[Rhodes22-list] Another of Gov. Palin's "Real Americans"

[Brad Haslett]

Ben

You wrote, "You see a smart, plain spoken, leader."

Yup, Harry Truman, only wearing a skirt.

Brad

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Benjamin Cittadino
<bigben65 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Herb;
>
> I didn't get into it with you because my opinion is based upon everything
> you already know. You and I disagree.  I see her speech patterns as stilted,
> scripted, and unsophisticated. You see a smart, plain spoken, leader.  I saw
> her interview answers ( with Couric and others) and debate performance as
> poor.  You saw it differently.  I saw a duck that walked talked and quacked
> so I called it a duck. You saw a swan gliding smoothly to a change in
> Washington.  You are clearly not willing or able to see it my way; I am
> clearly not able or willing to see it your way. What's to discuss? For once
> I thought I would take Mike's advice and avoid going around and around with
> you about it. OK?
>
> Ben C.
>
> hparsons wrote:
>>
>> Ben,
>>
>> What good would it have done to ask you at the time? I tried that, you
>> refused to answer.
>>
>> What, you wanted another opportunity to refuse?
>>
>>
>> Ben Cittadino wrote:
>>> Bill;
>>>
>>> With all of the perjoratives that have been slung at the candidates (and
>>> forum members) in this forum over the past weeks, you pick NOW to chime
>>> in
>>> over my use of moron to refer to Sarah Palin?
>>>
>>> And you do it in a thread referring to the resignation of a woman who
>>> herself acknowledged her error in publishing a racist handout? You brush
>>> it
>>> off as a political cartoon?
>>>
>>> And how do you know Scott McClellan doesn't have some afflicted
>>> individual
>>> in his family when you refer to him as a moron.
>>>
>>> Tell you what, I'll give you Scott as a moron if you give me Sarah as a
>>> moron. OK?
>>>
>>> Ben C.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bill Effros wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ben,
>>>>
>>>> This was essentially a political cartoon.
>>>>
>>>> Seems to me you called the mother of a Down Syndrome child a "moron"
>>>> recently.
>>>>
>>>> Very offensive to the intellectually challenged.
>>>>
>>>> There is great danger when the defenders of the first amendment scream
>>>> "RACIST!" at anyone who disagrees with them on any topic.
>>>>
>>>> Thomas Nast would be saddened.
>>>>
>>>> Bill Effros
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ben Cittadino wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The following came over the AP Wire today.  I think the Dowd column and
>>>>> Gen.
>>>>> Powell were thinking of people like this when they criticized the
>>>>> tactics
>>>>> of
>>>>> the GOP this time around. Just my opinion. I could be wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - The president of a San Bernardino County
>>>>> Republican club resigned after apologizing for distributing a
>>>>> newsletter
>>>>> with a caricature of Barack Obama on a fake food stamp surrounded by
>>>>> ribs,
>>>>> watermelon and fried chicken.
>>>>>
>>>>> In a letter sent Wednesday to members of the Chaffey Community
>>>>> Republican
>>>>> Women, Federated, Diane Fedele said she was sorry for showing "poor
>>>>> judgment
>>>>> and lack of insight and sensitivity."
>>>>>
>>>>> Officials with the state Republican Party have said the GOP club is not
>>>>> directly responsible to the state party.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the October newsletter sent to about 200 members and associates,
>>>>> Fedele
>>>>> included an image she pulled from an e-mail making the rounds of the
>>>>> Internet.
>>>>>
>>>>> The illustration showed a $10 "Obama Bucks" food stamp with the
>>>>> Democratic
>>>>> presidential candidate's head on a donkey, surrounded by the foods
>>>>> linked
>>>>> to
>>>>> negative stereotypes of blacks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Black members of the club as well as GOP lawmakers and state and
>>>>> national
>>>>> party leaders condemned the newsletter as offensive and racist.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fedele denied racist intent but in her letter defended the message:
>>>>> "The
>>>>> point, that has been lost in the subsequent discussion over images, was
>>>>> that
>>>>> Obama will 'take from the rich and give to the poor' and that we ALL
>>>>> would
>>>>> be buying food with his 'Obama Welfare Dollars.' An ideological
>>>>> statement,
>>>>> not a racial one."
>>>>>
>>>>> The Riverside Press-Enterprise said the cartoon was created by Tim
>>>>> Kastelein, a 31-year-old Minnesota Democrat who said he made it in a
>>>>> satirical attempt to make fun of right-wing pundits afraid of a
>>>>> Democratic
>>>>> presidential candidate."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben C.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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