I've only seen racist remarks from "anybody would have"

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You take your talking points right from the (democrat/republican) party play book.

The DNC should dismiss H Clinton IMMEDIATELY due to her offensive and despicable comments about why she is staying in the race (the assasination of Bobby Kennedy - in other words the same could happen to Barack and so she should stay in in case that happens). I think it is a disgrace for her to continue in the race at this point. There is no doubt in my mind (and others I have talked with) that she wants something dreadful to happen to Barack, but to blatently come out and mention the assination of Bobby Kennedy when referring to Barack Obama is the lowest of all time lows. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE should call for her removal from the race. This is why we CANNOT have her as VP. If so Barack would have to constantly be looking over her shoulder. If nobody believes that they need to read the history of the Clintons and what they have done to people in the past. It's fact and people need to wake up! This is not some "right-winged" thing against her - it happened and you can read about it.

Then she tries to cover up her shameful statements with lies. The media is treating her too kindly by saying they are sure she didn't mean that she believes something would happen to him. I just want to scream - Don't you believe it. Look at the past! Yet once again another reason I'm not voting for her.

And what part of NO doesn't the Hillary supporters understand that she is NOT going to be VP on his ticket. NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! If, and I doubt that would happen, but if she was to be on the ticket I would not vote for him. I will write in Ron Paul.

She goes on and on about all the people she has that will vote for McCain and not Obama if she doesn't get on the ticket - yeah, well there are an equal number that if she is on the ticket will absolutely not vote for her and will either go for McCain or just not vote. I was watching the exit polls after the election on Tuesday and they said that its about a 50/50 split with Hillary supporters and Barack supporters saying they will not vote for the other.

There's no way in the world I want that XXXXX anywhere near the white house. I am just outraged that she made such a dispicable, appalling, shameful and vile statement. And I don't even want to hear any Hillary lovers try and defend this. If there is a meaning of evil she fits the description to a T. This just confirms she is XXXXX in my books.

I despise Obama not because he is called African American by the MSM but because he is a liar parading around in sheep's clothing. He says one thing to one group, contradicts himself on the same subject to another, and plays idiotic Americans like a violin.

Obama's parentage does not qualify him to be called black anymore than his foreign birth qualifies him to called an American. To say people oppose him are racist because of his skin color is preposterous when he is neither black nor African American.

Here is the sound bite from Barbara Bush (it actually was on The Drudge Report!)

Here's the clip. Let them try and spin it however they want. Her callous words cannot be denied. These are heartless group of elitists:
http://www.drudgereport.com/bb.mp3

I'm glad we didn't have any whiners in our political science class in high school. Our teacher was one that provoked thought, and this was during Clinton's presidency. I think that's the whole point as unless you are a Bush loyalist who thinks any comment not praising him is against the law.

Teacher Probed Over Bush Remarks

(CBS/AP) About 150 students at a suburban Denver high school walked out of class to protest a decision to put a teacher on administrative leave while the school investigates remarks he allegedly made in class about President Bush, including a comment that some people compare Mr. Bush to Adolf Hitler.

The protest came Thursday as administrators began investigating whether Overland High School teacher Jay Bennish violated a policy requiring balancing viewpoints in the classroom, Cherry Creek School District spokeswoman Tustin Amole said.

It was peaceful. The students yelled, but there was no fighting, Amole said. Most of them did return to class.

The suspension, says Amole, is a paid leave and is not a punitive situation... It just gives us the opportunity to talk to him, to talk to students.

Overland High student Stacy Caruso says Bennish hasn't done anything wrong. In the classroom, says Caruso, everyone has their right to speak their opinion and he's not forcing any opinions on anyone.

Another student, Derek Belloni, tells CBS News Station KCNC-TV reporter Rick Sallinger that Bennish is out of line.

He's supposed to be teaching geography, says Belloni, and yet he's pushing a liberal agenda trying to convert kids to his side of the spectrum.

A telephone number listed for Bennish, who has been teaching social studies and American history at Overland since 2000, had been disconnected.

Sophomore Sean Allen recorded about 20 minutes of Bennish's class during a Feb. 1 discussion about President Bush's State of the Union speech and gave the recording to his father, who complained to the principal, Amole said.

After listening to the tape, it's evident the comments in the class were inappropriate. There were not adequate opportunities for opposing points of view, she said.

The student who made the tape agrees.

I've been his class four weeks, says Allen, and I've never heard another side.

Deborah Fallin, spokeswoman for the Colorado Education Association, which represents about 37,000 union teachers, said it will not represent Bennish because he is not a member.

He's terribly upset about the fact that he can't teach right now, says David Lane, an attorney who is now representing Bennish. He's so upset and I am now his lawyer and we will be going to federal court.

Even got hypnotized. Supposedly guaranteed to quit. Lasted 5 hours. Thank heavens I never smoked anything stronger.

that's how liberals try to shut anyone down when they talk about any minority...say something you don't like and they're a racist or a liar.

Liberals are the ones stirring up the race pot in this country by inventing racism in every shadow.

I don't know about the liar but I do feel he can be a chauvanist. You have your opinion and I have mine.

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is �Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean�

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama�s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat�s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

�It was kind of disgusting,� Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the �lower 48� about life near the North Pole.

Racial and ethnic slurs may be �just Alaska� and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N�-Fetch-It, �darkie musical� swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska�s Aboriginal people as �Arctic Arabs� � how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description � as well as the more colourful �mukluks� along with the totally unimaginative �f**king Eskimo�s,� according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We�re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it�s in their genetic code. So much for McCain�s pledge of a �high road� campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one.

Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It�s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin � especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a recording told me that �all circuits are busy� or numbers just wouldn�t ring. I should think a state that�s been made richer than God by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.

On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they�re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.

�The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,� an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. �It�s corrupt and arrogant. They�re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.�

�Once Palin became mayor,� he continued, �She became part of that inner circle.�

Like most other people interviewed, he didn�t want his name used out of fear of retribution. Maybe it�s the long winter nights where you don�t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they�re under constant danger from �the authorities.� As I interviewed residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See nothing that�s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.

Alright, that�s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But there�s ample evidence of Palin�s vindictive willingness to destroy people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.

Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a recall campaign.

�People who fought her attempt to oust the librarian are on her enemies list to this day,� states Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla resident and one of the few Alaskans willing to speak on-the-record, for attribution, about Palin. In fact, Kilkenny actually circulated an e-mail letter about Palin that was verified and printed by The Nation.

For good measure, Palin booted the Wasilla police chief from office because, she told a local newspaper, he �intimidated� her.

Running on Extreme Fringe Evangelical Views
Sarah Palin drew early attention from state GOP apparatchiks when, during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her extreme fringe evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state capitol, state Republicans tossed some money behind her campaign.

Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything but.

�She�s doesn�t like different opinions and she refuses to compromise,� Kilkenny notes. �When she was mayor, she fought ideas that weren�t hers. Worse, ideas weren�t evaluated on their merits but on the basis of who proposed them.�

Something else has a familiar Republican ring to it: Her tax policies, and a �refund surpluses but borrow for the future� attitude.

According to Kilkenny and others in Wasilla as well as Juneau, Palin reduced progressive property taxes for businesses while mayor and increased a regressive sales tax which even hits necessities such as food. The tax cuts she promoted in her St. Paul speech actually benefited large corporate property owners far more than they benefited residents. Indeed, Kilkenny insists that many Wasilla home owners actually saw their tax bill skyrocket to make up for the shortfall. Two other Wasillian�s with whom I spoke said property taxes on their modest, three bedroom homes rose during the Palin regime.

To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with $22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor � especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the city�s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer�s money on, if not fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?

For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a matter of fact.

Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original estimated price of the facility.

She also worked hard to get voters approval of a $5.5 million bond proposal for roads that could have been built without borrowing. Anchorage may not be the center of the financial universe but, like good Republicans everywhere, Sarah Palin knows how to please Alaskan bankers and bond dealers.

For good measure, she turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots.

Sarah Barracuda
En route to the governor�s igloo, Palin managed to land what Anne Kilkenny says is the plumb political appointment in the state: Chair of Alaska�s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), a $122,400 per year patronage slot with no real authority to do anything other than hold meetings. She took the job despite having no background in energy issues and, as it turned out, not liking the work.

�She hated the job,� an OGCC staff member who is not authorized to speak with the news media told me. �She hated the hours and she hated what little work there was to do. But she couldn�t figure out a way to get out of the thing without offending Gov. Murkowski� and the state Republican Party regulars, some of whom were pssed off they didn�t get appointed.

But ever the opportunist, Palin quickly concocted a way. First, she waged a campaign with the local news media claiming that the position was overpaid and should be abolished � despite the fact that she lobbied Murkowski hard to get it. Then, mounting what she saw as a white horse, Palin raised a cloud of dust by resigning from the OGCC and riding away with an undeserved reputation as a �reformer.�

But when a local reporter dared to suggest that the reformer Empress has no clothes, Palin tried to get her fired.

�She came at me like I was trying to steal her kids,� said the targeted reporter, who now works for an oil company in Anchorage. �I heard she had a wild temper and vicious mean streak but it�s nothing like you can imagine until she turns it on you.�

Not surprising since some of her high school classmates still openly call her �Sarah Barracuda,� Kilkenny insists.

Still, as a Republican Party hack Palin managed to get herself elected running under the false flag of a �reformer.�

And what did she bring to the job? No legislative experience other than a city council of a village of 5,000 people, which is smaller than some high schools in Chicago. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; after all, she needed to hire a city administrator to run Wasilla. No executive experience, except for almost being recalled as mayor. A philosophy of setting public policy based on one word: No.

According to Kilkenny, nothing. Well, nothing other than suggesting the state�s multi-multi-million dollar, oil-generated surplus be distributed to residents and finance future state needs by borrowing money. Gee, doesn�t that sound precisely what George Bush did with the surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton in 2001 and we all know in what great shape Bush�s economic policies left the nation.

It may explain why, when asked by reporters, including me, what she thought about Palin being picked to be McCain�s running mate, her mother-in-law replied with a sardonic, �What has Sarah done to qualify her to be vice president?� Of course, when the woman � said by many I spoke with to be well-respected in Wasilla � was running to succeed Palin as mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her, so that may explain the family tension.

As Governor, Palin gave the legislature no direction and budget guidelines, according to the chair of a legislative committee. But then she staged a huge grandstand play of line-item vetoing countless projects, calling them pork. �They were restored because of public outcry and legislative action,� the aide said. �She vetoed them mostly because she had no idea what they were or why they were important.�

But it was enough to get the McCain, who is mostly unobservant of the world around him anyway, to think Palin has a reputation as being �anti-pork�.

In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the �bridge to nowhere� after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.

As for being �ready on day one� to be commander in chief, despite the repeated public claims she�s made, the Alaska National Guard commander said that, �she has made no command decisions, other than sending some troops to help fight a few brush fires and march in parades at county fairs.�

�Sambo Beat the Btch�
�Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,� someone who thinks these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin�s tenure in Alaska state and local politics.

�She�s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,� is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.

Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,� he adds. �These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain�s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they�re true? Because everyone who isn�t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.�

�Sambo beat the btch� may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it � and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public � should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.