nykshaknbake wrote:I'm no Palin fan. She's probably smarter and defeintly more driven than the average bear but defenitly not VP or anywhere close to that material. I thik at this point she's just trying to cash in. But I think what's funny is how desperate you are to put this on here and the 'Limbaughites'. I mean she would be nothing if people like you would stop the hate that pumps her up as big as she is.loweyecue wrote:GustavBahler wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/3405336/Sarah-Palin-blamed-by-the-US-Secret-Service-for-death-threats-against-Barack-Obama.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d2a2a998935ffeb,0
"The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists", citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.
The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.
But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.
The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks."
Wow, its funny to see all the people trying to absolve Sarah Palin in this thread. Its like she has never addressed the fringe (and by definition the crazy elements) in her speeches and try to fan the flames of hatred. But if this guy had no direct connection to Palin then of course she is completely above blame. If Sarah Palin is allowed to run her mouth this country will be divided into Republicans and terrorists, you heard it here first.
Put what on her? What it is that you think I am trying to put on her? I didnt claim she was directly involved, I said there would never be any accountability. Through sheer stupidity and vulgar behavior she made some very suggestive gestures that may have helped create a thought process that leads to this type of incident. Yes Politicians do shape how people think, ths has been true for centuries and that goes double for fringe people with less than adequate reasoning decision making ability.
The other thing I said was that she wouldn't be held accountable because of the propaganda machinery. And you made whatever assumptions you made and said "Reason and evidence be damned" - To that the flip answer would have been : Under George F Bush we all saw how "evidence" of WMDs and "reason" to believe those would be used against us, played out. And how he was held accountable (NOT) for a completely pointless war that wasted over a trillion dollars and countless Iraqi lives. Instead I tried to keep it simple and all I said was I don't think right wing politics should be confused with rational behavior. Just my opinion.
Now that's all you will hear from on this, I have nothing further to discuss here.
TKF on Melo ::....he is a punk, a jerk, a self absorbed out of shape, self aggrandizing, unprofessional, volume chucking coach killing playoff loser!!
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