Alaska, the Reddest State in the Union

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 6:10 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 18:10

And no, I don't mean 'Republican'. I mean the other kind of Red. You know, the BAD kind. Sure, we all remember Northern Exposure, with it's vision of Alaskans as fiercely independent, yet lovable citizens. Unfortunately, the truth isn't quite so pleasant. The REAL Alaska doesn't come with a laugh track.

Like it's elitist cousin, Hawaii, Alaska thinks it's too good to share a border with any of its sister states, but not even Hawaii hates our freedom enough to snuggle up to a province. Alaska, I'm sorry to say, has done just that. And not just any province either. Alaska, of its own free will, has chosen to border on a province of the Socialist Republic of Canada. You may have heard of Canada. That's the country that's been plotting with our own liberal traitors to create a Pan-American Highway, which they will use to transport tanks, troops, etc, directly into our Heartland, and from there conquer the entire USA and force socialized medicine on our innocent children. That, my friends, is the country, the ONLY country Alaska wants as a neighbor.

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Sunday June 08, 2008 · 4:57 PM PDT

2008/06/08 · 16:57

Unity diaries. Everywhere you look, someone's exhorting us to put this whole ugly episode behind us and get to work electing our party's nominee. They have a point. There's no use holding on to anger against Clinton or Obama supporters for things their comrades said in the heat of battle. "Put it all down," as the Buddhists say, or, in Christian terms, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us."

But "Let's put this behind us," too easily morphs into "Let's pretend this ever happened," and in our eagerness to forgive small offenses, we risk glossing over serious ethical failures. That may bring us something vaguely resembling unity, but not to the kind of unity we need, not the kind of unity Obama has been talking about.

That kind of unity doesn't come from closing our eyes to our differences, but from facing them honestly. It comes not by pretending we're not still hurt and angry about thoughtless words and unwarrented attacks, but by using those lingering memories as reminder to avoid doing the same to others. We won't achieve unity by ignoring the fact that just days ago we were supporting different candidates, but by employing the unique strengths our different experiences have given us for the good of us all.

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Sunday March 30, 2008 · 10:27 AM PDT

2008/03/30 · 10:27

"This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute. They both had to get out of the country."

So begins Preston Sturges' classic send-up of American politics, The Great McGinty.

I was reminded of that quote while reading Gemina13's excellent diary on the Freeper freakout over Rice's recent comments in support of Obama's speech on race.

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