Mrs. Palin goes to New York City. The moose hunting hockey mom is in the big city representing American women to the world. Pray, please pray, for America!
Let us hope she does not quote again her literary hero Westbrook Pegler, who authored one of the key quotes of her well-received (by Republicans and especially the extreme, extreme right) acceptance speech. Pegler's fascist values are not what we want to present to the world as American values.
This untried, untutored small state official, the 20-month governor, who only acquired a passport last year, and admits she has never (so far) met a foreign leader, is now center stage at the United Nations today. The McCain-Bush campaign is trying to cover this incredible gap of knowledge and experience in her resume with a quickie fix of photo opportunities at the U.N. (Even though the Republican Party and its platform is very anti-United Nations!)
The Wall Street Journal's Web site quoted a campaign strategist as saying that next week's gathering would give Mrs. Palin "some exposure and experience with foreign leaders," adding: "It's a great idea." Give me a break! Isn't that really impressive for foreign policy exposure? What a joke, and what a bad one with all of our lives hanging in the balance if and when she ever takes over as president!
What actually will happen is that she will stand in a room with foreign leader. Do you really think she will have substantive talks with them? It is sad that she is representing American women, when so many other women are more qualified. She no HillaryClinton, or Madeline Albrecht or Condoleeza Rice, or Christine Todd Whitman or Kay Bailey Hutchison.. Well, at least foreign leaders will get a good look at Republican Stepford Wife, so that may be helpful to them.
And if Sarah Palin is the "candidate of American values" (as Sean Hannity proclaims --he of softball interview questions that make him a top Fox news propagandist), then what are her real values. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had a salient point when he wrote: "Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”
As some wise folks have pointed out, it might be worth asking Sarah "Barracuda" Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list. Pegler was also a pit bull, but he did not, (as far as we know), wear lipstick. He is not someone that should be quoted in a revering way in a national acceptance speech. But Palin did, and the Republicans said not a discouraging word as they ran like lemmings to the sea to sing her praises. Ah, the power of propaganda! It is sickening.
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