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Tanenhaus: Populism, Politics and the Power of Sarah Palin

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SanFranciscoZionist12/06/2009 11:52:10 am PST

re: #17 Racer X

She’s married to an eskimo. How can she be racist?

I don’t think she is, in a classic sense. I think she’s bothered by people who are not like her. Todd comes from her own background, and shares her ideology and interests and culture. I think she can’t deal with people who do not share those things with her, or step out of herself, or find common ground with Americans who aren’t ‘her kind of people’. That’s why I find the folksy patter, coming from her, so nauseating.