Sarah Palin has recently been going on about a tenuous connection between Barack Obama and William Ayers, a former sixties radical, suggesting that Obama's character should be judged by the company he keeps. She's also throwing Tony Rezko and Reverend Wright into the mix.

But what about the company Sarah Palin keeps? Her husband joined a secessionist party. He so hates America that he wanted to make Alaska its own country and stop being an American.

Obama served on a charity board with his America-hater. Sarah Palin sleeps with hers.

But more to the point, Sarah Palin tries to play up her Christian values. I'm not sure, but I thought that two of the biggest tenets of Christianity had to do with man's potential for change and redemption and man's duty to forgive. Considering that Ayers has put the 60s behind him and has done some good works, maybe she could let go of the past. Maybe she could forgive him and believe he has changed.

Ahh, but like most Republicans, Sarah Palin is a politician first and actually living up to the values of Christianity come a far, far second. If it is profitable for her to stop believing in redemption and forgiveness for a while, she's only too happy to chuck them out the window. She picks and chooses which "Christian values" will bring her profit and power and she pisses on the rest. One of the pictures the right likes to circulate is a recent one of Ayers standing on the flag. Wish we could circulate one of Sarah Palin shitting on the bible.

But it's not just this. She's been blaming the media for her own inability to form meaningful or coherent answers to their questions and she's been riling up her "base" against them at her speaking events. She's now got her fans booing and jeering at the reporters who cover her speeches.

This quote from a Washington Post article just made my jaw drop:

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

How can we take seriously her attacks on the company Obama keeps when this is the kind of company she keeps?

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