Posted on 10/06/2013 10:40:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Excerpted from "Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident"
“This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America,” vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin cried out to the agitated crowd during a 2008 campaign rally, referring to then-Senator Barack Obama. “We see America as the greatest force for good in this world” and as a “beacon of light and hope for others who seek freedom and democracy.” This was how “real Americans” saw things, according to Palin. As for Obama, he’s “someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country!”
There it was: the punch line that would resonate no matter what else was said or done— palling around. It had a special creepy ring to it, for sure.
When Governor Palin—or, as our late friend Studs Terkel called her, “Joe McCarthy in drag”—uttered it that first time (and ever after) the crowd exploded: “Kill him! Kill him!” I couldn’t tell for sure whether it was me or Senator Obama who was the target of those chants— perhaps both. I’d been designated a public enemy before. I knew the territory pretty well and accepted the consequences with some equanimity, but now poor Barack Obama as well was forced to play Ibsen’s brilliant character, the embattled Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the “enemy of the people.” Stockmann was viciously taunted in the public square by a chorus of townspeople bent on delusion and self-deception: Kill the enemy of the people!
There was no way to prepare for what was about to hit me, of course....
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She didn’t mention his name, as my mother always said, if the shoe fits, wear it. Guess he is feeling a little guilty.
No, he feels he can ride this wave for all it’s worth.
Thanks very much for the ping to this thread, KC. Me & Ayers...steel cage (or alleyway)...death match. F’n punk.
I wonder how much Ayers will beg when he finally meets his judgement.
Man's Justice maybe imperfect.
But G-d's isn't.
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