Sarah Palin is a strikingly beautiful woman, but her campaign rhetoric was ugly and frightening. With a smile and a wink she got away with uttering the most vile, contemptible and baseless accusations against Barack Obama.

Many times I would listen to Palin speak, and smile at her hokey charm. It wasn’t until a few moments later that I would think: Wow, she just called Obama a socialist who pals around with terrorists.

Sarah Palin is perceived by the press and most thinking Americans as a harmless intellectual lightweight, but her ill-chosen words are destructive. Palin is a very dangerous demagogue, and the GOP is playing with fire if they seriously consider her as a future presidential candidate.

“Sarah Palin’s attacks on Barack Obama’s patriotism provoked a spike in death threats against the future president, Secret Service agents revealed during the final weeks of the campaign.

The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling ‘terrorist‘ and ‘kill him‘ until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.

But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.

The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin’s attacks.

Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: ‘Why would they try to make people hate us?’” — [MORE]

Palin’s over-the-top attacks on Obama could very well have inspired some of her more crazy fans to kill Obama. Yes, Palin is beautiful and charming, but what comes out of her mouth is ugly and dangerous.

Now that the McCain/Palin obituaries are being written, thinking conservatives should condemn Palin’s hateful speech. There should be no place in a presidential campaign for groundless vicious attacks.

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Gun dealers say handgun sales are up and so are permits to carry concealed weapons. Some say it’s a trend that’s a reaction to the war in Iraq.

I say it the FEAR of an Obama presidency….a “black presidency!”.

To be precise, to some whites (typically Republican) the thought of a black man acquiring the most powerful job on earth and lording over them is totally unpalatable, and is causing uncontrollable rage and “pant-wetting.”

“Experts” claim that rural small town whites a.k.a. McCain’s “REAL Americans” fear that if Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidency, he will join with fellow Democrats in Congress to enact new gun control laws (Note: Obama has said that he believes in an individual right to bear arms but that he also supports “common-sense safety measures”).

Now, that’s an excuse…the real fear, is that if a black man ascends to the presidency, these low-information, McCain “fear-mongered” morons, are so paranoid, they actually do believe that Obama will allow blacks to “Enslave Them,” or in some really petty warped minds — Obama may replace the Star Spangled Banner with a rap version by 2Pac, and/or send white folks back to Europe by wooden boat.

Way back in April, Jon Stewart and Obama joked about it: Stewart asked: “Sir, we are concerned that ultimately at the end of the day, if you are fortunate enough to get the Democratic nomination, fortunate to become President of the United States, will you pull a bait-and-switch, sir, and enslave the white race? Is that your plan? And, if it is your plan, be honest. Tell us now.”

Believe it or not, there are many whites who think that an Obama presidency could be a license for blacks to retaliate for 400 years of slavery. Republicans, including McCain have exploited this fear over the years.

During this election season, McCain and Palin are busy stroking the bigoted juices of — The “REAL Americans,” knowing very well that they are afraid of blacks because of how “they” have treated blacks in the past, and are “terrified” of an Obama presidency, harboring the ridiculous fear that he (obama) might sanction and let loose years of black fury.

And, therein lies John McCain’s CORE STRATEGY — “Stroke The Nativist Racism.”

When John McCain calls Obama a “Socialist who wants to re-distribute wealth,” he is talking to the same idiots in CODE. Essentially, he is telling these RACISTS — Obama will take your hard earned wealth and give it to his fellow blacks!

That is enough to get their HOT RACIST JUICES flowing like the Mississippi river. [See Video Below]

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When Democratic Rep. John Murtha said that some of his constituents in western Pennsylvania are “rednecks” and the entire region just five to 10 years ago was “really redneck,” and that the history of southwestern Pennsylvania is teeming with racism, the old man was speaking the TRUTH, and he has nothing to apologize for.

Fortunately, “FAKE Americans” of all colors will be voting in droves for Obama next week.

I am left to wonder whether the REAL Americans will start shooting blacks on November 4, when Obama is declared the winner over McCain.

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McCain and Palin’s ‘REAL’ America….That is, ‘RACIST’ America

Pfriend or Pfoe? — Even if John McCain doesn’t get elected,
he’ll still be president of the real America that matters.

Quiz: Are You a ‘Real American‘? — Take this quiz to find out
if you’re a real American or a fake one.

Understanding ‘Real America‘ in Wasilla — After a few days in
Wasilla, Jason Jones understands what real America is all. about.

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Ignorant and Despicable Imbeciles.

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By Eugene Robinson

Time to Be Outward Bound

Since George W. Bush became president, the Republican Party has presided over massive, out-of-control government spending, converted a federal budget surplus into a half-trillion-dollar deficit, and looked the other way while Wall Street’s greed and stupidity turned the hallowed free market into scorched earth. Now the party has to watch as a Republican president orchestrates the biggest government intervention in the workings of the private sector since the New Deal.

Can any Republican candidate claim with a straight face to represent the party of small government? For that matter, can any Republican candidate plausibly explain what the party is supposed to stand for these days?

It’s pathetic to hear right-wing talk radio blowhards try to associate Barack Obama with “radical” or “socialist” views when a Republican administration is tossing aside “Atlas Shrugged” and speed-reading “Das Kapital.”

The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that it will make unlimited quantities of dollars available for currency swaps with the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, as these institutions scramble to keep major commercial banks from failing — and potentially taking U.S. banks with them. None of Bush’s Cabinet members could be heard sniffing about the irrelevance of effete “Old Europe.”

This attitude adjustment is necessary, mind you. The question isn’t whether some kind of drastic, frankly socialistic measures are needed to save the American economy but which measures — buying up toxic mortgage-based investments (as the White House said it would do), buying up the troubled mortgages themselves (as John McCain wants to do), or pouring money into selected banks and taking part ownership (as the White House now says it will do). Sitting back and letting the dire situation correct itself is not an option, because the market’s phoenix-like solution begins with self-immolation.

Politically, though, there is at least some justice in the fact that a Republican president has to deal with this Republican-made crisis. That little piece of irony isn’t worth $700 billion, but so far it’s all we’re getting.

After eight years of the Bush administration, the Republican Party — to put it bluntly — is a mess and a fraud.

There is an intellectual case to be made for the economic philosophy that the party purports to represent. I disagree with it strongly, but I respect its integrity — in a way that this administration and the Republican leadership in Congress clearly did not.

The Republican Party said it believed in free and unfettered competition, but it picked winners and losers through a system of crony capitalism. All it takes to make my point is a name: Jack Abramoff.

The Bush tax cuts, which heavily favored the wealthy, showed that the president and his allies in Congress didn’t believe in progressive taxation. I think that’s outrageous, but the administration goes further and actually seems to prefer a regressive tax scheme. That’s the only explanation I can think of for why hedge fund managers making hundreds of millions of dollars a year pay taxes at a lower rate than their chauffeurs.

Now that it’s election time, the party — as usual — is trying to convince Americans that it stands on the side of the little guy. Sarah Palin has been trotted out to convince everyone that the party cares deeply about the eternal roster of cultural issues — God, guns, gays, abortion, etc. If McCain and Palin were elected, the party would doubtless return these issues to the storage locker until the next election, at which point they would be dusted off once more.

Oh, and isn’t the Republican Party supposed to stand foursquare against intrusions on privacy? Then why were Republicans so unmoved when it was revealed that the Bush administration had been conducting unprecedented surveillance of Americans’ private electronic communications?

When Ronald Reagan was president, I had a sense of what ideas and principles his party stood for. When Newt Gingrich and his “Contract With America” brigade took Washington by storm in 1994, I knew what they believed — loopy though it was — and what they hoped to accomplish. I defy anyone to give a coherent explanation of what today’s Republican Party, under George Bush and now John McCain, wants to do except perpetuate itself in power.

When a political party reaches the point of lurching incoherence, the most effective cure is a good, long spell in the wilderness. Americans should help Republicans out by sending them home to get their act together.

[Enlarge] About The Author: Eugene Robinson — is an Associate Editor and twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post. His column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays. In a 25-year career at The Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s award-winning Style section. In 2005, he started writing a column for the Op-Ed page. He is the author of “Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race” (1999) and “Last Dance in Havana” (2004). Robinson is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and has received numerous journalism awards. More Articles By Mr. Robinson: | Part 1 | Part 2 |

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