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

Loud-Mouth-and-Loose-Lipped Palin Owes Obama an Apology for This One, 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.

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Elle Kaye
and I’m still waiting to see her coming out Thinkin’!
By Elle Kaye on 10/05/2008 11:47 pm
Marjorie C.
Elle: I’m still waiting to see her coming out Thinkin’! Oh you will… you will. Do not underestimate Gov. Palin.
By Marjorie C. on 10/06/2008 5:53 am
Zera Lee
38 days down, 29 to go. Tick tock, tick tock.
By Zera Lee on 10/06/2008 12:42 pm
Linda Mason
Marjorie — So you admit that we’re still waiting for a sign of her Thinkin’.
By Linda Mason on 10/06/2008 8:30 pm
Dana Jae
Thank you Rita. I was just about to post that when I saw yours. It seems that these right wing nuts (Palin and her fans) just don’t hear anything. THey are barking so loud and foaming at the mouth that they can’t hear anything. I’ll bet they play a mean pinball! (ref: the rock opera “Tommy”)
By Dana Jae on 10/06/2008 7:08 pm
f p
Do you actually mean she can read? Good Grief! From her disjointed rambling incoherence I wasn’t certain she was even speaking English. But then the yobbos and yahoos and Know Nothings in this country just love her to pieces, mainly because they themselves are unable to articulate a coherent logical sentence of English let alone read a newspaper.
By f p on 10/07/2008 1:21 am
Rita@ Goldivas
Margo, I too, feel appalled and nauseated reading about Sarah Palin’s attack on Obama. But, I think the people who buy into that are probably a lost cause anyway. Moderates will be turned off by this crap.
By Rita@ Goldivas on 10/05/2008 10:51 am
Oh! My Favorite
Hi Rita. I know how you feel. It’s sometimes a shame that the information we glean here amounts to “preaching to the choir”. I rack my brain each time, trying to think of ONE anti-Obama person I might enlighten by passing the info along. But the saying is true: “Birds of a feather”. My friends and acquaintances already hear what I hear and, mostly, feel what I feel about it. Ah.
By Oh! My Favorite on 10/05/2008 11:43 pm
Marjorie C.
Rita: Moderates will be turned off by this crap. You can only hope. Gov. Palin draws crowds wherever she goes… without giving away free food… and promises that can never met.
By Marjorie C. on 10/06/2008 5:57 am
sibelle daubigne
Marjorie, “without giving away free food” He deserves a good plain american pie in the face! lol
By sibelle daubigne on 10/06/2008 9:07 am
georgia fatwood
Dear Marjorie, I’m sorry but I take great offense at your “free food” reference….It is not always the worthless, shiftless, morally bankrupt of this world who avail themselves of food banks, government cheese, food stamps, etc…. I earnestly, honestly hope that your portfolio is secure and that you never have to bear the indignity of going hat in hand for a meal….and I am absolutely not bashing the well-off…..”Rich” and “poor” are, after all, in the eye of the beholder…..and nothing if not relative… I’m trying not to shoot the messenger here because I read your posts and value your POV and perseverance….I try not to let my goat be “gotten”….but in this instance I feel that you have gone from being a little tone-deaf to appearing downright inexcusable….. I would respectfully suggest that you check into the new demographics for users of food banks….and then I would suggest that you volunteer at a food bank or community garden plot….or start one or both…..
By georgia fatwood on 10/06/2008 11:25 am
Marjorie C.
georgia: “free food” reference… The free food was in reference to the rally your candidate held in Germany where there was a concert and free food and drink were handed out. Sorry that you mistook the reference, I’ll avoid it in the future. I do volunteer at the town library and at the Council on Aging, and I’m on a town committee as well. On occasion I donate to the local food pantry, but mostly I don’t have spare food because I need it for myself. I am not wealthy.
By Marjorie C. on 10/06/2008 4:38 pm
georgia fatwood
Dear M..Thank you so much for straightening me out on that one….It really worried me. We’ll have to sneak way back and post in the stale threads and share some “Challenged Gourmet” recipes!
By georgia fatwood on 10/06/2008 5:03 pm
OMGIAMGOING NUTS
Marjorie: Ahhhhhh…don’t forget he’s feeding those that he is transporting to register to vote as a “treat”. This isn’t just happening in Germany. It’s happening in OHIO also.
By OMGIAMGOING NUTS on 10/06/2008 7:16 pm
Lady Gator
Rita ——“Moderates will be turned off by this crap” Oh don’t be too sure about that!!! I know many moderates and independents who have been waiting for someone to go on the attack about Obama and his past.
By Lady Gator on 10/06/2008 12:04 pm