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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Pat Buchanan :: Townhall.com Columnist
One of Them and One of Us
by Pat Buchanan
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Palin's daughter was fair game for a media that refused to look into reports that John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for president, was conducting an illicit affair with a woman said to be carrying his child and cheating on his faithful wife Elizabeth, who has incurable cancer. That was not a legitimate story, but Bristol Palin's pregnancy is?

Why did the selection of Sarah Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that has been so in the tank for Barack even "Saturday Night Live" has satirized the infatuation?

Because she is one of us -- and he is one of them.

Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin kills her own food.

Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America -- until Barack started winning.

Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are saturated in black-power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.

Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the Daley Machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.

Barack has zero foreign policy experience. Palin runs a state that is home to anti-missile, missile and air defense bases facing the Far East, commands the Alaska National Guard and has a soldier-son heading for Iraq.

Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin's stances read as though they were lifted from Reagan's 1980 "no pale pastels" platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about.

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Pat Buchanan is a founding editor of The American Conservative magazine, and the author of many books including State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America .
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 18, 2008 - 12:08 PM EST
Not one of us, but certainly one sided
Mr Buchanan, what an apt and accurate article.
This years US election is not the only example of media liberal bias but simply the latest.

But that is something conservatives must take part blame for.
If we do not speak louder, write more and preach from than just the pulpit, we can expect the loquacious liberals to drown us out on every corner.

Since when did conservatism go out of fashion?
The brits think its sad that abortion still matters in american politics.

I think its sad that other religions use bombs and barbarism to get their murderous message across while christians are castrated for believing each life is God given and therefore worth protecting.

But look at the world and you will see that if not for the bright light that shines from the US right, the world would be a dark and dangerous place.

In South Africa where i am from, the right was decades ago overrun by the left and if not for a few blogs you would be forgiven for thinking no goodness remains in a land that used to recognise God as the head of our country and the leader of our culture.

Let's pray the US never takes that same path and instead Christians and those on the right, remember their responsibility and keep the torch burning.
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Date: Oct 18, 2008 - 12:08 PM EST
Not one of us, but certainly one sided
Mr Buchanan, what an apt and accurate article.
This years US election is not the only example of media liberal bias but simply the latest.

But that is something conservatives must take part blame for.
If we do not speak louder, write more and preach from than just the pulpit, we can expect the loquacious liberals to drown us out on every corner.

Since when did conservatism go out of fashion?
The brits think its sad that abortion still matters in american politics.

I think its sad that other religions use bombs and barbarism to get their murderous message across while christians are castrated for believing each life is God given and therefore worth protecting.

But look at the world and you will see that if not for the bright light that shines from the US right, the world would be a dark and dangerous place.

In South Africa where i am from, the right was decades ago overrun by the left and if not for a few blogs you would be forgiven for thinking no goodness remains in a land that used to recognise God as the head of our country and the leader of our culture.

Let's pray the US never takes that same path and instead Christians and those on the right, remember their responsibility and keep the torch burning.
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