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Home Front: Politix
Obamaniacs hate Sarah Palin with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns
2008-09-15
Financial Times

. . . "You want to know the honest truth? I think she's like a bad actor from a B-list sex movie," said Paula Vanbuskirk, an Obama-supporting independent, whose contempt for the Alaska governor and self-styled "hockey mom" was shared by almost everyone questioned by the Financial Times.

If it was Mr McCain's intention to ignite a fresh "culture war" between middle America and east coast liberals by nominating Ms Palin, the evidence in Manchester suggested he has succeeded in spectacular fashion.

"I just do not trust the American people," said Eleanor Shavell, 58, a computer programmer, who, along with several others, joked she would move to Canada if Mr Obama loses. "I cannot believe that 80 per cent of this country thinks we're headed in the wrong direction yet 50 per cent are supporting McCain and Palin. I guess it's like at school, there's always got to be a bottom 50 per cent." . . .
Posted by:Mike

#27  ...but does their hatred "burn with a hard, gem-like flame"???

Creative writing professors are eager to know.
Posted by: Whoring Sinatra2153   2008-09-15 16:13  

#26  Hey wait a minute! We don't need any more liberals up here. Around these parts, they are know as fiberals or libranos.

We just tossed out a couple of AWOLs. Thought they could con us into thinking they were dodging the draft, little sh*its.

So keep the Shavell twit. At 58 she'll just be a drain on the pension and medical system, which despite what Michael Moore may have told her, is barely on life support.
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2008-09-15 16:10  

#25  and I dont think there will be riots outside of inner cities if he is not elected
Obama has close ties with his cousin, the Islamist Odinga, and campaigned heavily for him and his "Orange Party". Odinga has first-hand ties to Al Qaeda and other nefarious characters.
After the election riots broke out, in which over 300 died. Odinga used this violence to Mau Mau his way back into government. It's not the manipulated rioters who are the main problem, it's the people behind them.
Let's hope we don't see a repeat in the US after the elections, should Obama fail,
People worry that Obama picked up his political skill from the Chicago Machine, I'm more worried he may have picked them up from Odinga.
Posted by: tipper   2008-09-15 15:53  

#24  I dont think there will be riots outside of inner cities if he is not elected.

Note that outside of inner cities. I fear he's right. And I wouldn't be surprised if there's riots either way, sort of like when the local football team wins the you-name-it bowl and the fans go on a drunken rampage. But especially if he loses. But it's only their own homes they'll burn. Just like every other riot.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-09-15 15:45  

#23  They hate Sarah with white hot fury but feel neutral to slightly frowny about Al Qaeda (although if Al Q would drop the 'death to homosexual' line they might move to above neutral.
Posted by: mhw   2008-09-15 15:36  

#22  Contempt for your opponent is a pretty sure way to bet beat.
Posted by: mojo   2008-09-15 14:40  

#21  Ms Shavell, may I be the first to offer my assistance in your upcoming move to Canada? I have a lot of empty boxes looking for a good home.....
Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields   2008-09-15 14:30  

#20  My gut feeling is that by the time the election is over, a lot fewer people will be so heavily invested in Obama, and they will simply be ridiculed if they try anything violent.
For example, I just posted a link, ":Co-workers: Obama Inflated His Resume" .
To me, Obama looks more and more like the Democrats very own Jayson Blair.

Posted by: Grunter   2008-09-15 14:29  

#19  Remember, we're just the "flyover people". We don't really count. We're all in the way of progress and don't know enough to know what's good for us.

Here's a shining example of leftist journalism, although you have to know a very little about the Lord of the Rings to really appreciate it.

http://googtube.blogspot.com/2006/08/fellowship-911.html
Posted by: DLR   2008-09-15 14:24  

#18  Rioting was only suggested by one or two columnists and it says a lot more about those columnists than anything else.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-09-15 14:17  

#17  The Left has this enduring fantasy that one day "poor people going rise up, and take what's theirs" (really, "what's everybody else's") in some sort of spontaneous Marxist revolution. Never happens, never will happen.

If Obama loses, there'll be a lot of disappointed wanabee revolutionaries wondering why the riot didn't happen. I'm sure that people who are heavily invested in him will be disappointed, but they won't go down the streets hurling Molotovs and screaming "OFF THE PIGS!" on Wednesday morning.

Sooner or later, we'll elect a "person of color" to national office. (I like the idea of Vice President Jindal taking the oath on 1/20/13 m'self.) Whoever it is will win because he or she is on the ticket that gets more electoral votes. It'll be a good thing when it happens, but not all that much a surprising one.
Posted by: Mike   2008-09-15 14:17  

#16  Raider Ray, I can see where you're coming from, but, I gotta say that 92% of Blacks voting for Obama and his commie-left progrissivism makes it hard not to stereotype. Not to mention the sycophancy of the MSM.

I can legitamately call myself one of the least racisist people in the world but it seems actions and words ain't enough if it doesn't support the looney left's hate America machine.

Hell, 3 of my 4 grandkids are probably blacker than Barry since they're 50% Black and I doubt that Barry's father was pure (lots of Arab there I bet). But because I love the USA I get labeled as a racist.

Tends to be REALLY frustrating, ya know?
Posted by: AlanC   2008-09-15 14:06  

#15  Raider Ray, I agree with you on the racial stereotypes by some posters here. It is not acceptable IMO.

I believe that Obama would be a disaster for the black inner city community. Democratic policies have been counter-productive for that community for the past 40+ years. These policies have done much to destroy the family unit in these communities. Our country can and must do better. Those in the affected communities can and must do better.
Posted by: remoteman   2008-09-15 13:49  

#14  Raider Ray, I think your point is well taken here although I admit it is easy to fall into stereotypes at times. As I once heard someone put it, "it's not stereotypically speaking, it's statistically speaking." Nontheless, we should make an effort to avoid them as they rarely serve to further the discussion in any meaningful way.

Whether or not African-Americans will riot if Obama fails to win the election remains to be seen. I think the likelihood is rather remote and I'm hopeful if not confident that it won't happen as long as the election remains a fair one. And I have no reason to believe it wouldn't.

That said, I live in Washington DC and I'm not going to take any chances. Illegal or not, come the election, you can bet I will have a firearm stored in my home for self-defense purposes should things get ugly. Better safe than sorry.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2008-09-15 13:45  

#13  ...what Raider said. Conservatism has no color.
Posted by: jay_dubya   2008-09-15 13:39  

#12  I suspect that if there is any violence, its far more likely to come on or from the campuses [and their immediate neighborhoods] that breed and nurture the moonbat environments. The kids in the inner city already understand violence and what it really does. The kids on campus talk a lot, but are unlikely to have been up close and personal with it to understand the full consequences [other than those attending on their GI Bill money].
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-15 13:34  

#11  I was born on the West coast and raised and currently reside on the East coast. Judging by my education (at a snooty boarding school and then an almost-as-snooty-but-far-more-liberal liberal arts college) and my peers, I should be one of these liberal elitists.

However, the truth is that I can't stand them. I don't hate them, in fact several of them are my siblings and good friends. I just can't stand their dismissive and holier-than-thou attitude about politics. They are Liberal Fascists in the truest sense of the term.

As demonstrated by one of their leading "thinkers" Janeane Garofolo, on Bill Maher's show the other night, they truly believe that liberals and "Democrats are just more decent than Republicans," and conservatives. If Ms. Garofolo had her way, and I'm paraphrasing here "we would be better off if we just threw them all [Republicans] in jail." How charming.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2008-09-15 13:32  

#10  Speaking for Non-moonbat black people, I don't want Obama elected, and I dont think there will be riots outside of inner cities if he is not elected. Mussolini thinks bodies in the street would be a eye-opener? I merely call to the FBI crime statistics to point out that bodies are already in the streets, and I can see no awakening of the masses. I love this website for it content and commentary, however I think the sometimes general "racial stereotypes" are a bit ignorant.
Posted by: Raider Ray   2008-09-15 13:23  

#9  Michael Moore.
Posted by: lollypop   2008-09-15 13:15  

#8  Dan Rather.
Posted by: lollypop   2008-09-15 13:15  

#7  So who does she trust?
I'd be interested to hear her answer.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-09-15 13:02  

#6  "I just do not trust the American people,"

That pretty much sums it up folks on the fundamental difference between left and right. Message - that's why we left Europe and its bankrupt hierarchical ruling caste/elite mentality and philosophies.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-15 12:59  

#5  ...Eleanor Shavell, 58, ...joked she would move to Canada if Mr Obama loses.

We'll help you pack. Heck, we'll even pay for some expenses too!
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-15 12:45  

#4  Once again reminded of the '72 quote from some journalist in New York: I can't believe Nixon won. I don't know anyone who voted for him!

Or something along those lines.

Leftocrats really do live on a different planet, and thus far NASA has failed in its mission to return them there...
Posted by: Iblis   2008-09-15 12:37  

#3  Outlets like NBC and the NY Times don't help in moderating the "super white trash" talk like this. Even in a Debroah Solomon interview in Sunday's Time with some EEE figure named Kennedy (never heard of her and could care less of her accomplishments), this "radical chic arugula eating Westsider" opined that she thought Palin was scary due to her banning books and talking about us being on God's mission in Iraq. I mean you cannot as a legitimate news source allow this kind of libel to go unanswered regardless of your editorial policy.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2008-09-15 12:34  

#2  If you're a Democrat, you're in favor of coddling criminals, aborting the innocent, and wouldn't know a moral position if it came up and bit you in the rear. I WANT the Dems to start some crap after McCain gets elected, particularly the blacks who are threating widespread rioting in American cities. Lots of their dead bodies in the street might start to get them a clue about what is and isn't acceptable in America. They've been coercing the country with that threat ever since 1968. It's time to call their bluff.
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-09-15 12:30  

#1  Anyone feel insulted by these folks comments?

A lot of liberal pundits comment on how unhappy the "public" is with the direction things are going. They think that everyone one wants to go to the left. Guess what folks; about half of them want things to go to the right.
Posted by: tipover   2008-09-15 12:25  

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