I hope you'll forgive my French, but I am pissed off today, majorly. I'm conservative, and so Senator Obama cannot be my candidate this election. He would do great damage to this country, no matter his intent.
I am also human. Senator Obama lost his grandmother today, on the eve of his possible election to the Presidency of the United States. As anyone who has followed this election closely knows, Senator Obama is a 20th Century man in the sense that he is very, very reticent and does not like to show emotion in public. He's an extremely private person. Tonight, there were tears streaming down his face after he spoke about his grandmother.
You would think that the opposing candidates would be able to summon the grace and maturity to recognize this loss and back off the personal attacks a bit. In the case of Senator John McCain, you would be right. He is a man of profound character, wisdom, and life experience, and he showed that.
It was apparently too much to ask of Gvernor Palin, who showed disgustingly poor class and an incredible lack of simple human grace. She couldn't bring herself to condemn comments from Hank Williams Jr. that Senator Obama does not like the national anthem. She couldn't stop herself from dredging up that old quote from Senator Obama's wife about being proud of America, as she said that she and Mr. Williams had always been proud to be Americans. Her behavior was morally repugnant, and it was a dishonorable thing that she did today.
When somebody's going through a tough time, you back off the personal attacks. You sure as hell don't question his patriotism.
Send her back to Alaska and perhaps in ten years she'll be fit for high office.
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