Palin Called Obama "Sambo"

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Registered: 10-13-2008
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: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:08pm

Cute.


 

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:09pm
Yes, it is a most *excellent* debate strategy

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:10pm

What debate?


 

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:11pm

Yes, I have noticed this trend.


 

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:12pm
When someone defends the saying Baby's Daddy there really is no debate.

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:15pm

When one feels that this is a point worthy of disparaging a candidate (or in this case, a candidate's wife) over, it's laughable, yes.

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:18pm
You forgot Michelle called Obama her baby daddy.

 

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:22pm
That wasn't the point I was making.

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:24pm

Nope. That's the one conservatives always trot out, except that Michelle Obama quite clearly says "baby's daddy." It may not seem like much of a difference, but context is everything here. The phrase "baby daddy," when used alone, means just what people have complained it means when excoriating FOX News about having used it in a chyron when talking about Michelle Obama. That's because, when used alone like that, it's the only phrase available to indicate the relationship - or what the person using the phrase, whether it's about himself or someone else - thinks of that relationship.

In the context Michelle Obama used it, the extra apostrophe-s makes it just another way to say what politicians have been saying for years: "the father/mother of my children." Especially when taken as part of the sentence in which it was used: my husband, my honey, my man....she is quite clearly using it in a far more traditional - and unremarkable - way, with the addition of the apostrophe-s, than people who refer to someone as "her baby daddy," where the clear implication is that this person is the biological father of the child the listener knows the woman has...but who is NOT her husband, her boyfriend, her "honey," or her man....it's meant to imply casual, even careless relationships, in a mostly negative way. That is most certainly NOT what Michelle Obama meant - or what she said.

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 9:24pm
Oh no, I knew perfectly well what point you were

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