Palin Plays the Race Card, Badly

re: Palin Plays the Race Card, Badly

Shannon LC Cate — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:13:38 GMT

She didn't identify them as Yup'ik. She called them "Eskimos" which is offensive to Yup'ik people. That's what I'm questioning. And it is quite clear that neither Todd nor Sarah palin "identify as part of" the Yup'ik tribe in word or action. it's just a throw-away diversity play.

re: Palin Plays the Race Card, Badly

Catherine Garner — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:56:40 GMT

Isn't it problematic to be questioning Palin's identification of her children as Yup'ik? If someone identifies as part of a community shouldn't we respect that part of their identity?

re: Palin Plays the Race Card, Badly

Manjari — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:55:48 GMT

I am also baffled by all the McCain/Palin signs I see. I can only assume that these are very wealthy people who always vote republican for tax reasons, or weird religious fanatics whose doorbells I'd be scared to ring!

re: Palin Plays the Race Card, Badly

June Seat — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:33:52 GMT

Every time I walk through my neighborhood and see the McCain/Palin sign in someone's yard, I have the urge to walk up to their door and ask, "Have you really thought through what it means to be supporting this woman?"

re: Palin Plays the Race Card, Badly

CM — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:52:12 GMT

Frankly, I am not surprised by this at all!

Sara Palin has the freakish talent for stringing words together that lack creativity, authenticity, or truth, and that also incite people to fits of useless and dangerous emotion and fervor. She has shown time and time again that her contributions to american politics are to confuse the electorate, polarize cultural groups, and incite class warfare ($150K- is she KIDDING?!).

She seems to be very willing to use the language of race bating with absolutely NO SHRED of shame or disgust. She comes out swinging and thinks about the damage, collateral or otherwise, later, if at all. So to Sara Palin I say, no thanks; or, to put it more clearly, HELL NO! We've already had 8 years of shoot from the hip policy from "The Decider".

Besides the extreme right-wing base, the only folks I can think of that are grateful for Ms. Palin's foray into national politics are Katie Couric, Tina Fey, and the rest of the crew on SNL. Tina Fey should get down on her knees and thank the gods for the emmy she's about to win next year.