1:33 pm ET
Oct 17, 2008

Campaign 2008

Palin Touts the ‘Pro-America’ Areas of the Country

    • What part of the country isn’t pro-America? --Simple. Obamaville

    • For 20 years NObama listened to, "God D--- America. Burton, you are an idiot.

    • I wish the candidate would discuss global poverty more. According to The Borgen Project:
      $30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
      $540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget

    • Ok, I don't live in a small town, don't consume beer a 6-pack at a time and have never been a plumber.

      Do I still get to vote this year?

    • McCain camp is getting desperate. The look like they can't even hold the red states. Palin was in Nebraska a week ago. Nebraska!!!!

    • This whole "who is a real American" thing is really getting out of hand. Is there a new litmus test for being a "real American" that hasn't been published? Is it marked somewhere on my voter registration card? I would ask Joe the Plumber, but well... you know...

    • According to the Far Right and Far Left, they are the only REAL AMERICANS. I am a moderate American. Will I be allowed to vote if I do not subscribe to either the left or right extreme views?

    • That is some pretty scary stuff she is saying. Maybe I don't "just get it".

    • To American From New England: Sorry, you're an east coast elitist, you no longer count.

    • Hey Am I a Voter--Did ACORN register you to vote?

    • 2:20: Nope, unlike the newly crowned king of the working class, Joe the Plumber, I am very capable of doing that on my own. But thanks for your concern.





    • Could Sarah Palin please define "Pro America" as she sees it?

    • I do live in a small town, do not drink beer and have never been a plumber. However, unlike some posters here, I am glad that someone is, without condescension, acknowledging the large, mostly silent group of Americans who go about their lives raising families,improving their communities, are unashamed and unembarrassed about their love of their country, and are able to effect good, positive change without resorting to name-calling and trash-talking so typical of hyper-partisan types, who mistake their so-called sophistication for intelligence.

    • Someone should look at her college transcript, club records. To divide the country in a bad/good guys, pro-Amercia/anti-America, she is really scary !

    • please feel sorry for me! I am a poor American and have nothing to look foward to. I cannot get food stamps because I do have a work ethic and make the proper amount of money to buy my liquor as well as my rap music. I hate America because there are people that Govenor Sarah Palin talks about and represent who actually pay taxes and work for a living that do not give me enough of the money they have earned. I try to have as many babies as I can without marrying someone who is ugly and has a poor genetic gene pool. I do live in an area of the country where people do love America and work for a living as well as vote for people who represent them the people who work not me. i would rather sleep through the day after making love to the most beautiful unintelligent FEMALE I can.

    • Obama freakin' landslide. This race has been over for a month and mainstream media just can't stand it. The Republicans are going to spend a generation in the wilderness and rightly so. Palin and McSame are just the suckers they put up to get knocked over in the tsunami.

    • Certainly those who have ever supported or abetted the Alaska secession ("Independence") party should be disqualified as "Real Americans".

    • She is dumber than a bag of hammers.

    • Certainly those who have ever supported or abetted the Alaska Independence Party should be disqualified as Real Americans.

    • Country Last/Dignity First

    • To Army Vet in Charlotte - don't compare Palin to a bag of hammers. That's terribly unfair! A bag of hammers serves a useful purpose.


    • Sarah Palin is the most divisive person to run for an office since George Wallace. Now there is a Pro-American area and an anti-american area within America. GOP became a party of people with who are intellectually challenged and party racists. The party of Barry Golwater, Teddy Roosevelt, and the great Ronald Reagan becoming a party of David Duke. It makes me sad because democratic absolute majority can not be good for us. But with dumbs like Sarah, I do not think GOP can do any better.

    • If I was getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, I'd probably send out ridiculous emails too, protecting the man to whom my daily infatuation grows - the man paying me all that money. When you take away the glitz and glamour from Obama, all you have is a pathetic excuse of a candidate! Wake up Burton,

    • The alaskan "independence" party, to which Sarah belongs and regularly gives speeches, advocates violent seccession from the United States. How "Pro American" is that?
      After Obama wins by landslide, we should revoke every member of that organization's citizenship. Especially Miss Troopergate, moosegate, gosh-all-howdygate.

    • Now 4% of the states in the USA seem to have villages that are missing an idiot.

    • people in the city forget what America truly is, because they never see it.

    • Let's put it clearly. If you serve on boards and have a fundraiser hosted by a domestic terrorist - chances are you are NOT pro-America. If you go to a chuch for 20 years where the Pastor rants about "God DAMN America!" and that the "chickens came home to roost" after 9-11, chances are you are not pro-America.

      Very simple, isn't it?




    • Palin's an idiot.

    • Since I'm an educated, white, middle class woman who grew up in a city and now lives in a city.... am I still American? Palin is far worse than her detractors described. She is not stupid but she is ignorant. Her "Small Town" values have translated into "Small Thinking". It's time for a change and to say NO to fear tactics and attacks on people's patriotism. Guess what? Questioning authority is VERY patriotic.

    • Kate, your mother should've had an abortion.

    • What part of the country isn’t pro-America? Why, Massachusetts, New York, California, Illinois... Versteh?

    • "people in the city forget what America truly is, because they never see it."

      Seriously? No, really, Seriously? So in order to be American I have to live in a small town. Is McCain an American by that definition? How about Palin? Does Wasilla meet the small town standards? Do we stop being American when our population reaches 1000? 5000?

    • That would be ALASKA, where Palin's husband et al don't want to be in America.

    • The Wash Wire is censoring willy-nilly, it should be noted. The word "Rupert" is now apparently a word too far. And these are the defenders of freedom and the American way?


    • “people in the city forget what America truly is, because they never see it.”

      Yes, ever since "Dukes of Hazzard" went off the air us city folk have had little insight into the inner workings of rural America.

    • Palin is like a hit man for the Republican mafia - hired to do a job, which she does without question; business, not personal.
      What does that do to your soul?

    • Can McCain be a "real American" with 8 houses? The Founders - elites to the man - are spinning in their graves at the depths of inanity and superficiality our leadership has sunk to.

    • Gator, you said:

      "If you go to a chuch for 20 years where the Pastor rants about “God DAMN America!” and that the “chickens came home to roost” after 9-11, chances are you are not pro-America."

      Says who? I'm very pro-American, but this point-- that American was the country that let the Atomic genie out the of the bottle-- twice-- and had mercilessly carpet-bombed in Vietnam, not to mention firebombing Dresden-- it's not anti-American to say that someday we might suffer a similar fate. We have been cavalier towards the loss of innocent life, and it's not Anti-American to say so, especially not from a pastor, whose job it is to instruct us in the same manner that a parent might counsel a child.

      I think you're anti-American, actually, but you don't realize it, which is sad.

    • Most Americans live in cities anyway, so she's shouting into the wind.

    • Who says that rural Americans are the only ones that work hard. I bust my hump everyday managing a motley crew of socially challenged IT geeks, and then have to drive home in rush hour traffic in time to coach my son's soccer team. But I don't work as hard as middle-America?

      Give it a rest. It's not like y'all are all farmers standing behind your plow horse.

      Working at Sprawl-mart in Iowa is no different than working at Sprawl-mart in NY.

    • It is a classic them vs. us. If we don't agree with Palin, then we are not a patriot.

      She reminds me of a nazi who said this:



    • GatorBaited, come out of the closet already - you're obviously a communist.

    • So all you city people can kiss it! You are Anti-America! With your businesses and your ability to keep producing jobs even in tough economic times. You city people should be burned in Hell for your unAmerican behavior.

      Gov. Palin

    • This is a ridiculous statement that will only divide and not unite Americans. Perhaps that is what she wants.

    • According to Sarah Palin, the victims killed on 9/11 and many many of our military are NOT PRO-AMERICAN.

      Shame on you John McCain for so openly showing your contempt for America by selecting the idiot Sarah Palin as a runningmate.

    • Do the words "Joe McCarthy" mean anything? What is the litmus test to judge your "Americanism." None of us have the right to question the patriotism of anyone. Bring back the HUAC committee!!! I weep for us all!

    • Why would good US citizens ever want to vote for a ticket that includes one individual who screams that we are not "Pro-American" and the other with the extremely bad judgment to include that person as his "one heartbeat from the presidency" choice?
      Funkraider is correct, McCain & company would plunge America into the sewer. Hey, Joe, get licensed, there may be work for you yet!

    • We are now no longer Americans if we dont vote for the old guy.

      Heres a better issue.


      I've never seen this before. Someone who wants to be second in charge of the most powerful nation on earth and she cant handle the medias questions.

      Really? Thats not an issue with 2 weeks to go.

      Whats even more of an issue is there are actually lemmings who will vote for someone who seems to be ignorant about the most basic questions.

      Why is Sarah Palin not doing those typical one on ones EVERY Vice Presidential candidate does?

      You know which ones Im talking about, the ones that dont have Grandpa McCain sitting next to her like her teacher.

    • This woman disgusts me. I'm as American as they get honey. Even though I live in elitist Chicago.

    • Democracy should be about a little bit more than demonizing people you don't agree with. My principals are conservative, but how am I supposed to vote for GOP when they put such a moronic player out, when they run the country into huge debt (I WOULD rather pay more tax than wasting the tax I pay on interest on debt!!!), and when the party is taken over by religious fundamentalist? I wish there was a real conservative party, with real honorable standards.

    • AHMMMMM.... Maybe someone should break it to Sarah Palin that her running mate lives in Phoenix, AZ - the fifth largest urban area. She is associating with someone who is NOT PRO-America!!!!!

    • Gov. Palin knows EXACTLY what she's doing, unfortunately. Her only campaign mission is to incite racial, economic, gender, and urban/rural divisions. God help us all should McCain/Palin win the election. What will her role be as VP?

      As a white male from the rural south who HAS lived in urban cities, DC, Denver, OKC, it would appear that Gov. Palin is a combination of the late Lee Atwater and Karl Rove in a skirt.

      Remember, "Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican." At least not THIS GOP ticket.

      Obama/Biden '08. For the good in the hearts of Americans and for the good of America.

    • Palin was comparing the government of washington dc vs the people of america. This wasn't a city vs rural. She was saying the corruption of washington dc is not what makes america great it is the people outside of washington dc.

    • Sarah is like a drunk. A drunk speaks a sober person's thoughts. Problem is, she doesn't like any part of America. She and husband were members of the Alaskan Independence Party that wanted no parts of the lower 48, and Hawaii. Google it.

    • Why don't we sell Alaska back to Russia for 700 billion dollars? We'd solve two problems at once.-)

    • Hey, Palin, what do you think would happen if "non-pro-American" areas of the US (presumably all of the Northeast and West Coast) were to secede from this great nation? Do you realize how not having the economies of California and NY alone would affect the country's GDP?

      So, Ditzy-Brain, think twice before lamely denouncing those non-pro-American, America-hating leftists. They are scientists, educators, doctors, lawyers who keep America competitive in the world. Those leftist, atheist scientists give us the edge in advance technology and those "radical professors" make our universities the envy of the world.

      So please, think twice before you make your next idiotic statement.

    • Wa'al, I heard the followin' down at tha hardware store:

      “Where does this road go?”

      “Don’t go nowhere, Mister. Stays right here.”

      “Can I take this road to Portland?”

      “Sure, but they got all the roads up to Portland they need.”

      “You don’t know much, do you?”

      “No. Then again, I’m not lost.”

      “You lived here all your life?”

      “Not yet.”

      Now I don't know which one was pro-American and which one wasn't, but I do know....
      which one was lost....

    • How about Obama's church? It that place pro-American?

      "God Damn America!" (Barack Obama's Reverend Wright)

      How about Obama's home?

      "For The First Time In My Life I'm Proud of My Country" (Michelle Obama)

    • Why is Sarah Palin becoming one of the most hated women in America?
      Because she projects pettiness, stupidity and hatred.
      For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

    • I WAS a democrat, the more nasty comments I've read about posted by democrats, the less I identify. It started out with Hillary, now it's Palin. The behavior of Obama supporters completely disgusts me. It's overwhelming how ignorant and nasty Obama supporters are. You should be ashamed of how you act. I, among many democrats, have already cast my vote for McCain. Why, because if YOU are the people Obama represents, I want nothing to do with him.

      Something Obama supporters need to chew on: Just WHAT have you achieved by putting down this woman who has done more for this country than you EVER will?

      InTheCity, voting for McCain - because of nasty, hateful, two-faced Obama supporters.

    • Gee Bill, let me see if I can answer that touchingly innocent question. America is, de jure, a country, but is, de facto, a way of thought or set of understood principles that began to take shape with the ancient Greeks. Now, with that hint, can you hand in your homework by tomorrow? And keep asking questions! That's the best way to learn.

    • a-american

    • hi! this is sohel
      Why don’t we sell Alaska back to Russia for 700 billion dollars? We’d solve two problems at once.-)

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    • Soooo funny... "InTheCIty" writes the most mean-spirited, antagonistic post that I have read on this page -- about the "nasty comments I’ve read about posted by democrats".

    • Palin is simply an idiot...a dangerous! one at that

    • How many American Tax dollars generated in cities are allocated to the "real America" rural areas, I wonder?

    • If you're pro-American do you get to criticize America to make it better? Or do you just blindly follow the leader to the edge of the cliff and jump off when the "leader" says jump? If it's the latter, I guess I'm not one of those "pro-Americans" I'm sadly just one of those millions of citizens who love this country so much that we're willing to do anything to make it a better, more just place.

    • Palin should talk! Her husband Todd has been a card-carrying member of AIP who want to secede from the union! HELLO? Is THAT pro-American? (Why isn't the media making a BIG DEAL out of this association?)

    • What's the difference between Palin's womb and her mouth? Not everything that come's out of her womb is retarded.

    • IntheCity = liar

      Jeff repeats Repub talking point. "Palin was comparing the government of washington dc vs the people of america. This wasn’t a city vs rural. She was saying the corruption of washington dc is not what makes america great it is the people outside of washington dc." So the "pro-America areas" she was talking about was everywhere except Capitol Hill? C'mon!

    • I can only admire the Machiavelian way the Republican Party is going about winning power in spite of not even trying to appeal to the majority in a democratic country.

    • For the record, it's been about a week now, and I'm still INFURIATED by Palin's gall at suggesting that somehow urban and even suburban America are less "American" than rural areas. Perhaps if you want to assume that areas getting the largest per capita government subsidies (here's looking at you, Alaska!!) are somehow more "American" than those contributing more tax revenue and getting fewer federal benefits, so be it.

      McCain has always been a great leader, but he's gone to the dark side in his efforts to get to the White House, and Sarah Palin is Exhibit A. I'm voting for someone who can really help us make this country great again, and that's Obama.

    • And this is why i say "Go Libertarians!" third parties usually have the best point of view on the quote hot topic issues anyway. if only the stupid sheep of this country could see that, and p.s. I'm glad i don't live in the "anti-American" part of the country.

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