Posted on 11/09/2010 7:29:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"Sarah Palin represents an America this is absolutely, definitionally white, that's very much rural America."
That's how The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan summed up the former Alaska governor in his appearance on the November 7 BBC Radio 4 "Americana" program.
Echoing Peter Jennings' infamous description of the 1994 midterms, the liberal British-born blogger added of 2010 voters that they had "had a panic, a tantrum."
For his part, Washington-based "Americana" host Matt Frei reinforced Sullivan's analysis, labeling Palin the "Evita of the North" and generally failed to question Sullivan's analysis.
"Despite all the kind of hullabaloo about the Tea Party, and they did have a very energetic campaign, and we were all fascinated by them, they didn't do that well, not as well as they thought they would," Frei helpfully offered Sullivan. The Atlantic blogger agreed, adding, "Without [the Tea Party candidates] the Republicans would have won the Senate. I think that's quite clear."
Sullivan rebuked both liberals and conservatives for having "misjudged" Obama.
"The Left wanted him to be this iconic transformational figure, and the right needed a bogeyman, so, he's stuck in the middle," Sullivan protested.
Of course in doing so, Sullivan completely neglected the fact that Obama and his campaign surrogates sold the then-candidateto the 2008 electorate as precisely an "iconic transformational figure" and that conservatives have legitimate grievances over his policies, such as ObamaCare and stimulus spending.
Sullivan, however, did predict a silver lining to the midterm shellacking that Obama and the Democrats suffered:
I happen to think that in the long run, the middle will work, and the more tempestuous American politics becomes -- especially when it's gridlocked -- the more people seek some sort of calm guy in the middle of it all.
Perhaps Sullivan thinks an Obama figure is needed for America's long-term decline, which he also predicted:
MATT FREI: Do you think the American people are aware of the power of India and China and what this could mean to the supremacy of this country?
ANDREW SULLIVAN: I think they are at a nervous, subliminal level. I don't think they've really faced up to it and addressed it, which is hence this, what I would call almost neurosis about continuing to say America is number one when America may not be number one anymore. I'm just not sure that this isn't cyclical, this isn't the new normal, this isn't the recessionary economy we're always going to live in and that's a hard thing for Americans to adjust to. They do not want to ackowledge that their elevator up has stalled.
There is no doubt that black slaves and other minorities were exploited, but there is abundant evidence that whites struggled and worked like hell in areas where there were no such minorities. There is also no doubt that in the U.S., as in no other nation, oppressed minorities rose to prosperity and even greatness.
The Hillbuzz guys love Sarah Palin.
My theory is that Andrew has an attraction to Sarah Palin, and that his confusing his sexuality. That makes Andrew an angry, frustrated man.
My Irish Ancestor came as an indentured servant.
What is it with you people?
Lisa is the last person I would vote for - I have posted pretty much nothing but pro-Miller stuff, even when he shot himself in the foot -again and again and again.
Not everyone in Alasla worships at the altar of Palin. Many of us think she was, in fact, a piss poor govenor.
I’m happy she is making a difference, has written a book and has a slot on Fox.
Doesn’t mean I have to like her policy decisions.
My post was to show why the “Evita of the North’ was a poorly done swipe.... Sorry you misunderstood.
Todd Palin was born and raised in Dillingham to James F. "Jim" and Blanche Palin (née Kallstorm). His father, a native of Seattle, Washington, is a former general manager of Matanuska Electrical Association. His mother, a former secretary of the Alaska Federation of Natives, is one-quarter Yup'ik, and his maternal grandmother, Helena (Bartman) Andree, is a member of the Curyung tribe. His paternal grandfather, Frederick William Palin, was born in Hartney, Manitoba, Canada in February 1905.
>>> Andrew Sullivan on BBC Radio 4: Palin Represents ‘An America That Is Definitionally White’
So Sarah qualifies as a MSNBC host?
Kewl
Wow. Just wow. Powerful stupid there from both of them.
I'm not sure what is wrong with that. White culture in America is doing better than Black culture in America and there are many Blacks that know that and are "acting white".
“What is it with homosexuals and their crazy, irrational hatred of Governor Sarah Palin?”
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They correctly recognize that she is BY FAR the most galvanizing force in mobilizing the moral majority (raise your wrinkled hand if you are old enough to remember that phrase-shat upon repeatedly by the propagandizing Left), which disdains the perversion of homosexuality.
And what’s the problem with being white?
I’m sorry to hear that.
I’m not. I’m glad to be here.
I don’t imagine that you could’ve immigrated here on your own...
I was BORN HERE. The Cherokee blood line was BORN HERE.
Is there something I’m not getting? My family lines had no slaves and I’m so poor from being laid off I don’t have a pot to pee in. I haven’t immigrated from anywhere. I’m an American.
Another useful idiot that will be the first to go if the muzzies, marxists, maoists, communist, facists or socialists win the day.
Definitionally white. Right. Sullivan is definitionally a diseased a**hole.
That happens when the AIDS bug starts to melt your brain.
Soon Andrew will be joining Petah Jennings wherever it is that ignorant smug foreign America-bashers go when they die.
Take a peek at the success of Latin America and Africa, I’ll keep the US
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