Former Mayor of New York Ed Koch backs Obama, calls Palin "scary"

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Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who endorsed and worked for George W. Bush in 2004, is endorsing Obama today, NY1 first reported.

I asked Koch just now what prompted the move.

"The designation of Palin to be vice president," he said. "She's scary."

He said he was alarmed by the report that she'd triggered a conflict with the local librarian in Wasilla, Alaska by inquiring about the possibility of banning books.

"Any time someone goes to the library and says, 'I want to ban books,' and the librarian says 'no,' and she threatens to fire them -- that's scary," he said.




http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Koch_backs_Obama_calls_Palin_scary.html

Edited title to add New York Mayor

[mucifer]

1. I've been telling you people like palin scare most of us Jews.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. and most Native peoples

and since my husband's heritage is part Jew and part Cherokee, he's REALLY worried.

[Peacetrain]

3. Yep, the truth cannot be held back

She comes out of a tradition, who think the only way the parousia (end times) will happen is when all people who are Jewish have either converted or are destroyed.

[crazy_vanilla]

9. i agree

She is so misguided. I used to work with a know-it-all Bible thumper like Palin. She put me off of organized religion completely.

Besides, I think Palin may turn out to be super scary in that respect if she rises to the top. Think Spanish Inquisition scary for those of us who do not share her beliefs.

[Muttocracy]

4. Koch has a good, effective, simple message: "she's scary"

[Peacetrain]

5. Yep, I have seen a couple of threads on different people

describing her as "scary", not only Koch, but her ex campaign manager

[Muttocracy]

6. just stumbled across video on CNN of Koch:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/12/am.ed.koch.obama.cnn

[Peacetrain]

7. Thank you for adding that..since I am on dial-up I never see videos

so I do not think to add them to my posts, since I can't see them (unless I want to sit for 20 minutes waiting for them to download ) :hi:

[Muttocracy]

8. I'm about to go from wireless something-fast to no home internet

I'm moving. The withdrawal will be serious! I think there are some cafes with free wireless, but it won't be the same.

[Peacetrain]

10. Well we are thinking about going cable..

just because the net is so heavy now. I read somewhere only 12 or 15% of people are on dial up now.. and I can believe it.. I could carve my email in stone faster than what it takes for the sites to come up now with all pics etc

But even with that, it would be hard not to have it at home. I get most of my news off the net now.. I think that is what I would miss the most..access to all those newspapers or should I say net papers

[Imagevision]

11. Exactly,"Any time someone goes to the library and says, 'I want to ban books" is scary

it brings back revelations of Fahrenheit 451