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.
Product Description: I hate the gooks, said John McCain, I will hate them as long as I live. Senator McCain said these words when asked about his continued use of the racial slur, “gook.”.
John McCain has told us who he is.
• John McCain supported the rescinding of Martin Luther King Day.
• John McCain keeps on his payroll white supremacists, race-baiting swiftboaters and lobbyists for dictators and terrorists.
• John McCain endorsed George Wallace, Jr., a favorite speaker among white supremacists.
• He fought to keep the Confederate battle flag flying over South Carolina.
He seems to subscribe to a brand of religion-inspired bellicosity that calls for the U.S. to wage war for the sake of imparting our values upon humanity. McCain promised to immediately start wars in North Korea, Libya, and Iraq during his first presidential campaign, and in 2008 he has promised new wars to come. He sent his own money to the contra guerillas, and even visited their illegal war camp.
War is the way of John McCain, and racial bias makes it easy to execute those wars. Long before George W. Bush became president, McCain planned an invasion of Iraq. He lobbied for an Iraq invasion just days after 9/11, and when it came time to convince the American people, he insisted that the Iraq War would be easily won.
The combination of racism and warmongering are perfectly encapsulated in gook, a racist term formed during numerous U.S. wars, from the invasion of the Philippines (1898-1902) to the occupation of Haiti in 1920, to the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
John McCain used this anti-Asian slur freely with the media until he was forced to stop for fear of sabotaging his own presidential ambitions. The portrait of John McCain painted in Gook is far more disturbing than any racial epithet. A central thesis of Gook: war fertilizes racism, and racism justifies wars and the killing of civilians. This dynamic thrives within the most dangerous leaders of the world.
A native of East Texas, Tang has had personal experiences struggling against the terroristic acts of the white supremacy groups he writes about in Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters.
Two years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) revealed that alarming numbers of neo-Nazi skinheads and other white supremacist extremists were taking advantage of lowered recruiting standards and infiltrating the U.S. armed forces in order to receive combat training and gain access to weapons and explosives. New evidence is emerging that not only supports SPLC findings but also indicates the problem may have worsened.
The racist skinhead logged on with exciting news: He’d just enlisted in the United States Army.
“Sieg Heil, I will do us proud,” he wrote. It was a June 3 post to AryanWear Forum 14, a neo-Nazi online forum to which “Sobibor’s SS,” who identified himself as a skinhead living in Plantersville, Ala., had belonged since early 2004. (Sobibor was a Nazi death camp in Poland during World War II).
About a month after he announced his enlistment, Sobibor’s SS bragged in another post to Forum 14 that he’d specifically requested and been assigned to MOS, or Military Occupational Specialty, 98D. MOS98D soldiers are in high demand right now. That’s because they’re specially trained in disarming Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) like the infamous roadside bombs that are killing and maiming so many U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Presumably, a part of learning how to disarm an IED is learning how to make one.
CASE AGAINST THE IMPERIAL KLANS OF AMERICA (IKA)
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s case against the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) is scheduled for trial in November in Meade County, Kentucky. The SPLC sued the IKA and two of its officials on behalf of teenager Jordan Gruver, who was brutally beaten by IKA members at a county fair. Over the past couple of months, the trial team, led by Morris Dees, has been in Kentucky preparing for the case. CLICK HERE (opens in new window) — to view VIDEO of Morris Dees discussing new lawsuit against the Imperial Klans of America | Dees answers questions about the case: READ HERE
“I have my own reasons for wanting this training but in fear of the government tracing me and me loosing [sic] my clearance I can’t share them here,” Sobibor’s SS informed his fellow neo-Nazis.
One of his earlier posts indicated his reasons serve a darker purpose than defending America: “Once all the Jews are gone the world will start fixing itself.”
Sobibor’s SS included enough biographical details in his various posts to Forum 14 over the years, including that he’s a single father from the small town in southern Alabama, that a military investigator with access to enlistment records for recent months should have little trouble discerning whether the Army is actually teaching a skinhead with genocide on his mind how to be a tactical bomb maker.
But there’s little reason to expect that will happen….[ CONTINUED HERE ]
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