Hating the Other
One thing came through loud and clear in Sarah Palin's speech and the speech of some of the other people featured at the RNC this week: Hatred and fear of the Other. The GOP is pandering to the most base instinct in its base -- it's them against us.
It stands in stark contrast to the hopeful and optimistic message that the Dems articulated last week -- that we're a nation full of hopes and ideals, that helping each other and helping ourselves helps us attain a nobility of spirit.
Instead, it was all cut-downs and teardowns of the liberal media, liberal congress, and a bunch of other fascist horseshit. There's no great left-wing conspiracy afoot here. That's spin the neocons have been turning for years.
Anyway, it was a turnoff. I wasn't feeling well to begin with, but by the end of Palin's speech, my stomach hurt and my head hurt and I don't think it was the trip to the oral surgeon earlier in the day. I felt like I'd just been through a few rounds in a boxing ring. It was exhausting. It was meanspirited and petty and not uplifting. I felt like I'd been slathered in shit, and I'd had quite enough.
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Wow, hatred by the Right of the Left? I see it a different way.
Having destroyed the moderate wing of the Democratic party via the derailing of Hillary Clinton, the Obama-ites are now spewing their venom at another "uppity" woman, Sarah Palin, in every available blog and online comment section.
To be honest, I think certain Obama-ites are gearing up to raise havoc if McCain/Palin win, and members of the MSM are terrified at this possibility.
If the streets of Manhattan become engulfed in flames on November 5, the owners of the NYTimes no doubt would hope that the mob remembers that Dowd and Herbert work there.
Unfortunately, history would argue against such an optimistic scenario, the fate of Robespierre being one such example.
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September 5, 2008 06:03 AM