She Is Still An Idiot

For all of you who thought she would make a good Vice-President, this is why Sarah Palin needs to shut up and just go away. You can't be saying things like this even if it gives the Republican base a hard-on - you have to use the racial code words that the right has spent the past ten years carefully constructing. You shouldn't even mention the Civil War because your side doesn't want to hear about the inconvenience that was slavery. Besides, as we all know (according to the Conservatives), the Civil War was about the issue of states rights, not the abolishment of bondage.

"What we can glean from this is an understanding of why we are on the road that we are on. Again, it's based on what went into his thinking, being surrounded by radicals. You could hearken back to the days before the Civil War, when too many Americans believed that not all men were created equal. It was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth that here in America, yes, we are equal and we all have equal opportunities, not based on the color of our skin. You have equal opportunity to work hard and to succeed and to embrace the opportunities, the God-given opportunities, to develop resources and work extremely hard and as I say, to succeed. Now, it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that the gravity, that mistake that took place before the Civil War and why the Civil War had to really start changing America. What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin. Why are we allowing our country to move backwards instead of moving forward with the understanding that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, we are all created equally?"

If you can actually follow her logic can you explain to me what she is talking about? I swear this woman is so stupid that I can't even finish her sentences in my head - my brain can't gear down to her level.

What Palin is expounding is a belief that has become common among conservatives. Almost all conservatives (like almost all liberals) agree that racial equality is the ideal toward which the United States ought to move. But many on the right have adopted the view that the only way to address racism is to pretend it does not exist. Thus, anyone who talks about race or acknowledges race or makes mention of the fraught American relationship with racism must by definition be a racist. Clearly, that makes Barack Obama and Derrick Bell racists. It also makes Juan Williams, a center-right commentator, a racist when he points out that Newt Gingrich is using "food stamps" as code for "black." - David Graham (The Atlantic)