Posted on 09/15/2008 5:00:29 AM PDT by IbJensen
Ours is a country capable of almost constant surprise, especially when the chips are down. That is why the appearance of Sarah Palin is the most startling thing to happen in American politics since Barack Obama took Iowa last January.
Give them a reason, and they will gather behind you. John McCain gave them Sarah Palin and they gathered.
Whether through a combination of desperation, condescension and sheer lucky nerve, or something else altogether that no one can explain, John McCain and the Republicans have taken charge for the moment. They finally have succeeded in completely appropriating and redefining all of Obama's campaign themes of change while pretending 24 years after Geraldine Ferraro that the elephants are far more willing to shake things up than the donkeys have ever been.
Sarah Palin even lifted Obama's unprecedented theme of embracing miscegenation, perhaps to fight liberal stereotypes of conservatives as white racists. Plucky to nearly the bursting point, Palin observed her husband was proud of his Alaskan Indian blood, which was another way of saying, "Hey, guys and gals, our kids are all American and they aren't pure white, either! Barack Obama, you can sit down and stop bragging."
Yes, Sarah Palin comes from the kind of women who helped win the West, no doubt about it. They walked next to wagon trains across the country, had children under the most hazardous circumstances imaginable and lived through weather as bad as the country could be beautiful. They fought, killed or were captured and enslaved by the Indian tribes who resisted the expansion of the United States. If her membership in the NRA did not imply all of that, Fred Thompson did when he asserted that she would be the first VP candidate capable of correctly dressing - meaning butchering - a downed moose.
These are the kinds of things that make Palin more one of the boys than even most of the boys are. So while remaining the loving mother of five, Palin also has the credentials to be a proxy male who can go in the door of the men's club and not be sneered at unless one is willing to take her on in a target shooting contest.
Like it or not, that is a big step.
But hunting moose, owning a firearm and being opposed to abortion are not the things that bother me most about Palin.
Here's a short list: It can easily be proven that she did not lead the fight against "the bridge to nowhere"; that she is not opposed to pork-barrel earmarks and has actually fought for them; that she seems to believe as much or more in a Christian theocracy than in American democracy. And in one of the most well-received moments in her RNC speech Palin made it quite clear: Terrorism is a good enough reason to destroy or ignore the Constitution.
"Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights," she said in ripping her Democratic rival.
She might be pretty enough for Rush Limbaugh to call "a babe"; she might shoot well enough to be nicknamed "Annie Oakley" and she may even have squeaky clean but gritty charm. But, when the sun goes down and nobody else is around, Sarah Palin kneels to and bows low before the language that can prepare the way to totalitarianism. Always a dangerous thing.
She does not seem to realize - though all of our friends and every last one of our enemies do - that the constitutional rights at which she sneers are what separate this nation from the totalitarian regimes in most of the world.
Changing from what we are into one of those kinds of regimes is not what I believe the American people want and that is what I believe will save us from embracing a self-described pit bull with lipstick.
For all of the indications to the contrary, I think that Barack Obama is right when he says that the American people are not stupid. They might not be able to dress a moose, but they can usually recognize a pig in a poke. With or without lipstick.
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or you. They way you worded that phrase put all the accusation on Palin and made the word terrorist secondary. I guess you don't want people to to start looking at terrorist, like Wm. Ayers, Obama;s good friend
A week after 9-11, and he talks about terrorist rights. How about interviewing family and friends of 9-11 victims, and see if they agree with Palin or Crouch?
The way he worded that phrase put all the accusation on Palin and made the word terrorist secondary. I guess he doesn't want people to to start looking at terrorists, like Wm. Ayers, Obama's good friend.
I wonder if Mr. Crouch would attempt an expose on who financed Obama's education at Harvard, and who wrote letters to Harvard to make certain the marginal Obama gained entrance?
"Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights," she said in ripping her Democratic rival.Thanks for reminding me of that line. That was one of the great ones!
(Nothing else this dck-head wrote is worth reading.)
Mr. Crouch is a grouch.
Gov. Palin did a great job in Alaska and governed right from the middle. No one reports that.
He should give back his paycheck.
Stick it, Stanley.
Right, as if we have any of those left anymore in the first place.
This nation is ruled by lawyers, and leftist imbeciles like Crouch are worried about Palin.
Somebody remind Stanley that constitutional rights are for American citizens........and that’s what separates us from the rest of the world.
Crouch just doesn’t get it. The American people are fed up with politics as usual as illustrated by “community organizer” Obama and political hack Biden. Sarah Palin is truly a breath of fresh air to American politics. Most voters are fully aware that the MSM are preaching the leftist/socialist agenda that Reagan fought and beat. The more they attack the stronger we get. Note MSM’s profits are constantly dwindling.
...and, as to a pig in a poke, you'd better take a much harder look at Barry.
I think this, from a KOS article, explains in full detail why they MUST Destroy Sarah Palin, or Obama LOSES, and oh so many in the media realize it, too...
“McCain/Palin are using such demagoguery to get elected. They disguise it as Mom, apple pie and America. Do NOT fall for these deceptions and lies. They are promoting ignorance as a means to delivering the rewards to the well-off class, tax-evading corporations, Big Oil and consumer oriented, planet destroying interest groups.
I am so disheartened by all of this. Female acquaintances of mine who were previously Obama supporters are now gung-ho for Palin.
They can afford the change of heart; they have money and don’t have to worry about, for instance, a federally funded abortion for their daughters.
In fact a McCain/Palin victory would give them MORE money in their pockets. Then they could continue to feel that they are so much better than the average American. Scapegoatism plain and simple.”
Damn....
Just damn!
Hey Stanley, you and your RAT friends preach the Constitution???? Where does the Constitution say anything about affirmative action??
Putative messiah Obama's bike with his uninflated tire.
These traitorous Democrats don't care about money. (Most of the cadre of this gaggle are limousine liberals who didn't have to work for their wealth.)
They have a cause which is the emasculation of America. Their goal is to drag this nation down into a ditch and killing it! They, every bit as much as Russia, Venezuela, N. Korea, China and most of Africa want to see this nation dead failing to realize that it has been the engine that ran their pitiful economies.
John Kerry was "the French looking candidate" because he was. Obama is an elitist because he is. John Edwards is the Breck Girl because he got 400 dollar haircuts to keep his blond locks perfect.
One should keep in mind that he is a big, big fan of NARAL.
He also may be America's worst jazz critic ever.
It's the vast simple-minded citizenry who vote for lies and empty speeches that worries us.
There is a large percentage of registered voters who are completely without reasoning power!
Crouch is not a complete Kool-Aid drinker. In that way he is a little bit like William Raspberry and Pat Moynihan. So, I gave his article a read. There is no “there” there. I’m actually not a big fan of the concept of a “war on terror,” but see no problem with not reading the rights to people who are neither on American soil nor are American citizens. I also don’t see the problem with monitoring phone calls that go overseas. If a package can be intercepted at customs for any reason or no reason, so can a communication.
Ugh, crap like that infuriates me. So you want to be pro-abortion, fine. But why should others have to pay for YOU to have sex?
Federally funded abortions, ha!
God, please let John McCain and Sarah Palin win this election.
Another “pig” reference by a black man representing the party of tolerance.
Another reference to Bush’s policies?
I think not.
Mr. Crouch.....”dressing” a moose is NOT the same as “butchering”...Anyone with experience in the American pastime of hunting for and acquiring meat for the table knows that “dressing” is actually removing the organs from the harvested animal while in the field.....not, as you say, on the butcher’s table....
Please try and gain some knowledge of the topic on which you wish to write before you make an even bigger fool of yourself...
The far left picks the Dem candidate during the primaries, that is why it's hard for them to come back to the center once they have been nominated. Hillary could have pulled this off. Not only was Obama a Muslim, his conversion to Christianity was to a racist church and Black Liberation Theology. His last name sounds like the guy who coordinated the attacks on Sept. 11 and his middle name is the same as the dictator we went to war with a few years ago. Would Americans, even today elect a guy named Fredrick Hitler Adolphus? and they're not going to elect this guy either.
Couple the outward stuff with the fact he is the most liberal Senator while McCain has moderate credentials and it''s over.
Any body ever say what exactly Gov. Palin shot that moose with? I’ve read that she owns a 243 but I don’t picture shooting a moose with that.
2008 - The Return Of The Angry Black Man
(will he ever go away?)
"Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights," she said in ripping her Democratic rival. ... She does not seem to realize - though all of our friends and every last one of our enemies do - that the constitutional rights at which she sneers are what separate this nation from the totalitarian regimes in most of the world.And Stanley, here's something YOU and your ilk, like Barry, don't get - the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the abortion issue is NOT about keeping abortion LEGAL,
but about making sure that there are no indicators in public policy that abortion is WRONG.
It’s more about protecting the psyches of those that have had abortions or have participated in aborting a child,
than it is about protecting the “rights” of anyone seeking an abortion.
Notice this:
Anyone simply living their lives as a “light in the world”, to a secularist who is knowledgeable of their own wickedness,
is attempting to “impose theocracy” or “shove religion down our throats”.
Crouch is in the Wynton Marsalis camp isn’t he? Bill Evans couldn’t swing etc...
Crouch writes all of Marsalis' embarassingly sycophantic album liner notes.
Crouch's principles:
(1) The only good jazz is late 50s/early 60s bop (Art Blakey) - except for Marsalis' recreations thereof, which are even better than the original.
Anything earlier is schmaltz or hamboning, anything later is just empty noise.
(2) Wynton Marsalis is the greatest person ever. He is incapable of doing anything wrong. His most self-indulgent excesses are incomparable gifts to mankind from an overly-generous deity. Every second of the 3.5 hours of Blood On The Fields is an incomparable jewel.
(3) Miles Davis is the worst person who ever lived, because he was one of the architects of Crouch's favorite 1955-1965 period bop - but went on to betray jazz by using electricty, engaging in fusion and indulging in freeform experimental funk.
(4) White people cannot play jazz. They can imitate it, sometimes almost convincingly, but they lack the spiritual ability to truly understand and create jazz. one of the things that makes Davis suspect is his painful (for Crouch) claim that Stan Getz was the premier jazz instrumentalist of the early 60s.
Ever see Ken Burns’ Jazz? He pretty much hewed to the Marsalis/Crouch agenda.
One of the funny things about his Jazz documentary demonstrates his wholesale adoption of the Marsalis/Crouch agenda - the large amount of time allocated to Sidney Bechet.
Wynton Marsalis is a New Orleans native who shares Crouch's muted black nationalism and notion of black exceptionalism in jazz.
Marsalis idolizes New Orleanian Bechet who was more of a New Orleans and Paris cult figure - as opposed to Louis Armstrong, who was a worldwide phenomenon pop phenomenon.
Armstrong was too popular and too friendly and gladhanding with white people (and far more generous in performance to white musicians) as well as too middlebrow to be Crocuh/Marsalis' favorite.
Bechet was a clarinetist who aspired to classicism and art music - much like Marsalis. Bechet was a local cult hero, an artist best appreciated by insiders - real snob appeal for the Crouch/Marsalis set. Bechet was one of the first jazz professionals to permanently leave racist white America for France (though he did grace the USA with his presence during the Nazi occupation).
Bechet was a sullen, resentful egotist who was acutely aware of his own greatness and contemptuous of the public who were unaware of it.
In Ken Burns' documentary, he is portrayed as one of the true giants of jazz.
Most people would be surprised if they knew exactly how Coltrane assembled his style.
>>Most people would be surprised if they knew exactly how Coltrane assembled his style.<<
I’m not ashamed to say that there is a lot of music that surprises me.
This is really a horrible article by the many times reasonable Crouch. In the past Crouch has been courageous in attacking poverty pimps and other assorted losers who disgrace black Americans. But if he thinks Sarah Palin wants to establish totalitarianism (by his own twisted reasoning), he has a screw loose.
He has fallen seriously ill with Obamaitis due to becoming overly enamored with the idea of a negro being elected president.
Wrong negro.
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