As per usual with the right wing, they are allowed to condone certain actions by members of their own side, but for others, the rules are twisted and changed. We have seen this so many times over the years, but most evidently since Gov. Sarah Palin has come to prominence.
Barack Obama is dismissed by the right wing as having no experience, yet Sarah Palin has as much, if not less experience than Obama. The criticism of Obama is that he is a Senator, and has not had the ‘roll the sleeves up’ experience of running a state. The contradiction here is that her running mate has also had no gubnatorial experience, no matter how long he has been in the United States senate. That’s ok for the right wing, but not for the left.
The ‘Palin daughter preganant at 17 and out of wedlock’ story is another example of what the right wing accepts happily from their side, and what they would not even dare tolerate from the left. I have elaborated on this point in a previous blog, so I won’t re-hash it here. It is the second point that proves it’s ok for the right wing, but not for the left.
Lack of foreign policy experience is what Obama gets hit with constantly. However, we know how the lovely Gov. Plain handles foreign policy questions: “I can see Russia and Canada from my house!” She has zero foreign policy experience, and is with a running mate who knows very little either, apart from what the inside of a Vietnamese prison camp looks like. At least Obama picked a foreign policy expert in Joe Biden. Again, it’s ok for the right, but not for the left.
And now, ladies and gentleman, we find the ultimate in hypocrisy from the beehived barbie doll herself. Barack Obama has had many slurs againt his character. Of them, the most damaging has been that he is a ‘friend of terrorists’, referring to his one time short lived association with Bill Ayers. To the right wing, terrorists are who we target, and try to wipe from this earth. But today we find Gov. Palin going coy on whether abortion clinic bombers, who targetted abortion clinics all across the US especially in the 1970’s and 1980’s, should be called terrorists.
Lets rewind a bit and look at what she said about Barack Obama:
Early this month, after the New York Times ran an article highlighting the ties between Obama and Ayers, Palin told a campaign rally in Colorado that Obama “sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country”.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/5101976/anti-abortion-bombs-terrorism-palin/
This is what she said today about abortion bombers:
“Now, others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or facilities that it would be unacceptable to … I don’t know if you’re gonna use the word ‘terrorist’ there,”
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/5101976/anti-abortion-bombs-terrorism-palin/
The direct criticism of Barack Obama was that he ‘palled around’ with people who would ‘target their own country.’ Now, unless these abortion clinics are across the border in Mexico or Canada, these bombers are ‘targetting their own country’ and killing innocent people, just like Palin accused Bill Ayers of doing. So, if we use Gov. Palin’s standard (which we should, surely), then abortion bombers are terrorists.
Violent protests, in the form of arson, firebombing, and vandalism started in the early 1970’s in the U.S. Then, as now, most of the violence appears to be the acts of religiously-motivated criminals acting alone. However, recent cases involving the assassination and attempted murder of abortion providers in both the U.S. and Canada have shown that perpetrators appear to be sheltered by a network of sympathizers.
Not only are these people not terrorists, according to the right wing, they are being protected and sheltered. Forget the ‘palling around’ with a terrorist. Those who protect abortion bombers do so for long periods of time, and have a network of people helping with the protection. This is an organsied bunch of people! And now Gov. Palin refuses to call these people who take innocent lives away, terrorists, and basically says that they are a bit naughty, and possibly a slap on the wrist would be appropriate. I say again, it’s ok for the right wing, but not for the left.
If we allow this dangerous right wing to get four more years of the White House, then the last eight will seem like a picnic in the park. This far right wing is ready to rise up and take control. It’s had eight years of Cheney making the house ready for them to arrive. Intelligent, clear minded people need to rise up in bigger numbers and I plead with those Americans who read this to VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA.
This is a moment in time where can either facilitate the rise of the right, or a return to the Clinton presidency, but this time much improved. If Clinton was seen as one of the greatest Presidents that America has ever had, then I believe Barack Obama will take the office of the Presidency to heights never seen before, and will end all that is holding that nation back.
The time has come to say to the right wing, enough of the double standards, enough of the negativity, enough of the hypocrisy.
It’s time to say enough to the father-daughter road trip around the country.
Enjoy your day.
