[Vision2020] Frank Rich NY Times op-ed

Sun Oct 5 19:23:39 PDT 2008

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Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/

> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:37:32 -0600
> From: no.weatherman at gmail.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Frank Rich NY Times op-ed
> 
> Ms. Mix,
> 
> You should apply for a job with Rolling Stone because your skill at
> isolating quotes out of context to set the speaker in a false light is
> matched only by their skill at air brushing.
> 
> You wrote this:
> 
> "These are serious times for this nation, and I pray that truth will
> overcome deception, obfuscation, and lies of omission and commission.
> And I'll add that I'm especially dismayed that Palin saw fit to
> suggest that Obama 'doesn't see America like you and I do,' which is
> more Right-speak for 'See? He ain't one of us!'"
> 
> But the critical context that you left out was that Palin was speaking
> to a partisan crowd of donors in a closed-door fund-raising event.
> Here are her words without your interpretation:
> 
> "Our opponent . . . is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so
> imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists
> who would target their own country. . . . This is not a man who sees
> America as you see America and as I see America."
> 
> And here's the complete article that you interpreted in a false light:
> 
> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93JSBFO0&show_article=1
> 
> The correct interpretation of this quotation is that Sarah Palin
> appealed to her political base's sense of patriotism and its sense of
> national security by pointing out the unnerving fact of Barack Hussein
> Obama's close personal friendship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers,
> which is a subject I may have mentioned before.
> 
> I seriously doubt she would try to make this appeal at Rev. Wright's
> church, or at a Weather Underground reunion, or at a Black Panther
> meeting, or on Vision 20/20 because it's only an effective argument
> with right-wingers who find Obama's associations disturbing.
> 
> By comparison, Obama made the following remark at a private fundraiser
> and not on the stump because this kind of rhetoric brings in large
> sums of cash from his political base, though it torpedoes votes rather
> quickly:
> 
> "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of
> small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years
> and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton
> administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive
> administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna
> regenerate and they have not.
> 
> "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or
> religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or
> anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain
> their frustrations."
> 
> http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Obama_on_smalltown_PA_Clinging_religion_guns_xenophobia.html
> 
> If you ask me, you come off as bitter though I don't see you toting
> guns around town.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:01 PM, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com> wrote:
> > I don't know how to do the hyperlink thing, so I'm going to have to hope I
> > type this correctly: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05rich.html
> > This article by Frank Rich, who I usually find to be dead-on, is brilliant.
> > It's troubling, yes, but it's the kind of thing we all need to hear and
> > reflect on, especially those of us surrounded by Palin cheerleaders who find
> > no misstep in her race for VP and no discordant note in her soundbites and
> > speeches. I'll blog more on this later, but here's a particularly
> > significant quote from Rich: " . . . But there's a steady, unnerving
> > undertone to Palin's utterances, a consistent message of hubristic
> > self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks
> > she can be president, she thinks she will be president. And perhaps soon.
> > She often sounds like someone who sees herself as half-a-heartbeat away from
> > the presidency. Or who is seen that way by her own camp, the hard-right GOP
> > base that never liked McCain anyway and views him as, at best, a White House
> > place holder." (Frank Rich, October 5, 2008) These are serious times for
> > this nation, and I pray that truth will overcome deception, obfuscation, and
> > lies of omission and commission. And I'll add that I'm especially dismayed
> > that Palin saw fit to suggest that Obama "doesn't see America like you and I
> > do," which is more Right-speak for "See? He ain't one of us!" Locally, we've
> > heard way too much of that -- against a U.S. citizen and professing
> > Christian whose use of lofty rhetoric is consistent with what we expect from
> > Presidents and those who hope to be, but who also -- and this is more rare
> > -- backs it up with hard data, clear plans, workable policy, and a
> > commitment to learning more that I think we can all agree is seriously
> > lacking in our current administration. We talked about "truth" in church
> > today, and I was blessed. I don't offer Rich's article as an example of
> > truth, but as an invitation to think long and hard about what a Palin-McCain
> > ticket (that's what it's looking like) would be. I can truthfully say I'm
> > frightened at the prospect. Keely Keely
> > http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/
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