Dear American Friends...
Oct. 4th, 2008 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyatPlease 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!
"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!
The terrorist in question
Date: 2008-10-06 06:54 pm (UTC)He is a terrorist -- in the 70s he participated in bombings of NYC Police HQ, the Pentagon, and the US Capitol. Obviously, not a very effective terrorist (I don't know if that was due to incompetence or a lack of will to do serious damage). He's unapologetic about it, though.
Connection to Obama: they were both on the board of an anti-poverty group, and IIRC, Obama participated in a charity that funneled a lot of money to Ayers' education charity. Ayers does have some pretty scary ideas about education still (indoctrinating children in radical ideaology), which I find more disturbing than his '70s activities, personally.
It's certainly not a strong connection, and Ayers isn't the sort of terrorist people think about when the word "terrorist" is used today. Palin's remark is certainly misleading. But not entirely unfounded.