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Enemy of the Week
Coming and Going
A president away, and a society in disarray.
At last, some intelligent commentary on Sarah Palin in the New York Times. “I fear that we are only deepening the divide by mocking her…all the while failing to address the issues faced by the people who actually find meaning in Sarah Palin.…Sarah Palin was in large part a phenomenon that arose because of the split nature of this country — we whom they call ‘elites’…and the people who feel shunned by said elites.…” “You know, many think of Sarah Palin as a dumb broad. But think Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday. Not so dumb really, huh?” “…it is Palin’s political views, not her personality, which now need to be discussed.…easy satire…contributes nothing to our understanding of Palin as a political force, and it doesn’t help us understand why she still might emerge in the future as even more of a threat to liberal policy in America.”
Okay, so the above wasn’t taken from Maureen Dowd’s latest snark, just from a single strand of comments from lowly readers of her column, including an 80-year-old Texas gal who knows better than to say “Palin will never be president.” Instead she says, “So while we are busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, let’s not rule out Ms. Caribou Barbie’s popularity with the masses. It may take more than an iceberg to sink the Unsinkable Sarah.”
And all this is from people who don’t like Palin, but trying hard to remain “intellectually curious,” as Sarah Jessica Kathleen Parker would put it, citing one of her main objections to Palin’s mental makeup. Why our funny name for Ms. Parker? We were just intellectually curious to see how it might look, that’s why. Frankly, intellectual curiosity can be overrated, if it means having to knock heads with Dr. Parker. To be sure, it took courage for her to weigh in, given that she was only the 359th pundit to join the anti-Palin gauntlet. And to think each and every one of its members had once been a staunch opponent of clubbing baby seals to death — oddly, the one crime Palin has yet to be charged with. Not to worry, we’re still in the early stages. But before we forget, a Spirit of St. Louis prize should go to the ageless Richard Cohen, who compared a Palin presidency to a fictitious — and anti-Semitic —presidency of Charles Lindbergh, as depicted by the novelist Philip Roth. Does Cohen know something no one else does?
Much as we miss him — the Obama recovery can’t resume until he gets back — don’t you nonetheless wish our President could stay away longer? So much of the world has yet to give him his due, starting with Russia itself. The alarm was sounded in a New York Times headline yesterday, ”In Russia, Obama’s Star Power Does Not Translate.” Perhaps Obama should not have limited himself to Moscow, or spent so much quality time with Dmitri Medvedev, whom Premier Putin treats almost as dismissively as Obama does Joe Biden. We’d have recommended a long whistlestop ride along the Trans-Siberian Railway, original home of fur cap and trade.
Sad to say, we forgot to attend the spectacular send-off given to Michael Jackson the other day. We were struck, however, by what former Laker Star Magic Johnson had to say, speaking for himself and for current Laker Star Kobe Bryant. “He allowed Kobe and I [sic] to have our jerseys in people’s homes across the world — because he was already there and he opened all those doors for us.” The lesson? Maybe Barack Obama should have hung around less with Jeremiah Wright and more with Michael Jackson. You never know when celebrity power will come in handy, in Russia or anywhere else appeasement is on the menu.
Apparently also not in attendance at the Jackson event, besides President Obama and representatives of Enemy Central, was Mr. Tiger Woods. NFL legend Mr. Jim Brown was no doubt disappointed, having recently chastised Woods on HBO for being “terrible, terrible” as an “individual for social change.” The Washington Post’s Michael Wilbon rose to Woods’ defense, though not too high, prefacing his remarks with what might politely be called kowtowing toward Brown and his alleged social work with gangs — all the while neglecting to inform readers that Brown has been arrested several times and even done jail time for brutalizing women. The more social change we have, the more things stay the same. Mr. Obama, you really want to come back to this?
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Lawrence Boccardi| 7.9.09 @ 7:29AM
Kathleen Parker's opinion of Sarah Palin turned on a dime. She displayed lukewarm approval of her, until the day her column began with the confession that her husband had told her that he thought Sarah Palin was "hot"!
Richard Baker| 7.9.09 @ 9:58AM
As a street activist, Jim Brown is a great football player.
fundamentalist| 7.9.09 @ 1:30PM
The hatred of Sarah Palin is no mystery to any man: she is very good looking and thin. That makes most women hate her. They would hate her if she were a blood red Marxist. Politics doesn't matter. It doesn't help that men keep commenting on how good looking she is.
And what's worse, she's smart. Good looking women are supposed to be dumb, or at least act dumb. Sarah Palin is far from dumb, but most women desperately need her to be dumb.
Women only need to look in the mirror at the cat staring back at them to understand why women can't get anywhere in politics.
Everly Waverly| 7.9.09 @ 1:48PM
The accompanying photo of Jim Brown says it all, he's an angry man and has no business instructing someone like Tiger Woods on proper racial decorum and appropriate devotion of his time.
rick| 7.9.09 @ 2:16PM
Anyone sure why Tiger Woods is considered "black"? Now, I think it is because black people like him, claim him, so that's it. Can't argue with a black person about blackness (or much of anything else).
However, he is around 3/8 African American, 50% Asian, with a touch of Native American and Caucasian. At least until he became a celebrity, he identified himself as "cablinasian" or something like that.
Did I miss an announcement of the rules on this? Perhaps we're still in the KKK definition; 1 drop equals "black"
Ark Ashamed of Bill| 7.9.09 @ 2:45PM
Philip Roth’s novel claiming that an isolationist America would have conducted a genocide of Jews on this content is the vilest form of leftist paranoia. Among other things, the pre-World War II isolationists believed that even if we defeated the Germans we would be stuck with Stalin’s Russia as a world power, which was the case. Roth conveniently forgot that Stalin was an anti-Semite whose alliance with Hitler started World War II. Hitler notoriously claimed that he would exterminate European Jewry if a general war broke out in Europe in a January 30, 1939 speech. There are reports coming out of Russia that when the British and French delegation went to Moscow in August 1939 they foolishly told Stalin that they would declare war on Germany. If so, Stalin would have known that he was starting the Holocaust by signing his notorious pact with Hitler, in effect getting the Nazis to do his dirty work.
Marcell| 7.9.09 @ 3:20PM
I believe the conservative elitist fear Palin more than the liberals will ever fear her, because she can easily be used as one of our pawns to divide your Party in the same ways that we used the former conservative candidates who lead the way for John McCain; they really want Mitt Romney to be their candidate.
As a matter of fact, “Why would you want a spineless / toothless pit bull with lipstick as your leader?” I say that because she jumped ship on Alaska.
In many ways Palin is like Bu$h, because she is a fatuous person.
Gunslinger | 7.9.09 @ 3:32PM
"Women only need to look in the mirror at the cat staring back at them to understand why women can't get anywhere in politics."
Sigh.....
Dear Caveman...er...Fundamentalist...millions of women adore the Beauteous Sarah. Myself included.
You have just spouted one of men's favorite myths about women.
"Myth"...as in...nonsense.
ajharpen| 7.9.09 @ 3:54PM
Sarah Palin is despised because of jealousy. Also the elites are offended by her fertility.
Marcell's conscience| 7.9.09 @ 4:05PM
What I meant to say is that I apologize. I thought I was on a Web site for mentally disadvantaged whack jobs.
Can anybody tell me the web address for www.huffingtonpost? One of of their bright lights has wandered off the reserveration and is hopelessly trapped in a world he doesn't understand.
Grzmlyk| 7.9.09 @ 4:12PM
What kills me is that liberals have transferred their Bush/Cheney derangement syndrome to Sarah Palin.
I truly don't get the hate, the vitriol; she's more qualified than Obama was and, even if she is a work in progress, she's a pretty impressive woman. And, yes, a babe.
I thought the hatred of Bush and Cheney was rabid - that's nothing compared to the irrational, all-consuming inferno that's consuming Sarah.
What really, really sucks is that it's spread to our side of the aisle. I just don't get it.
Angel| 7.9.09 @ 4:36PM
Grzmlyk, liberals have transferred their Bush/Cheney hatred to Sarah's children. I can't even express how much I hate those liberal morons now.
macdaddy| 7.9.09 @ 5:31PM
Rick,
Dave Chappelle had a "Racial Draft" a few years ago. Tiger Woods is now officially black. Colin Powell is now officially white as is Condoleeza Rice. Eminem stayed white in a last second deal in which blacks got to keep OJ. The Wu Tang Clan is now Asian.
Marcell| 7.9.09 @ 5:55PM
I keep forgetting that most of you people thought Bu$h was a conservative for over 7 years.
The F.O.I. calls it blind, death & dumb.
I also forget that most of you didn't know who to vote for in the Repubs primaries because Rush claimed that his contract said that he couldn't endorse a primary candidate.
That shows how much you can't think for yourselves, & it is my agenda to keep you stuck on stupid.
No pun intended.
Tootsie| 7.9.09 @ 5:59PM
Marcell, you should know all about being stuck on stupid: Axelrod trolls like you wrote the book. Moron.
Flower Power| 7.9.09 @ 6:46PM
Jim Brown looks like such a dweeb with that little green hat on his head.
Old Texican| 7.9.09 @ 7:26PM
Tiger Woods just likes to hit a golf ball...splendidly.
A young man with focus and class.
He has raised the bar in a sport that used to be inhabited with rich-boy wusses.
IN THE HOLE...TIGER!
Daisy| 7.9.09 @ 8:27PM
Tiger is an elegant and classy man; and he's a real credit to our country. He's also a slammin' golfer!
Sam H| 7.10.09 @ 1:15AM
Marcell,
Any chance you could impress us all with your impression of Marceau?
Regards,
Marc Jeric| 7.10.09 @ 1:25AM
There must be something important with Sarah Palin - why otherwise would she attract so much vitriol and hate and namecalling by our marxist inteligentsia? I see that the ACORN brownshirts are getting paid by Abu Hussein's stimulus money (@$16/hr) to infect these pages by their hateful ignorance,
Sam Deakins| 7.10.09 @ 6:42AM
If Sarah Palin looked more like Sonia Sotomayor then Letterman would crack she looked like "a slutty supreme court justice".
rick| 7.10.09 @ 11:31AM
Macdaddy-
Thanks-I missed that;only explanation I've heard anywhere. Has Powell be "reblackified" in light of his BO support?
macdaddy| 7.10.09 @ 3:09PM
Sadly, Dave Chappelle is not making new shows. I think Powell is working hard to get traded, but in Racial Draft II, Barak Obama would get drafted ahead of Powell. Definitely.
Oldefarte| 7.10.09 @ 3:58PM
It's sad indeed when our culture demands 24/7 media coverage of a perverted, though talented, singer/artist; while simultaneously allowing/promoting the personal trashing of a female governor and her children/family. We are a sick nation, indeed; and it's truly embarrassing to me personally to say I'm an American because of this misplaced emphasis. Through laziness and ignorance, we have allowed this country to sink to the bottom of the social toilet bowl, and we had better seriously wake up beginning with the 2010 and 2012 elections!!!!!!!!!!!
Matt| 7.10.09 @ 8:56PM
My father in law hates palin, hates blacks, and he voted for Obama...does that mean he is gay?
Politricks| 7.11.09 @ 1:09PM
Palin is a fool and I hate uneducated fools. I hate white idiots, and Black idiots too, and I would have voted Obama because there was no one else to choose.
Between Palin and H Clinton, Clinton would win.
Palin lack the ability to think, seen as a gun ho idiot, by the entire world, with the exception of ill informed trailer park trash.
Roy| 7.12.09 @ 12:04PM
Yo Politricks, you pathetic little snarling bigot - back under the rock you crawled out from.
Patriot| 7.12.09 @ 8:22PM
Nice command of the English language, Politricks. Your liberal-ho idiocy is stupefying.
Moron.
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