A "progressive"
blogger claims that Sarah Palin routinely uses racial slurs,
including referring to Barack Obama as "Sambo," basing these
allegations on such sources as "Lucille, the waitress serving her
table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used."
There's more:
Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N'-Fetch-It,
"darkie musical" swipe, people who know her say she refers
regularly to Alaska's Aboriginal people as "Arctic Arabs" - how
efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly
description - as well as the more colourful "mukluks" along with
the totally unimaginative "f**king Eskimo's," according to a number
of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this
article.
Given that there is no previous accusation of this sort on the
record against Palin, to hang such claims entirely on
anonymous sources -- who may be lying, who may be political enemies
of Palin, who may be figments of the author's imagination, for all
we know -- is absolutely irresponsible. Whatever happened to Team
Obama's vow to "fight the smears"?
"Lucille" the waitress, "Hazel" the maid, "Jeeves" the butler
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topics:
Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Alaska
