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Marcia — 9/12/2008 3:47:36 AM (archived)

... call me what you will but one took my cake:

"Except that's not really true. We haven't been a nation of small towns for nearly a century. It is the suburbanites and city dwellers who do the fighting and hourly-wage work now, and the corporations who grow our food. But Palin's embrace of small-town values is where her hold on the national imagination begins. She embodies the most basic American myth â€” Jefferson's yeoman farmer, the fantasia of rural righteousness â€”"

Oh, how dare the American people have a voice or even be a work force. Let's leave it to the Chinese, etc. I AM trying to be sarcastic.

Yes, McCain and Palin are for other energy resources. They've said so from the begining.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1840388,00.html

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Sarah Palin's Myth of America - ER - 9/11/2008 6:02:25 PM
- But Palin's embrace of small-town values is where her hold on the national imagination begins. - Lindy - 9/12/2008 3:07:01 PM
- re: Sarah Palin's Myth of America. - Ok... - Marcia - 9/12/2008 3:47:36 AM
  - A lot of Klein's premises in that article are incorrect. - TB - 9/12/2008 4:32:15 PM
    - OMG - Lindy - 9/12/2008 5:40:22 PM
      - Oh Lindy...what have you done? - McFly - 9/13/2008 12:02:50 AM
  - re: Sarah Palin's Myth of America. - Ok... In Other Words, I agree with that one. (n/t) - Marcia - 9/12/2008 3:49:23 AM
- That's heady stuff. - Bowser - 9/12/2008 2:35:18 AM
  - Ybor City project rat. - ER - 9/12/2008 3:29:00 AM
    - Freudian Slip? - ER - 9/13/2008 6:26:05 PM
    - You don't get it. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 7:11:12 AM
      - But I got this much... - ER - 9/12/2008 10:40:59 AM
        
        " Right or wrong, the Left thinks the world can be better, the Right doesn't care as long as ..." (n/t) - they don't have to live in it - 9/12/2008 3:26:06 PM
        
        re: But I got this much... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 12:57:12 PM
        
        Of course, the slander is half-hearted... - ER - 9/12/2008 1:35:37 PM
        
        I'll Take Melting Pot Over Muticulturalism Anyday - Marsby - 9/14/2008 3:07:04 AM
        
        I can live with that assessment - ER - 9/14/2008 2:31:38 PM
        
        re: I can live with that assessment - Marsby - 9/15/2008 12:57:19 AM
- Sounds like someone really doesn't like America. - Lee - 9/11/2008 11:23:13 PM
  - re: Take another look at Joe Klein - SteveS - 9/12/2008 1:53:13 AM
    - I'm sure he does like Bush. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:11:21 AM
      - You been drinking much? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/12/2008 4:35:13 AM
  - Never heard you define yourself so cleary as a white supremacist. - RobVG - 9/12/2008 1:19:22 AM
    - Lee's master race - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 6:14:25 PM
      - Except the beer ain't American. - ER - 9/13/2008 1:35:53 AM
    - And that makes no sense. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:22:44 AM
  - Play that funky music, white boy. - ER - 9/12/2008 12:33:27 AM
    - You must not be able to take it either. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:17:58 AM
      - Hey Lee, from one white man to another... - Buck Galaxy - 9/13/2008 6:25:12 PM
      - We? WE???? - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 5:29:54 PM
        
        Just making a retort Mary Anne. - Lee - 9/12/2008 11:36:06 PM
        
        The Red and the Black... - Mary Anne - 9/14/2008 2:31:52 AM
        
        The Cubans have a saying... - ER - 9/13/2008 1:24:08 AM
        
        Keeping this impersonal - Lee - 9/13/2008 3:08:51 AM
        
        So how does this prove the superiority of the white race? - ER - 9/13/2008 1:45:46 PM
        
        The only person talking "superiority" is you. - Lee - 9/13/2008 4:07:38 PM
        
        Since you asked. Here's the real deal. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2008 12:10:06 AM
        
        Awesome post - The Silent Majority - 9/15/2008 3:40:05 AM
        
        Oh, your reply right here does a pretty good job of talking up white supremacist opinion. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/13/2008 4:37:15 PM
        
        Q.E.D. - ER - 9/13/2008 6:56:54 PM
        
        What's really funny. - alcaray - 9/13/2008 8:34:08 PM
        
        Not only that, - ER - 9/13/2008 11:07:44 PM
        
        You've got that wrong. - Lee - 9/14/2008 12:57:30 AM
        
        So you're saying it's white capitalists who are responsible? - ER - 9/14/2008 1:53:39 AM
      - You're out of line, Lee - RobertS - 9/12/2008 4:57:51 AM
        
        I agree, Robert. - Lee - 9/12/2008 11:26:56 PM
      - Geeze, at least get your ethnic slurs right... - z - 9/12/2008 3:38:11 AM
        
        a little more on this slur... - z - 9/12/2008 2:35:25 PM
        
        In some parts of the South and West... - ER - 9/12/2008 6:49:07 PM
        
        A veces estoy harto de explicar a esos pendejos - z - 9/12/2008 9:12:04 PM
        
        I don't know what a "pupusa" is... - ER - 9/13/2008 1:33:56 AM
        
        Tasty, sort of empanada-like. Central American... El Salvadoran? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/13/2008 5:30:07 AM
        
        It sounds absolutely dreadful, - ER - 9/13/2008 2:16:02 PM
        
        pupusas are pretty popular hereabouts - alcaray - 9/13/2008 6:47:53 PM
      - The real reason we come here... - ER - 9/12/2008 3:33:15 AM
        
        I suspect they hold no attraction in this case. - Bowser - 9/12/2008 7:49:12 AM
- Gibson's first interview. Got her first passport this year, and ready to be president.. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 10:23:22 PM
  - She's a female GWB who doesn't trip over her tongue. Yet. (n/t) - Eri - 9/12/2008 3:14:20 AM
  - Unfortunately I think Sarah Palin missed her true calling in life - z - 9/12/2008 2:10:18 AM
    - Yeah, DEAD Ringer for Tina Fey of SNL Fame - carl - 9/12/2008 3:09:24 PM
      - You think she's got that much of a sense of humor? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 6:48:02 PM
    - Hmmmm - Eri - 9/12/2008 3:15:23 AM
      - No, she's the religious fanatic who would have eagerly judged and burned the witches... (n/t) - z - 9/12/2008 3:22:24 AM
        
        Well... - Eri - 9/12/2008 1:03:14 PM

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