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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

She did her job.  VP candidates are supposed to take on the Pres candidate.  
She didn't set the tone or write the lines.  Just like BO, JMC, or JB , they 
didn't write theiras, either. 

 SP was thrown in and told the character she would play and how to play that 
character.  I'm not saying you are wrong in your perception, but , think 
about it.  If they wanted to personally destroy Obama; it could have been 
Rev. Wright and the rest of the unseemly characters who surrounded BO, all 
day long, all of the time. 

 JMC decidede not to go that route, but SP still had to play the hatchet man 
part.  This was not even close to being the most negative camopaigning I've 
see.  Actaually, I thought it was a pretty clean campaign.  Those crowds were 
rough from boths camps, and that has always been the case.  You want to see 
rate hate from the ignorant masses?  Go back and let at the majority of the 
letters to the editor from NYT editorials concerning SP.  Most of those 
people are filled with  such unusal bitterness , fear, and hate and so little 
ability to reason, that they should not be allowed to own domestic animal.

With me, part of it is seeing the new 'underdog', not just being picked on, 
but intentionally destroyed.  Part of it is, I'm am still curoius of that in 
which the establishment of 'both' parties is so fearful ...bobford



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--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Who's Da ...Politics of personal destruction
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:03 AM
> During the campaign, I didn't like Palin's attacks
> on Obama. They weren't 
> attacks on his policies, but on him personally. I don't
> like that from any 
> politician, but it seemed to be her 'job' as the
> pitbull in lipstick. 
> Hearing her say things like "he doesn't see
> America the way WE do", implying 
> that he's not one of 'us', really turned me
> off. She didn't do a thing to 
> discourage the hatred at the rallies. I think that she
> particularly ran a 
> very ugly, negative campaign, and if some of that ugliness
> is coming back at 
> her, well, it's to be expected. Even McCain had enough
> of the negativity 
> after a while and corrected the woman who said Obama was
> "an Arab".
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 9:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Who's Da ...Politics of
> personal destruction
> 
> 
> > This deal with SP reminfs me of the scene in JC
> Superstar, when Pilate 
> > keeps asking the mob, ' why do you hate him to the
> point you want to kill 
> > him, he's harmless, 'thinks he's
> important, ", but of couse, the mob keeps 
> > screaming 'crucify him'.  (I'm not a
> religious man, and I'm not cpmaparing 
> > SP to the Character, just the scene)
> >
> > I don't know if SP would make a quality
> 'national' leader.  In her eight 
> > or nine weeks of national public life she has been so
> viciously 
> > eviscerated that right now she seems like a bloody
> political corpse.
> >
> > I would like to hear more from her to see if she is as
> smart as I thought 
> > from hearing others speak of her, and seeing her
> myself a couple of times 
> > on C-span videos.  If she continued to perform like
> she did in the Katie 
> > Couric interview, then I could say; "no, she
> doesn't have the necessary 
> > skill set'.  Right now, I still do not know.
> >
> > But, I did see the establishment types, including the
> republicans; 
> > scapegoating, ridiculing, taunting and mocking her. 
> The establisment 
> > would not bother , would not waste any time, at all,
> continuing to try to 
> > personally and politically destroy her; 'if'
> there was not something about 
> > her which they fear.  I don't yet know what that
> is or if it is something 
> > I can't see .   But, I remain curious  ....bobford
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 11/8/08, Lynn Wigglesworth
> <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Lynn Wigglesworth
> <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Who's Da Best
> >> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:08 AM
> >> >From my understanding, it came out because the
> RNC is
> >> required to publish
> >> where it's money is spent. I don't know
> about the
> >> Obamas, but Biden said
> >> that he pays for all his own clothes.
> >>
> >> Lynn Wigglesworth
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Marie McHarry"
> <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> >> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:47 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Who's Da Best
> >>
> >>
> >> > Unless the campaign bought it, we aren't
> likely to
> >> know. That was what
> >> > caused all the fuss over outfitting the Palin
> family.
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:33 AM,
> >> <DSanner106 AT aol.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hey,
> >> >>    Does anyone know what the Obama
> wardrobe cost?
> >> >>                            :^)
> >> >
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