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A Friend Stopped By | 10/05/2008 11:05 am

Loud-Mouth-and-Loose-Lipped Palin Owes Obama an Apology for This One, by Margo Howard

By Margo Howard

Editor’s Note: A longtime journalist, Margo Howard went into the family business (her mother was the fabled Ann Landers) in the 1990s as Dear Prudence. Her broad experience and understanding of human nature provide answers for the troubled — and entertainment for everyone else. Click here to read her column on Yahoo!

I really thought I was done talking about Sarah Palin, but life is what happens when you’re making other plans. I wish there were a word that was a cross between "appalled" and "nauseated," because that’s what the lady’s latest outburst has me feeling. Saturday evening Drudge picked up a Breitbart story where the headline was: "Palin says Obama ‘palling around’ with terrorists." As if this weren’t bad enough, she went on to tell whatever group she was addressing: "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America." Well, I’ll tell you what I see: a loud-mouth, loose-lipped nobody who is drunk on media attention and a quart low in the judgment department. I think both she and her aged "maverick" buddy owe Mr. Obama an apology for this one.

To live on the same street and to have served on a board with Billy Ayers, part of the Weather Underground when Obama was in grade school and now a professor, is not my idea of "palling around with." I think this hockey mom/moose skinner fits perfectly into the class war she is helping perpetuate, even though she has none.

It would have far more factual validity for Obama, or a surrogate, to publicize the fact that Track, the kid who joined the Army, did so because a judge told him it was that or jail due to his dealing drugs. I have a strong hunch, however, the Obama people would never get into that. Up until now the lady has annoyed me because of her ignorance and arrogance, but now I am furious, especially when her headline-making remark from yesterday was that Obama was not "fit" to be commander-in chief. I think the McCain people better lock the lady up again and tell her to zip it, because she is not fit to even ad-lib.

Read more about: Barack Obama, Election, Joe Biden, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin

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Thanks, Margo.
McCain has backed her at every level so I doubt he’ll put a lid on her. I do believe it works in the Dems favor though. The more she speaks, the more she riles the party to win and it’s getting to every level of Democrat to get out and work the vote. She’s an embarrassment to America.

By Dana Jae on 10/05/2008 11:34 am

Do you ! OMG , She puts it out there ! You just take it the wrong way, paranoid ???

By Amy Van Cleave on 10/05/2008 8:03 pm

Amy. If Gov. Sarah Palin is going to put anything out there, tell me why it’s never HER business? What do you call THAT sort or person? Not paranoid….ummm, what’s that word? Hypocrit?

By Oh! My Favorite on 10/06/2008 12:01 am

She certainly does put it out there, and she looks like she really enjoys doing it. At this point in the campaign, though, too much smearing and mud-slinging looks pretty transparent and desperate. Such banter from both sides may cheer their respective bases, but parroting exactly the same lines at every stump wears thin with the rest of us. Our country is in deep sludge, more negativity in lieu of constructive ideas isn’t what I want to hear. Is it November 5 yet?

By Susan B on 10/06/2008 1:12 pm

Dana,
I think that this analysis from the NYTimes validates your post. And, I also believe that the McCain is using this to divide along racial lines.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Palins-Words-Analysis.html…

By Diana T on 10/05/2008 9:09 pm

Obama is dirty! You may get your liberal, narcissistic president, but this country will be in big trouble due to his lies, his inexperience, his questionable associations, and his tax and spend mentality!

By rita gregory on 10/06/2008 6:41 pm

Hi rita! Your opening salvo (Obama is dirty!) indicates that you’re not open to discussion, but I’m an optimist! But How Much More Trouble Can This Beloved Country of Ours Get Into? And would you please articulate just what harm you feel that Sen. Obama’s past associations with Bill Ayers (in the interest of inner-city education) would do this country in a REAL sense?

Please note, I AM NOT asking you to approve of Ayers’ activities in the 1960’s (when Obama was 8 years old), but if he posed a present threat to the good old U.S. of A., do you think GWB would let him stay free? HELL NO!!!!

Therefore, please identify what real “Trouble” we could get into from the fact that Bill Ayers and Obama worked together to provide options to improve education to inner-city children in Chicago.

If you have evidence that they are currently engaged in any illegal activities or plots to overthrow the United States government, I trust you have taken that information to the authorities. Please advise.

By Linda Mason on 10/06/2008 9:20 pm

Hi Linda…..great post, especially gratifying to scroll past a troll’s deposit and find it neutralized with such logical positive common-sense commentary! Just wanted you to know it was effective and appreciated.

By ~ countrywoman ~ on 10/07/2008 2:40 am

Countrywoman — Thanks for the supporting words! Thus far, Rita has not elaborated about the trouble she fears we could get into. GObama!

By Linda Mason on 10/07/2008 7:17 pm

Rita,
Where have you been for the last 8 years.
The Democrats didn’t get us into this mess.
The last Democratic President left Office with a
balanced budget and a big surplus.

By Dona Howlett on 10/06/2008 9:54 pm

Mr Ayers I going to assume was a terrorist back in the 1960’s but he is now a professor. Mr McCain was a traitor ‘songbird’ in the 1960’s now he is a senator. I know you all will say he was tortured but so was his’fellow prisoners’, they did not talk. So McCain was a ‘traitor. Now, are we going to hold it against Barack Obama for working with McCain ‘a traitor’. Are people that racist? One other thing the ‘myth of the surge’, do the American people know that we ‘U.S.’ are paying over 80,000 iraqis $10/day $300/mth not to fight and they have stated if we pull the money the fighting will begin again, so how did it work? This was not the definition of the ‘surge’. Please Americans wake-up

By pam kugler on 10/10/2008 6:32 pm

Whew, I can’t stop laughing…..hey Rita you’re talking about McCain……ha ha ha ha ha …………………………you just described McCain :)

By Mrs. Cheryl Hampton on 10/11/2008 2:43 pm

Dana,
I agree with Margo and You,
She’s not only an embarrassment to our Country, she’s a threat.
Actually at this time I’m more afraid of what she could do to this Country
than the threat of Terrorist.

She also proves that McCain is not capable of being President. Anyone
who would choose such an unquailified person and still say she’s great
is lacking in good judgment.

They both scare me right now.

Let’s hope and pray that the Obama/Biden Ticket rides to the top on election day.

By Dona Howlett on 10/06/2008 9:50 pm

Click or copy and paste this link (at the bottom of the page) and watch the videos of, and about, Sarah Palin who used to belong to the Alaskan Independence Party, that wants to secede from the Union. “The Alaskan Independence Party is anything but a “Country First” organization. The party promotes the secession of Alaska from the United States. In other words, they don’t want to be under the thumb of the federal government (like everyone else) and want to separate themselves.
As if that weren’t enough the co-chair of the Alaskan Independence Party, Dexter Clark, was caught on video during the AIP’s convention held in Tennessee (reportedly last year) confirming that Palin was a member of the party before she became mayor.
“Is the pot calling the kettle black Mrs. Palin?…………lol

http://www.whisperdispatch.com/news/special-opinion/politician-palin-sym…

By Marsha Ott on 10/09/2008 2:18 pm