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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.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.
Well, then they set her up for it. Whoever wrote it, the words came out of 
her mouth, so she gets the repercussions. I didn't see Biden making personal 
attacks on McCain, and I thought he was quite the gentleman with Palin when 
he could have ripped into her.

> 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.
It was here...anti-Obama, all day, every day. They concentrated a lot of 
negativity on Pennsylvania (I'm glad it didn't work...fear and 
hate-mongering should NEVER work).  The Republicans were showing Rev. Wright 
and Ayers ads here right up until election day. Every day. Twenty times a 
day. They had ads with Palin saying "he doesn't see America the way we do", 
and "he launched his political career in the living room of a terrorist" 
with lots of scary picture of things burning, and mug shots of Ayers. Maybe 
only the swing states got these ads, but they were constant and negative for 
the last month or so of the election. Some were by the RNC, and some by the 
McCain campaign. Obama's ads got a little negative by the end, but nothing 
like McCain's.

> .  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.

They can't be any worse than the things I've read about Obama on some of the 
right-wing sites...I agree that 'the masses' can be scary. So much hate.

> 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

I'm curious, too. Fox news is really slamming her, and saying that the 
Republican party is saying it. I assumed they would pat her on the back and 
let her go back to Alaska; maybe even groom her for next time. But they seem 
to be trying to destroy her politically. I don't dislike Palin, but I think 
she was in over her head. She made a valiant effort, towed the party line, 
and now 'they' (including her own party) are destroying  her.

Lynn Wigglesworth