Comparing Palin to Obama is like comparing the Professor and Ginger on Gilligan's Island. Yet the GOP goes back to that well over and over.
Even the leadership has so internalized the idea that "Obama is stupid" that they jumped at the chance to get swatted down by Obama at the meeting in Baltimore.
Palin invites this comparison at every opportunity, and saying "teleprompeter" brought a huge roar from the Tea Party crowd as if Jesus had just floated in on a crowd. I wish I could find a video of wingnuts going crazy for "teleprompter," but you've all seen it.
Ross Perot couldn't get away with this when he tried to recycle his "I'm all ears" quip. It worked once, and the second time, it bombed. But the GOP base can't get enough of "teleprompters."
Rush dismissed Obama's professional accomplishments as "affirmative action," and Obama's a bumbler benefiting from all the advantages given Black people.
Nobody had the guts to stand up to a Black guy
The GOP is fixed on the idea that Obama is not as smart as Sarah Palin.
Is this a new GOP meme or is it a time-tested Fascist racist script? Join me after the jump for the shocking if unsurprising answer.
How can Rush dismiss the accomplishments of someone that taught law and edited the Law Review compared to someone like Palin who has vastly less experience and education?
Because being educated ain't the same as being smart! Because the person that learns something is never as good as the guy who discovered something! How that works in Palins favor, since she never discovered OR learned anything, is a mystery to me, but it seems to prove she is Obama's superior.
You know what? This has been said before:
(They) have been schooled in the course of many centuries. Today he passes as 'smart,' and this in a certain sense he has been at all times. But his intelligence is not the result of his own development, but of visual instruction through foreigners. For the human mind cannot climb to the top without steps; for every step upward he needs the foundation of the past, and this in the comprehensive sense in which it can be revealed only in general culture. All thinking is based only in small part on man's own knowledge, and mostly on the experience of the -time that has preceded. The general cultural level provides the individual man, without his noticing it as a rule, with such a profusion of preliminary knowledge that, thus armed, he can more easily take further steps of his own. The boy of today, for example, grows up among a truly vast number of technical acquisitions of the last centuries, so that he takes for granted and no longer pays attention to much that a hundred years ago was a riddle to even the greatest minds, although for following and understanding our progress in the field in question it is of decisive importance to him. If a very genius from the twenties of the past century should suddenly leave his grave today, it would be harder for him even intellectually to find his way in the present era than for an average boy of fifteen today. For he would lack all the infinite preliminary education which our present contemporary unconsciously, so to speak, assimilates while growing up amidst the manifestations of our present general civilization.
Wow, that sure as heck sounds like the GOP doesn't it? Education counts for nothing and is no measure of ability. Has Palin read this? Have her strategists?
Still it's fairly innocent......What about Rush's point that white folks can help themselves when they race to give the mulatto all the breaks?
After a thousand years and more, the last visible trace of the former master people is often seen in the lighter skin color which its blood left behind in the subjugated race, and in a petrified culture which it had originally created....It is then possible that such a (slave) people will a second time, or even more often in the course of its history, come into contact with the (master) race of those who once brought it culture, and the memory of former encounters will not necessarily be present. Unconsciously the remnant of the former master blood will turn toward the new arrival, and what was first possible only by compulsion can now succeed through the people's own will. A new cultural wave makes its entrance and continues until those who have brought it are again submerged in the blood of foreign peoples.
At this point, I will have confused you, so let me point out that these quotes are all from Chapter 11 of Mein Kampf - "Nation and Race", which is a particularly vicious bit of racism. And yet it starts off sounding remarkably like Rush and Palin.
And if you look around for themes from the second and third quotes, you can find lots of outright white supremacists talking about the breaks that that Barack and Michelle got because they are mulattoes. I'm not saying Palin buys into it, I'm just saying that Adolph's ideas are very much in play among Obama's critics.
Still Sarah Palin might think twice about working the Nordic Ice Queen thing too hard, because some possible supporters will be put off by Todd's fractional native ancestry that he uses to get tribal privileges. Apparently he has roughly the same amount of Indian blood as Chuck Norris, but it's not polite to flaunt it in white supremacist circles
http://www.stormfront.org/...
Todd Palin is the worse example to give..imo..Todd Palin flaunts his Native Background for his wifes campaign and I think he even gets some kind of benefits from a tribe he has nothing to do with..he is playing both sides for whatever it is worth..and doesn't give back to either community by doing that..Double loser..you can't play both sides and expect it to be okay..I definatly wouldn't consider him white..imo
Sorry Todd, you can wave the secessionist flag if you want, but you'll still be "Tonto" to a certain segment of Sarah's fans. Not sure what they think about your kids...