Palin's Comments in My Hometown, Greensboro, North Carolina
Here are just a few short notes on Palin's comments in Greensboro. First, the quote:
"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
A) Greensboro is not a small town. Currently, around 250,000 people live within the city limits and the greater triad area is home to over 1.5 million Americans. That is more than twice the size of Alaska.
B) Of course Greensboro is real America and Pro-America. It has beautiful a minor league baseball stadium that overlooks the modest downtown skyscrapers. It has rich areas and ghettos. It has at least 6 colleges, universities, and community colleges. It has research centers, financial hubs, and textile mills. It has Black People, White People, Latinos, smart people, dumb people, conservative people, and very very liberal people. It kicked off the sit-in movement when courageous college students staged one in the downtown Woolsworth.
C) Most Greensboro residents would shudder at the insinuation that they are "real" Americans while other areas are not. But thats not the point.
D) The point is, to me, that the most offensive implication, as a Greensboro native, is that Greensboro is somehow transitively "your America." Greensboro is not your America, Governor. It is educated, it is racially diverse, it is religiously diverse. It went Kerry by a significant margin in 2004 and Obama is going to kick your f#@king ass in it 2008.
UPDATE: A friend from back home is telling me that the comments were actually made in Elon, which is actually a small town outside of Greensboro. However, I am seeing from Nate Silver and a few other sources that it did indeed take place in Greensboro. Either way, Greensboro is going to run the score up against McCain/Palin and will help turn North Carolina Blue.
UPDATE #2: Since I see my blog has been posted to the TPMuckraker and I have ran across it several times on google while trying to fact check this article, I feel it is important to get the facts straight. It seems every national media outlet and prominent blog that really doesn't distinguish between Elon and Greensboro has this event occurring in Greensboro. However, The Greensboro News & Record does say the event occurred in Elon. Final conclusion: this event occurred in Elon. Just goes to show you can never trust the national media! :)
"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."
A) Greensboro is not a small town. Currently, around 250,000 people live within the city limits and the greater triad area is home to over 1.5 million Americans. That is more than twice the size of Alaska.
B) Of course Greensboro is real America and Pro-America. It has beautiful a minor league baseball stadium that overlooks the modest downtown skyscrapers. It has rich areas and ghettos. It has at least 6 colleges, universities, and community colleges. It has research centers, financial hubs, and textile mills. It has Black People, White People, Latinos, smart people, dumb people, conservative people, and very very liberal people. It kicked off the sit-in movement when courageous college students staged one in the downtown Woolsworth.
C) Most Greensboro residents would shudder at the insinuation that they are "real" Americans while other areas are not. But thats not the point.
D) The point is, to me, that the most offensive implication, as a Greensboro native, is that Greensboro is somehow transitively "your America." Greensboro is not your America, Governor. It is educated, it is racially diverse, it is religiously diverse. It went Kerry by a significant margin in 2004 and Obama is going to kick your f#@king ass in it 2008.
UPDATE: A friend from back home is telling me that the comments were actually made in Elon, which is actually a small town outside of Greensboro. However, I am seeing from Nate Silver and a few other sources that it did indeed take place in Greensboro. Either way, Greensboro is going to run the score up against McCain/Palin and will help turn North Carolina Blue.
UPDATE #2: Since I see my blog has been posted to the TPMuckraker and I have ran across it several times on google while trying to fact check this article, I feel it is important to get the facts straight. It seems every national media outlet and prominent blog that really doesn't distinguish between Elon and Greensboro has this event occurring in Greensboro. However, The Greensboro News & Record does say the event occurred in Elon. Final conclusion: this event occurred in Elon. Just goes to show you can never trust the national media! :)
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Well at least she thinks Greensboro is pro-America iam sure my hometown of Charlotte is a bastion of anti Americans.
October 23, 2008 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent blog. Fits with their lies about the very first "small town" they visited, which I wrote about back in early Sept:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/the-truth-about-cedarburg-wi.php
This is a pattern with these folks. And the pattern was oh, so evident back when they visited Cedarburg, WI. A fancy place to shop in.... and now we have to wonder even more...
October 23, 2008 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, it's increasingly clear that Palin sense of "proportion" is way out of wack --
Large cities of greater population than all of Alaska are seen as small towns, while Wasilla is called a "city".
$150,000 for clothes within 6 weeks is no big deal, even as down-ticket Republicans are starved for campaign funds.
Hell, Palin's "sense" is not only out of wack -- it IS wack/ed.
Otherwise, a lovely blog.
October 23, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Real America" = areas that are predominately white.
"Real Americans" = White people, or in a more nuanced way, White people who are evangelicals and own guns.
This is not a very complex code. They are openly campaigning for White racists.
October 23, 2008 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, white, own guns, are intolerant, and have limited education/intelligence. That's her target.
October 24, 2008 9:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for posting this. Rec'd.
October 23, 2008 7:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have been to Greensboro, a very beautiful city, and the McCain/Palin campaign just don't get it! I hope the Pro-Americans send McCain back to AZ and Palin back to Alaska. I live in NC (all my life)and proud of my state. Time for us to send a message!
October 23, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
North Carolina = best state in the union. Not there anymore. I'm still a baby, but I want to retire to the North Carolina mountains.
October 24, 2008 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Palin wasn't talking to you, which is why you were offended. She was reaching out to preschoolers. Can't you see what's happening here? That's what this whole Joe the Plumber thing is about. She's setting up her presidential run for the year 2028. At that point, all those little kids who grew up on a steady diet of Bob the Builder and Barney the Dinosaur will be voting age, and then LOOK OUT--here comes Sarah the President.
October 24, 2008 8:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Greensboro is not your America, Governor. It is educated, it is racially diverse, it is religiously diverse."
Palin and her party miss that Good Old American town of the 1950 & 60's that was everything Greensboro is not today.
When she says, "We are in a "race" for the future of our Country" she is in a time warp from the 50's and going back to the origins of the this Republican party, The Dixiecrat Party of Strom Thurmond.
October 24, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink