I was appalled (and annoyed) this weekend by the newest wave of hypocrisy to come spewing perkily forth from the ever-smiling, ever-smirking, perfectly lipsticked mouth of Governor Palin. I'm actually starting to enjoy (for comedic reasons only) her interviews that are nothing more than disconnected prepositional phrases laced with stock GOP pablum. But accusing a sitting U.S. Senator of "palling around with terrorists" is crossing the line.
Finally informing us what she reads, Palin said that yesterday, while leafing through her daily copy of the New York Times, she came across a story on Senator Obama and William Ayers, the 1960s militant and member of the Weather Underground, the radical and violent anti-war group. And faster than you can say "Darn right!"she saw her opportunity - and her duty. Clearly, she must inform an unknowing nation that Obama is guilty by association with Ayers.
You, Governor, should know better. As I and many journalists have noted, you have strong ties to the Alaska Independence Party. While it was finally revealed that you technically were not a card-carrying member of the AIP, it was discovered that the First Dude, between his life of high adventure in helping you rule your northern fiefdom, his competitive snowmobiling and fishing, was a member of the organization for many years.
Yes, it is a free country. You get to associate or marry whomever you want, no matter how distasteful. Yes, Senator Obama served on a board with William Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground and now a college professor and activist in Chicago. However, Senator Obama has clearly distanced himself on numerous occasions from Professor Ayers' actions in the 1960's. This is a non-issue. Perhaps that is why you have decided to focus on it -- better a non-issue than having to learn and think about real problems that affect everyday people, like health care, the economy and education. Those, I suppose, are just too gosh darned hard.
All snarky comments aside, I do have a concern, Governor. A big one. You have never distanced yourself from a radical secessionist movement aimed at the breaking up of the Federal Union. You, Governor, have never stated a single time that the AIP is not only wrong-headed, but outright dangerous. Instead, you have videotaped welcoming comments for their annual conventions. Instead, you have a "close association" with a known former member of a radical, right-wing, well-armed and well-funded political party whose founder damned the United States as virulently as Reverend Wright did. While Reverend Wright enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame, and was rightly slammed for his vitriol by patriotic writers on both Left and Right, the AIP happily continued along its way, spewing anti-Americanism more in line with something Fidel Castro would say on a May Day celebration in Havana.
And you stood there Governor, like a caribou caught in the headlights. And you still stand there, but now with the audacity to stand at the top of your glass castle throwing rocks at other people. There is a big, big difference between a limited association with someone who had committed a crime 40 years before, and being married to a man who supports the destruction of the United States.
Who has the closest terrorist association, Governor? Who? If you believe Senator Obama to be the buddy of terrorists, don't make an unsubstantiated claim. Call the FBI and demand an investigation. If you are just grandstanding for a crowd of racist isolationists who fear the idea of a successful black man who worked his way up from nothing to become a success--a modern day Horatio Alger story if there is one--you should be deeply ashamed of yourself. Look to your own house before you start throwing rocks Governor. For who among us can cast the first stone? Seem like you can Sarah, seems like you are the only exception to the Scripture since about 32 AD.
I am a loyal American. When Election Day happens, and if the GOP wins, I want to know that the person who is literally a heart beat away from the Presidency is a person I can trust to do the right thing. Someone who will place national well-being above some perverted concept of secessionism, who will not associate with people who are worse, far worse, than a liberal college professor who was immensely foolish -- and wrong -- in the 1960s.
Yes Governor, I question your patriotism and your loyalty to this Republic. And I have a hell of a lot more evidence to question your loyalty to the Republic than you do to question Senator Obama's.
In fact, would this apply to the 'guilt by association' method being used by Palin?
Worse yet, Right To Life has, as recently as a year ago, been involved in 'terrorist attacks' on staff from a reproductive health clinic.
Right to Life endorses McCain/Palin. Look it up.
I guess that means that Palin is pallin' with the enemy, huh?
Is this where I get to use the pot & the kettle analogy?
Check around the 6 min mark of the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIi4rbIXbkw
Remains of Alaska Separatist Are Identified. Founder of AIP Mr. Vogler in a plastic-explosives sale gone bad.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE3DB153CF936A25753C1A962958260
Sarah Palin and Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). AIP head says in this video "she was an AIP memeber".
youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmt0rLtgmK0
Palin attended the Alaskan Independence Party Convention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7UZ1IufQ8
Please do what you can to get this into the mainstream media. I haven't seen or heard a single thing ( other than your post ) juxtaposting Obama/Ayers and Palin/AIP.
Think my description of John McCain as a collaborator/traitor is out of line? Read the book, "John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account
By John S. McCain III, Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy."
I also can't understand how supposedly intelligent elected officials and surrogates who support McCain can repeatedly spew the same "talking points", in identical words, knowing they are outright lies. And they even know everyone KNOWS they are lies !!!!!!!! How can they hold up their heads??
That is why they continue to tear our country apart and show no remorse.
That is why they will look the voter in the eye and lie to them.
That is why voters must send a loud & clear message in Nov.
Check out the group's tee-shirt it's worthy of Cuban anti-American art.
Do not attempt to sling mud at your opponent....when said opponent has an entire truckload of mud to fire back at you, and you are wearing a snow white outfit.
She has NO CONSCIENCE.
Palin is so ADDICTED TO POWER,
she'll do anything to grab more of it.
Palin is not "folksy", she's DISGUSTING.
Such an ad would not be merely tit-for-tat -- Palin is following this crazy church's agenda and the country needs to know it. Her boundless ambition and her brain-watched zealotry makes her a dangerous ideologue.
We've had enough ideologues.
She also attempted to have the polar bear removed from the endangered species list, supposedly so their habitats could be used for oil drilling but conceivably so she could hunt them down along with the wolves. If she should become Vice president, would she be able to use Marine One to hunt down the wolves in Yellowstone?
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/clarifying-the-facts-a-letter-to-the-new-york-times-9-15-2001/
Her pure lack of humanity and decency was laid bare this morning. Watching her trademark sarcastic smirk aimed at an opponent who is suffering was troubling to witness. This woman must have no ability to feel anything but her own unwavering ambition.
Wouldn't you think that she could amend her remarks for a day or two during this sad time in Biden's family? Is it too much to ask that the woman who expects to be elected vice president express some compassion and empathy for a colleague? Couldn't she at least acknowledge his loss and express condolences?
This woman is apparently morally bankrupt and in my opinion has nothing of value to offer this country. It is interesting to me that while her objective is to cast aspersions on Obama's character, she is unknowingly revealing her own profound lack of honor, character and compassion.
Turn the page on Mc Cain/Palin. They are wrong for America and wrong for the world.
my question is - why isnt the media questioning her very real and very dangerous alliance with the alaskan independence party? why arent people asking more about this because this? this woman speaks with a forked tongue and it is just appalling. all i can do is hope that the a.i.p. issue will come forward, because palin needs to put her money where her mouth is. and also her religous ties...how can she attack someone when hers are so clearly questionable?
all i can come away with is that she may be delusional and certainly full of ego and apparently full of hate.