back a couple of weeks ago from a visit to the 'rents), and I really do think that the internet could make a huge change in the atmosphere (intellectual and tolerance-wise) of small towns given a few years. One definite good thing about small towns is small schools; the student body can't divide up into cliques because there aren't enough of you. Everybody has to multi-task: I was part of the jock/nerd/bandie/fall play/library aide groups so even though I didn't really fit in overall I managed to have a couple of friends in each different group.
Thanks for talking me down (as Rachel would say).
October 17, 2008 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hear, hear! I also was a jock, bookworm, band geek, metal head, and theater dork in my small town HS. I guess I lost my cred with Sarah Palin when I moved to the big city.
Do you think my soul turned dark once I crossed the town limits, or did it take time before the city corrupted me?
October 17, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmmm--probably a Portrait of Dorian Gray type of thing. Your soul shrivels and darkens and atrophies over time until it's just TOO LATE!
October 17, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
"But as usual, it's virtually impossible to figure out what on earth the woman is talking about."
Greg, this line cracked me up.
October 17, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Best name for Palin I have seen so far:
SnowJob SquareGlasses
Back to Wasilla with ye, idiot wench!
October 17, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting how the base, sensing defeat, is already excited about this shit-for-brains for 2012 and beyond, you know?
October 17, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
But do you think they still will be after the dust settles and they see how ridiculous she made them look? I mean, sure, she's going to have the same 30% who still like GWB, but will she hold on to anyone else? Heat of the moment and all. . .
October 17, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
400+ electoral votes for Obama/Biden and she's definitely damaged goods.
October 17, 2008 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
30%?! My sources say 25!!
Get with the prorgram, eh?!
(Just joshin' ya and thanks for the reply, seriously!) ;-)
October 17, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, I suspect you're right. Heat of the moment, yeah. But good-golly-Miss-Molly these people they got are DUMB!
October 17, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
For those who want the data:
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-P1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-format=US-1
Over 80% lives in urban areas. The percentage who likves in 'small cities' varies, depending on how small a city you want to base it on.
October 17, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
For those who want the data:
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-P1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-format=US-1
Over 80% lives in urban areas. The percentage who likves in 'small cities' varies, depending on how small a city you want to base it on.
October 17, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
A little more data from the man who said it best ("what are those of us who live in New Jersey -- chopped liver?")
Please read the rest because, like nearly everything else that Paul Krugman writes, it is well worth it.
October 17, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm... It is sounding like Gov. Palin thinks that America is a nice place to visit, but she wouldn't want to live here.
October 17, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Palin: Putting the 'riot' back into 'patriotism'.
October 17, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's GREAT!
October 17, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want that on a t-shirt.
October 17, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Small towns are a nightmare by and large.
I grew up in one and yes couldn't leave fast enough, won't even tell people the name, haven't gone back since my mother died and won't.
High School Reunions? You've got to be fucking kidding me - why do I want to see all those people I couldn't wait to get away from?
LMAO!
October 17, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
We must have grown up in the same town.
October 17, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bill Mahr said it best, ' Sarha Palin is a category Five moron.'
October 17, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am so frickin' sick of Republicans (and to some extent, the MSM) telling me that I'm not a "real" American because I don't live in a small town, shoot things for fun, and/or work a blue-collar job. There's nothing wrong with any of those things but there's nothing wrong with living in the city, not killing things for sport, and having a desk job either.
I wish people would stop making pronouncements about who does or doesn't love America based on ridiculous criteria such as geography. Enough already.
October 17, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Second this.
Governor Palin? Don't you dare tell me I'm not "pro-America".
October 17, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
You fergot ta menshun talkin' fuunie two.
October 17, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I heard that "small town" meme when she was first picked. Small towns must be great if 86% of Americans don't live in them.
October 17, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I live in a town with a population of 400: one-twentieth the size of Wasilla.
We're majority Democratic, and we resent the hell out of big-city wingnut freakazoids like Bible Spice claiming some Americans are better Americans than other Americans.
October 17, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I knew there was a reason I liked you.
LOL!
October 17, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
This stuff is biting them in the butt. Divide and conquer is a very, very dangerous strategy. Especially since every time you do it you have to find new groups to turn into the "other." After a while, way more than 50% of the public begin to know what it feels like to be one of the "others."
McCain is losing this election in large part because he has lost the socially liberterian, economic conservative centerist wing of his own party. How silly is that...
October 17, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's what is so breathtaking - I can't believe McLame threw his lot in with the loony 26%.
If he had picked a moderate Republican running mate, we might very well have a closer election, but he went balls to the walls wacko - just stunning, really.
October 17, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, he wanted Traitor Joe, but that went over like a lead balloon with the party leaders. A lot of people interpret his choosing Palin as a big FU to the party leaders. I don't give him that much credit. I suspect all the qualified Republican women turned him down. Sarah Palin is the booby prize.
October 17, 2008 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
If he'd have chosen Rob Portman, I think this election would be much closer. He needed to chose someone who could talk about economic issues since McLame is clueless. Portman has the experience to do that. Instead, he chose Sarah "Dumb as a Box of Hair" Palin and the rest is.....
October 17, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
If McCain had only promised the fundies he would nominate anti-abortion judges when vacancies on SCOTUS instead of Palin, he could have nominated a VP for the conservatives in those red states turning blue and this race would be a nail-biting, photo finish run for the White House. Good thing McCain's age is on Obama's side.
October 17, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is truly the most divisive person I have ever heard.
Nov 5th can't arrive too soon so we can say good riddance to this nasty, malicious woman.
October 17, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a free country. That bitch can call me un-American all she wants. She can scream and shout, rant and rave to her crispy little blackened heart's content. I voted. My partner voted. Millions of us are voting. That's all it takes to make snotty little trollops like her disappear. So go on Sarah, do your worst. We're too strong for the likes of you this time.
Obama '08! (can I get an amen!)
October 17, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen!
October 17, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen!
October 17, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
AMEN!
(and: Tuxedo Cats for Obama!!)
October 17, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Blessed Be!
October 17, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen (Beagles for Obama, too!)
October 17, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Webb earlier today:
October 17, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
With her rock-bottom negatives, the campaign has finally deemed her fair game.
October 17, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
O my god guys - more proof how very much this isn't 2004, and more very good news:
October 17, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-sign. See Barack. See Barack kick ass. Kick ass, Barack, kick ass!
October 17, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
No one owns this story more than Josh Marshall, the blogger who can legitimately claim Alberto Gonzalez's scalp. Kudos to the campaign for keeping up with TPMMuckraker.
October 17, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you,.. yes!
He just gets better by the minute.
Absolutely impressive.
Keeping it classy.
October 17, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whenever I get angry about bogus claims like Palin's, I take a long satisfying look at the state-of-the-race map. The key, though, is to look at a map that accurately reflects population distribution. Remember, the Electoral College is a reflection of just that.
So, with this in mind, I invite all of you to take a look at just how many of us Governor Palin finds un- or anti-American:
http://electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Carto/Oct17-c.html
The GOP is a minority party. That detests minorities. That must really burn.
October 17, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ya gave me happy feet with that link. Thank you! You know, McCain never could have done this on his own. Yeah, Sleazy Plain is disgusting, but she's a big reason the Patridiotic Party is about to star in the biggest disaster movie of all time. Hmmm. I wonder what you'd name that movie?
October 17, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Titanic Poseidon Inferno?
October 17, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brilliant! Everybody here in the office is laughing their arsses off.
October 17, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, I don't think small towns are all that horrible. Some of the smartest people I've ever met spent a lot of time in places like Ithica, NY; Oberlin, OH; Athens, OH; Middlebury, VT; Poughkeepsie, NY; Amherst, MA; and Bloomington, IN. From August to June, the average IQ in these little towns is among the highest in the country.
My hunch is that Klondike Barbie avoids these little bergs and others like them -- hives of intelligentsia and elites, and all that.
October 17, 2008 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's "IthAca"!!
Don't make me g Pail all over your ass!
(laugh)
October 17, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right you are!
October 17, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was born in Oberlin! Though I probably helped the local IQ average by moving away.
Does Ann Arbor count?
And a couple of my other faves: Burlington, Vt., and Boulder, Colo. (Not sure what size cutoff we're working with here.)
October 17, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ann Arbor's bigger than EL, but I'd say it counts. The only reason EL exists is MSU.
Go State, by the way! :-)
October 17, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oberlin C. is our kid's first choice (two years to go to raise that $!), so I'm expecting to spend a lot of time there in the near future.
October 17, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
East Lansing, MI. . .
October 17, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not all "small towns" (what exactly is the cutoff size for a "small town" anyway?) are total backwards hick podunk areas. Can we stop with the stereotyping please?
That being said, Sarah is a class-A moron to say this crap. She's vindictive, spiteful, and divisive.
October 17, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
More "us vs. them" bigotry.
October 17, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was a kid in Norfolk, Nebraska. My mom taught at Norfolk Jr College. She was advisor to the basketball team; the players may have been the only blacks in town. I got to meet them, go to the games, and chat with them when they came over. I remember Mom crying on a cold night in November, 1968 when Nixon got elected. My Great Uncle Bert was an insufferable Republican; heated debates at the big family dinners. After Mom shredded him he'd end the discussion with a "Oh go burn your bra, Helen!" Good times!
October 17, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was also a kid in small-town Nebraska (Kimball, at the other end), and all I can say is this: If small towns are the "real" America, then heaven help us.
The stereotypical bigotry of small towns is overblown, like most stereotypes. Generally what I found, especially when I was working in the oilfield out there and in Wyoming, was that people talked like bigots, but when push came to shove they could be very open-minded. More so than a lot of liberals/progressives I've known--myself included.
But small towns have some of the weirdest values, and they're usually in direct opposition to the things that people normally think of as typical small-town stuff. John Mellencamp's line, for instance: "People let me be just what I want to be." Anyone who's grown up in a small town knows how far that is from the truth. Your business is everyone's business in a small town. And deviation from the norm is not well tolerated. I've lived in several small towns, in several states, and that's been common to them all.
I could go on and on. Small towns have a lot to offer, but their "values" are usually not actually their best features.
October 17, 2008 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
We should all demand a formal apology from this politician for insulting our patriotism and integrity.
October 17, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's got a set of you-know-whats big as Alaska to say some ish like that.
October 17, 2008 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Was it Jon Stewart who said that New York was American enough for the 9/11 terrorists?
October 18, 2008 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is a new word for this: HATERIOTISM.
Palin is a Hateriot. So is Bachman.
October 18, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is not calling anyone an un-American or any other name you can dream up. She's not hateful or disrespectful. One just has to read your comments to see who is.
Have you not heard over and over again Obama say --- the middle CLASS? Have you not heard him say only 95 percent of Americans?
BTW - Madelyn Dunham, is the one who raised Obama and gave him the privileged opportunities that have brought him to where he now is.
Did he write a book about her or a father who abandoned his mother when he was a child.
I'm not buying that he cares about his mother's mother now.... I am saddened that she is not well at this time. I pray for her. God bless her.
October 23, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello freespeech... just thought I would respond... I know it would seem that people are being hateful when they discuss their dislike of Palin, but it gets a little noisy when people feel disrespected! I live in a small town and did not like what she said because it seemed so narrow. I don't think Obama is being exclusionary when he addresses the middle class, I think it's kinda our turn after the "temporary" Bush tax cuts have helped out the upper income guys for so long. If he's looking out for 95% that looks like better odds than we've seen for a while. As for his Grandmother and Mother please see the excellent article at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-2,00.html. His book being about his father didn't upset his mother. One question. Why would you think he doesn't care about his Grandmother? I've read that some people think he didn't talk enough about her on the campaign... I think it was the right thing to not drag an 80+ year old into the dirty arena of politics. Well, hope this helps.
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November 4, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink