Identifying Demons by Names and Zip Codes
Sara Palin’s association with "spiritual warfare" Pentecostalism might seem to shed a different light on her "pro-America parts of the country" routine.
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Comment by Roschelle —
October 26, 2008 @ 10:27 am
Cindy McCain questioned Obama’s character while rallying in New Mexico. They still haven’t learned…if you live in a glass house…you should keep your stones in your pocket!
Comment by morris —
October 26, 2008 @ 11:49 am
Of all the issues on which Sarah Palin is filled with bullshit or, more often, just plain ignorance, I can’t understand why this one is getting so much flak.
Look, I’ve BEEN to Berkeley. It’s eclectic, tolerant, cultured, fun, naturally beautiful, surprising, etc. Pro-America? Not particularly. The place isn’t festooned with yellow ribbons or curtained with American flags everywhere. (To me, this is plainly a sign of good taste as much as anything else.)
Some places wear their patriotism on their goddamned sleeves. Not only do they think that being born in America makes them “special” or “blessed” or whatever, they think that bragging about it is a sign of virtue. What are the proper names for these kinds of thinking? Idiocy. Narcissism. Belligerence.
I think it’s pretty clear that THAT’s what Our Sarah was praising. It’s nauseating to see the Left in high dudgeon over the idea they couldn’t be included in Madame Palin’s Carnival of Rednecks.
[Soon enough, we'll never have to think about her again. What a sweet relief!]
Comment by Uncle Kvetch —
October 26, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
That’s our Andrew:
“This is now a conservative notion: purifying the earth?”
It sure as hell was in those heady post-9/11 days, Mr. Sullivan, back when George W. Bush was talking about eliminating evil from the face of the earth, and you could barely contain your excitement at being a part of it.
That’s the thing about Sullivan: even when he’s absolutely right, he still manages to be full of shit. Quite a talent, really.
Comment by Jon Hendry —
October 26, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
“Look, I’ve BEEN to Berkeley. It’s eclectic, tolerant, cultured, fun, naturally beautiful, surprising, etc. Pro-America? Not particularly. ”
She wasn’t talking about Berkeley, which is the 1960s counter-culture version of Colonial Williamsburg. It’s practically a living historical reenactment site. It is an outlier, it is not electorally or culturally significant, any more than Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts is a harbinger of a widespread return to blacksmith shops and a turn away from electricity.
She says shit about New York and Northern Virginia. Nevermind that she glad-handed America-hating firefighters at “America-hating” Ground Zero.
Comment by joe from Lowell —
October 26, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
The point, morris, is that the definition of “pro-American” is not “belonging to Sarah Palin’s Carnival of Rednecks.”
Comment by dhex —
October 27, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
i’m pretty sure if you live here and pay taxes, you’re “pro-american” in the ways that count. shit, we can knock that down to just “pay taxes” and be good.
election seasons in the abyss!