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