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Sometimes Mr. Greenwald is on the money, this time he merely exposes himself.
No campaign has ever been more vicious than the campaign waged by Obama, his supporters in the media, right wing talk radio, and the new front--organized internet posters--against Hillary Clinton. But the campaign against Sarah Palin has been just as vicious: the rumor she faked having a baby which was really her teenage daughter's just about takes the blue ribbon for vicious fabricated personal attacks--so far.
Obama is a ruthless, mean street-fighter with a "Harvard" patina made more lustrous by an adoring media. We know that anything "disrespectful" of the Chosen One is "racist", "off limits", almost blasphemous. I guess whether it's true doesn't count.
All of the media and the Democratic machinery will be spending the next couple of months trying to destroy Sarah Palin. But I'll bet not the lot of you can "field dress" a moose, raise five kids, and govern the largest state in the union. And give a great speech with a malfunctioning teleprompter. To borrow a reference to the way Lyndon Johnson looked after being defeated by Jack Kennedy at the 1960 convention: after Palin's speech last night, the national media looked "poleaxed".
And rightly so. The arrogant, snotty, condescending, elitists who "crawl over the high places of the world" (yes, it's Balzac) cannot understand Sarah Palin. But hundreds of millions of Americans do: Sarah Palin is one of us, not one of you.
