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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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Zera Lee
Political prejudice is a powerful campaign tool.
By Zera Lee on 10/07/2008 5:15 pm
OMGIAMGOING NUTS
Palin owes NOBODY an apology. Dream on!
By OMGIAMGOING NUTS on 10/05/2008 11:01 am
Sylvia Horais
She certainly does but she has neither the intelligence nor the class to do so.
By Sylvia Horais on 10/05/2008 11:14 am
OMGIAMGOING NUTS
Read the heading of this article. The writer needs to apology for being so ignorant. As for intelligence and class…Palin has more of BOTH than obama and biden combined.
By OMGIAMGOING NUTS on 10/05/2008 11:25 am
Sylvia Horais
The heading reads,” Loud-Mouth-and-Loose-Lipped Palin Owes Obama an Apology for This One, by Margo Howard.” There was a comment that Palin owed no one an apology. I stand by my remarks. Making unfounded or misleading accusations is low down, petty, childish, unintelligent and shows a complete lack of class. If Palin is so intelligent, why doesn’t she stick to the issues instead of spreading rumors? Doesn’t she understand the issues? Sorry but i don’t feel that sophomoric statements show any class at all and Palin’s statements about Obama are definitely at that level.
By Sylvia Horais on 10/05/2008 11:36 am
Marjorie C.
Sylvia: Loud-Mouth-and-Loose-Lipped Palin How can the above be in any way classy? It’s an insult and it’s a lie. When Gov. Palin makes the observation that Obama has less than America’s best interests at heart, she is speaking the truth for many people. Remember, a good half of the voters are not in the tank for Obama. I find it difficult to believe that nearly half the voters in this country are unintelligent and do not understand the issues. If anything, they are desperate to get out the message to stop this train wreck from happening.
By Marjorie C. on 10/06/2008 6:10 am
Deni G
Since when do you give a crap about lies and insults or classy remarks, Marjorie? You don’t. You just pretend to when you think you can guilt trip or further insult anyone, who dares to call the MCCain/Pailin ticket, the freak show that it is. Which issue is it, that you understand? All you post are snide remarks and ‘be very afraid’ and feigned indignation. I would welcome a statement of your issues, backed of course by McCain’s voting record.

By Deni G on 10/06/2008 12:00 pm
Lady Gator
Deni —-Please correct me if I’m wrong. But I seem to remember that during the primaries — you and several others on this site were pretty much in the tank for Hillary. I also seem to remember the indignation when Suzanne went on the attack against you and all the Hillary supporters. Wow, how the times and the candidate changed. All of you were screaming at the top of your lungs that the insults were uncalled for. You and several others were offended that Suzanne could write such ‘crap’. So, now that all of you have climbed on the bandwagon for the man you so didn’t like - it’s OK to slam another woman? Again, the times have changed. And, again, correct me if I’m wrong!!! However, I seem to recall that I agreed with you in that she (Suzanne) was being nasty and unfair in her criticism of your candidate — even tho I wasn’t a Hillary supporter. Sometimes, we Independents just see things that ‘party’ people don’t!
By Lady Gator on 10/06/2008 12:16 pm
Deni G
Gator, You are wrong. I was and am an Obama supporter. I made that quite clear at the time. I disagreed with some of Clinton’s policies and took issue with some of her campaign managerial choices. I also thought Obama was running a better campaign and was therefore much more likely to beat the Republicans in the general. I objected mightily to the ridiculous attacks against Senator Clinton. I stood up for her because she was a remarkable candidate and is a remarkable person, who has fought all her life for women. You are completely wrong. Hillary Clinton was not my candidate. And as I said, I made that quite clear, when I defended her. So your whole premise falls flat. I did not stand up for Senator Clinton because she was a female candidate. How ludicrous. I stood up for her because she was a great candidate and because she deserved to be defended. The ridiculous attacks against her were unfounded smears. I found them and the people who spewed them, disgusting. Exactly the way I find the unfounded smears that Palin is regurgitating disgusting. You stand corrected.

By Deni G on 10/06/2008 12:44 pm
Lady Gator
Miss Deni ——Then corrected I am! I apologize if I have you confused with someone else. I just remember the personal insults. Everything from her makeup to her pantsuits. And, those were minor in comparison to some of the other insults. And, there have been smears on both sides — some from the Obama camp have been disgusting also. I, like you find that the people who spewed them and the people who spewed them as disgusting as you do. And, there have been some unfounded smears about McCain disgusting. So, we agree to disagree. That’s what this campaign is all about. I also think that the founders of this site are the ones who have incited the entire spittal on here. I think their reasoning is “If you (their contributors) get the most hits for one of your articles — well, we’ll just keep bringing you back —only this time, really make it ugly”. Thank you again Ms Deni
By Lady Gator on 10/06/2008 2:13 pm
Deni G
Apology accepted. And, which are the unfounded smears about McCain that you find disgusting? Because I think he has been treated with kid gloves. From Rolling Stone: Make Believe Maverick. “At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation’s capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It’s the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi … McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam. There’s a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a “confession” to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn’t survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service’s highest distinctions. I’m going to the Middle East,” Dramesi says. “Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran.” “Why are you going to the Middle East?” McCain asks, dismissively. “It’s a place we’re probably going to have some problems,” Dramesi says. “Why? Where are you going to, John?” “Oh, I’m going to Rio.” “What the hell are you going to Rio for?” McCain, a married father of three, shrugs. “I got a better chance of getting laid.” Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. “McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man,” Dramesi says today. “But he’s still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in.””

By Deni G on 10/06/2008 2:34 pm
Lady Gator
Deni ——Sorry I didn’t get back to you yesterday — out on a business trip. Someone has to keep the economy going! As to your article on Dramesi — this is old stuff. All of this came out during the primaries. Doesn’t surprise me that someone would dig it up again. It reminded me of John Kerry’s crew. It was amusing that 300 vets came forth to state that they served with Kerry on his now infamous PT Boat — and, from their conversation — they were all on the boat the night Kerry was wounded — well, since you can only get approx 30 people on a PT boat at any given time. LOL…Also, the poor guy in the wheelchair that Kerry transported around the country. At least Kerry didn’t tell him to “stand up, so we can see you”.
By Lady Gator on 10/07/2008 1:10 pm
Deni G
Thank you for identifying yourself as a Swiftboat follower and proponent of dirty politics, which require responding to facts with smears, lies and innuendos: the time worn tools of the dishonorable and the desperate.
By Deni G on 10/07/2008 2:36 pm
Lady Gator
Deni — And, thank you for identigying yourself as a a person from a world where you prefer to be governed by people far different from those imagined by the public.
By Lady Gator on 10/07/2008 2:51 pm
Susan B
She’s hatin, Deni. There’s nothing to be done about it. When people go so hard on the offensive, they negate their ability shape opinion in their favor. Let it be.
By Susan B on 10/06/2008 12:40 pm