Dear American Friends...

[pyat]

Please explain:

"We see America as the greatest force for good in this world," Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, "Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists..."

No, seriously. What is going on down there? Have you all gone mad, or something?

Mind you, it makes for interesting headlines. The big contentious issue in the election up here is whether or not carbon tax is a good idea. The incumbent, Prime Minister Headcheese, is accusing his front-running rival (Milquetoast Q. Egghead of the Liberal Party) of "wanting a recession." His rival was described by Canadian media outlets as "enraged."

"It happens that I think his right-wing policies that he's proposing for our economy will hurt people not because he wants that," said Dion, "but because he has the bad policies for the country, the bad ideology that he wants to import in Canada, solutions that did not work for the economy around the world."

Easy there, tiger! I can practically feel the anger pouring from the text!

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

In addition to being ruthless to the point of complete immorality, the Republican party has (since the early 1970s) reshaped itself into a party that appeals primarily to excepionally narrow-minded racists and religious fanatics. The fact that Obama isn't one of them is enough to earn their hatred, the fact that he's black means that he's obviously evil incarnate. The above statement is simply more evidence of this fact.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Yes, what he said. Stop thinking of Palin as a participant in a rational political process, and start think of her as the equivalent of a hand-job for the eighty million Americans who wish that the social advances of the 20th century had never happened. She is them; she shares and thus dignifies their prejudices. It doesn't matter what kind of President she'd be, it matters that she knows exactly what words to purr into their ears while applying friction, and can deliver them sincerely.

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

The fact that she probably benefited personally from every single one of those social advances doesn't seem to trouble her.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Can I quote you in my LJ? I think this is the best thing I've read so far on the subject. :-)

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

In general you can always quote anything I say, and I'll be flattered. :) But in this particular instance, don't quote me, quote Matt Taibbi, who I stole the line from. Here's his original column: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/100551