It's really just about you isn't it Sarah Palin?
It's been 4 days since the tragedy in Arizona. A tragedy where not one but six people died one of which was a tiny 9 year old child who despite being born on yet another day of tragedy September 11th, 2001 and was the light of her family's life died on January 8th, 2011. Her life snuffed out by someone fixated on hatred and violence.
A nation grieves and continues to grieve while praying that Gabby Giffords and the rest of the injured go about the job of healing in body and mind.
Except of course one person in Alaska. Sarah Palin grieves as well it seems but for herself. Of course she did issue a terse statement hours after the shootings that she was "praying" for the victims in Arizona but it seems to me that all the praying she was doing was for she or some of her crew to come up with a valid excuse of why she shouldn't be included in the blame.
One can make the argument that we may all be to blame since we are a nation of deeply divided citizens politically and we're not reticent about verbalizing our differences. Still the majority of Americans were and are still shocked by the open hatred displayed by certain talking heads from the Right and we know who they are because we are constantly being beat about the head and ears by an obese bawling and squalling bellicose fellow armed with a blackboard, a piece of chalk and a jar of Vicks Vaporub to keep his tears flowing when he needs them. There are more hate radio "personalities" out there peddling hate and we can't leave the other fat one out with his rantings and ravings in between sending his staff out for pain pills and there may be actual well known radio personalities from the "Left" who spam our eyes and ears with hatred but since it's impossible for a name of such a person to pop right out at this moment I would venture they aren't so "well known".
What we have left (no pun intended) then are the crazy Right Wingers and their beloved Tea Party. I don't hate Republicans because I am a Republican and have been one long before many of you were born. However much like most moderates I've reserved my voting actions until I know as much as possible about the candidates from both the two major parties and the Independents should they have a candidate running. I've voted in all three directions over the years and in some cases I've deeply regretted my votes but we aren't here to discuss the Bush Jr. years right now.
What I want to point out is that a nation is grieving yet Sarah Palin seems to have spent the past four days stewing and steaming because in her estimation those "nasty" media people have targeted her and her alone to lay the blame at her door. That of course is her own opinion and she's welcome to it but she as usual is wrong.
We all laugh at Sarah Palin and her high school fervor to be chosen as the president of her class or to make cheerleader even after a quarter of a century of being out of high school. She still feels the nation deserves her as their leader but I for one want to know what this nation has done wrong as to deserve Sarah Palin sitting her arse in the White House. Sarah Palin of the Northy - Southy thing with Korea, Palin of the last three years of constant belaboring of our President, Congress and everything else from soups to nuts.
We're beleaguered day and night by what Sarah thinks or does be it shooting some poor dazed or lovesick moose with a rifle she wasn't familiar enough with to take safely from the hands of her 72 year old carrier (her dad of all people), sitting in the television audience watching her obviously clumsy daughter lumber about the stage of a dancing competition and 100s of other events in the life of Sarah Palin. Even if one avoid watching any of her foolish attempts to lure the media to her we were assailed with sound and photo bytes of her in our daily news gathering efforts be it the written word or major news networks.
Now of course those horrible journalists and the media people are responsible for Sarah Palin's latest mess. CROSS HAIRS??? No no no no no no no those were surveyor symbols.
NO ONE CARES what you call them Sarah Palin because you made it all too obvious that you were locked and loaded to get rid of duly elected public officials who did not buy into your horse pucky.
So now with the six deaths and the wounding of a Congresswoman and many more people all you care about is laying the blame somewhere else and it's obvious that's all you've actually thought about for the past 4 days including a silly email to a fellow hater with a television show and a jar of Vaporub who by the way actually talked openly on his show about "choking the life out of Michael Moore" yet had the gonads to get all huffy and puffy about the blame being laid directly at his door for part of the violent atmosphere in this country.
Before my blood pressure rises further let me repeat my message to you Sarah Palin, IT IS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU.