Palin Explains What Parts Of Country Not "Pro-America"

[marmar]

from HuffPost:




Sam Stein
Palin Explains What Parts Of Country Not "Pro-America"
October 17, 2008 01:57 PM


The McCain campaign is seeking to clarify a remark reported from a Sarah Palin fundraiser in North Carolina yesterday in which the Alaska Governor declared that she loved to visit the "pro-America" areas of the country -- implying, implicitly, that there were some parts of the United States she viewed as not pro-America.

The reporter who broke the story, the Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin, sends over the following, extended quote from a more detailed version of the pool report.

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe" -- here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers -- "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."

Not sure how much this helps Palin out. Is the VP candidate saying that small towns are more authentically American than, say, suburbia or cities?

As Eilperin writes: "The upshot? Washington D.C. is neither 'real America' or 'pro-America.' Other parts of the nation? It's unclear, but if you live in a small town, you're probably patriotic from Palin's point of view."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/palin-clarifies-what-part_n_135641.html

[jpertello]

1. "Small Town America" is code for "White"

[dorkulon]

6. More specifically, "undereducated whites"

Same way "soccer moms" and "hockey moms" just means "white moms".

[jpertello]

7. Bingo.

[Lorien]

8. I'm so sick of the RW meme that "Joe sixpacks" are inherently MORE

American than those of us who have worked hard to get our college degrees and who live in urban areas. Ignorance and intellectual incuriousity should NOT be an American "value". America was founded by those who were exceptionally well educated, and America can only regain it's standing in the world through better education. Enough with calling salt of the earth morons the only "real" Americans!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. Exactly.

I wouldn't want Joe Six Pack to be my doctor, and I sure as hell don't want him to be my President.

Hell, I wouldn't want Joe Six Pack to be my tech support.

[frogcycle]

2. except for those small towns where people want to SECEDE

she really need to put a sock in it. She is dumber than two small stones.

[skooooo]

3. Well, D.C. is black, you know!

:eyes:

[atommom]

4. "The base" likes to think of itself as having small-town values, whether

they live in small towns or not. So I doubt they'll be too offended by the remark. Most will think she's talking about people like themselves. Now, if a Dem said that...

[RainDog]

5. in other words, the inner cities are pro-American. the republican suburbs are not.

okay.

[MisterP]

9. factories? those are prole jobs, and proles live in the scary CITIES,

whose stereotypical hard-heartedness (now portrayed as bad by the Dickensian lackeys) is so much worse than say, the stereotypical ostracism and parochialism of isolated towns. She's more slush-headed than W or Perino, and that takes decades of professional experience at village idiocy.

[Danmel]

10. I guess all 343 of the dead 9/11 firefighters weren't real Americans then, Sarah?

Cause they lived on LongIsland and Jersey and Staten Island and OMG- BROOKLYN!

[JI7]

18. New Yorkers are not real americans, they don't know anything about terrorism

only the small town conservatives know.

[Franzia]

11. Fuck her.

I'm beyond sick and tired of the endless geyser of disjointed blather spewing from that idiot's mouth.

[Toucano]

12. Best response ever! n-t

[PJPhreak]

13. Good Gawd....Failin isnt just dumb,a sack 'o Hammers has more IQ!

I live in a small Kansas Ag/Manufacturing Community. Tho there is a lot to be said for "Small" town life,the one thing that I see ALL the time is how many folk here think that the Rethugligans are not only right,But think that McCain or Pailin REALLY CARE ABOUT THEM!!!
They Just Don't Get It!!! McInsane/Failin could give two Chits about these people....They are nothing more than a "Revenue Stream" to the Rethugs (Check out Ks."Right to Work" laws)
Around these parts a lot of us tend to think that RW not only stands for "Right Wing" but "Redneck/Religious Wacko" as well....They Really Believe this Tripe that the Rethugs are feeding them!!

And I don't trust any Rethugligan any farther than I could Throw a Hummer with my Left Hand

[Vektor]

15. Fighting OUR wars for us?!

You mean dying because of Republican lies and greed?

Tell it like it is, Sarah. Please don't candy coat.

Soldiers are DYING by the thousands because a Republican administration sent them to war, based on lies.

YOUR war, indeed. You put on your fatigues and haul your fat ass over there yourself if you believe in this war, Ms. Palin.

[ArmedAmerican]

16. Sarah, Senator McCarthy called, he wants his paranoid accusations back

Governor Palin I know where you can find an anti-American terrorist. Look in the mirror.

[Suji to Seoul]

17. I'm tired of hearing about small town America

I grew up dirt poor in a small hick town in the Catskills Mountains of NY. There were 125 in my community, 4800 in my town and 45000 in my county.

My neighbors, by enlarge, were ignorant, bigoted, racist and sexist. . .not to mention stupid.

I pulled myself out of it because I had two college educated parents with Master's Degrees. I've gone on to earn two Master's Degrees and become successful, which is more than I can say for most, if not all, of my corn-pone neighbors.

These idiots who scream small town have NO idea what it's like to be rural and use us rural Americans as props and pawns. They only care about us during election season, and only until election day, then we are forgotten and ignored.

How do most small town people feel about this? They think it's just dandy because for six months every two years, someone gives a rat's ass about them. . .plus, they are too uneducated and stupid to know they are being used!

Grow up, Republicans.