Sarah Palin keeps saying some pretty strange things. Her remarks Saturday at a campaign rally in Iowa suggested Sen. Barack Obama would turn the US into a Communist country. These deranged remarks surpassed even her idiotic fruit fly research comments. Either she has gone over the edge or she thinks her audience is comprised of morons.
As reported by Sam Stein at Huffington Post, Palin told the crowd:
"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Obama, Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes, and I say this based on his record... Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us. And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Let us fight for what is right. John McCain and I, we will put our trust in you."
How much longer do we have to listen to this ill-informed woman spout nonsense about subjects which elude her intellectual grasp? The thought of her being anywhere near the president's office is bone-chilling.
"what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody."
As opposed to what you thought was yours being given to bail out rich executives, who are still getting bonuses this year, when you struggle to keep a roof over your head.
And Tara, you have some amazing folks who post here. I am privileged to be in your company.
Posted by: Michelle | 28 October 2008 at 20:01
You said, "she thinks her audience is comprised of morons."
It's not whether she thinks they are. Her audience IS comprised of morons. That's her base. The fact that she would malign a field of study that has provided numerous scientific discoveries, not to mention the autism and down syndrome research that her party is supposedly so concerned about is shocking (although in listening to McCain at the debates it's obvious he doesn't know the difference between the two).
You're looking at a person who believes that dinosaurs and humans coexisted. She is willfully (and I mean willfully and intentionally) ignorant of basic tenets of science because her belief system won't allow it.
Posted by: tangobaby | 27 October 2008 at 16:16
They need to randomly drug test in this campaign!! Get her out of here! LOL
Posted by: Christina | 27 October 2008 at 02:49
Some of my favorite Palin comments of late involve her explanations regarding the clothing expenditures. She said, I am paraphrasing 'they are not my clothes', 'I don't get to keep them'. Where would these clothes be going then after the campaign? No doubt some underprivileged women are waiting in the wings for these designer duds. ugh.
Posted by: kris | 27 October 2008 at 01:27
Hopefully in less than two weeks she will fade into obscurity where she belongs. I'm afraid she and that seemingly wholesome-appearing husband of hers are about as dangerous as a pit of snakes. I want the lid put on that pit. She needs to go home and get her own house in order. Help her daughter through a pregnancy at age 17 (which I went through myself, by myself, at the exact same age without parents or husband, etc. So I know from whilst I speak!)She and her husband, or whoever is the father of that brood of hers, need to find a form of contraception when she's throwing those high heels into the air. My husband, a doctor, says it's absolutely irresponsible to allow yourself to become pregnant at her age. Her son, who is an innocent child, will have a difficult life. As does a Downs' Syndrome patient he now has in her forties, with so many medical problems it is very, very sad. These people have a very hard life with this disability. And it is his contention that she was selfish in allowing that to happen.
Brenda
Posted by: Brenda Kula | 26 October 2008 at 22:04