Sarah Puts the “Jerk” into “Knee-Jerk”
May 3, 2011
Colorado TV station leads coverage of Palin speech with:
“Palin leaves out Obama during remarks on bin Laden”
Story here
Overflow crowd also heard Boykin described as “war hero.” Well, maybe a hero of the War on Sanity.
All I can say is those Colorado Christians got what they deserved for paying to hear it.
“Organizers said the event raised $40,000 for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS.)”
But was that before or after they paid Sarah her $100,000 fee?
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Well, good on Colorado’s 9news.com for making that the headline.
Shall we give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she did not receive the GOP memo that “just this once” it would be OK to praise President Obama?
She’s just so blatantly a b*tch.
I saw a comment from someone recently which read something like this: “My husband said to me ‘You know, the problem with Sarah Palin is not that she’s just not quite smart enough, or just not quite experienced enough, or just not quite politically savvy enough, it’s that she is an assh^le’.”
She left out his name because she can’t pronounce it. She was afraid she’d say “O’Biden.”
Sarah Palin says strategy to kill Osama bin Laden proper force
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54165.html
I like this part of the article: “small crowd”
“The small crowd didn’t even completely fill the bleachers. And though the event was ostensibly a celebration of the troops, it felt more like a B-list conservative gathering – replete with booths for little-recognized social conservative groups, iconic imagery of Ronald Reagan, and of course dozens of copies of Palin’s two books. One of the small university’s music instructors had prepared an original trumpet composition to commemorate Palin’s visit. And the National Anthem was sung by what could have been a barbershop quartet were it not for the odd variances in octave.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54165_Page2.html#ixzz1LGNdm958
I can’t stand her and I have never hated anyone in ” politics” or public life before she came along,
How can anyone believe she is the right person to lead our country. I will never get it.
I hope the books coming out really damage her. I do not understand why her cult followers her no matter what she says or does. The hypocrisy is astounding. The Christians I know don’t condone swearing and lying and manipulation of others for personal gain.
Is this a Dominionist thing?? She’s horrible!
She hadda do this for FoTFam $$, also tooooooo.
FotF was the 1st place she went day after her convention disaster.
$40,000? With 1000 people? What did they charge? If her fee is $100,000, what was the budget for the event?
Did Boykin get a speakers fee, too?
And – bleachers? Excuse me, you charge at least $200 for an event and you make people sit on bleachers?
I was able to plug into the live feed for about fifteen minutes before it collapsed – just catching the end of an auction. The two items sold were not clear to me, but they raked in $2k times 3 or 4 different bidders (the auctioneer would get to a price and then let multiple bidders have one each – I’m completely unfamiliar with this type of auction)and $7k times 3 or 4. What I did hear clearly however, was the auctioneer turning the podium over to the emcee saying into the mic “so we’ve just raised $224,000.00!” and everyone applauded.
If all they went home with was $40k, that was an incredibly expensive (everyone wave to Sarah) and poorly managed fundraiser.
If anyone has better details I’d love to hear them.
Sarah Palin will come out with a convoluted response to the criticism that she didn’t mention Obama. She is like a puppy squeeky toy in her predictability. It is in her reactionary responses where the real crazy comes out. I can’t wait!
I am a Native Indigenous to Alaska. First and foremost I am a human being. I am not patriotic for this country because the facts show that as of this very minute, it is still a thieved land. I look at everything in this society from an outsiders point of view. I’ve never felt as an equal “citizen” nor a part of “america”. I believe, from my cultural point of view, that what I am seeing is a stolen nation that has really degenerated into a mass of people who are blinded by their own chaos of belief systems that have stripped them of a semblance of being human. I believe “america” has been racist and violent from the absolute moment those “pilgrims” plodded their feet upon the once pristine (their word) lands that we had taken care of for eons of time.
I say the above as part of my belief stemming from my own cultural life – my life of experience here as a woman, Native woman/human being and just a lifetime of watching this system of mental illness play itself out in the everyday fabric of its being. It has institutionalized and mindwashed its children to believe it is superior and extraordinarily “exceptional” in its place on our planet. ALL of that a complete false face. Ask any un-assimilated “american” Indian. Then go on and ask all the people who have survived the onslaught, attacks of american military might against those people’s lands and resources. America started in violence from its beginning and used our people in a divide and conquer against THEIR enemies. Then they turned that same divide and conquer upon our own Indian nations within the borders of this country. It was always “us against them”. Always. The game plan of “assimilation” (“…kill the Indian Save the Man…”) basically destroyed the best of what we were. We looked into the mirror of american white society and became, by force, that same ugly image. Some of us reject this image. A case of living with but being forever apart. I happily do so as I can see how the prisons and the mental institutions are filled with victims slung away by your own hands. The rest live in oceans of denials of everything. They have no cohesive identity but a false and violent superiority exercised against everyone else, a brief rewritten history to erase their one huge Genocide, a downplay of, and re-glorification of their wars within and without – it was even said Hitler based his internment/death camps on america’s Indian reservation system. That system that still “serves” the american government in its Federal Trust “relationship” with american Indians.
I am getting to my main point if you will be so kind as to be patient. I cut short all details to try to say what I need to say. I always have need to explain when it comes to very layered and deep causes and roots and explanations – which in this very ugly present day in the stream of time is not well tolerated by the collective hordes of individual so called american’s. Our way of expressing was always to tell a story. For american society, its the “soundbite” mainly, that satisfies only. I have many indictments against the american system. I cannot put it all here and this is not the place to recount the too many layers of inhumanity and indecencies. There is no vindication nor justice yet here for the great crimes of this country. That is all I can say on that.
Mainly what I wanted to say is that in all the rejoicing of the murdering of one Osama bin Laden is that I can truly see and say that this country is going down in the manner of the fall of the Roman empire. All the signs are here. When people the likes of your political aspirants display criminal, rotten and absolutely corrupted behaviors such as for example sarah palin – that persons such as herself and those who follow her, are allowed to dominate a national scenery with such outright and bonafide racism – with hatred, jealousy, and complete cold blooded inhumanity – a person who would/could destroy you from a low or high position – that american’s tolerate such behaviors with out bringing this person(and all those like her) to deserved accountability – your country is awash in its own bile of deceptions without the will to act to change its core and its root of racism. I am not at all surprised at the collective american reactions of inaction towards one (many actually) such person as sarah palin. She is the epitome of the american core. Pretty on the outside but poison/toxic underneath the prepackaged delivery. She and all the supposed leaders of this country and those who collude with them, are the real bomb to all the unsuspecting and innocent bystanders of the earth. She is the original snake who slithered and charmed and pursuaded – with THE grand lie. She is liar personnified. She and the many many like her. I am not surprised that america leads the world in producing psychopaths – now greatly and frighteningly increasing.
No, I do not rejoice in the murder of the alleged Osama bin Laden. The real questions of 9/11 have not yet been answered. If one man a continent away could plan such a heinous action then so could any one anywhere do the same. It is already public knowledge that the US government had a plan during the Bay of Pigs situation that involved producing a mass disaster against its own citizens (plan rejected) and said government had all motivations and resources to carry out such an extreme and ghastly plan. Knowing how they plotted and planned the brutal and beyond violent demise of our millions upon millions of peaceful human beings – the american Indians – it is no long shot to understand that at some point, it would be inevitable they would carry out devastation’s upon their own – after all, america has already invaded all lands on earth in one way or another. Covertly in many cases. Why wouldn’t they eat their own? Its already their pattern. They started out burning witches after they began the massacres upon our peoples. An aside: what is the difference between the emotionally disturbed and infantile emotionality that pervades their fundamentalist religions here and the so called religious fanatics in the Eastern world? It is just the other side of the fanatical religious coin.
I stand aside as an outsider looking in upon the face of your america. It is more than an ugly and dangerous face. You have murdered one boogeyman and are already on the hunt for your next one. What bothers me most is that the self-centered narcissistic american so called leaderships do not appear to care that they are the thieves who steal, demean, dehumanize and destroy all the rest of “the real people” of this planet. These are the crimes that are being allowed. These are the crimes of an unbound “wild west” mentality that puts the rest of us in the gravest of perils. american leaderships are their own embodiment of their own boogeymen. That is the america I see – haters, cultural enviests, killers, and liars. I am outraged at its unaccountability. I am most outraged that america does not know who it really is.
I have doubts that you will have my thoughts posted, but if you do, thank you for the space and time.
She wasn’t paid for the screech, which makes it all the more ironic: Bekki-Face plugged away for hours at some manner of “policy” document for Mrs Palin, who delivered the contents (poorly) in a small gymnasium free of charge to a handful of people who’d paid $25 to see her.
To jog your memory, May 2 was the date of the original first GOP Presidential debate. Mrs Palin was very careful to book something for that night, to have an excuse, but her gig was canceled. She was so desperate to have an excuse to avoid the debate that she offered to do this gig free if they held it on May 2. Makes it doubly funny that the debate was canceled anyway so she worked free for no reason at all.
Bingo. Really, bingo.
I backtracked to the timeline on aol/huffpo to when this thing broke, because I wanted to see not only how it unfolded but who got quoted, and Romney’s reaction was immediately reported following the statements from congressmen from the relevant committees. That should tell you something. No Sarah, no Trump, no Beck, no Limbaugh, …not even a Bachman. The media needs the shiny objects they shove in front of their cameras for ratings (and webclicks), but at the end of the day they recognize the legitimate players.
She doesn’t mention him because she doesn’t have to. If it depended on her making money, you can bet she’d be writing a page of Obama compliments. There was only one brief moment of civility towards the Obamas after the election, perhaps she was still uncertain as to her next career move and it was best to cover all the bases….but she came to her senses eventually, quit the governorship and embraced negative, dung-throwing politics for all its worth. Someone no doubt informed her that you can make indecent amounts of money doing this, without any responsibility or accountability, and she went for it.
I feel the same way, Lisbeth. I’ve never hated anyone in politics until her. I can’t think of anyone I hate as much as her except for perhaps Osama Bin Laden! I get such strong feelings of danger from her…I know she’d tear this country apart given the power to do so. I don’t know how I’d live here if she were Pres, it would be very, very difficult.
A wonderful side effect of this capture is that it is very clear now who the adults are.
Cut that attendance at least in half to 500 and you might have an honest attendance figure. Also, there was an “auction” prior to the speechifying which raised some money.
And the person who said Quitler did this one for free is full of it. She never does anything for free. Nor do any members of her family.
Didn’t she say “We thank our President.” ?????
She absolutely mentioned Obama.
yes, she did say “we thank our president” and then used President Bush’s name immediately following that remark. This is the closest she could come to honoring President Obama for doing what bush and clinton could not accomplish over all those years. To even give bush a mention is odd and leaves the reader with the question – “what did bush have to do with this”? The answer is NOTHING. Palin is spinning out of control and lost her legitimacy a very long time ago as a result of her spiteful, mean and ugly attacks on both President Obama and the First Lady. I don’t care how much one disagrees with the pres, it reflects poorly on anyone that has leveled those type of attacks on him or any other president. Of course we all have the right to our opinions and our beliefs but her level of attack and hatred reflects a person that is not fit for any office. It’s one thing when the average citizen complains or takes ugly shots at the pres – it’s another thing for someone with her platform and audience to go after the leader of our country in a way that is racist, spiteful and irresponsible. She is not showing any support, common sense or integrity with her actions or behavior. If she cannot find a suitable way, a fair and responsible way to disagree with our commander in chief, then she needs to exit the room and allow professional, competent and sensible adults to sort out our nation’s woes.
I can’t wait for your book Joe! By the way, I’ve recently visited the website from Christina – I forget her last name – on the jeffrey macdonald case. I’ve been reading the transcripts from the grand jury and his initial interviews. I read your original book and didn’t watch the movie because in my opinion, once you read the book, the movie is a great disappointment. Well written books like yours capture way, way more then any movie can offer. His transcripts are horrifying because every word spoken, every excuse and every detail is captured for eternity. Anyone that read your book cannot come away with anything but a guilty verdict. Even though macdonald to this day is trying to reverse his sentence based on his silly stories re Helena Stokely. So, I realize this isn’t a blog about macdonald but I guess my point is this – you’re a great writer and you do your homework. Nothing in that book was anything but factual based on my research and review of the massive information she has available on that website. So, I already know your book on Palin is going to be a serious “game changer” and I can’t wait! I can’t think of anyone I’d rather have write this book then you.
Yup.
tl;dr
Joe
All I can say is I hope your book will bring the real Palin to light. What a hater she is.
Her initial communication was a tweet followed by a facebook page which was glaring in it’s lack of credit to the Obama. Then predictably, the opportunist went into damage control mode when it was clear that crediting Obama was unavoidable. She couldn’t quite bring herself to say his name was also glaring. She didn’t say the president and former president which would have been consistent. She said Bush’s name.
Given her garbled way of speaking, her poor grammar and sentence structure, one can’t read her statement and conclude anything. Whatever credit she may have given him, she took away when she made a tiresome dig at community organizers.
Too bad part of the mission wasn’t to strap a parachute on Sarah Palin and drop her out of the helicopter at some undisclosed location in the tribal regions of Pakistan.
What she said was all that her mental illness would allow her to say. To have said “President Obama” would’ve probably choked her. What she did say, she said to save her own face.
Excellent post deennaa. It wasn’t too long for me, and I did read it.
There is a quote in christiandom that goes like this, “forgive them lord, for they know not what they do.” That’s an apt description of Americans, for they know not what they do. Even worse for Earth and its inhabitants, they don’t want to know, it’s all just way tl;dr for them to bother.
I just read this on Immoral Minority and without flipping back to check, I believe the source is Politico:
“The small crowd didn’t even completely fill the bleachers. And though the event was ostensibly a celebration of the troops, it felt more like a B-list conservative gathering – replete with booths for little-recognized social conservative groups, iconic imagery of Ronald Reagan, and of course dozens of copies of Palin’s two books. One of the small university’s music instructors had prepared an original trumpet composition to commemorate Palin’s visit. And the National Anthem was sung by what could have been a barbershop quartet were it not for the odd variances in octave.
The other painfully noticeable aspect of the crowd was the advanced age of the attendees, especially given that Palin was speaking on a college campus.”
Sounds so impressive.
How long do you suppose til she’s cutting the ribbons for supermarket openings and giving speeches at the local Kiwanis club in Nowhere, USA?
Deenaa – Wow, that was quite a statement but in all fairness, you seem to be harboring the same level of hatred against America as you believe they’ve held against others, including native americans. I can certainly agree with some of your statements and I’ve always felt that our country wiped out the indian way of life by claiming land that did not belong to us and pushing that society into almost extinction. I believe there are many times throughout history that America has committed crimes against humanity in ways that I certainly wouldn’t stand for today. But good grief. America has her issues for sure, but we’re not all hateful, evil, murdering lunatics here. And I beleive that most Americans have respect and tolerance for others – some don’t. And regardless of your beliefs that we’re all evil and ugly humans, you have the right to leave at anytime. I for one am convinced that will all her issues, sad mistakes and wrong turns, America is still the greatest country – you’ll find her greatness in the faces and lives of the people around you. Volunteers, firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses, teachers, your neighbor next door. Your coworkers, your family and your friends. I love America. I believe in America. And I forgive America. Palin has the same right as you or me to speak freely. We may not agree with her but we have no right to silence her. Not shutting her up doesn’t make us ugly or evil or rotten to the core. It shows our tolerance and respect for freedom. And it shows we will not be silenced either. We will fight this assault from her. You might benefit from letting go of your anger and hatred and step down off the soapbox and join us in the trenches. You are not the only walking wounded.here.
Thank you for posting this. Please believe it is not only those, such as yourself and other Native Americans, who see America for what it was, is, and is becoming. We are far and few between, but we are out here. I agree with everything you have said here. I do, however, believe that President Obama is the best we’ve ever had, and he is sincere in his efforts to reform America and to try to make fundamental changes that will set us on a better path. But will he succeed when so, so many people cannot even see ourselves for who we are? He is fighting an uphill battle of epic proportions. I don’t think he is naïve enough to believe that the death of OBL is some kind of end to the problems, just as he is not naive enough to believe that producing his long-form BC would end the nasty conspiracy theories about his legitimacy to be President. He is an idealist in spirit, but a pragmatist in actions. He knows the past is the past, and is trying to lay a foundation for a better future for all bases on lessons of history. I don’t always agree with him. But I trust in his intent, his integrity, and in his sincerity. Nothing can erase or make up for the horrific crimes of the past, no matter in America or any other country or continent. We can only keep trying to do better and fight the evil acts of the present, punish those of the past if we are able, and prevent future evil acts.
Thank you.
The short, short message, as I understand it: Until we learn from past mistakes, we will continue repeating the same mistakes in the future.
You are very, very angry. I understand that. But if you don’t direct your anger in a positive way – that is, put it to good use, channel it in a way to do good for yourself and others – it will eat away at you… even more than it is. Blogging / expressing it is an excellent way to do it. I am glad I read your post.
hahahaha..that was pretty funny!!
The worst thing you could possibly tell a Native American is to tell us about our right to “leave this country”. Try your patronization on someone who doesn’t understand that “love it or leave it” insult. I have to assume that you do not read for understanding. I have to also assume that you just like to think you are thinking. If you believed this country of whites committed crimes against humanity, wiped out over 500 Nations of Indigenous peoples pushing our societies into almost extinction while thieving our lands, then have the nerve not to UNDERSTAND the imprint/ of that holocaust on the individuals who have SURVIVED and still suffer generational trauma, and who MENTION BRIEFLY these litanies of atrocities, then can only muster up a “you must harbor the same level of hatred” as those who hated, i.e., YOUR people – you show you are just a different shade of the people I spoke of who committed the crime against humanity of Genocide against our people. You are still spouting your patronizing superior attitude to even hint about any anger or hate coming from me. It is that kind of smug and unintelligent attitude that continues to suppress and oppress our Indian Nations. I and my people did not go over the ocean, rape, pillage, torture, massacre and wipe out ANY OTHER PEOPLE. It was the white immigrants who were the OFFENDERS. So don’t come kill me or my family, rape, pillage, plunder and thieve even my IDENTITY, and preach to me about anger and hatred. Do you not see the absolute insult of your commentary? I am not surprised …. AGAIN by your kind of people. A people, who by the way, do not even have an understanding YET the shades of hate, rage and anger at what we know is your continual dehumanization’s of us and all who do not bow down and worship under your red white and blue rag. You need a reality jolt. Even then I doubt you would understand. So how are you so different from your own sarah palin who doesn’t get anything either?
On that hatred and anger comment I will only say this: Not you nor any other white person I intuit, by their actions and words lecturing me on how to feel, will make my thoughts, feelings, beliefs or actions change one iota. So take heed and do not patronize or lecture me on my angers or hates. Most especially since you have shown you have not a clue to what they are or how they were instilled/created – even though you thoughtlessly admitted to these historical crimes and at that, without remorse, empathy or understanding. I let no man nor woman, whoever they may be, touch my anger and I will hate what I hate whether you can stand it or not. Don’t you even know your own Christian bible admonishes you? You know that scripture about “hate what is bad”. How much clearer does that have to be for you? I never lob a first shot of harm to any person or creature and that is my way. If you come against me first then you get what you get. You don’t like the hate? The anger? What prevented you from UNDERSTANDING another person’s life’s experiences? I will tell you what prevented you: your immediate inability to withstand a truth and you followed up with the usual preaching lecture to the person who stated it, even though you admitted of these great crimes. I have come across in my lifetime only less than a handful of whites who EVER apologized for these very crimes we speak of. An apology at the very least! No, we still live on reservations whose Treaty guaranteed lands are still being taken as we speak and as many of us that are still living and breathing, there is STILL stories you cannot bear because, oh dear! too much anger! Its enough for me to say that I live with you but I am not a part of you. And I never ever want to be a part of you. Never mind about my anger. I have handled it without killing anyone nor harming anyone nor anything and in fact, if it were not for that anger I would not have accomplished the things I have done for myself and my people. My anger is my human right. I might also mention I have never been in therapy like your institutionalized society with its rampant apparent need for drugs drugs drugs and your destructive addictions to everything. Did I fail to mention your violence’s? In your core belief systems – “right to bear arms” – you still cannot tame your wild west mentalities that everything needs a gun to cure all its ills. Anyone watching your movies can see that as elementary.
Your entire comment/retort was less than one dimensional and totally assuming. But mostly it was without any respect. My standard of judging is so very different than yours but had I come across such a commentary as I made, I would be so eager to ask questions and to learn more about what made that person feel the way they did. Not you. So, again, I will lump you in the the usual “collective” I encounter all times at all places all day long – seeing but blind, hearing but deaf, accompanied by that ever stinking superior and patronizing blab. Walking wounded? I talk about it you don’t. That’s why the walking wounded are still walking! I’ve counseled lots of yours as well as mine. Your society casts these ones off – into jails, mental institutions and onto your streets as homeless. The rest, as they say, live lives of quiet desperation and the rest beyond that don’t want to bother their little heads about anything but what their television sets entertain and direct them to do and be. I don’t need to come off any “soapbox”. Its always there right outside my door waiting for me whether I like it or not. Come down in the “trenches” with you? Your trenches? What a crazy statement.
Everything I said I meant. When you negate ANY of it – you negate my life. Its as simple as that. You – always dehumanizing your way through my/our lands and my/our lives. Go live on an Indian reservation. Go live in any of our remote villages. THERE are my trenches. Everywhere I go in this country is a trench. So I don’t need to go “down” in the trenches with you. No one forced you to HAVE to reply to my life’s observations and certainly no one forced you to insult, demean and judge me. You did that unprompted. If you basically agreed with my main premises, that was all you needed to put in the little box. Its this damnable infringement – as is always the usual – upon my rights to write or speak – that always needs to be clarified, explained, argued, debated. Its an exhaustive experience just living with you, but I will not allow you to lecture me on how great you are, how wonderful your police, fire department, teachers, etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum, and how angry I am and what I should do about it. THAT IS INSULTING. I take you individually as you come, but I will not stop looking at you as a collective – you of the statistics and polls. Even if I didn’t want to see your “big picture”, I am forced just by my mind’s capability to do so. Let your angst of self-righteousness about my anger/hate alone. You the offender encountered your offended. The burden to defuse is upon you, not me. I live in part, to set people like you straight. If you can’t be teachable, that is your loss.
Ordinarily, because your comments are so typical and predictable, I wouldn’t respond back, but this is a case of obvious setting the matters straight. Examine yourself first and try to put yourself in another’s reality. Otherwise you come across in the hypocritical manner of, say, one sarah palin. I don’t care about popularity or any other groupie, clique-like behaviors your society so lives and dies by, but you do not get to preach and judge my life that you obviously have no clues about by dismissing what you believe is nothing but the one dimensional emotion of anger – or/and all else I believe, see and experience that does not fit YOUR idea of your “great” america. Your america is not my america. Period. I will remind you again: we are the ORIGINAL and only BONAFIDE natural citizens of this land and you are the ORIGINAL IMMIGRANTS. If you believe there are those of us who will ever forget this fact, you truly are in great denial. We have paid more than any price that a human being should bear so that you can have your la la land and we are still paying the price daily. Don’t presume you can proselytize with me and I will suffer your ignorance of telling me about my “right” to move out. That comment was a very stupid and insulting comment and I suggest you never ever again say that to any Native “american”. Oh, I’ve got volumes upon volumes to say/write but this, I repeat, is not the forum. I already feel bad for writing as much as I have. Also, I did not want to use Mr. McGuinness’s blog as a forum for my own stage. So I will say nothing further now on the above mentioned comments. Just will leave you a website to do a little enlightening. If that is possible. One can only hope.
http://hiddenfromhistory.org
It is out of Canada, but we Natives cover this entire North and South american continent and all our lives have a continuity of sameness and identical oppression.
I do want to say, Mr. McGuinness, that I like this blog. A long time ago, I read “Fatal Vision”. It was riveting from front to back and I was amazed at how you thoroughly dissected the pathology and murder involved in that true life crime. Your writing was of the highest class of writing so I do believe whatever else you write will be of that same in-depth revelatory kind. I expressed to Malia Litman that I did not believe that even with your book coming out and the others – Geoffrey Dunne and the Bailey book – that even those will stop or awaken the people who follow sarah palin. I also said I still have hope, though, that they would. I will be happy to buy yours and Mr. Dunne’s books. Its more than a worthy cause any way you look at it. That’s all I have to say. Thank you again for suffering and allowing this long post.
Another by the way: I capitalize for emphasis and not shouting. That is MY rule.
I appreciate your understanding – and yes, agree, “they know not….”.
While I agree with you in basics, I know that the american government is on the wrong path. Until Obama does a few critical turn-around actions with american tax dollars going to support oppressive governments like israel where billions of dollars (since israel became a state in 1948) are given to steal Palestinian lands and murder literally her children especially, and where those tax dollars are spent on the most high tech weaponry on the planet to subdue, target and kill, ethnically cleanse and Occupy said people – and any others where this government is engaged in extracting resources for only american dominance and greeds – then I do not engage nor support this government. There are not enough american’s who understand the calamity/tragedy/crime against humanity that this government and its allies have committed against the sovereign nation of Iraq, for starters, Afghanistan, and all over the Middle East for the rest. I despise the words “homeland security” and “terrorists”. I’m sick of the blackness and trauma’s of warring this government is/has causing. They are dog whistle words to steal people’s minds and replace them with rocks. The main two things I can say I like about Mr Obama is that he is intelligent and that he has a calm demeanor. I don’t care if he is black or green because any color of the human race will sell-out if the reward is just right. Him being elected did not stop the real ugly underbelly and core of racism that this country was founded upon. We witness continually those horrible, stupid, dangerous and supremely disrespectful people, of who sarah palin is the complete embodiment of.
“…This is the age of the assassin and no mistaking it…” Written in the forward (I believe) of “The Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller. Circa 1930(?) Yes, that is the age we are in for sure. Dangerous, chaotic, fearful. So yes, it is positive to think the president is trying to do the best he can, and he is intelligent and calm. We definitely need that. But the government has lied to us for over 500 years and going and we STILL live in 3rd world conditions and Indian Reservations STILL exist as the conduit for too many of those conditions. There is no incentive that I can see to build any kind of foundation of true trust for this government. Betrayal is sewn tightly into its hem. I do believe all sane people yearn for peace, health, TRUE freedoms and justice. Its just not here yet. We must face the facts. The government is still full of snakes and wannabee snakes coming up who want their “Manifest Destiny” still….