The always entertaining Andrew Sullivan suggests you sit down, take a deep breath and get a better idea of why the people around Palin and McCain keep referring to Barack Hussein Obama at public rallies. The video of some drunken hillbillies does not reflect white American opinion, but McCain's campaign is busy is drawing attention to his name at every opportunity.
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Posted by: Tom Carder | 13 October 2008 at 05:44 PM
Sarah McCoy @ 10 October 2008 at 09:03 PM
Nicely put.
Posted by: GD | 13 October 2008 at 09:45 AM
The charm of this flick is at the end 3:08
The woman is a HILLARY supporter roflol
Posted by: Rick Martin | 11 October 2008 at 04:41 AM
What does this have to do with race? Even she said it has nothing to do with race in all her drunken stupor. Sure there are people who are voting for Obama just because he is an African American and I know many people who are voting for McCain simply because he is a veteran of war. There is a balance though because I have friends who have are still independent because they dont like either nominees and think that they both should go bite the curb. America is still in a pregression stage where it tends to profile people according to the way the look and their name. If Barack Hussein is threatening to some, Im sure that its showing diversity in America to others. If some people thin Sarah Palin is an omen to the country, it may show gender equality to others. So dont automatically assume that black people are only voting for Obama because he is black, or that others are only voting for Palin because she is a woman. It all depends on what they believe.
Posted by: Sophia McCoy | 10 October 2008 at 09:03 PM
Rednecks like this work like this, the more light you shine on the iris of the eye the smaller it gets. and in many ways that's very mid American. Anti-intellectualism is spreading here, because so many people squeek through or drop out of school, college is horribly expensive, and schools are under funded. We have a growing divide I think, and because we're a proud, arrogant maybe, nation people express that pride in being proud of being stupid. I see it all the time. Just listen to Sarah Palin, the poster child for anti-intellectualism. They want to keep us stupid and born again so we won't ask questions.
Posted by: Max | 10 October 2008 at 08:41 PM
Citizens of the most powerful country in the world and with a vote frightening! More funds for education and family planning.
Posted by: bob lock | 10 October 2008 at 09:28 AM
Gosh. That Sara Palin woman has let herself go hasn't she. Is this footage of her taken recently?
Posted by: Kim | 10 October 2008 at 08:29 AM
Yes we will judge rural America and its whites. But we will not speak of inner city blacks who will vote for Obama jus cause he's black.
Judge the candidates please, if you do the clear choice is none of the above.
Obama is a socialist, America is still a Republic ...
VOTE McCain / Palin 08
Posted by: Rick Martin | 10 October 2008 at 03:35 AM
I am a 23 year old Southern African American woman who knows first hand, how dumb these rednecks really are. I'm so happy that it's finally coming out, how ignorant and intolerant these people really are. If Barack was a 100% white man, it would have been a Kennedy like response! My country unfortunately, is still racist. John McCain and Sarah Palin will be the demise of America as it is known.
Posted by: Sandi Richard | 10 October 2008 at 03:28 AM
These videos clearly shows what rural America is all about. These are the same folks that loves to say "We Support Our Troops" as long as the troops are white. These are the so-called Republican "base"; they are mostly uneducated,only listen to AM radio, Rush, Hannity and O'Reilly and consider anyone with an education has elitist. They don't venture out of their small rural town so they are not informed and the Republican Party knows well that they are gullable to any claim of unAmerican, so they play on their ignorance. That is the reason the race game is ALWAYS used when Republicans finds themselves behind in the polls.
Posted by: Gusto | 10 October 2008 at 03:15 AM
McCain/Palin and his followers are a disgrace to America. I know other countries are not believing what is being stated by McCain and his crew. Unethicial, brash, it is not who we are, this is worse than any cult. God Bless America, we all need to say a prayer for all the McCain/Palin followers. THis is America we are better than this type of behavior. I would think as a mother Palin would have more respect for her children, then to instigate such actions. Let's get rid of McCain Palin Vote Obama/Biden a wonderful Christian, family man, Senator. A decent future for all of us.. Go Obama..Biden
Posted by: Molly Williams | 10 October 2008 at 03:11 AM
These are some of the US' deepest thinkers. A little obsessive-compulsive, maybe, but very deep.
They'll never come out of the woods.
Posted by: AlfaTC | 10 October 2008 at 02:05 AM
Very interesting that someone finally brought this point out. he is of mixed race and that is a major part of who he is. For some reason his mixed race identity has been kept out of this RACE to the white house. He is what America is today, a mixture of all races and we should embrace that. Go OBAMA...
Posted by: Wanneh | 09 October 2008 at 09:40 PM
My father is white from South Africa and my mother black from Zimbabwe.I and my brothers are neither black or white. Barrack Obama likewise has parents of mixed colour. Why is he constantly called "The first black presidential candidate"?. He is not black but of mixed race as I am. Is the media ashamed to refer to someone as being of "mixed race"?
Posted by: alistair Stewart | 09 October 2008 at 05:36 PM