Leauki, just so you know, here is the death panel.  NOw of course it is not being called that, but the intent is there.  IN HER OPINION, that is a death panel.  Having lived in this country for over 50 years and seen how "advisory" has become mandatory in many areas, I agree with her opinion.  YOu do not have to,  but clearly then it is a matter of opinion and not fact.

I don't know anything about Van Jones, but the Acorn story turned out to be simply wrong.

There is no such intent.

And claiming that there is such an intent, even if the claim is opinion, requires proof.

Palin's proof is, apparently, her opinion. But for some reason proving her accusation wrong requires more than the opinions of experts on both sides of the political spectrum. Don't you think that's weird?

To me it reads as if she flip-flopped on the issue.

When she was governor of Alaska she saw the danger and named it.

But when she had abandoned her position and is now more or less running for whatever it is she thinks she can gain she suddenly forgot all about her previous concerns.

Who is trying to destroy her?

I remember a smear campaign against her by the left when she was tame and at McCain's side. But ever since Obama won, I haven't seen any attacks against her, except coming from people like myself and Charles of LGF and other Bush and McCain supporters.

I just typed into Google "daily kos sarah palin" and all I found was 2008 material, including references to Daily Kos articles about Palin in 2008.

Then I typed "lgf sarah palin" and found recent material, including an article about how Sarah joined the nirthers (birth certificate people).

I found more with "democratic underground sarah palin": two articles about recent events related to Palin (book signing and custody battle) and a call by a DU member for supporting Palin to punish Obama for not doing what the loonies wanted him to do.

I cannot see this "wanting to destroy her" that you apparently see. It seems to me like the left is pretty much ignoring Sarah Palin. OTOH many of the former right, including LGF, fight it out over her and the only people afraid of her are those who don't want to Democrats to win.

"daily kos david duke" brings me to the yearly David Duke Bigot of the Year Award (which they apparently want to award to a group of "radical Jewish extremists").

Ironically it also brings up O'Reilly comparing Daily Kos to David Duke (presumably because of incidents like the openly displayed anti-Semitism in the article I found above).

Anyway, I think we must not forget that David Duke, for all his popularity among white supremacists, is very much on the same page as left-wingers when it comes to foreign policy and Israel (he also believes in evil racist Jews selling "Palestinian" body parts). So why would they scream about him? They like him more than the Bushs and McCains (and certainly the Palins) of the right.

And they aren't.

Just check out what is posted on JU about her. Maybe I have overlooked our local liberals battle against Sarah Palin. But all I see are right-wingers fighting against the ghost of an imagined left-wing front against Sarah Palin and my occasional reply in opposition. I don't see the vast army of left-wingers trying to fend off the Sarah Palin threat. I don't see that outside JU either. All the Sarah discussions appear to be between two camps of former conservatives, there is no liberal front against her that I can see.

The last posting about Palin by a left-winger on JU that I found was from 2008 (Larry Kuperman) when the left were indeed scared by Palin. But that was the same time when I thought she was OK and could help McCain win.

I quoted it, so you can play the innocent card.

If you want to buy that bilge, there is no hope for you.  But the La Crimes is notorious for its liberal bent (it was the one taht coined the phrase "Nagic Negro"  Again, your opinion is yours to have as you will, whether supported by facts or not, as in this case where it is not, but then dont insinuate it is.

YOu have not been reading or listening to the american media lately (that is to your credit).

That I would not know since I took a year hiatus from JU.  But I did not take a year hiatus from reality or the american MSM, and the daily diatribe on Palin (check out the talking heads - you will love them) is incessant.  They even have to trash her for not doing her book tour starting in NY!  OMG!  What a crime.

Again, your opinion is yours to have, but it seems more contrived than intelligently derived.  But then opinions can be anything you want them to be,  They do not need facts.

I just had come to expect more from you.  Nothing personal, just professionalism.

I am not here to change your mind.  No amount of truth is going to do that.  Many do not like Palin based on real issues and real agendas, not manufactured ones by those who are afraid of her.

She has a long way to go because she has to overcome that bigotry in the US.  She can (after all Obama was elected).  But one thing you have shown me is that no conservative will ever be favored abroad.  The foreign opinion is based on the liberal media agenda, and is a direct reflection of it.  Ignorant and a lie, but then foreigners have no incentive (and indeed no reason) to learn the real truth about Americans.

It does help though in at least informing the americans that are not brain dead of why foreigners are the way they are.  No mystery, just bigotry.

Here is what Gov. Palin said if that means anything to anyone.

"The term I used to describe the panel making these decisions should not be taken literally," said Palin. The phrase is "a lot like when President Reagan used to refer to the Soviet Union as the 'evil empire.' He got his point across. He got people thinking and researching what he was talking about. It was quite effective. Same thing with the ‘death panels.' I would characterize them like that again, in a heartbeat."

In my opinion no American is liked or welcomed anywhere I have lived except, the Philippines. Yet whenever a nation is in trouble the first nation called is America.

I dont agree with that anecdotally.  As a person, I have not really seen any animosity one on one (except france).  But when you get a group of non-americans to start talking about a group of americans, of course stereotypes come into play and that is where you get the cliches, and ignorance (it is a natural human thing).

When they look at Joe American, for the most part they see a decent (most of the time) guy.  WHen they are asked to think about what the US is like, they become parrots to the MSM which is liberal and definitely anti-american, and so they see it the same way.

That they at least try to read about the US does speak well of them for the most part.  And so I do not really fault them too much for not doing some research to find out the truth.  After all, most Americans probably could not even find their country on a map.

But what does irk me is for the liberals here to pretend that the biased view of foreigners is an affirmation of their opinions, when in actual fact itis just a reflection of their opinions.  And of course it irks me when foreigners who have not done more than cursory research into the US try to tell americans, with some sort of self important authority, what is wrong with their country.

I got that alot in Syria, and Jordan.