printMSNBC’s Barack Brigade—Chris Matthews (said Obama sends a chill up his leg), Norah O’Donnell (like Campbell Brown, she too is not working with much) and wild man Keith Olbermann—attempts to speak over MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan whenever he opens his mouth. Fortunately, the man writes up a storm. In the process, Buchanan manages to say it all about the Palin factor and human nature:
“Why did the selection of Sarah Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that have been so in the tank for Barack even ‘Saturday Night Live’ has satirized the infatuation?
Because she is one of us – and he is one of them.
Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin kills her own food.
Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America – until Barack started winning.
Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are saturated in black power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.
Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the Daley Machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.
Barack has zero foreign policy experience. Palin runs a state that is home to anti-missile, missile and air defense bases facing the Far East, commands the Alaska National Guard and has a soldier-son heading for Iraq.
Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin’s stances read as though they were lifted from Reagan’s 1980 “no pale pastels” platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about.”
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Those who dare not speak honestly will omit the following: When you and I look at the Obamas we see accusing, blaming eyes. This, even though they are better off than we and have had opportunities we’ve not had because we’re the official “oppressors” and they’re the sanctioned “oppressed.”
Unrelated: Palin must muster a fresh speech; she keeps regurgitating her Convention address while campaigning. The lines sounded stale the first time she reused them.
As the governor of the only state in the union to border Russia she’s had more contact with Russians in one week at sea then Obama’s had in his whole life. This would also apply to the Japanese and a few other nations that fish those waters.
The Palin’s are proud to be Americans but beyond that they are proud of their accomplishments and the life they’ve built with their own two hands. Anyone want to bet that the semi-lovely Michelle and Barrack are self loathing? They know there are people like the Palin’s out their and hate them for it. The media would also fit into this category.
I remember, way back in 1988, that a PBS commentator (can’t remember who it was, now) averred that Americans want to vote for a “country boy” and that is why they liked Ronald Reagan so much. The commentator went on to describe the Presidential and VP nominees from the two major parties in that election.
It went something like, George Bush(Sr.)– more “country club” than “country boy.” Dan Quayle — the suburbs. Michael Dukakis — Boston Common; Lloyd Bentsen — Wall Street in cowboy boots.
None of these men filled the bill of “country boy,” but Sarah Palin certainly fills the bill of “country gal.” That is what many Americans are looking for, someone who is “one of us,” as Pat says.
However, I would be much happier if this election debate focused on issues rather than personalities. I wonder if there is any chance that will happen before November.
I agree with Barbara Grant about the need to focus on the issues. To the extent that there is a distinction, Obama is BETTER than McCain on Wars and Civil Liberties. Even economic issues may be a wash because taxation (which voters hate and will limit) is better than borrowing/inflating (which voters go along with) – compare Clinton with Dubya. Hence, McCain’s choice of Palin has turned into a brilliant distraction – e.g. ignore the last 8 years of Republican misrule and focus on a Kultur-Jihad – which Buchanan loves and which favors the Republican pseudo-fascists over the Democratic pseudo-socialists. Ironically, if one does not wish to vote for a 3rd party, there is a reasonable case for “Libertarians for Obama” – see, for example:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09/why-libertarian.html
I will not vote for her, but the maniacal vitriol and lies being thrown at her tempts me to vote for her.
I will not vote for Obama either, if that were not abundantly clear.
Sometimes Patrick Buchanan makes sense and writes the truth, as in this article, which the liberal news media will probably never see or read or understand, in their narrow-minded “liberalness”.
Patrick Buchanan writes the truth very often. I think that recently he’s gotten even more precise.
Anytime he says anything that sounds anti-capitalist, I stop myself and wonder if he’s sincere in his words, or if he’s saying the truth in a populist way.
Your commentary on Palin is spot on. I predicted her nomination. I’ll work to elect the McCain/Palin ticket.
When she saw corruption as a member of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she exposed it by resigning her position and giving up a six-figure salary. Unlike Washington politicos, Palin has a life outside of politics. It’s her most significant qualification.
This fact ought to sober McCain. If his promises of reform turn out to be blue smoke, Palin is likely to speak up. Resigning the Vice Presidency in protest would not be out of character.
In my judgment, the only woman in America more fit for the nomination is the owner of this blog.
Let me be the first to predict Palin/Mercer in 2012!