Why is it the world can see through Sarah Palin? no wonder they are laughing..

[HipChick]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/nov/23/palin-sowing-seeds-destruction-america

In her world, Ivy League is a slur; cities are not the "real America"; and those who know the price of arugula but cannot handle a rifle are not to be trusted. Palin is the antithesis of an aspirational figure. Her supporters love her not because they want to be like her, but because they already are like her. So for better and for worse, Palin is an entirely self-made – and, if her book is anything to go by, self-invented – personification of the kind of political animal Bush sought to both emulate and nurture. Bush was Palin-lite.

To that extent her performance over the past year has been more tragic than comic. Palin represents the thwarted aspirations and brooding resentment of a large section of white working class Americans. That is not to suggest that her supporters are necessarily racist, but polls show her support is racially exclusive.

Her base has plenty to be resentful about. Their wages are stagnant, their economic security has eroded, and their prospects for social and economic advancement have stalled. In 2004, white Americans were the only racial group for whom the poverty rate actually rose. The fact that it was lower than every other group is of little comfort. Demographically, they are set to become a minority by 2042. Geopolitically, the country for which they display so much patriotic fervour has lost one war, is losing another, and is regularly lectured by others about the urgency of putting its fiscal house in order. America is not what it used to be. The country they keep saying they want to "take back" no longer exists and is not returning.

[KansDem]

1. This statement sums it up:

Geopolitically, the country for which they display so much patriotic fervour has lost one war, is losing another, and is regularly lectured by others about the urgency of putting its fiscal house in order. America is not what it used to be. The country they keep saying they want to "take back" no longer exists and is not returning.

Be sure to wave "buh-bye" to the rest of the world while it passes us by...

[abelenkpe]

3. Its funny

the set claiming they want to take back their country also wants to undo all social programs, deprive workers of their hard earned pensions, deprive people of rights, dismantle public schools, and continue to undermine science. What do they want, to take it back so they can finish wrecking it?

[MindPilot]

2. Good point; why two of the dumbest of the dumb constantly in the news

Sarah Palin, who somehow managed to get nominated for VP, but can't finish a book-signing and disgraced beauty queen Carrie Prejean, who can't finish a sentence are ubiquitous in the media.