Anti-Palin Rant

Palin has been playing quite dirty against Obama. "He's not American like you and me" - given the color of his skin, his Muslim sounding-name, and his African father, I do wonder if such a comment hints of racism, religious discrimination, and xenophobia.

But, leaving that aside, let's move forward to when Palin, whose husband thinks Alaska should secede from the USA, complained that Obama is unpatriotic and "pals around with terrorists". Now, serving on a board that is meant to improve education, in a purely professional capacity, all of a sudden has come to mean "palling around with".  In that case, I must be BFF with all of the pretensious people as well as the drunk frat/sorority people I go to class with. I mean, I do spend 3 hours a week with them - and guess what? While I might be able to tell you some of their opinions on genocide or Islamic art, I don't know most of them on a personal level, at all. Of course, this can not describe Obama's relationship with Ayers - Ayers did hold a small political fundraiser for him when he began running for senate - but then again, in Chicago, Ayers has recast his image as an education reformer and professor at a state-funded university. Obama can hardly be called anti-America for attending a fundraiser by a man employed by the American government. Besides which, one small political fundraiser does not equal BFF status, as Palin suggest.

Moving on: Upon hearing this horrible revelation, one of the Palin supporters shouted "Let's kill him!" Palin's reaction" Nada.

The minute Palin did not react to that very audible comment  by explaining the need for law, and for respecting people who you disagree with, and how different voices comprise democracy, etc., she did a few things:

1. She mocked her "pro-life" label.

2. She failed to defend democracy.

3. By not defending rule of law, she also failed to defend the political system she is supposed to be elected in order to defend and enact. In doing so, she was anti-American. Because loving America also means loving the American system of government, with its democracy and rule of law and voice for dissenting opinions. Letting a "let's kill him" comment go by violates that love.

4. She proved herself to be a dishonorable and immoral human being, who is ruthless and radical. Killing is radical. Not opposing voices crying for killing is also radical, and counts as passive  incitement.

5. She proved herself to be a racist. Crying for killing of a white man is inhumane. But when a group of white people is standing there listening to someone saying,, "Let's kill a black man", (which is what was happening since the "him" in that sentence was undeniably black, from a historical racial categorical standpoint) then it conjures up images of Southern lynch mobs. And if you don't stand up to the lynch mob, if you are standing on a podium and hear the lynching called for and say nothing to stop it, than you too, are a racist. That's exactly what happened at the Palin rally.