Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama in Racially Charged Passage From New Book

[Tx4obama]

In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin -- the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United States -- has taken another cheap shot at First Lady Michelle Obama.

In a disgustingly shameful passage on perceptions of racial inequality in the United States, Palin slams President Barack Obama, who, she asserts, "seems to believe" that "America -- at least America as it currently exists -- is a fundamentally unjust and unequal country."

And then she goes after Michelle Obama: ....

Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/sarah-palin-michelle-obama-book-america-by-heart_b_785784.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. "Sambo beat the bitch"--I always believed she said that.

[marmar]

2. She's such an ignorant rube.

nt

[merh]

3. It would help if you posted the passage that slams Mrs. Obama.

I don't like the way Huffington Post loads, it generally is slow and messy and all sorts of junk is caught up on the page.

[Kali]

4. me too

hardly loads at all on my dial-up

hi merh:hi:

[Tx4obama]

8. The reason I didn't is because...

There's quite a bit there (more than the four paragraphs that I'm allowed to post legally here on DU)
There's what Palin said in the book, and what Palin said previously, and then the quote of what Michelle really said.
And what Palin said in the book about Obama's appointee Eric Holder, etc.
It really is worth reading the whole article.

[merh]

9. Hi ya Kali!

How are ya? :hi:

I just do like how HuffPo loads and I used to get a lot of trash when I visited the place.

[JI7]

5. agree

[marmar]

7. Here it is:

"Certainly his wife expressed this view when she said during the 2008 campaign that she had never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections. In retrospect, I guess this shouldn't surprise us, since both of them spent almost two decades in the pews of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church listening to his rants against America and white people."

[merh]

11. Thank you for posting the quote.

Leave it to Palin to rehash the hate - what a waste of energy.

[tabatha]

14. what a back-stabbing, shallow, lack of understanding, piece of s***

She will lose - she will only win white votes and only about 20% of them.
She has no chance.

So, continue going down in flames, sarah, throwing around your disgusting diatribes to all and sundry.

[RainDog]

6. I think I'm just going to have to hide every thread that mentions Palin

this isn't personal about your post - it's about my reaction to posts about her and her family. they are so repulsive to me that I cannot stand to even see her name.

the mention of her brings to mind a huge pile of maggot-infested dog shit and a bunch of old white guys lapping it up.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Your image is absolutely perfect!!!

I cannot recall who it was...but someone on some show said recently that the main reason all the old white men love the barracuda so much is that they all want to f**k her..

[Name removed]

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[derby378]

13. Honestly, it's just Lady Blah Blah bringing Jeremiah Wright into this mess again

Big fat hairy deal. I hear Sister Sarah's books make good kindle.

[girl_interrupted]

15. Michelle Obama could teach Palin a thing or two and more

besides being an accomplished and gracious woman, Mrs Obama has raised two beautiful daughters, unlike Palin's trash taking vicious bunch. And come to think of it, so could Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, their children would definitely make anyone proud. Palin knows as much about leadership as she does about parenting. What a loud mouth hypocrite.

And while she goes after Michelle, I will never forget her remarks about certain parts of the country not being ""pro-America implying, there were some parts of the United States werent:

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe" -- here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers -- "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/palin-clarifies-what-part_n_135641.html

Too bad someone didn't tell Bin Laden D.C. and NY weren't "pro America" before he attacked us. Or that our soldiers, "the ones defending our freedoms" come from every state in the Union, big and small towns alike. How she gets away with what she says is unbelievable to me. Yet she has the gall to go after Michelle for being "unpatriotic".

[tabatha]

16. Yep, this comment on HP sums it up.

"If one looks at individual achievements of both women, Sarah Palin should be washing Michelle Obama's laundy and cooking her food even before Mrs. Obama became the First Lady. In the United States of America, any White person can say anything against and about any Black person. So, Palin is a nobody who has been privileged by her Whiteness. "

sarah has made a BIG mistake going after Michelle - Michelle is well-liked and admired.

[Pirate Smile]

19. Great point. Obama ended up winning that area of North Carolina too. Heh.

She is such a nasty piece of work.

[Raschel]

18. Somebody needs to bring her church into it. Of course the President and 1st Lady have too much class

[derby378]

20. When you're in a foxhole...

...it's safe to say that the "elbows off the table" rule has been suspended.

[Raschel]

17. Hate, hate,hate. Snark, snark, snark. What a sea hag.

[d_b]

21. hey palin

[WhiteTara]

22. Silly Sarah said she couldn't afford to stay as

governor only the other day. Can you imagine how long she would stay in the WH because that is REAL work and low pay for long hours. Let's see, half term governor...6 months in the White House before she would go into permanent hiding at either Camp David or Wasila ? :shrug:

[Tx4obama]

23. dupe.

[Tx4obama]

24. Video link of Palin's WITCH DOCTOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPxP4-u9sb8

p.s. There's a part in there where he prays for her 'finances' - one thing's for sure she's made a lot of money - LOL

Sorta strange that a KENYAN witch doctor was in Wasilla, Alaska. Maybe someone needs to investigate her KENYAN ties - and let's see HER birth certificate!

Edited to fix link.

[tabatha]

25. bad link

[Tx4obama]

27. thanks. try it now.

[Mariana]

32. I think he's a witch HUNTER, not a witch doctor.

That's MUCH worse. By definition it means he's persecuted innocent people in the name of rooting out "witchcraft".

[MissMarple]

26. So. Michelle Obama is not just proud but "really proud" of her country.

And the Palin person takes exception to that, what a piece of work.

[Tx4obama]

28. Yep.

Excerpt:

In fact, Michelle Obama's remarks were made (in Madison, Wisconsin, during the 2008 campaign) in a context of Americans being "unified around some basic common issues":

What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something--for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction, and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it's made me proud.

Afterwards, the First Lady further clarified her remarks by noting that she was referencing the "record number" of young voters participating in the political process in the 2008 campaign:

For the first time in my lifetime, I am seeing people rolling up their sleeves in way that I haven't seen and really trying to figure this out, and that's the source of pride I was talking about.

[NuclearDem]

29. Why the fuck couldn't have Palin just stayed in Alaska?

No offense to Alaska...and I'm sorry anyone from there had to even deal with her at all...but why couldn't she have just STAYED there?

[Tx4obama]

30. It's all John McCain's fault for unleashing her upon us. n/t

[Tx4obama]

31. Palin talks about MALIA OBAMA in her book !!!

Scroll down a little bit down the page to where it says: Here we go, on page 105

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/11/sarah-palins-america-by-heart-ugly.html

I can't post the text here because it is a 'screenshot' of a copy of the page of the book.

[handmade34]

33. when you start dissin' Mrs. Obama

thems fightin' words... I am absolutely in love with Mrs. O and nobody need talk bad about her. My disgust at Ms. Palin is well beyond words (suitable for print)

[eShirl]

34. ugh... I need some Harpy-B-Gone