Joe 'attacks'

CNN called this Biden's "strongest attack on Sarah Palin to date."

Sarah Palin told donors in North Carolina on Wednesday night that she enjoys visiting "pro-America" parts of the country, as opposed to, well, she didn't specify exactly.

Yesterday afternoon, campaigning in New Mexico, Joe Biden responded to Palin's comments.

"It's disappointing, and I hope it was just a slip on her part and she doesn't really mean it," Biden told supporters. "But she said, it was reported she said, that she likes to visit "pro-American" parts of the country. Ladies and gentlemen, I, like your senator and governor, have been all over this great land. I've never been to a state, I've never been to a state that hasn't sent its sons and daughters to serve and die for this country.... One of the reasons why Barack and I are running is that we know how damaging the politics of division [is] that continues to be practiced by the McCain campaign, how damaging this policy of division has been for Americans over the last decade. It's time to put this behind us."

"We are one nation, under God, indivisible. We are all patriotic!" he shouted. "We all love our country in every part of this nation! And I'm tired. I am tired, tired, tired, tired of the implications about patriotism."

This is a strong response to a ridiculously immature and demogagogic suggestion by Sarah Palin, but it's not an attack. Sarah Palin suggestion that her tribe of encephalitic jingoists and racists are somehow more 'Pro-American' than supporters of Biden or Obama might be construed as an attack; but pointing out that

a)it's inaccurate and a lie
b)it's consciously being done to polarize our nation even further

isn't an attack, in turn. It's a response.

CNN, as seems required by our idiotic discourse, is playing in false equivalences.

So, look, CNN, if you really want to quote someone attacking Sarah Palin, try this out, courtesy DelicateMonster:

Sarah Palin has a husband who is a traitor to America. She, herself, has sympathetic leanings for secessionist causes in her own state and her husband until recently was a favored member of the Alaskan Independence Party which wants to see Alaska disregard the US Constitution and unilaterally secede from the nation. They fought a major war over that kind of behavior about a 150 years ago. They called the secessionist traitors when they did it the first time. What do you think they ought to call Sarah Palin's husband now?

Sarah Palin has sought to ban books that she deemed were 'immoral' according to her Talibanesque view of morality that suggests gays are simply evil and not worthy of equal rights or protections under our law; views we see represented in such highly evolved clerical states as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran...oh, and in certain settings in Lynchburg, VA, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Wassila, Alaska.

Sarah Palin has abused the power of her office, threatening and ultimately firing individuals for personal vendettas. She has been found guilty of abuse of office by a highly partisan board consisting of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats.

Sarah Palin has used her position in the national spotlight to encourage what amount to hate rallies with adoring Right wing fans suggesting that we by turns 'kill Obama'
or 'burn' or 'bomb' Obama...She has done this by the most vile and ridiculous smears, suggesting because Obama had a presence on a Republican and Democratic board with an ex-weathermen member that he is somehow complicit in actions that occurred when Obama was only 8 years old. Robo Calls are now going out from the McCain campaign that make this same smear. The result of such activities can be found in the increased acrimony of the Republican crowds and incidents across the nation of shouting matches, kicking and abusing reporters, and, in one especially interesting case, some whiz in Illinois decided to hang an effigy of Obama in his yard for Halloween, replete with Star of David marked on his skull (someone apparently never sent him the memo about Jewish votes in Florida).

What few interviews she has allowed has shown us a Sarah Palin that is incurious, inarticulate and unknowledgeable at almost every level of importance to national governance.

Sarah's most avid fans appear to hail from the same low end of the gene pool as her. Doltish, ignorant of the simplest realities, and more than willing to lie about what they haven't even begun to understand.

That's an attack, CNN. Please feel free to quote me.