SHAMELESS…. The struggle continues — is the wiser course of action ignoring Sarah Palin because she’s a foolish clown undeserving of attention, or shining a light on her offensive antics to help demonstrate the misguided inanities of the larger right-wing movement?
I generally lean towards the former, but some of the former half-term governor’s misdeeds are too odious to overlook. Like this one, for example.
Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday accused President Barack Obama of not acknowledging the sacrifices made by the men and women in the U.S. military.
“There’s been a lack of acknowledgment by our president in understanding what it is that the American military provides in terms of, obviously, the safety, the security of our country,” Palin said during an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “I want him to acknowledge the sacrifices that these individual men and women — our sons, our daughters, our moms, our dads, our brothers and sisters — are providing this country to keep us safe.”
“They’re making sacrifices,” said Palin, who visited the Army base at Fort Bragg on Monday as part of her ongoing book tour. “They’re putting so much on hold right now so that the homeland can be safe and they can fight for democratic ideals around our world. I want to see more acknowledgment and more respect given to them.”
Asked specifically what she’d like to see more of from Obama, Palin said, “I want to see them equipped. I want to see them given everything that they need, including strategies — a surge strategy in Afghanistan, for one — so that they know that they’re there for victory, they’re not there just biding their time as lives are being lost.”
Even for Palin, this is vile. “There’s been a lack of acknowledgment by our president in understanding what it is that the American military provides in terms of, obviously, the safety, the security of our country”? I’m not entirely sure she’s trying to say here, or what it is she thinks the president has failed to “acknowledge.”
But in Grown-Up Land, the Commander in Chief has honored the service and sacrifices of servicemen and women repeatedly. He did so at Dover Air Force Base last month; just as he did at Fort Hood and on Veterans’ Day this month. Obama, in just the past few weeks, has met with U.S. troops in Florida, Alaska, Texas, and in South Korea.
Also note, Palin, who has never demonstrated any meaningful understanding of foreign policy at any level — look, Sarah, there’s Putin flying over your house — can’t criticize the administration’s efforts on a substantive level, so she complains for no reason about her misguided sense of “strategies.”
In other words, we can add this to the very long list of subjects on which Sarah Palin pops off without having a clue what she’s talking about.
John Cole added, “What a detestable human being…. I’m seriously so sick and tired of these people. Visit the troops and you are accused of using them as a photo op. Spend one day not genuflecting to the troops, you are accused of ignoring them.”
