How about the arrogance of this idiotic statement by the writer...”There is, I suppose, a gracious way to translate her comments.”
As if we the considered under washed and under learned cannot understand exactly what Sarah said and meant. For the elitists in Urinalism who don’t understand middle America, we say “We like her just the way she talks and acts, thank you”.
Yeh it's a literary allusion to the poem The Military Warrior by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC
Sarah Palin is more comfortable with intellectual references than elite journOlists, who knew?