[Vision2020] Sarah The Fraud

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Hansen the fool.

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On 10/29/08, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Olbermann.htm
>
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>
>  Finally tonight, the Campaign Comment, and the real danger when you run a
>  presidential candidate who thinks he's Joe six-pack the Plumber, and a
>  Vice Presidential candidate who thinks she's Huey Long.
>
>  It's not that the rhetoric in a desperate flailing last week on the stump
>  can get hyperbolic and dangerous. It's that each person on that campaign
>  hears some of that giddying hyperbolic and dangerous rhetoric and tries to
>  top it.
>
>  This has ended up, as it usually does, with one of the desperate
>  candidates going so far to the right that they meet themselves coming back
>  in the other direction.
>
>  That'd be you, Gov. Palin. You've finally done it. You've accused Obama of
>  doing something wrong, of being something evil, something you boasted of
>  doing, and being, yourself, just two months ago.
>
>  You try to figure out what this might have been, while I go back and talk
>  to those good people over there. The Republicans called Obama a neophyte
>  and then they picked a V.P. nominee with a tenth of Obama's experience.
>
>  The Republicans called Obama a celebrity and then they bought that nominee
>  $150,000 in designer clothes. The Republicans called Obama a terrorist
>  sympathizer and then McCain said he was proud to be a friend of Gordon
>  Liddy.
>
>  It's like they've been unknowingly endowed with ESP and have been telling
>  their own futures. And now the GOP has selected its last drum-thump for
>  the remainder of the campaign although they said that about the last
>  17 "last drum-thumps."Obama is a socialist!
>
>  Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, speaking near St. Louis:
>
>  "This campaign in the next couple of weeks is about one thing It's a
>  referendum on socialism."
>
>  Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is apparently still running for President,
>  at Dayton Ohio yesterday:
>
>  "Barack the Redistributor."
>
>  Then he realized that sounded like an auto part, so, John McCain at
>  Pottsville, Pennsylvania, later yesterday:
>
>  "Sen. Obama is running to be Redistributionist in Chief."
>
>  No, no, go back to the first one.
>
>  Nobody you're talking to, even understands what socialism means, Senator.
>
>  "Re-dis-tri-bu-shun-ist"is six syllables, and it sounds more like he's
>  recycling newspapers or something. Go simpler, like Michelle Bachmann's
>  only rival for "least stable member of the House of Representatives:"
>  Steve King, R-Iowa, 5th District and 17th Century.
>
>  Warming up a crowd at a high school in Sioux City, for Gov. Palin on
>  Saturday, King, who is amazingly still let out of the house each day
>  without adult supervision, said of the Obama candidacy:
>
>  "When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian
>  dictatorship."
>
>  "There is no freedom to the left. It's always to our side of the aisle."
>
>  "We choose freedom and liberty."
>
>  Presumably that's why the Congressman's party was good enough to torture
>  prisoners, eavesdrop on Americans, suspend Habeas Corpus, demonize
>  dissent, pay news organizations to run favorable stories, and generally
>  come as close to a totalitarian dictatorship as any American president
>  ever has.
>
>  To choose freedom and liberty. For Congressman King and invited guests.
>  Not for the country. Can you tell I'm stalling?
>
>  I'm trying to give Gov. Palin out there, a couple more seconds to figure
>  out how she managed to get herself, as Shakespeare wrote of people
>  destroyed by their own evil plans, "hoist with her own petard."
>
>  Got it yet, Gov?
>
>  Okay, you remember Sen. Obama telling J.T. Plumber that it would help the
>  country to "share the wealth"—a sentiment with which anybody not receiving
>  $150,000 in free clothes would probably agree?
>
>  So you went off in Des Moines, remember this?
>
>  "See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours
>  would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you
>  thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were,
>  were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Higher
>  taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government
>  moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take
>  care of us. And government kind of moving into the role as the other half
>  of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other
>  countries where the people are not free."
>
>  So Gov., Obama's not just a socialist? Not just a re-distributionist re-
>  distributor? Maybe not just a totalitarian? Maybe not just a dictator, he
>  may be a communist?
>
>  To paraphrase you in Des Moines, Governor, Obama wants to set up, unlike
>  other candidates, collectively owning the resources. By sharing that
>  wealth and those resources. Collectivist sharing' the wealth socialist
>  communism, I'd say.
>
>  And still none of that sounds familiar to you, Governor?
>
>  "And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's
>  collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when
>  the development of these resources occurs."
>
>  Who said that, Governor?
>
>  Who was the collectivist share-the-wealther, who was boasting to the
>  reporter visiting from "The New Yorker Magazine,"of having been able to
>  send a check for $1,200 to every man, woman and child in the state since,
>  quote "Alaska is sometimes described as America's socialist state, because
>  of its collective ownership of resources?"
>
>  Why, you said that, Governor! You're a share-the-wealth, collectivist,
>  Almost-Socialist-Governor, Governor! Who also believes that income,
>  property, inventory and investments, collectively belonging to everybody
>  else, leads to a misuse of power, and government making decisions for us,
>  turning countries into places where the people are not free.
>
>  Places like,  Sarah Palin's America! Governor, all sorts of choice words
>  apply here: hypocrite, double-talker, snake-oil seller, socialist. But let
>  me stick with just one, with which to bid you goodbye. You, governor, are
>  a fraud.
>
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>
>  Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
>  Tom Hansen
>  Moscow, Idaho
>
>  "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
>  students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
>
>  - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
>
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