Palin, “Sambo,” the “Bitch,” & Troopergate

Sarah Barracuda on the Job

October 10, 2006 (Extra) – Palin guilty on Troopergate: For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah
Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.11O(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

“Sarah Palin was on the verge of inciting a race riot in northern Florida” this week, the Nation reported. The paper said Republican audience members “hurled a racial epitaph” at an African American member of the media while other audience members yelled “kill him” and “treason!” when Barack Obama’s name was mentioned. Palin reportedly responded: “Boy, you guys just get it!“

Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank describes the scene at a rally in Clearwater, Florida this week, where he said “arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000.

Palin supporters then “turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse,” Milbank reported. “Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, ‘Sit down, boy.’”

A series of negative ads by the Republicans casting doubt on Obama’s character and his past associations backed by frequent pointed questions about who he is, whipped up so much anger at the Republican rallies, that the US Secret Service said last Thursday it was investigating an alleged death threat shouted at a Florida rally. Now Palin and McCain were forced to tone down their attacks.

Charley James, wrote in the LA Progressive, wrote Palin said “So Sambo beat the bitch!”  She said this in a restaurant a few days after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton. “Sambo,” and the “Bitch” are fighting words. So are Palin’s charge that, “Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,”

Cindy McCain is watching...

Hey, this is America! Let all flowers bloom – we got the 1st Amendment. So what if Palin is a tough babe? So what if she gets those creepy hugs from McCain. And so what of the New York Times innuendos about McCain and lobbyist Vicky Iseman?

Hey, Clinton did it and he was an OK President.

No one’s perfect.