OMG! Sarah Palin is not a very nice person. I’m sure Palin knows about the horrific incident that happened to a man and his 10 year old daughter recently…because he had an Obama sticker on the back of his vehicle.
Although her message about stopping the cars with Obama bumper stickers sounds benign, I’m actually not sure it is.
Any type of mild to violent confrontation could take place and I’m sure she knows it. Yet, playing off the event of just three days ago, she has asked her teabaggers to stop cars with Obama stickers! Someone call the men in white with the straight jackets. That woman needs help.
Here’s what she said specifically: (In the link to the video, she starts at exactly 3:00.)
Her remarks focused mainly on Sen. Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Obama, the latter of whom was the opponent of the McCain-Palin ticket in the 2008 presidential campaign. Palin beckoned to two familiar phrases from the Obama-Biden campaign.
“That bumper sticker that maybe you’ll see on the next Subaru driving by — an Obama bumper sticker — you should stop the driver and say, ‘So how is that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?’” Palin said, poking at two words closely tied to Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, “hope” and “change.”
She did clarify her remark so as to not offend Subaru owners: “I shouldn’t be disrespectful; I don’t have anything against Subarus.”
Palin has in the past used that “hopey, changey” line at Tea Party events.
What happened to Mark Duren and his 10 year old daughter should not happen to ANYONE in a free society. My problem with Palin is her duplicity. It’s ok for her and her teabaggers to say and do what they want, but she’s calling for them to stop Obama supporters who have Obama stickers on their cars and call them out! FREE SPEECH GOES BOTH WAYS IN OUR SOCIETY.
How, precisely, does Palin suggest her followers “stop” drivers who display Obama bumper stickers?
Good point.
Ummm… by saying “you should stop the driver…”?
Well we all know that Mavericks are quicker than most Subarus.
(they’d have a hard time with an Impreza WRX model though.)
If someone asked me how the hopey changy thing is going, I’d have to reply much like Bill Maher: “It’s working out great! Thanks for asking!”
LTL, in my blind fury over her suggestion, my thought is that ANY form of confrontation would not be amicable on both sides. The thought of using that recent event to motivate people to target cars with Obama stickers, in my opinion is insane. People are not nice when approached with aggression. I imagine some very bad results if just two or three sheeple tries what she suggested.
Oh My, good to see you. LOL I like Maher’s suggestion.
That’s very sneaky of Palin to draw attention to people with Obama stickers as people who are supporting the President these deranged people hate. She gave herself an out since she didn’t specifically advocate violence but so much of what she says uses firearm terminology.
During the Democratic primary in ’08 there were a group of women who thought that Hillary was sending them secret messages via the color of her pantsuit that day. There are Palin followers who think her references to weapons and Obama bumper stickers is a secret message to arm themselves and attack Democrats.
This is the same mindset that believes in yetis, the Loch Ness monster, the government has an alien space ship secreted away somewhere, or that the Rapture is imminent. It’s a form of paranoia.
People like Palin, Bachman and others in the Republican party and the Teabagging Party have been playing on that paranoia. That’s not only a mean thing to do, it’s a dangerous thing to do. They are riding the tiger but the tiger is cranky and armed.
I can assure caribou barbie that the hope and change message is working very well. I am still basking in the glow of having a President who isn’t a coward, a traitor and a criminal like Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton, Mr. HWB and Mr. Reagan. The Obama Presidency will go down as one that awakened real Americans to the need for change in our processes as well as providing some tools to effect those changes. Barack Obama is a great man and is a great President- I honor him.
Just to be clear, attacks on Obama supporters are shameful and dishonorable, as are any attacks on individuals and institutions based only on crack-brained “beliefs”. As my second bumper sticker says (next to the Obama one) “A Conservative Nightmare- a Liberal that shoots expert!”
Welcome Craig. I love that bumper sticker! I HAVE to find one! Love it!
I have an Obama sticker on my car. I also have a precision-guided and nuclear weaponry background AND I’m a Socialist. So go ahead and stop ME. I’ll ask if socialism shouldn’t be for EVERYONE instead of just the rich. I’ll aslo tell them that, once you learn HOW to build nuclear weapons, small arms become just that, SMALL arms. I guess that makes me Palin’s worst nightmare. It’s only fitting. Visualizing her as President with access to nuclear weapons is MY Worst Nightmare.
Ishmael, love your comment. Also welcome, feel free to respond to our posts any time, whether you agree or not.
Thank you kindly for your comment. I picked up this blog piece from the Tom Hartman website. In a blatant case of logrolling in our time and to establish MY bonafides, I’m a featured writer/analyst at FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ investigative journalism website, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/
where I write on nuclear weapons and telecommunications issues.
I have articles there examining the Warrantless Wiretap program from the perspective of a 30-year telecom worker specializing in Broadband Network Operations as well as an examination of the Minot/Barksdale loose nukes episode from the perspective of a former nuclear weapons handler and member in good standing of what Spalding Gray called, “The Brotherhood of Fear”. My byline there is “Notes From The High Lonesome”.
I would be tempted to ask ‘How’s that angry whitey thing going for you?’ but I suppose that might be inflamatory.
Hi Steve, Yeah, I think that would be over the top “fightin’ words” for those folks. LOL BTW…Welcome.
Ishmael, impressive bonafides! Ironically, I’m currently reading James Bamford’s The Shadow Factory, (just started,) so I will be getting an inside view of some of what you have covered. I will be visiting your site and adding it to my blogroll. Thanks for all that you do.
Good lord, someone tell that woman to ask for some new lines.
My favorite retort was from Colbert:
‘Sarah Palin’s new motto for the Republican party:
“Abandon all hope of anything ever changing!”‘