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I can’t wait to see how this will be spun. The MSM probably won’t even talk about it.

I’ll give her a pass…she was eighteen. Seriously, this obsession with Sarah Palin has to end. There are far more important issues to bring to the table, rather than spending time on someone who isn’t going to run for President, but rather, is running to become Oprah Winfrey’s replacement.

Whoopsie! Miss Congeniality just heard her daddy drop the dime.

Actually, as long as she’s out there, it’s important to keep ridiculing her. Every statement, every gaffe must be pointed out and seriously, we should give a shit that she was just 18 when Ayers got thrown in Obama’s face when he was 8 years old? We need to catalogue this shit so that when she does run, and she will, all of this can be thrown back in her face.Did you know that she went to Walter Read Hospital today? What the fuck is she doing there if she isn’t trying to improve her cred with Vets? She may have played McCain but, she’s not playing us. We see exactly what she’s up to.

This is a put-on, right? Or a less-successful SNL skit? Even Sarah Palin wouldn’t go all the way to an island in the Pacific, an island that’s a lot closer to Asia than it is to the mainland US, to go to school and and be “uncomfortable” to find “Pacific Islanders” and Asians there, would she?

catalogue? WTF? Someday I’ll tell you all my spelling bee story. “Catalog”

Give her a pass because she was 18? What?That just doesn’t wash with me.I remember my school becoming integrated in the 60′s. I wasn’t even in high school but the kids my age knew what racism was and most of us knew it was wrong.I can remember becoming aware of racism when I was about 6 years old and knew it made me feel very sad. I also knew I didn’t like it even if I didn’t completely understand it.I also remember learning about antisemitism from my WWII vet father who helped free a concentration camp. I was not in school yet and was deeply moved as most anyone would be.So I think 18 is plenty old enough to know when one is being racist and whether or not it is an acceptable attitude.I find it disgusting that she may have changed schools because not everyone looked like her.

She’s dangerous and represents a general dumbing-down of America:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GPhvIiWoQDo not stop chronicling her activities, both past and present.

I’ve got a theory about this, now that I think about it. It makes sense. See, Sarah was on the MRS program when she went skipping through all those schools, and she had this weird idea that Hawaii was full of rich white guys driving Farraris.

@ RoxSorry Rox…it’s just that some of us prefer to spell words correctly. You know, words like colour, neighbour, honour, flavour, rumour, centre, litre, metre, calibre, theatre, fibre…and yes, catalogue.It really isn’t our fault that Americans are too lazy to bother with an occasional extra U, or get all Freedom Fries when one employs the proper forms of words stolen from the French. At least we know how to spell the name of that great Italian car maker: ENZO.And, speaking of minorities:Local Cocktail Waitress Did NOT Screw Tiger Woods

I just think her whole college experience was an early precursor to her quitting habit. She cut and run every semester or two.The thing about her dad’s comment is the way people react to it. See, Michelle Obama wrote a thesis about being a minority at an primarily white university. She was eviscerated by the right for acknowledging it. But the difference in the way the two women handled it, Michelle Obama STAYED and excelled as a minority. Sarah RAN.Jennifer

Exactly, Jennifer.Since her college days through her governorship, Sarah has proved one thing:She doesn’t like to work, and quits when the going gets tough.

Absolutely no passes.Everything this hypocritical bigot with the marginal amount of working brain cells does must be made public.She IS dangerous ’cause some people actually see her as fit to be president.Who would have thought this country would have ever elected a pathetic, alcoholic mental-midget with a Napoleon complex and criminal tendencies (GWB) as “prez”!!Chit happens.

@ JenniferThere’s a fundamental difference between Palin in Hawaii and Michelle at Harvard.For one thing, Michelle has always been a minority / member of an oppressed class. Leaving Harvard wouldn’t change that, nor was it anything new (except she was hanging with a rather more privileged element of majority members).For another, Michelle worked goddamn hard to get into Harvard. A simple examination of Palin’s academic history demonstrates that she wasn’t aiming very high with her applications, nor particularly committed to academics.Palin may have been outnumbered by brown and yellow people on the islands, but she was still a member of the ruling class (whatever the vapid moron says about elites in order to rationalize her pathetic lack of education and gravitas), and always had the option of running back to “The Real America.”Michelle was born and raised in Real America. There was nowhere for her to run. It may be a little picky, but I think it’s significant: She did not excel “as a minority.” The minority part was a constant, succeed or fail. She simply excelled. A dedication to excellence demonstrated over an entire lifetime.Palin, on the other hoof, couldn’t handle the diversity (much less Harvard). From white bread Alaska, she ran to white bread Idaho, with a couple of community college stops in between. Surrounded by equally unmotivated white folk, she set her sights about as high as they might ever be: Mayor of Wasilla.The rest of it has less to do with a desire for excellence than it does with a craven, spoiled, brainless, provincial, ignorant, twisted (and, yes, racist) notion that beauty queen / point guard / Jesus freaks DESERVE all good things.

Thanks Avi! Sorry I’m responding so late but, it’s Sunday night and my sister and I have once again been taken hostage by our Sunday night Demon known as Champagne and, let’s just say that his old friend Mr. Marley blew into town and we literally couldn’t separate them! Avoir, Mon!

Trust me, being around lots of whites is not a big deal. What I mean is, I’m an African American female and I’ve worked many places where I was either one of a few or the only person of colour! It didn’t bother me or them. I grew up in Jersey City, just across from the place I worked my entire adult life which was the World Financial Center in NYC. For those of you who don’t know, it’s the buildings that were connected to the World Trade Center. The buildings of the WFC are still standing and over the years I’ve worked at Lehamn Brothers, American Express, and Merrill Lynch which are just 3 of the many firms that are down there including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Yes, I was part of the enemy camp until I was laid off. I can’t say that I was upset since my office faced the “Pit of Despair” aka, where the Twin Towers stood. I can’t say I miss that whole in the ground that STILL HASN’T BEEN REBUILT! I do miss my coworkers though. That’s how it is in big cities. We don’t see colour though. Just friends. Take that teabaggers!

Actually, it’s sad that Lehman Brothers is gone now. Although, I only say that because I made the most money and got a great bonus from them. Too much of a good thing maybe? Anyway, I’ve got to go now! Goodnight all!

The minority angle aside, this is, again, another example of Going Rogue being a revisionist pile of caribou shit.Sarah claims she left Hawaii because she couldn’t stay focused on her studies. Her dad says she left because she couldn’t stand Pacific Islanders. Kind of makes you wonder how well she really got along with Alaskan natives and their minority-ness.

I’ve got friends (white guys) who grew up in Hawaii. They report that to be white there is to be in the minority, and that they caught a lot of shit strictly because of their race. Sometimes violently.I don’t know what her experience was, and don’t really care. This is a non-issue, as far as I’m concerned.Let’s pick our lines of rhetorical attack a little more judiciously. Going after every little perceived slight is silly.

@ SaysyesEver notice that Sarah’s face is just a little wonky?And the way she does that middle-two-fingers-of-both-hands wave makes her look like she’s flashing some sort of Wasilla home girl gang sign.She’s a doofus!

My only point was really about resilience.Michelle Obama, whether she was used to being a minority or not, faced the issue head-on and didn’t let it prevent her from achieving her best. But the right took offense to her paper, acusing HER of being racist for addressing what it was like for her and other minorities. With SP, she cut and run like always and we’re not going to hear anything from the right about that. Fine; I would expect nothing of the sort.Instead of looking at the story as SP is a racist, I look at it as a comparison of one woman’s ability to handle a tough situation and the other woman’s inability. One woman accomplishes and the other doesn’t.I find her absolutely frightening. I do not want her running for anything. I want her out of the public eye because she is dangerous. She brings animosity to the surface that is bad for Obama’s safety, for our civility and for a reality-based vision of the country’s true principles and values. I want he to hit a wall so hard that she has to quit this public life crap just like she quit everything else.Jennifer

What would make it really ironic is if she was later denied the Vice Presidency by one of those minority types from Hawaii…

Avi,I have never found her particularly attractive. Somewhat put-together and fit, but never sexy.Her slight cross-eye is probably the most interesting part of her appearance.For the purposes of this thread, I like Jennifer’s above..