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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<<No...what "the left" claims is that they don't sling mud AS A POLICY DECISION, or as a consciously pursued strategy.>>
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.
Thanks for the correction, I was under the impression that she was drawing good size, excited crowds. Obviously, since the polls show that most people do not like her at all, those crowds can not be there.
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
Oh, I think you mean 47. Yes, I just looked it up. Obama is 47. I don't blame you, the thought of him in office scares me too!
I don't believe I said anything about her not being able to draw "good-size, excited crowds" or even about her not having actually DONE so. Clearly, she has done so. But nowhere near the size crowds that Obama has attracted. And all that filling up a 3,000 person rally shows is that a given candidate can "excite the base." I don't think many of Palin's detractors would claim that she isn't doing that. In fact, that's part of the problem: Palin is attracting - and "firing up," in the worst sense of the word - some of the more extreme elements of the Republican base. Hence the shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" and "Bomb Obama" shouted loudly enough to be picked up by microphones and reporters' ears at Palin rallies. Whipping a mob into a frenzy isn't the same thing as having good, solid, across-the-board favorability numbers. Palin can do the former....but her high-water mark at the latter seems to have been at her very first appearance, when people, including reporters, were reaching for the google just to find out who the heck this woman was, and how to SPELL "Palin." The longer she's stayed in the hot glare of an intense Presidential campaign, the worse she's looking to a greater number of people. So, while those crowds you "noticed" are most definitely THERE.....it doesn't mean much outside an ability to preach - or perhaps more accurately, screech - to the choir, the already-converted.
>>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
Oh, I think you mean 47. Yes, I just looked it up. Obama is 47. I don't blame you, the thought of him in office scares me too!>>
Nice try at being 'clever", but you said
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