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lauraanne_gilmanTaken from various news outlets: Apparently, the McCain/Palin ticket thinks that the way to campaign is to stir up hatred and fear, so that your audience shouts out things like "kill him!" in response to their goading, and rile people up enough to spew a racial epithet at an African American television tech just doing his job, and tell him to "sit down, boy."
That? Was American in the bad old days. We call them the bad old days because they were bad. Racism and religionism and sexism were things we were supposed to be evolving away from. Remember?
Fear is no excuse. Fear is fear. You go through it and come out the other side and you don't do it over the bodies and hearts of your neighbors, your co-workers, your fellow human beings.
And for those of us who care about such things: No, the Palin 'rape kit' scandal has not been debunked. "Sadly for Palin partisans, they got schooled on the Wasilla specifics by a 20-year-old blogger and junior at George Washington University who did what so many on the right can't quite pull off: fact-based reporting. He proved without a doubt that Palin, as mayor, signed off on the initiative that forced rape victims or their insurance companies to foot the bill for the post-assault exam kits."
And this is the woman who has the nerve to demand that other women support her? Because she's For Us? God save us from our enemies, then....
That? Was American in the bad old days. We call them the bad old days because they were bad. Racism and religionism and sexism were things we were supposed to be evolving away from. Remember?
Fear is no excuse. Fear is fear. You go through it and come out the other side and you don't do it over the bodies and hearts of your neighbors, your co-workers, your fellow human beings.
And for those of us who care about such things: No, the Palin 'rape kit' scandal has not been debunked. "Sadly for Palin partisans, they got schooled on the Wasilla specifics by a 20-year-old blogger and junior at George Washington University who did what so many on the right can't quite pull off: fact-based reporting. He proved without a doubt that Palin, as mayor, signed off on the initiative that forced rape victims or their insurance companies to foot the bill for the post-assault exam kits."
And this is the woman who has the nerve to demand that other women support her? Because she's For Us? God save us from our enemies, then....
