Stuff like this just rattles around my head. Here. Let me show you.

[GGD]

Greg the dogsitter wrote:
Obviously, posting this didn't help clear my head.

Oh, yes, the best of America is small towns. Small towns. Small, little-bitty downs. Best stuff we've got. Small towns. Down home, small towny stuff. Small. Freaking towns.

And screw all of you in Chicago, New York, Dallas, San Diego, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, um...and France. That's, what, fifty million people. Go away.

You guys suck, because you're not in small towns. I challenge your patriotism, you stinky dwellers of towns that are not small.

Edit: And you don't work as hard, either.

I'm Sarah Palin, and I'm a divisive idiot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasilla,_Al...mographics

[quote wikipedia]The racial makeup of Wasilla was 85.46% White, 0.59% Black or African American, 5.25% Native American, 1.32% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 1.32% from other races, and 5.94% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino were 3.68% of the population.

[Black Landlord]

[quote wikipedia]Notable residents

* Chad Carpenter,[38] cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Tundra, self-syndicated to over 200 newspapers within the United States[39] and, since 2007, has been syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate.[40]
* Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Alaska's first African-American lawyer.
* April Flowers, female porn star and adult model, grew up in Wasilla.
* Lyda Green, President of the Alaska Senate
* Vic Kohring, a Wasilla legislator who was tried in the wide-ranging federal VECO corruption probe, and found guilty of bribery, conspiracy, and attempted extortion.[41]
* Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor, 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate, and a former mayor of Wasilla.
* Todd Palin, husband of Sarah Palin
* Members of the indie rock band Portugal. The Man.

[$tevie]

Greg the dogsitter wrote:
"We believe that the best of America is in the small towns that we get to visit, and in the wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."

What bothers me is the implied statement that those who don't live in those wonderful little "pockets", are not part of the real America, not hard-working, not patriotic, not pro-America.

The way that compliment works is along the lines of "What I love about you is that you aren't like my ex-wife."

It's the ugly old Spiro Agnew/George Wallace concept that the educated, metropolitan part of the population are "pointy headed intellectuals" and "nattering nabobs of negativism". The "elites" who because they read books and have been in the Big City are twisted and corrupt.

[MacGurl]

$tevie wrote:

What bothers me is the implied statement that those who don't live in those wonderful little "pockets", are not part of the real America, not hard-working, not patriotic, not pro-America.

*Exactly* - somehow those folks are seen as "better" than those who do live in the bigger cities and towns? Maybe they don't feel they need all of the votes that would come from big city dwellers? Maybe they just need those small towns? Is that enough votes?
Head assplodes... :bomb:

Kathy