Domestic Terrorism

[lykomancer]

Palin said, I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America: as the greatest source for good in this world! I am afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.


I'd like to make several comments:

First: Obama was 8 yeas old when Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground.

Second: Ayers is FORMER member of the Weather Underground, and is NOW a tenured professor and a "leading expert on education reform".
I guess Palin doesn't believe in second chances. Very Christian of her. *thumbs up*

Third: America may be a great source for good in the world, but we are NOT the greatest nor are we acting upon the potential that we have. We do not have the lowest percentage of homeless people, or of rape and domestic abuse, or the shortest average work week. We are not global trendsetters in the fields of education, environmental policies, health care, or even in the arts.

NEWSFLASH: WE ARE IMPERFECT.

Fourth: Define "domestic terrorist" please. Are we talking yippie-type "terrorism" here, or Thoreau/King-type civil disobedience?
Or could we define "domestic terrorist" as someone who ascends to power only to use that power unfairly and tyrannically, such as someone who cruelly makes rape victims pay for their own rape kits, adding a financial burden and further humiliation on people who have been abused? How about someone who tries to ban books from libraries and tries to fire people she don't like, exorcising ideas and people from community without consulting said community?

Personally, I'd say that anyone with so much hatred toward the environment as Palin herself counts as a terrorist. "Drill, baby, drill"? Sounds to me like someone has been marinaded in a culture of disgust and hatred-- toward women, toward flesh, toward sex, toward nature, toward the uncontrollable-- so long that she doesn't know how to do anything but destroy. I'm not usually the type to suggest this, but perhaps smacking her around with a copy of Women & Nature would be beneficial.


...I really, really, REALLY hate this woman.

I may be keeping another open window of running commentary tonight for the debate. I hope you all will join me. :D


[EDIT: *howls* Unfortunately for Barack Obama and John McCain, there is no such thing as "clean coal." The phrase is an Orwellian marketing slogan invented by coal interests, yet both presidential campaigns are eagerly embracing it.
This statement is both hilarious and true simultaneously.]

Comments

[ozen.livejournal.com]

My mother is a standard overweight, pasty-skinned, adorable aging Baby Boomer. She loves Disney, puppies, and baby dolls, and when I was growing up, she didn't allow my sister or me to use the word "fart" because I guess it just wasn't wholesome enough.

So yeah. Total, unrepentant goody-goody.

But when Palin came up in our last conversation, she groaned and said, "God, what a BITCH! You can just TELL."

So yeah. Palin for teh suckage.

[lykomancer.livejournal.com]

I honestly can't understand why anyone likes her.

Of course, then there's all these articles and comments how people who dislike her are OBVIOUSLY jealous of her, since she's so smart and funny and gorgeous, etc. Apparently, if you can babble incoherently enough so that no one understands what you are saying, some portion of the listening population gives up and decides you must be too smart for them to understand, even if you are standing at the podium going, "If... If our pancakes are flat, then Obama knew a domestic terrorist and we must solve this problem by drilling right here and now before Putin raises his ugly head over my house!"

[ozen.livejournal.com]

"When the wind is in the east, I no longer know my elbow from a hole in the ground."