Palin: Obama Wants To Return To The "Days Before The Civil War" When People Weren't Considered Equal

[Cali_Democrat]

Yes, that's right. The nation's first black President wants to bring America back to the days before the Civil War according to Sarah Palin.

PALIN: Well, what we can gleam from this is an understanding of why we are all on the road that we are on and it's based on what went into his thinking, being surrounded by radicals. He is bringing us back Sean to days that... you can harken back to days before the Civil War, when unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men were created equal. And it was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth here in America... yes, we are equal and we all have equal opportunities, not based on the color of your skin.

You have equal opportunities to work hard and to succeed and to embrace the opportunities, 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 that gravity, that mistake, 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 to 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 that understanding that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, we are all created equally.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/palin-obama-wants-return-days-civil-war-wh

[mfcorey1]

1. Does this idiot listen to what she is saying? That has to be the dumbest statement of the year!

[Tim4319]

30. And it's just the begining of March!!!!! LOL

[Roy Rolling]

109. Cut her some slack!!

There are many worse and stupid things she has said and will say this year. Don't underestimate how dumb she really is, give her some credit!

[xtraxritical]

127. Give credit where credit is due...

Palin - "it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that that gravity, that mistake, took place before the Civil War". And we've been held down by that liberal gravity ever since! lol

[GopperStopper2680]

159. Cut her some slack

Roy-You're right she has exhibited some rather breathtaking displays of stupid over the last few years. How ever I must politely disagree with you on one point--She doesn't need more slack she needs less. As I see it ignorance is forgivable. Ignorance is not knowing something because you n ever had the opportunity to learn. Stupidity is simply choosing not to learn. So I say, we need to cut her less slack and not more lest her incredible aptitude for self delusion spread like some kind of fungal infection.

[progressoid]

136. derp

[nanabugg]

156. I think "Game Changer" must be too kind to her. nt.

[awoke_in_2003]

161. You know, I read where Inhoffe believes...

that the bible refutes global warning and thought "that is the dumbest thing I have read today". Then I saw this thread

[cstanleytech]

176. After her Katie Couric interview it was pretty clear she was clueless so its hardly surprising that

nothing really has changed with her.

[Syrinx]

2. is she on meth?

What a strange person.

[obxhead]

112. I've known people addicted to meth. It makes them stupid,

but not this stupid. It takes a special kind of stupid to say this kind of thing.

[hifiguy]

151. Princess Dumbass is as fucked up as

a left-handed football bat and almost as useful.

[pinboy3niner]

3. And she was the GOP nominee for Vice President of the United States

A heartbeat away...

[asjr]

4. I wonder if she gets paid by the word or the sentence.

[pinboy3niner]

5. I think it's by the crazy

More crazy, more money.

[sakabatou]

6. The stupid, IT HURTS!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. Teh. T E H. "Teh stupid."

Please.

[sakabatou]

17. ...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. Well, ok.

If you insist.

[Drunken Irishman]

163. SPOILSPORT!

[canuckledragger]

59. fixed that for you, lol

[ZM90]

7. Palin: The GOP Wants To Return To The "Days Before The Civil War"

I think that's what she meant to say but, then again if she said that she'd be :gasp: speaking the truth.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. When will Sarah cast off the yoke of slavery?

That poor woman has been beat down by the man long enough. She just can't get a lucky break.
Hahahahahahahahaha

[pinboy3niner]

10. She's just being true to Paul Revere's legacy

Ringin' those bells and firin' those shots...

[Cali_Democrat]

13. LOL!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. The raiders had a couple of nice songs.

[lunatica]

29. The look on that horse's face says it all

[Historic NY]

55. Poor Bissell is still rolling in his grave...

over that one

[olegramps]

74. That is hilarious, Thanks!

[nadinbrzezinski]

84. Now that's a keeper

[FSogol]

154. awesome cartoon

[MADem]

9. Come on--that's funny!

Some of the best humor is the unintentional stuff!

That woman is thick as two bricks, and she's PROUD of it! She makes Minnie Pearl look like Stephen Hawking!

Hey, Barack--tote that barge, lift that bale!

[rurallib]

53. the Minnie Pearl of the political set! Perfect!

[Maeve]

69. Except Minnie Pearl was smart and KNEW she was spouting nonsense! eom

[ejpoeta]

11. this is why SNL could just take her actual words and put them in

the skits.

[EFerrari]

15. Psuedo logic.

She almost makes sense.

[ZM90]

12. If there's one thing that never changes about the GOP it's that if they're accusing Obama of

something then they are actually guilty of it. I'm sure the GOP would love to return to those days.

[Frustratedlady]

23. If they could figure out a way to draw the line...

we'd already be in the midst of another Civil War. They've never gotten over the first one.

She is a pathetic lump of stoopid.

[polichick]

31. Yep - they're masters at projection.

[JHB]

54. Let's all go to the snack stand, she's projecting like a drive-in

I wonder what movie is playing?

Birth of a nation?
Red Dawn?
Rambo: First Blood part II?
the Chuck Norris canon?
24?

[Erose999]

101. Disney's Song of the South.

[Johonny]

85. +1

[Angry Dragon]

16. Sarah has lost her way in the Alaskan wilderness

[izquierdista]

70. I'm not so sure

They have bears there that eat animals that are too stupid to know what they are doing.

At least the salmon has an excuse, it has an instinct to spawn.

[malaise]

18. Bwaaaaaaaaaah this is a complete inversion of reality

Maybe they were speaking in code for the ReTHUG base. What an idiot!

[bowens43]

19. what can you say to this kind of stupidity???

[chelsea0011]

22. Anoher historian heard from

[liberal N proud]

24. As the President might say...

Does that sound right, a black President wants to return to pre-civil war times?

based on his take down of the press corps question on Tuesday regarding him wanting higher gas prices in an election year.

[MarianJack]

25. She knows that she can speak with total abandon...

...when she's preaching the "gospel of sarah" to her idiot soft-headed moron base.

PEACE!

[deutsey]

26. Classic example of rightwing projection

Time was when this kind of crackpot psychodrama was on the margins political discourse...now it's mainstream, baby.

[JHB]

57. Back then there was a Soviet Union, so there were only...

...so many places they could call Democrats "socialist/communist" and not be treated like the idiots they were. It gave the establishment more incentive to muzzle their ranting loon wing. Since the Soviets collapsed and "Red China" is good for profits, they bellied up to the (nut)bar to help push their economic agenda, and now the flying monkeys won't go back in their cages.

[Tennessee Gal]

27. What on earth is she talking about?

What issue?

Amazingly, blindingly, stupid!

[JHB]

58. On this earth or Bizzaro earth?

I think that's a valid question here.

[mtnester]

181. ^^ This

it's the only explanation

[longship]

183. Yes! On her earth...

... Everybody wears a goatee.

[AlbertCat]

73. What on earth is she talking about?

The OPPRESSION of the RICH WHITE MALE. It's a scar on America we can never hide! The SHAME of the black and brown poor! Oh the humanity!









(on my part.... not La Sarah's)

[polichick]

28. Twisted!

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Word salad Sarah.

[2pooped2pop]

33. well, Sarah has learned republican projectionism

They always try to turn shit around and frame it so that what they do is blamed on us.

[GoCubsGo]

35. Yep.

And, she doesn't even realize how utterly ridiculous her comment is.

[HopeHoops]

34. Has she ever opened her mouth without something stupid coming out?

[The Wizard]

36. Cognitive dissonance

She's a nut, and depraved Repube males want to look up her skirt. That she gets attention as a serious political voice is reason to believe the Mayans were right.

[cindyperry2010]

37. so again i say

stupid fucking woman

[YellowRubberDuckie]

38. This is what Psychologists call PROJECTION.

That is where one takes the things that one believes and makes it seem like it is them who feels that way instead of truly feeling it in one's head.
Wow. The stupid here is more painful than my IBS.
Duckie

[sofa king]

47. Projection from a disturbed person, no less.

Projection:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Histrionic Personality Disorder:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder

[JHB]

63. Psychologist, nothin'. this is what Movie Theaters call projection...

Put it up there on a big screen and surround sound, makin' a realy big show.

[HipChick]

39. I wish she would crawl back under the rock that she popped up from..

[IDemo]

40. Sarah, while I may disagree with what you say

I will defend to the Pepsied keyboard your right to say it.

[TBF]

43. Personally I hope she's the nominee for them -

that would be hysterical.

[LeftishBrit]

41. Talk about projection!

[crim son]

42. She lost me once I knew she was able to "gleam" anything from anything. Idiot. n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

45. Oh, gad, same here.

[trof]

46. I wondered if that was a typo. Probably not.

[gkhouston]

62. "Gleam" surprised me, all right.

I didn't realize she knew it was anything other than a brand of toothpaste.

[wordpix]

108. unfortunately, she cannot gleam any information from anywhere

[Strelnikov_]

174. Yep. First sentence and I was done. n/t

[baldguy]

44. .

[LynneSin]

48. This is from The Onion, right?

geez what a dumbass she is!

We're not the ones making women into subservient 2nd class citizens.

We're not the ones that are making people piss into a cup to get benefits.

I'd call the woman delusional but really what she is becoming is irrelevant.

[Generic Other]

49. Doesn't matter what century Sarah returns to

IQ doesn't change.

[Botany]

50. I dare anybody to try to read Palin's gibberish out loud.

He is bringing us back Sean to days that... you can harken back to days before the Civil War, when unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men were created equal. And it was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth here in America... yes, we are equal and we all have equal opportunities, not based on the color of your skin.

Word Salad Gibberish

[JHB]

64. That dare has been taken

Go to time 1:14

[SCVDem]

51. The word Radical

Links directly to Fox.

They use it constantly and like a ventriliquists dummy, so does Palin.

[tanyev]

52. Wow, he really is playing the long game.

Did not see that coming.

[part man all 86]

56. there must be a creator because she is pinnacle of the gift that keeps giving

with her little pearls of stupidity.

[WI_DEM]

60. Why does she even get a platform?

[GETTINGTIRED]

61. really

That's the pot calling the kettle ....palin did not want minorites on her staff so who the hell is trying to return to old days..just keep your mouth closed palin we have enough pollution in the world

[6000eliot]

65. What the fuck is she talking about?

Can anyone make sense of this?

[nxylas]

81. She's just saying outright what Republicans usually mask with code words

Short version: The black man wants to bring back slavery, but with you as his slave. What are you going to do about it, Whitey?

[SemperEadem]

66. I knew it was just a matter of time

before this attention wh0re had to pop up and do her crazy dance for attention. She could not stand to be left out of the discourse...

all she does is talk all shit because all she knows is all shit.

[MrModerate]

67. Word salad with extra nuts . . .

On so many levels — none of them healthy — Sarah Palin is reliable beyond all reasonable expectations. If you want a public utterance that'll leave 'em scratching their heads, if you're looking for wacky, garbled, half-true, ahistorical, syntactically lethal, and altogether crackbrained, Sarah's your girl.

History is going to remember her part in steering the Republican Party onto the rocks.

[AlbertCat]

68. opportunities to work hard and to succeed

except of course for Governors who quit half way thru....didn't work hard and a total FAIL.

[SammyWinstonJack]

86. She forgot opportunities to grift millions from unsuspecting moron.

That's her idea of hard work and being successful.

[Enrique]

71. echoes of Pat Buchanan

worrying in his latest book about whites being made to "sit in the back of the bus".

[cynatnite]

72. Damn it. That made my nose bleed. n/t

[ProfessionalLeftist]

75. Isn't that the bassackwards, upside-down bullshit Brietbart's fans

have been spouting ie: Obama is a "radical" who wants to enslave white people?

It's so utterly backwards and hypocritical and typical of Republican propaganda - they always accuse Democrats of doing what REPUBLICANS themselves are doing. If we had a media with any interests besides corprat profit, they'd nail these idiots on this propaganda. They'd say "well it sounds to me like this is what the Republicans are trying to do - getting rid of civil rights laws, taking away women's rights..." - anyone in the media can challenge this rhetoric - but they don't.

[sinkingfeeling]

76. UH? She's trying to equate slavery with income inequality?

[hifiguy]

77. Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods

(tip of the hat to Esquire's Charlie Pierce for that one) seems determined to not be out-batshitted by Bachmann and Frothy Mix.

This is so breathtakingly moronic that words fail me.

[Odin2005]

78. PROJECTION! Paging Dr. Freud!

[Harriety]

79. What I "gleam" from what she just said is that she's really stupid.

[Richardo]

83. Ha! That one leaped out at me too.

[truebrit71]

80. Completely and utterly fucking clueless...

...how does she remember to breathe being that fucking dumb???

[olegramps]

82. Maybe this is the new "Southern Strategy" heralded by Palin the Alaska secessionist's darling.

[caseymoz]

87. The ballsiest imbecile I've ever heard.

At least Dan Quayle and Dubya had some shame. With Palin, every sentence drips with a contempt for knowledge and an ambition for power, like she's soaked in both vices. Never mind she doesn't know the difference between gleam and glean. You somehow know that back story there: if anyone has ever informed her she's simply rejected it and treated that person with contempt and soon people gave up.

How does anybody reach that point? By being a despicable human being. She makes Limbaugh look intelligent and even compassionate. Ugh.

[xtraxritical]

131. I refudiate that comment.

[Lifelong Protester]

141. Dang! You took the words out of my mouth

I was wondering when someone would refudiate this...

[caseymoz]

165. Never post first thing in the morning.

Yes, I've corrected it.

[maddiemom]

88. Give Sarah some credit

Come now, we have to give Palin SOME credit for her complete lack of bigotry. She is obviously oblivious to the fact that President Obama is half black. She apparently never heard of him referred to as "our first black president." In the days before and after the Civil War, even a dash of Negro blood made one Black, and and obviously this still holds true,since we don't refer to the president as "mixed racial." Sarah has shown by her remarks that she is So above that!

[NoGOPZone]

89. See? It wasn't about states rights after all nt

[hatrack]

90. "What we can gleam from this . . . "

WTF? Seriously, is that a transcript typo?

I'm worried that it isn't.

[mackattack]

91. dog whistle/code words

Civil war and race = Obama is a black who should be a slave. Hail the confederacy!

[craigmatic]

92. You have to be ignorant of history to be a conservative.

[tpsbmam]

191. You have to be just plain ignorant to be a conservative. Research supports it! nt

[nobodyspecial]

93. "when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin."

This no longer exists? Right. Just telling poor people they are equal to the rich does not make it true, nor does pretending class and racial differences do not exist.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

94. Another WTF moment

from the Quitter from Wasilla!


Next she'll be accusing President Obama of wanting to take us back to the time before God created Dinosaurs!

[snooper2]

95. And people wonder why other folks would call her the "C" word

Which is usually reserved for the most extreme instances...Like with this "person"...


Yo Palin, go find a moose to fuck or something-

[guitar man]

96. Shame on you!

How could you possibly wish such a fate on some poor innocent moose ?

[Ikonoklast]

97. She's Nuts.

The Constitution allowed slavery, did not recognize women as full citizens, and is as written a massively flawed document.

[Martin Eden]

100. People who would vote for her are nuts.

Sarah Palin has "gleamed" wealth and fame by spewing that kind of nonsense.

[beac]

98. Look out, everyone!

John McCain's yappy attack hamster got out of its cage again!

[tallahasseedem]

120. "yappy attack hamster" is one of the best...

ways to describe her...period!

Bravo beac!

[beac]

189. Grazie mille!

It just came to me-- though it might have been a bit unfair to hamsters.

Palin is truly an inspiration... just not in the way she thinks she is.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

99. Didn't her husband Todd belong to a secessionist movement?

He was a member of the Alaska Independence Party that advocates having their own flag and becoming a separate country, like the southern states attempted to do before the civil war and which precipitated the conflict. Sarah Palin as Governor addressed this separatist party at their annual convention and told them "keep up the good work". If anyone wants to go back in time it's Sarah Palin.

[Iliyah]

102. Look, the other day

when she was defending Rush, she spew that it was the left that caused all the vitriol about women, the poor, well everything in reaility that the goppers say and do.

See a pattern here. The goppers are blaming the exact things that they do and say on the left and Obama. They did the same thing concerning the heath care conversations.

The goppers stragey is to blame anyone else for what they are doing, and guess what, their base believes it.

[samsingh]

103. the GOP idiots just make shit up

[Jamaal510]

104. I know why Sarah is saying this.

It's not so much that she's stupid. The GOP's strategy to go after the Black vote is to try and scare us into thinking the Democrats are evil, but no person in their right mind is going to fall for it. Black folks overall have always overwhelmingly chosen the more liberal candidate in a presidential election.

As always, conservatives use fear in order to get ahead. For example, they love to bring up the Southern Dixiecrats of yesteryear, and how Lincoln supposedly wanted to free to slaves...but on the contrary, he didn't even consider Blacks and Whites equal. He simply did it as an attempt to get more votes. And if you take a look at the stances the D's stand for vs the R's nowadays, they're closer to being the party that wants to take us back to prior Civil Rights.

As I affectionately say, a Black person (or any minority, for that matter) voting for a Republican today is akin to a chicken's vote for Colonel Sanders for president.

[Aerows]

105. Good grief

Every time a Republican opens their mouth to criticize someone else, the person they are really criticizing is their own self.

Project much Sarah Palin?

[DemocracyInaction]

106. And the Nathan Bedford Forrest Award goes to,.....

....jesuschrist did she ever take an American history course?

[Initech]

107. Um no. That's what fundamentalist religious nuts want.

[wordpix]

110. the former beauty queen 1/2 governor has spoken!

idiotically, as usual

[Hubert Flottz]

111. She never did use her face and ass to get ahead I reckon?

Why do you think John wanted her on his bus?

[jwirr]

113. Seems to me it is the rethugs who want that. Slavery and white supremacy and all?

[colorado_ufo]

114. The gift that keeps on giving!

Mmmmmm . . . word salad!

She wouldn't know a "codification" if the cod bit her on the ass.

[bluedigger]

115. Alrighty then.

[obxhead]

116. WOW, if you watch the clip at the link

Hannity goes on to say how the tape was hidden and he wasn't allowed to bring up any of the radical people he was associated with during the 2008 campaign. Then Palin jumped in and said how shackled she and Mcsame were from bringing up what Obama really meant during the campaign as well.

That's right, in the 2008 election the pundits and the McCain campaign were not allowed to bring up the radical people that Obama associated with.

It really does burn, teh stupid that is.

[livetohike]

117. Gleam???? The word is glean

you ignorant idiot.

[Lost-in-FL]

118. Here we go again, guess Newt has been lecturing Lady Blah-blah on Civil War history.

[daligirl519]

129. Lady Blah-Blah. . .

Heh.

[joeybee12]

119. Sarah Plain amazes me...

I didn't think she could get any dumber...but she does.

[Tom Ripley]

121. Sarah, I "gleam" that you are just "floundering" about

[saras]

122. The words worked for someone else. Why won't they work for her?

THIS question is the profound unfairness that the Tea Party struggles with daily.

Words aren't magic spells. They need some connection with the physical world, and with others' experiences. When you start giving INDIVIDUAL words magic power (otherwise known as taboo) you lose your ability to think about that subject. This works when, like taboo works historically, it keeps people who don't understand why something like pooping in their water supply is wrong, but have to be kept from doing it anyways, from pooping in their own water. If no one in the culture has "bacteria" as a concept, "evil spirit" works better than nothing at all. If you start using it for things that aren't actually harmful, eventually someone sees through it and you have trouble, because taboo is irrational and people will kill over it.

I'd swear that the way many right-wingers talk, that they learned debate from one of my English instructors, who taught that the way to enter a professional or scientific conversation was to learn to imitate the moves they made with their language. You don't need to understand the concepts, you just need to arrange them in the proper order.

[Ratty]

123. She either tweets this shit or spouts it on Fox

So nobody can ever call her on it. Then she defends herself saying none of the other media outlets are fair, they're the liberal media, or constantly asking her "gotcha" questions like what does she read. She's safe and snug in her twittered, Foxified cocoon.

I'm absolutely certain the woman will never consider a run for national office again. All of her talk about jumping into a brokered convention is just so much hot air to keep her name in the news and keep the $$$ rolling in from speaking fees, book deals, and reality shows. She knows once she poked her head out any serious journalist would rip her to shreds with all the crap she's said.

[northoftheborder]

124. Cuh-ray-zee. SP for VP!!!! Put this thread on Duzy Awards. Priceless!!!

[DallasNE]

125. Let's Break This Statement Down

"Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin".

Her "out" clause is she plugged in the word "seems" but she is claiming Obama wants to segregate "based on color of skin". In her prior sentence those "days" were before the Civil War, which means slavery.

From here it is only speculation but what she seems to be saying is that the Federal government will be the slave master and that hard working white males will be the new slaves. That would also mean that whites would only count 3/5 when assigning Congressional seats, etc.

What I don't understand is why Palin wasn't asked to explain what she meant when she said it seems that Obama wants separation based on color of skin and to give a single example of where that has either been called for or actually happened. We all know that English is a second language for Palin and that is why she constantly needs to be asked to explain herself.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

126. Palin was recently asked about the situation with the Straits of Hormuz

Palin: "I don't know any moose prostitutes, gay or straight"

[KamaAina]

167. DUzy!!

That's as good as Bush** thinking Roe v. Wade was a discussion on how to evacuate New Orleans!

[Wait Wut]

128. What?

[daligirl519]

130. Are we still sure . . .

that she is not some type of performance art?

[BattyDem]

132. I read the headline and laughed because I honestly thought it was from The Onion!

How can she sit there with a straight face and say that the black President wants to return to pre-Civil War days? Really??? Obama wants to return to the days when anyone with his skin color would be a slave?!?

Oh, come on lady ... SERIOUSLY?!?

[geardaddy]

133. Gleam?

Different classes based on income based on color of skin. Does she really think the slaves were compensated in any way?

[krispos42]

134. Equal to corporations.

The good old days, when people were the superiors of corporations.

[nolabear]

135. They trotted her out because she's a woman. Things haven't gone so well for them with women lately.

They, of course, believe all women are interchangeable. And there's the added benefit of her righteous false equivalency about Maher. I'm sure she's all excitey about being a star again, but she'll disappear once the outrage over this and that movie about her is no longer pumpable. And Llord knows, Sarah's always been pumpable.

And to be utterly catty, in the video she looks like hell! I believe she's had, at the very least, a visit from the Botox fairy and her color is just plain bizarre. I know it's a petty comment but I enjoyed making it.

[jsmirman]

137. After foisting Chimpy on the American Public, Palin

has always seemed like the Republican's version of a double dog dare.

[Arkana]

138. Ahahahahaha what?

Yes, I'm sure that President Obama wants to return to the antebellum days, where he wouldn't even be allowed to fucking vote.

My God, Sarah, do you listen when you talk or do you find you just drift in and out?

[ProSense]

139. What's amazing

is that this moron found time to spew this nonsense and defend Rush Limbaugh.

Shocker: Sarah Palin defends Rush Limbaugh's slut crusade
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072046/-Shocker-Sarah-Palin-defends-Rush-Limbaugh-s-slut-crusade

[Politicalboi]

140. Yes Shame on us

We make the rich the "bad guy". They can't help it that they are rich. Like Mittens, it's through no fault of his own, or his doing. What are they supposed to do, give it all to charity.

[davidthegnome]

142. Rant incoming...

What the hell does that twit know about "hard work"? When was the last time she actually had to do any? What the hell does she know about "equality", or, "equal opportunities"? She has been a member of the elite wealthy for so long I think she has forgotten what "hard work" actually is. It's a brutal grind that can and will exhaust your mind and body to the core, working for little money without health benefits, without much of what people like Palin take for granted. I wonder if the woman has ever studied history, even our own American history.

Want to talk about hard work Palin? How about how for centuries whites (like you and I) in this Country built so much of it's wealth and power on the backs of slaves. People who were seen as different and inferior because of their skin color - views that many like Palin still hold to. That means working without being given the choice, working hard for someone because if you did not you could be beaten, killed, brutally raped or treated in any fashion that your "master" decided you should be.

You damn idiots (the you is in reference to those like Palin) think it's slave labor to have to pay taxes that a small portion of goes to support the people in this Country that desperately need help. You haven't got a clue what slave labor actually is. I strongly suspect that you haven't got a clue what it means to work hard, either.

You think Obama wants to take us back to the days before the civil war? Why don't you actually read a history book or three before you open your mouth about such things? If you think we have "equal opportunities" in truth, give away your wealth to charity and start over, working 9 to 5 for minimum wage in a job without benefits. Try struggling for once, try wondering and worrying where your next meal is coming from, whether you'll be able to buy life saving medication or heat your home in the heart of a freezing cold winter, whether you'll be able to feed your children. Try being poor, I dare you - then you can talk to us about equal opportunity.

I do not say that we are not equal. Rather, I say that we should have the right to equal opportunity under the law. This is not so, i large part because those like Palin are blinded by ignorance and a lack of understanding of how things actually work for most of us in this Country. I think we have the wealth and power to feed, clothe and shelter everyone in this Country. I think we have the ability to turn around poor neighborhoods, to care for others, to use what means we have charitably and well for the benefit of everyone.

As long as some continue to revel in their ignorance, their lack of charity, knowledge and understanding... we will never come close to meeting our true potential as a Nation. Palin is really so blind that she has no clue she is part of the problem.

[noiretextatique]

143. sure, sarah: our first black president wants to be a slave

i'm sure this makes perfect sense to you and your braindead followers.

[Kablooie]

144. BUT ... Fox News fans will take this as gospel truth.

Literally 'gospel' truth.

In a way it's pretty clever to have grabbed so many gullible Americans and be able to force feed them any kind of idiocy you want.

[Solly Mack]

145. Blithering idiot.

[DefenseLawyer]

146. Brawndo's got what plants crave. n/t

[montanto]

147. It's got electrolytes! Sarah Palin, Now with more molecules!

[Hugabear]

149. lol - that movie is EXACTLY what I thought

Poor Sarah Palin. Born 500 years too early.

[DefenseLawyer]

152. Holy shit! It's Beef Supreme!

[Iggo]

148. That woman is an idiot. (n/t)

[edbermac]

150. It used to be Michael of Monty Python fame being the funniest Palin on the planet...

Now Sarah has managed to top him. I haven't laughed so much since watching the Dead Parrot sketch.

[longship]

184. Beautify plumage, though

This is an ex-Palin!

[The Genealogist]

153. This ranks near the top on the Stupid Sarah Sayings Scoreboard

Yes, that's right, idiot, Barack Obama wants to return to institutionalized slavery. He is going to lead the way by strapping on the chains and getting out into the cotton fields at once. Does ANYONE check what this painfully stupid woman says before she goes out and shoots off her mouth?

[Dont call me Shirley]

155. Again the right=wrong wingers have defective thinking.

[GopperStopper2680]

157. Obama seeks to return to the civil war days--how fascinating

How fascinating indeed that Palin would make the comment such as 'Why are we allowing our country to move backwards instead of moving forward with that understanding that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, we are all created equally' Sarah Palin is a Neocon-a member of a political entity devoted to creating a neo-aristocratic society on a global scale founded on the merit of nothing more than personal wealth and influence. A society in which a form of pseudo-nobility exists. Why then does she make the comment that Obama seeks to return to the days when not all men were equal? Is it not clear that in the global empire of the power elite that a few men (and yes-generally speaking they are men, typically white men (I am white by the way in case anyone is wondering so I am not posting a racist remark-simply a true one) control 99.99 percent or more of the global wealth. It seems as though The Palin cannot see the forest through the trees. If that is not unequal I am not quite sure what is..

[Blue Owl]

158. Wow. Just wow.

And someone once thought she was presidential...

[Monk06]

160. The constitution says, all people are endowed by their creator with certain inalianable rights. Not

OPPORTUNITIES dumbass, RIGHTS.

She is beyond stupid. Stupid you can give some slack. Willful ignorance warrants no tolerance.

[Faygo Kid]

162. So discrimination ended with the Civil War?

I guess the next 100 years of lynchings, Jim Crow, the Klan's political power, Plessy-Ferguson and the Freedom Riders never happened in Sarah's ignorant world.

[Daphne08]

164. I can't believe I listened to that string of idiocy.

Now my ears are hurting.

I'd forgotten how utterly, unbelievably ignorant that woman is.

[Zambero]

166. Yeah sure, a black man pines for the pre-Civil War era

Thanks for yet another "lesson", Sarah...

[KamaAina]

168. Glen Rice could not be reached for comment.

[libodem]

169. She should have made Alaska a country

When she had her chance. Her religion is twisted and she has super fringe politics. Tawd is freakie too. Strange beliefs. Weird people. Attention whores.

[jmowreader]

170. Oh my...

There are days when I think that life in America would be so much nicer if someone would take Sarah Palin out and hit her in the back of the head with a shovel.

Then I read threads like this and realize someone already did it.

[Kablooie]

171. Oooh. Moi 'ead 'urts. Moi 'ead 'urts.

[GiveMeFreedom]

172. Had to post this. Her idiocy is consistent.

Fucking idiot!!!

[davidthegnome]

173. Nice...

I haven't seen that one - and you know, they say a picture is worth a thousand words... she should continue to stand with her North Korean allies. I don't think the saner government of South Korea would want her as an ally.

[blackspade]

175. So the 1% are the new 'black'?

Who listens to this buffoon?

[fishwax]

177. what an idiot

[cilla4progress]

178. In addition to her stupidity,

she's vicious, just vicious.

[drm604]

179. Is her brain in backwards or something?

Is she seriously saying that President Obama wants to take this country back to the days of slavery, or at least racial inequality?

She can't possibly believe that, can she?

She thinks that he wants his daughters to live in such a world?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

180. The farce is strong with this one, Master Yoda.

[longship]

182. Monitor Wikipedia

Remember Palin's claim that Paul Revere "warned the British" by "ringing bells" and "shooting guns"?

Well the theocratic right wing lunatics launched an attack on Wikipedia to change Revere's history there to match Palin's ignorant errant lunacy.

[BE10sCoach]

185. Brain Dead

Palin, over and over again proves she is a political imbecile, what an annoying dope. Pity those who actually believe in this fool!

[liberal_mama]

186. Can't wait to watch Game Change tonight!

She's out of her mind!

[cherish44]

187. That is a most bizarre statement

says Captain Obvious

[radicalliberal]

188. This woman is an idiot.

(And I speak as a political moderate!) I'm a 61-year-old white guy who grew up under Jim Crow. Almost without exception, conservative politicians, activists, and spokesmen could be counted upon to oppose civil rights legislation. This stupid woman never would have had the courage of those who courageously spoke out against racial discrimination during the early 1950s, not to mention before. (Well, actually, throughout the 1960s.) Her party welcomed the white Southern segregationist "Democrats" into their ranks decades ago. She reminds me of the vain, cruel social climbing girls I had the misfortune to encounter when I was in high school. (Incidentally, they were all good little Republicans. ) I have absolutely no respect for Sarah Palin. In terms of intelligence and leadership qualities, Margaret Thatcher she ain't (not that I ever completely agreed with Thatcher, either). To sum up my estimation of Sarah Palin:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

190. Palin's followers check their brain in at the door.

That's assuming they had one to begin with.

[aaaaaa5a]

192. After watching tonights movie.. I'm shocked she knew of the Civil War?

It must have been on a note card.

[NuttyFluffers]

193. It's the Conservatives continuing their War on Comedy by making it superfluous.

Their actions write the material itself -- straight to the consumer, no middleman.

[Pachamama]

194. Trying to follow and make sense of anything that comes out of this woman's mind and mouth hurts...

[provis99]

195. sometimes I wonder if Todd would like to drink himself to death

Married to that dimwitted rockhead Sarah would drive any spouse to suicide by alcoholism.

[hexola]

196. I love how they had to use sub-titles to translate her verbose BS

Nice tweak!

I say they're trying to bait the far right into ratcheting up their dialog in an effort to force the GOP to tell the conservatives to STFU!

[NYC Liberal]

197. "different classes based on income, based on color of skin" - What does she mean "go back"?

Does she think there aren't "classes" in this country? They may not be legally defined, but socially? Hell yes there are.

Of course, there's also the idiocy of the idea that Obama wants a class system based on race?

What an idiot.

[Withywindle]

198. I feel dumber for having read that. n/t

[Liberalman777]

199. Three Words..

What a Dipshit!

[spicegal]

200. This woman is profoundly ignorant.