Palin Likes Being In The “Pro-America” Parts Of The Country

October 17th, 2008, 7:58 PM EDT

It’s not clear just which parts of America are pro-America and which parts aren’t, although Sarah Palin did give a nice shout-out to North Carolina.


Palin…made a point of mentioning that she loved to visit the “pro-America” areas of the country, of which North Carolina is one. No word on which states she views as unpatriotic.

 

Here, then, is Palin’s America:


 

An extended version of Palin’s remarks doesn’t make it any better:


“We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe” — here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers — “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.”

 

She continued: “This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom.”


Palin also decried the difficulty of finding celebrities to tout her ticket.


“In fact, we were on the bus today, we were making a list of who are some celebrity singers who could come out and help us and gosh, for the life of us, the pickins were slim there,” she said. “Who’s quasi-conservative out there in the celebrity land?”

 

Too bad Slim PIckens is gone.  Nice that they like celebrities so much over there in the right.  Maybe with enough of them around they’d come to appreciate the person they love to denigrate for being a celebrity, Barack Obama.

Responses to this post...

  1. The Hell with Palin Alan, her twin sister Michele Bachmann just said that Anti-American Liberals like YOU need to be investigated on Matthews Hardball.

    Much more at the always interesting Dump Bachmann Blog here:
    http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/

  2. Palin is taking a page out of the Phil Gramm book. Don’t insult the other party, insult everyone.

    Is she an idiot?

    You betcha doggone it hockey mom moose reformer maverick by golly gee willikers!

  3. If they want celebrities, I heard Barack Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world.

    Or maybe the kid with the banjo in Deliverance…

  4. I thought Combs the Banjo Boy in Deliverence?

  5. Who is Combs?

  6. The site is preventing comments again.

  7. Wasn’t DEVO’s song ‘Mongoloid’ based upon Alan Combs?

  8. Comb’s, Colmes, Cum’s it is all the same….it is Alan Colmes.

  9. Saw Michele Backmann on Chris Matthews today. She is without a doubt the reincarnation of Joe McCarthy. She wants media investigations of people in congress who are “anti-American”. She did not explain what she meant by that phrase. Anti-American according to who? She aquitted liberals to terrorists. And so on. The usual blather. Big smile on her face while she did so which never changed.

    A right-wing talking point robot.

  10. “Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. ”

    You know that she is referring to the working men and women, right? Obama’s middle class?

  11. Do you understand that she is referring to working men and women? The middle class?

  12. Great SPAM filter. Pasalode can post profanity, and legitimate posters like Pino, OldLefty, and myself get many of our posts blocked.

  13. Alan,
    You pick the most inane things to gripe about. Why don’t you post something that is actually worth talking about? The leftards are starving for something more substantial & all you throw them is crumbs. Pathetic…

  14. Um Cara send a personal email as I did to Alan at alan@alan.com

  15. Although he did respond to me saying that he/they were working on it.

  16. Although he did respond to me saying that he/they were working on it.

    At first I thought it had to do with special characters. Then with tags. I don’t know what it is is, but it only seems to hit certain “headlines” for me. For example, I have no issues on robo call.

  17. It could be that she was referring to Hollywood, where there could be some folks of the ilk Evan Sayet refers to:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

  18. Alan said the spam filter was in “training”. I’m not sure what that means though.

  19. Epiphany,
    Do you believe it’s possible for a person to be “anti-American?”
      
    Who do you believe is “anti-American?”

    Posted by Truth2Power
    October 17th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
  20. I guess this is the pro-america that palin was talking about.

    http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2008/10/racist-mccain-supporter-hangs-obama-in.html

    he says the United States is a white, Christian nation – and only with white Christians should be in power.

  21. Alan said the spam filter was in “training”. I’m not sure what that means though.

    A long time ago I had a blog on blogger. I had comments enabled. Spammers have programs that just find sites like this and “comment” with all kinds of crap. Porn sites etc etc.

    There must be something in the words, or combination of words that is making our comment flagged as spam.

  22. I guess this is the pro-america that palin was talking about.

    he says the United States is a white, Christian nation – and only with white Christians should be in power.

    link not getting thru.

    google: racist mccain supporter hangs obama in effigy in ohio neighborhood

  23. When I comment, I build my post in notepad and then copy over here. Anyone else do that or are you all typing into Alan’s site directly?

    Maybe that has something to do with it?

  24. I guess this is the pro-america that palin was talking about.

    Serious, WTF, that is silly.

  25. I guess this is the pro-america that palin was talking about.

    She is referring to the working class Joe.

  26. I guess this is the pro-america that palin was talking about.

    She is referring to the working clss Joe.

  27. Epi -

    Supposedly as messages that were erroneously found as spam are allowed through it trains the spam filter to recognize the good from the bad. I would say this particular spam filter is a s l o w learner however. I haven’t noticed any improvement over the past month.

  28. Okay, I think I found something Alan.

    When I type working clss Joe spelled correctly, it is blocked. When I misspell clss as I did, it goes through.

    You are blocking the correct spelling of the vulger word for your rear end. And in doing so, any word that contains that blocked word in it is being blocked.

  29. Yes it’s possible to be “anti-American”. But when conservatives use that phrase as Michele Bachmann did they mean people with a different opinion. In her case, liberals.

    I think Michele Bachmann is anti-American as she doesn’t seem to believe that you can still love your country but see things differently. She wants people investigated who have an opposing opinion about how to make the country better. Investigated and then what? Thrown out of congress until all agree with how she see things exclusively? Definitely un-American.

  30. In lieu of payment to me, just donate to your local charity ;-) Just kidding.

  31. Pino -

    No, that has nothing to do with it. It is just a terrible freeware SPAM filter that is without any configuration capabilities. I have given up on real posts, and am only posting gripes about the spam filter. I am curious if Alan really knows about how bad it is, I figure if enough people complain about it, he’ll eventually find out how destructive it is to his little community here.

  32. Pino,

    You are blocking the correct spelling of the vulger word for your rear end. And in doing so, any word that contains that blocked word in it is being blocked.

    Nope. This crummy SPAM filter would not even allow him to do that if he wanted to. It is completely a black box ’solution’.

  33. Sarah Palin IS a great American- and when she goes to rallies and meets people, and “presses the flesh”- she gets to meet and see and listen to and have a conversation with AMERICANS- she is pleased and it makes her jeart sing and makes her proud- every day- to be an American.
    Unlike you lefty socialists who want Obama -
    America is a great country- not a “downright mean country” – like first lady wanna be MO wants.
    God help us.

  34. You’re right Pino. I just did a test post with “clss” (with the “a”) spelled correctly. Didn’t go through.

  35. Epi, Pino -

    You guys are wasting your time troubleshooting this piece of garbage SPAM filter. Even if you find every possible set of letters it is blocking, there would be no way for the webmaster to fix it. There are no configuration options for it.

    The fix is to change SPAM filter
    OR
    To allow authenticated regular posters to bypass it

  36. Sarah Palin’s unfavorability ratings are now higher than her favorability numbers. The bloom is off…

  37. Alan,

    You are a total moron. I know Fox has to give the left wing equal time but if you are the best they could find the liberals are in worse shape than we thought. You are a pathetic, whiney J ew!!!! Do us all a favor and quit!!! Maybe then they can get someone who can run a blog that gets hits by FANS like Greta does!!!! You are a disgrace. Total panty waste!!

  38. Obama still ahead in the polls. Thank you God.

  39. You are a pathetic, whiney J ew!!!!

    Posted by just me

    John McCain thanks you for your anti-Semetic support.

  40. I don’t live in a small town, I live in big bad Carol City, Florida. I guess we are Anti-American here. I am a liberal, I guess I am anti-American. some people are saying socialism and communist blah blah towards Obama, it looks like to me that’s what they are doing. I have a friend who served time 10 years ago, does that make me guilty by association. If Obama is palling around with terrorists, what is McCain doing with Gordon Liddy who had a fundraiser at his house for him. Obama is not talking about McCain’s association because he is the better man, he knows how to turn the other cheek and talk to the voters about what issues are pressing them.

  41. Just a comment to “Just Me” You are a whiney asshole! I don’t care for A. Combs either but you are an embarrasment to the conservative cause. What an idiot!!

  42. “We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
    – Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

  43. “In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members … It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.”
    – Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002

  44. Hey “Just Me” go crawl back under your rock! You are the pathetic moron and I am a Republican. I don’t care for Combs either but you went over the top you fing Nazi

  45. Socialist quotes from Hillary Clinton…

    “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

  46. that should have been quote.

  47. i know.

  48. “You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. And I’m not kidding.”

    Joe Biden

  49. “I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.’”

    Joe Biden about Senator Obama.

    I can’t believe I am saying this but I agree one hundred percent with something that a liberal has said. Now I need to go take a shower! :)

  50. Obama: “…he preaches the Word of God.”

    I forget, was it in Matthew or Luke where God said “God d— America!” and “white America, U.S. of KKK A”?

  51. SOS — good job!!! You are awesome with your posts!!!

  52. Hey “Just Me” go crawl back under your rock! You are the pathetic moron and I am a Republican. I don’t care for Combs either but you went over the top you fing Nazi

    Posted by Michael
    October 17th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    _____________________________

    Screw you!!!!

  53. You are a pathetic, whiney J ew!!!!

    Posted by just me

    John McCain thanks you for your anti-Semetic support.

    Posted by Epiphany
    ___________________

    Watch the J ews run from Obama once they realize it will be the end of Israel if Obama gets in. I have no problem with J ews except ones like Alan are cry babies!!!!

  54. Just a comment to “Just Me” You are a whiney as shole! I don’t care for A. Combs either but you are an embarrasment to the conservative cause. What an idiot!!

    Posted by Michael
    October 17th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    _________________

    Bite me!!!!

  55. thanks for the great examples that the neocons are nothing but KKK without the sheets.

  56. Just Me. You and I have nothing meaningful in common. Disagree with people, sure. But the methods do not justify the means.

    Stop with your hateful words.

  57. ALAN,…the “u,Um..” stammering, seems to show that SHE FORGOT WERE SHE WAS!

    -Vote for Sarah Palin; support the handicapped!

  58. the neocons are nothing but KKK without the sheets.

    Not all. Not all.

  59. Colmes is an idiot!!! He just annoys me so much. I’m between the sheets right now!!!!

  60. you purported Christians should be careful with all your hatred. If you truly believe your edicts, and you are correct, you will be judged harsher!

    you purported Christians would agree that Rev. Write’s preachings are BIBLICAL (ref his sermon “audacity to hope”

    Hay You Supposed Christians! REMEMBER “JUDGE NOT” and “VENGEANCE IS MINE??”

    Without the spin Reverend Right is a truly righteous CHRISTIAN. And yes Ayers is the TRUE patriot according to the edicts of our founding fathers…
    remember, to the British those pesky American “terrorists” during the American Revolution???
    JUST DEPENDS HOW YOU LOOK AT IT…so everyone relax a little, and judge not, less you be judged.

    Posted by Rev. Is Correct
    October 18th, 2008 at 12:40 am
  61. I think Michele Bachmann is anti-American as she doesn’t seem to believe that you can still love your country but see things differently. She wants people investigated who have an opposing opinion about how to make the country better. Investigated and then what?

      
    Epiphany,
    But if you’re calling her un-american for her viewpoints that you don’t agree with doesn’t that make you exactly like her?
      
    Sorry for pointing out your double standard.

    Posted by Truth2Power
    October 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
  62. Sarah,
    you keep ducking the question…
      
    You took umbrage with me when you mistakenly thought I supported anti-government terrorist timmy mcviegh.
      
    How do you feel about obama and his ties to anti-government terrorist bill ayers?
      
    Are you as offended with obama as you were with me?
      
    Don’t be afraid to answer sarah.

    Posted by Truth2Power
    October 18th, 2008 at 12:48 am
  63. ayers – tied with annenberg, who gave millions to ayers…

    also hugely supported reagan AND mccain. ayers is tied to obama as much as reagan and mccain.

    There is also liddy. guess what, majority of people DON’T care.

  64. Per the Wall Stree Journal–

    UNDER Obama’s Iron Clad Rule, The INTERNET will be monitored, heavily, by the GOVERNMENT!!! Your FREEDOM of Speech will be GONE!!!

    Vote McCain/Palin It’s NOT about Repbulican vs Democrat! It’s about America’s FREEDOMS!

    Quit looking at this as a GAME! This is serious! Open your EYES! Read the records! Russia is sailing up toward Chavez’s domain–as you read this!

    GET YOUR HEAD out of the SAND and FEAR what your vote for Obama will mean!

    Here’s a quote from the Wall Street Journal:

    Google and MoveOn.org would get “net neutrality” rules, subjecting the Internet to intrusive regulation for the first time.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

    Posted by Spreading the Wealth
    October 18th, 2008 at 7:04 am
  65. Why would you think that anyone who is leaning towards Obama would be swayed by an opinion piece in a right wing op ed?

    Actually the Republicans have voted AGAINST net neutrality, getting the servers closer to having the right to charge more for high speed acess.
    In other words, Eat at Joe’s.com would have LESS acess than Olive Garden if the GOP gives Comcast and Verizon.

    Again, it’s just part of deregulating big business.

  66. Sarah Palin’s recent comments to a crowd about “Pro-American parts of the country” is confirmation that the Republican Party has always been adept and evily clever at pitting one segment of America society against the other in a “divide and conquer” rule. They are the party of Division! I am so glad they are being found out!

    However in a call to “national unity” it was a Wise and Judicious Barack Obama in 2004 who spoke these Uniting words in regards to America’s oneness and what we can be:

    “Even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the red states.” –Obama, 2004.

    It should be a crime against the “good” of the American Public and a Betrayal of the Public Trust for McCain and Republicans to be able to get away with obvious lies and distortions by false and misleading Robocalls which try to link an 8 year old Barack Obama with acts committed by Ayers over 30 years ago. It is down right dishonest, dishonorable and misleading. There should be laws against this type of unethical behavior to knowing lie and mislead for gain. This is like one lying on their Resume when applying for a job. It is moraly wrong and unethical!

    As for Joe the Plumber who lied to Barack when he falsely said, “I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a year,” “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” when it has been reported that Joe makes $45,000 a year and owes back taxes! This is the very middle-class person Barack Obama’s tax plan would help! And Joe the Plumber belies the fact that if one has $250,000.00 dollars to invest in a business, and because he has to pay his fair share of taxes, he is unable to Purchase that business, he is just plain greedy because middle-class people deserve a break especially now after 8 years of paying more than their fair share while the rich got away scott free and devastated the economy to boot!

    Posted by Angellight
    October 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am
  67. Alan,

    Take a look at a map, Alan, I betcha almost every state (all 56-57 of them as Obama claims) are chuck full of small towns.

    Posted by Bernie in Michigan
    October 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am
  68. Dear Alan

    Once again Governar of Alaska Mrs. Sarah Palin is “our gal.” She got married to Todd Palin. He is part Eskimo. Her father was a school teacher. She made it . We as woman should be proud of her instade of criticing her constantly. My mother and I are super proud that we will vote for a woman. We will be part of history. I am finally exited about this election. Hillary was dumped. We were heart broken. Now we will vote for a “Dream ticket.” Two minority candidate.

    I always liked Madona because she made it just like Sarah Palin. I still remember her song “Papa don’t preach, I will keep my baby.” She revolutionised catholic comunity. She should support Bristol Palin and her mom Sarah. I can understand Ophra Winfry, because she is blavk. She have to support Sen. Obama.

    Obama supporter women are picking on Governer Palin. They did the same thing with “the white woman Hillary.”

    Posted by Lopa from Philly
    October 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
  69. These phony baloneys who are pawning themselves off as better Americans than those disagree with them, show how little respect they actually have for the best principles of this country.

    By trying to cast their fellow Americans as somehow less than “real” Americans, they can only hope to appeal to the very worst in people.

    Sarah Palin continues to quote Westbrook Pegler, the racist who had written that he hoped for the murder of RFK.

    Which is worse…that she doesn’t know who she is quoting, or that she does?

  70. McCain’s abandonment of veteran’s interests as well as his lies about being tortured, and his denouncing of the US while living in relative luxury with his Vietcong buddies – with real heroes and Vets enduring torture and death because of him. Hmmm …does that qualify that lying skunk as an anti-America
    How about Palin endoresement of a group which seeks to seperate Alaska from the U.S. – does that count as anti-American?
    Does Prescott Bush funding the construction of Concentration camps in Germany and Eastern Europe for the Nazis to exterminate Jews, Romanies and anyone else they dislike – does that count as anti-American?
    Let me guess…..errr….no.

  71. Actually the Republicans have voted AGAINST net neutrality

      
    What’s so strange about that old lefty. Conservatives believe in less government involvement, liberals believe in more government involvement.
      
    Look how well more government involvement worked out with fannie mae and freddie mac.
      
    Maybe more government involvement in the internet and in a couple years we can spend another 100 billion bailing out internet providers.

    Posted by Truth2Power
    October 18th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
  72. “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” –on visiting Bosnia in 1996, contradicting other accounts that said there was no threat of gunfire. Clinton later said she “misspoke”
    Yeah, kinda like how Bill misspoke about Monica, Paula, Juanita, Whitewater, Filegate, Chinagate, etc.

  73. “I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”

    Hillary Clinton

    Thank God I wasn’t born to Democrats or I might have been slaughtered in an abortion clinic. Or used for stem cell research. And all because my life was deemed somebody else’s “choice”.

  74. “Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.” –on Bill Clinton’s bimbo eruptions.

    A champion for women? Really?

  75. “Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference

  76. “Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by reporters after a news conference

    Obama

  77. A president doesn’t get to vote “present”.

  78. Eat at Joe’s.com would have LESS acess than Olive Garden if the GOP gives Comcast and Verizon.

    You are wrong.

    These phony baloneys who are pawning themselves off as better Americans than those disagree with them, show how little respect they actually have for the best principles of this country.

    Every candidate has always referred to the small town, blue collar worker as the salt of the earth. The “guts” of America.

  79. (Gadhafi) “Says Arab world campaign contributions ‘may enable him (Obama) to win U.S. presidency’
    worldnet daily ^

    Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2008 19:27:54 by dascallie

    Oct 18 Mideast leader: Obama a Muslim who studied in Islamic schools (WND) Interesting:

    Quote: Says Arab world campaign contributions ‘may enable him to win U.S. presidency’

    Posted: October 17, 2008 9:00 pm Eastern

    By Aaron Klein © 2008 WorldNetDaily

    JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim of Kenyan origins who studied in Islamic schools and whose campaign may have been financed by people in the Islamic and African worlds, Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi said during a recent televised national rally.

    “There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama,” said Gadhafi in little-noticed remarks he made at a rally marking the anniversary of the 1986 U.S. air raid on his country. The remarks, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI, were aired on Al Jazeera in June.

    “All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man,” continued Gadhafi. “They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency. “We are hoping that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity, and in his faith, and that [he will know] that he has rights in America, and that he will change America from evil to good…

    YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgJu…w&pageId=783

  80. If we can’t believe Gadhafi, who can we believe???
    Add the never bias WorldNutDaily, and it just must be true.

    sarcasim intended

  81. Jon macane is not a muslin so he shud be pressidant. Prod to be a rite wingur.

    Posted by republicun
    October 19th, 2008 at 1:51 am
  82. To Justme: I am Jewish, a McCain supporter, Vietnam veteran and wish you hadn’t mentioned Alan being Jewish. When one Jew does something wrong, it seems like all Jews get lumped together with him/her and it isn’t fair. You are right, many Jews will vote for McCain this time…or should I say, against Obama.

    Even tho I was in the Army, I’ll vote for the Navy guy.

  83. Jon macane is not a muslin so he shud be pressidant. Prod to be a rite wingur.

    Posted by republicun
    …………………………..

    I’ve made this accusation about right wingers before.
    This guy is an Obama supporter trying to make McCain supporters look bad.

  84. YOUR sons will HAVE to serve Russia’s Army!!! Americans will be EXPORTED into RUSSIA!!!

    SPREADING THE WEALTH!

    Read part of this article from PRAVDA:

    The immigrants (Americans) will further guarantee that each of their sons, upon reaching the legal age, will serve out the minimal term of enlistment in the Russian armed forces. Furthermore, the immigrants will provide cl@sses weekly, to their adopted communities, on Western standards and science of agriculture. These will continue as long as there is a demand from the community.

    http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/15-10-2008/106572-russia_us_farmer-0

    Posted by Spreading the Wealth
    October 19th, 2008 at 9:16 am
  85. From the SAME people who brought us:

    “John McCain is a KGB agent!”

    “John McCain is the Manchurian candidate!”

    “John McCain has an illegitimate black baby!”

    The same hysterical smear tactics that were used AGAINST John McCain just 8 years ago.

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