Legal Boxer Briefs :: Jewsade for Justice

“We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe” — here the audience interrupted Palin with applause and cheers — “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.”

- from the Washington Post, on Sarah Palin’s comments about “Pro-America” areas of America.

These comments are, quite frankly, offensive. The notion that, just because I don’t own a gun (or five), because I don’t hate gay people (or because I am gay), that because I live in a city — or because I live above the Mason-Dixon line, because I don’t plan on voting Republican or for the Constitution Party, the thought that these things make me “Anti-American” or even simply not “Pro-American” is quite frankly disgusting and disturbing on a fundamental level.

I’m sure these sentiments have been echoed by many, many other people (at least, I hope so), but I feel compelled to respond to these comments as well. The problem is that these sentiments echo the feelings of many parts of the mid-west and South as well many in the Republican Party. I find all of this interesting because, apparently, being married to someone who is a member of and affiliated with a secessionist movement (Sarah Palin) is more pro-American than living in New York City. Apparently, flying the flag of a secessionist movement that made war on United States, causing the deaths of over 600,000 people, is more pro-American than my possible vote for Ralph Nader.

I’m sorry, Sarah Palin, but, fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. I don’t care about your “explanation” — your true intentions were pretty obvious. It was clear to me — and every other conscious person in this country — that you meant that the “pro-American” areas of this country were the areas that vote Republican and the implied “anti-American” areas of this country are the Democratic ones.

The fact of the matter is that Palin’s statements expose a fundamental contempt for the liberal areas of this country held by the vast majority of Republicans. Here’s a newsflash, guys. The year is 2008, not 1863. The Civil War is over. Oh, also, someone should tell the Nebraskans and folks in Kansas that, actually, in 1863, they hated the South with a passion because they were filthy, slave-owning secessionists who, get this, hated America (though now they drive around with Confederate flags painted onto their pick-up trucks). But, yeah, that’s right. The Confederates hated America, even more, than, say, Michael Moore and his fat, liberal ass. You know why? Because, unlike Michael Moore’s ass, the Confederates killed around 300,000 of their countrymen.

It’s really a tragedy that someone as anti-American as Colin Powell endorsed the vast I-Hate-America conspiracy a couple of nights ago. Not only was this an endorsement — it was an unequivocal endorsement. It seems that just everyone is anti-America these days.

But in all seriousness, how dare she? Who is she to declare me anti-American and the vast swathes of ex-Confederates to whom she panders “pro-America”?

I am, quite frankly, sick of hearing how “un-American” I am and how much I “hate my country” because I support my own fundamental right to get married, the right of Americans not to starve on the streets, and the right of Americans to decent healthcare.