Friday, October 10, 2008
Say it ain't so, Sarah!
Posted by Michael Giordano on Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:22 AM
My government is my worst enemy. I’m going to fight them with any means at hand.
The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that’s the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. (“Keep up the good work,” Palin told AIP members. “And God bless you.”)
Well, gosh darn it, they're a team of hypocrites too, dontcha know. Please note that Gov. Palin curiously manages to hit all her final 'g's' in her taped address to the Alaska Independence Party. Too bad there wasn't an opportunity to say 'nuclear' in there. She might have nailed that one too.
Props to David Talbot and The Salon for putting this into sharp relief.
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This should go over well with the local blogging Sinn Fein contingent. How many buildings did the AIP bomb? Vogler sounds like a community organizer by that Salon article.
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If we want serious terrorists relationships near the oval office I'd stick with Ayres and his much closer relationship with Obama. Ayers wasn't all talk he knows how to really blow things up.
Indirectly, I agree with Carmen, John and Obama. Let's stop the guilt by association and stick to the real issues at hand: a world economic crisis, skyrocketing health care costs, rising unemployment, the nation's energy policy and what kind of country our kids are going to inherit. Grasping at tired accusations gets us nowhere.
While I routinely get buttonholed as a terrorist by complete stranger when I wear my Ashley Morris shirt with Sinn Fein emblazoned on it (one guy chasing me around at Jazz Fest until I pointedly told him to Fuck Off, and left him there still mumbling at me), no one in the loosely styled "Sinn Fein" contingent has suggested armed insurrection, although I think a Republic of Louisiana (if one could overcome the historic antipathy of Acadians and the City) consisting of Acadiana and the greater City is a fine idea. Then we can build our own damn, levees, thank you. At the same time, you're not going to get the Palin wing of the party to shut up. They've been indoctrinated into a fantasy world as bizarre as that of 20th Century fascism, and show no signs of coming out of it any time soon. I don't even want to consider what those angry mobs at McCain-Palin rallies would do if they think they're really loosing. Do you remember the Brooks Brothers Riot that shut down the recount in Broward County in 2000, helping to seal what was widely reported in the European press as a bloodless coup de tat? Imagine not fifty of them but fifty thousand, or 500 thousand, or worse, intent on blocking Obama's election. Watch those rallyies. I've followed politics (and worked in it) for decades, and I've never seen anything like it. The people at the Palin events are not more a mainstream party than the AIP but much, much larger. And that scares the hell out of me.
david: my intent isn't to accuse. it's to shed light on the tactics, deception and desperation at play here.
I hear you, Mike, but I'd like to see the Democrats and the Republicans, ala Dave Chappelle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RkBeFHQ4s, hold a "Character Assassination Draft." Maybe the McCain camp could swap Bill Ayers with the Dems for Todd Palin, and take both pseudo issues off the table.
Gambit staffers disagreeing in a public forum? Don't you know we should be marching in lockstep and speaking with a monolithic know-it-all Official Pronouncement Voice? If you haven't figured out I'm kidding...I'm kidding.
i believe we can settle this at dinner. marquess of queensberry rules acceptable?
Michael whose tactics, deception and desperation at play here were you pointing out? Who is a team of hypocrites? Whose pronounciation did you find comment worthy? Exactly who weren't you accusing of anything?
