Sarah Palin's influences and RFK

[Joanne98]

by ron ray
Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 11:34:27 AM PDT
I read this a couple of days ago, I've searched Kos and couldn't find it, so apologies. But it still galls me so I looked it up again.

It's a short Huffington Post item from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."

It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.

To my mind thus far, Palin is nearly laughable. That anyone buys into the shtick I find flabbergasting.

But this says a lot to me about the real danger of what she represents in the right wing that wants to take over this country. I see this has been noted around the web, so enough said.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/19/14265/8934

[Eric J in MN]

1. Sarah Palin implied people in small towns are better than the rest

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Long ago, a young farmer and a haberdasher from Missouri, he followed an unlikely path -- he followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency. And a writer observed, "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," and I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.

I grew up with those people. They're the ones who do some of the hardest work in America, who grow our food, and run our factories, and fight our wars. They love their country in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America.
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Why did her husband join a secessionist party if he's always proud of America?

Also, she describes people who live in small towns as "the ones" who "grow our food, and run our factories, and fight our wars" as if people in cities don't do any of those things.