Sarah Palin had been using, for quite some time, covert racial signals to smear Barack Obama. Her supporters have followed suit, shouting like "Kill him!" and calling Obama a terrorist. She isn't being so implicit now. This is the most disgusting attack I've heard her make yet, and you can't point to anything BUT racism to explain these comments:
The Alaska governor told Ingraham’s listeners that if those questions were being answered, voters would find Obama “out of the mainstream,” adding that the Illinois senator would diminish “the prestige of the United States presidency.”
The "prestige" of the Presidency? That's funny, coming from Palin. Let's see the differences, just to see if we can come to ANY conclusion other than Obama diminishing the prestige of the Presidency by being BLACK:
Palin: was Ms. Congeniality
Obama: was the editor of the Harvard Law Review
Palin: Cannot pronounce the word "nuclear"
Obama: can pronounce the word "nuclear"
(go to 1:05 in the video)
Palin: talks about "Joe six-pack" and "hockey moms"
Obama: knows what he's talking about, and doesn't have to pander to "Joe six-pack", because he actually has decent tax policies.
Palin: Considers being able to see Russia from her house, among other spurious claims like it, as foreign policy experience
Obama: has been to Iraq, met with foreign leaders, and opposed the war from the start
Palin: Uses words like "doggonit" and "gee-golly"
Obama: Isn't a moron who tries to painfully paint himself as a "regular Joe" because he isn't trying to hide his policies.
Palin: gave the 2008 (2008!) welcoming speech at the Alaska Secessionist Party convention, an anti-American organization who wants to break off from the US
Obama: worked on a charitable board (charitable board!) with a guy, now a respected member of Chicago's community, who did disgusting things when he was EIGHT.
Palin: went to 6 colleges in 5 years, graduating with a degree in Journalism... but still can't name a single newspaper she reads
Obama: went to Harvard and Columbia, and can presumably name a newspaper he reads, because, again, he isn't a moron
Palin: Can't name a single Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade (which she would overturn)
Obama: Can, including Roe v. Wade, which he would not overturn.
So, Sarah, how is Obama going to "diminish the prestige of the United States? Is it because he's black? And when you say that Obama is:
out of the mainstream
do you say that because the mainstream is WHITE, and Obama is only half-white?
What do you mean to say, Sarah Palin?
We knew these disgusting and racist attacks were coming. There was a calm before the storm. But we need to fight back against people who say these things. They said that Palin would rile up "The base". If she's doing that, it's clear that "the base" of the GOP is a bunch of racist morons, because that's exactly what she's doing: inciting racism and disgusting attacks against Barack Obama.
So. Barack Obama. He went to prestigious universities. He actually has policies that'll work for us. And he doesn't talk like Jed Clampet in a false attempt to portray himself as "just one of the regulars".
Disgusting, Sarah Palin. Disgusting, and racist. I'd say you should know better, but it's become clear that you probably don't.
Update: On sexism. The point of this diary was to combat disgusting attacks, not to encourage them. So before you say something like Sarah Palin is a bitch or a trollop, just think about what the purpose is. I know it's in our vernacular to call evil women "bitches" and evil men "assholes" but it's just not the right tone we're trying to set. We're trying to combat this stuff, not encourage it. It's not HR worthy, in my mind, but you certainly aren't going to get any recs or prestige, if you will, by using words like those.