Palin Called Obama "Sambo"

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Palin Called Obama "Sambo"
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Tue, 10-14-2008 - 4:25pm

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”


This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.


According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.


“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.


Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”


Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 5:57pm
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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:05pm

A left wing magazine The Atlantic wants this stuff in their magazine.


http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/16/the-atlantics-photog-goes-ape/


Remember a liberal

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:10pm
and then the left claims that they don't sling mud... right
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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:14pm

That is just one of the many I have seen.

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Registered: 10-13-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:19pm
I have no desire to see the photo.
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Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:31pm
And that is having to do with... what?
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Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:37pm
I have no desire to see the photo.
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Registered: 10-14-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:38pm
I think they are just afraid of her because of her strong, conservative views and her popularity. She's a bit threatening to them.


I can't tell if you're being serious or not. I say that not to be mean, but because if you've been following the ins and outs of this election, it probably hasn't escaped you that of all the four major candidates (Pres & VP), Palin is the one with the lowest favorable/unfavorable rating. And that's AFTER starting out as strongly as she did with the splash she made at the Republican convention. The more time has passed, and the more people of all political persuasions learn about her, the fewer of them are pleased with what they see and hear. Palin is at a bare 49% favorable, 45% unfavorable, compared to her running mate - McCain has a 51% to 45% ratio.

And the Democrats? Biden's numbers are 59% to 31%.....and Obama's are 60% to 36%.

I think it's safe to say from that - especially when you factor in that Palin's numbers have been steadily decreasing, that Democrats aren't "afraid" of Palin, at least not in the electoral sense of the word. I'll readily admit that I'm afraid of having someone so clearly both unqualified and apparently - at 44 - uninterested in learning much about what I'd consider important in a VP or President being in such a massively powerful position. But it looks like the chances of that are fading pretty rapidly - and truth be told, once I got a whiff of just how rote, and unqualified she was, the extremity of some of her positions stopped bothering me as much, because I felt more comfortable that she wouldn't likely be electable. And the steady drip, drip, drip of Republican defections from the McCain ticket who actually cite his choice of Palin as one of the reasons they'll either be sitting this one out or voting for Obama speaks to that as well, I think.

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:43pm
No...what "the left" claims is that they don't sling mud AS A POLICY DECISION, or as a consciously pursued strategy. There are always going to be individual mud-slingers in every party and political group. That's the nature of politics. But the difference is that, while "the left" HAS such individuals - like the photographer you linked to - the right recruits, trains, and lionizes them....like Karl Rove. I'd say that the metaphorical - and electoral - dump he took on McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was far more "muddy" and also more devastating to John McCain than any photographer with a copy of Photoshop could be, no matter who (s)he works for.

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Registered: 07-29-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 6:46pm
Wow.

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