While Obama certainly does hang out with some formerly extreme radicals... I'm not sure Palin and her very odd church connections is doing anything but inviting a counter attack.
I should probably read more about Palin's church - I don't feel I know enough about it to comment.
On a similar note, Weather Underground really isn't that well known in the UK, so I'm not sure quite how charged/damaging this accusation will be in the US...?
(To be honest, my first thought was that putting "terrorists", not "Weather Underground" in the headline would make certain people think of entirely different terrorist connections, more relevant to the War on Terror...)
Palin's church is pretty nuts. The minister is from Kenya and cites driving a witch out of his village as a proof of his faith and god's providence for him as well as some other whacky crap.
Weather Underground and pretty much any "terrorist group" of the 1970s is long forgotten in the US. We don't even teach that segment of history to school students, and probably not even university students except as a cursory footnote on "Vietnam was a bad place." Since most of the "bad" involving Vietnam is the implied abuses of US military forces - ironically by people who used their college status and teaching status to dodge the draft - there is a natural tendency to leave out the violent protesters of that time.
However this will open some interesting ire amongst vets as well as folks now in their 60s and 70s. Probably just more fuel on the flame though - I hate to say it but most people I know in their 60s and 70s are pretty racist so Obama wasn't a winning candidate for them anyhow.
I don't actually remember the last presidential campaigns much but I don't think there has ever been so much shit-flinging as in this one. Everyone just goes on about how bad the others are and don't actually concentrate on politics...
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Date: 2008-10-05 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-05 09:34 am (UTC)On a similar note, Weather Underground really isn't that well known in the UK, so I'm not sure quite how charged/damaging this accusation will be in the US...?
(To be honest, my first thought was that putting "terrorists", not "Weather Underground" in the headline would make certain people think of entirely different terrorist connections, more relevant to the War on Terror...)
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Date: 2008-10-05 10:03 am (UTC)Weather Underground and pretty much any "terrorist group" of the 1970s is long forgotten in the US. We don't even teach that segment of history to school students, and probably not even university students except as a cursory footnote on "Vietnam was a bad place." Since most of the "bad" involving Vietnam is the implied abuses of US military forces - ironically by people who used their college status and teaching status to dodge the draft - there is a natural tendency to leave out the violent protesters of that time.
However this will open some interesting ire amongst vets as well as folks now in their 60s and 70s. Probably just more fuel on the flame though - I hate to say it but most people I know in their 60s and 70s are pretty racist so Obama wasn't a winning candidate for them anyhow.
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Date: 2008-10-05 11:54 am (UTC)and predictable.
and racist if you think about it...
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Date: 2008-10-05 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-05 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-06 01:52 pm (UTC)