The American liberal establishment and their tiny entourage of conservative fellow travelers have to deal with Sarah Palin whether they like it or not.  Sarah Palin is not going away

Sarah Palin is the Israel of American Politics

Sarah Palin has supplanted George W. Bush as the most polarizing figure in American politics.  This despite the fact Bush has not yet left the White House.

She is someone that does not inspire feelings of indifference or neutrality. 

You either love Palin or you hate her. 

If Sarah Palin were a member state of the UN she would be condemned daily by the General Assembly for transgressions both real and imagined.  This, in part, makes Sarah Palin the Israel of American politics.

Those who love Sarah Palin will drive hundreds of miles in inclement weather and wait for hours on end just to hear her speak. 

Those who hate Sarah Palin will go to the ends of the earth to destroy her.

Those who hate Israel are prepared to believe any unkind word said about it.  If Israel haters are told that Israelis use the blood of Palestinian children to make Purim pastries they accept it as the gospel truth.  Those who hate Sarah Palin are prepared to believe any unkind word said about her.  When unnamed sources from the McCain campaign were alleged to have said that Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent the Palin haters accepted it as an article of faith.  Never mind that Palin led an effort to have Alaska divest its holdings in the Darfur region of Sudan.  Those who hate Palin are not interested in the truth.  They are interested only in seeing grievous harm come to her and, if need be, her family. 

Some of the disdain directed towards Palin has all the quality of high school gossip.  How else does one explain the story that Palin allegedly answered the door to her hotel room wearing only a bathrobe?  When that wasn’t sensational enough it was then said that Palin answered the door wearing only a towel.  I would not be surprised if it is alleged that Palin was in the hotel room partying with the Rolling Stones a la Margaret Trudeau.  It would be funny if it weren’t so frightening. 

People who hate are irrational.  When people are irrational they will believe any and every negative thing tossed down the chute regardless of its merit and feasbility.  They believe such things because they want to believe them.  If you throw enough mud against the wall some of it will stick.  This mud represents the debris of hate.  Unfortunately, it is this debris that fertilizes the seeds of doubt the haters have planted.  When it fertilizes otherwise decent people begin to believe as fact things that are indisputably false.  This is the essence of hatred.  If something is said loud enough and often enough people will come to believe it without question.  If it is fertilized with enough intensity people will act on these false beliefs with tragic consequences.  My people paid the highest price imaginable for the fertilization of hatred.  Fortunately, Sarah Palin and her family have not been met with any violence (so far.) But make no mistake.  There are people who hate Sarah Palin enough that they would be overjoyed if she or her family members were physically, if not fatally attacked. 

It is perhaps fitting that a small Israeli flag is mounted on the window of Governor Palin’s office.  If nothing else it is surely a testament to her moral fiber.  The Israeli flag symbolizes a nation that rose out of the fertilized ashes of hatred that stoked the Holocaust.  The Israeli flag symbolizes a people who were knocked down and counted out but got back up bigger and stronger than before.  Israel succeeds despite the wishes of those who want it to die. 

In this respect, Sarah Palin is the Israel of American politics in another way.  While there are those who wish to see Palin excised from political life it doesn’t prevent her from carrying forward and working earnestly to make Alaska more prosperous and successful for its people.  Sarah Palin is part of a long line of Alaskans who have accomplished on frozen tundra what Israelis have done in the desert.  Although Alaskans do not have the kind of problems with their neighbors the Israelis have they too have thrived in less than hospitably optimal conditions. 

What doesn’t kill Sarah Palin will make her stronger.  There is some speculation that Palin might attempt to replace Ted Stevens in the U.S. Senate.  But why become a Washington insider now?  The liberal media and a handful of conservative critics won’t accept Palin as a junior Senator anymore than they accept her as a Governor.  Just as Israel’s Muslim neighbors aren’t going to suddenly accept the Jewish state if a Palestinian one is created alongside it.  Sarah Palin’s greatest chance for continued success and that of Alaska is to succeed on her own terms.  She can build on her existing achievements by remaining Governor and running for re-election in 2010.  If she can do this and it turns out Barack Obama isn’t the second coming then he would be wise watch out for her in 2012.

Much of the world would rejoice if Israel were to be wiped off the map. But guess what?  The world has to deal with Israel whether it likes it or not.  Israel is not going away.  Much of the American liberal establishment plus a few conservatives on the cocktail circuit would rejoice if Sarah Palin were to be wiped off the political map.  But guess what?  The American liberal establishment and their tiny entourage of conservative fellow travelers have to deal with Sarah Palin whether they like it or not.  Sarah Palin is not going away.

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Global Socialists Toast Victory over America

The American people may be losing their jobs and savings, but on Friday night, on the eve of the international financial summit, they provided President Bush and other G20 leaders a lavish banquet that included $300-a-bottle wine, Vermont Brie, eggplant fondue, and rack of lamb. Details of the “culinary delights” and “sumptuous feast” provided to the politicians who departed their black limousines were included in wire service stories. They were toasting the demise of America as a global economic and military superpower and planning to loot another trillion dollars from U.S. taxpayers. 

Stories about the feast can only cause rising anger in the United States. A C-SPAN moderator on Sunday morning, hosting a discussion of the growing financial crisis and taking calls, himself commented that there was a lot of anger out there. One caller mentioned taking up arms against the government over the looting of the taxpayers.

We have seen the people react this way in the past to proposals for Congressional pay raises and illegal alien amnesty. But the growing anger over the endless series of taxpayer bailouts is getting louder and louder. In response to the stories about the lavish G20 banquet and my own columns on the growing financial crisis, I received this email:

“I just finished reading the menu that I and the US Taxpayers just bought these idiots and thieves. $300 bottles of wine? Racks of lamb? (Does the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burns come to mind?) What if Bush had announced that the menu was going to reflect the seriousness of the situation? Maybe a great minestrone soup and some good Carlo Rossi red? Show the world that he (Bush) was serious about caring for our money. I realize it doesn’t make a bean’s worth of difference in the whole budget but when do we, as taxpayers, get any respect? Personally I resent more and more everyone associated with my government. And especially the country club Republicans that Bush (I was fooled) and [Treasury Secretary Henry] Paulson represent. I may have to lay off two good guys this coming week. I’m sure they will understand that the President had to keep up the image to all these ‘important’ people and that the King of Saudi Arabia and the Premier of China and assorted other international flotsam enjoyed their largesse.”

By the way, Carlo Rossi red is a California wine that goes for about $6.99 a bottle. It apparently wasn’t good enough for the global elite.

In a development that attracted the attention of some media, the U.S. agreed at the conference to the establishment of “supervisory colleges” by March 31, 2009, to monitor “all major cross-border financial institutions.” It is the beginning of a new global regulatory body that could eventually impose and collect a currency transactions tax known as the Tobin Tax, named after the late Yale University economist, James Tobin. Such a tax, which could affect stocks, mutual funds, and pensions, could generate hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

But ignored by most of the media was the fact that buried in the “declaration” endorsed by Bush and other leaders meeting on Saturday was (Point number 14) support for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, “the development assistance commitments we have made,” and a reaffirmation of “the development principles agreed at the 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, which emphasized country ownership and mobilizing all sources of financing for development.”

This language may sound vague or confusing. But to those familiar with the U.N. and its conferences and the Millennium Development Goals, it all makes perfect sense. This is a commitment to devote 0.7 percent of the Gross National Product to official foreign aid, a plan envisaged in President-elect Barack Obama’s Global Poverty Act. It will cost $845 billion, to be recovered in whole or part through a global tax. The phrase “all sources of financing for development” is U.N.-speak for global taxes.

In addition to his Global Poverty Act, which could pass Congress in a lame duck session or after President Obama takes office, the Jubilee Act is also being pushed for the benefit of other nations of the world. It would cancel as much as $75 billion in debt owed by foreign countries. The total of the two measures is $920 billion.

It is no coincidence that one of Obama’s personal representatives to the G20 meeting was former Republican Rep. Jim Leach, a left-winger who not only gave a speech backing Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention but is a long-time collaborator of the World Federalist Movement. This is a group that favors global taxes to finance world government.

Leach is clearly hoping for an appointment from Obama as the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, where he could help implement the Millennium Development Goals.

To demonstrate how the media view all of this, Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby on Thursday devoted a column headlined “Supersize the IMF” to the idea that the global financial institution known as the International Monetary Fund should get a massive infusion of American taxpayer dollars as well. He argued that the U.S. and other governments should triple their financial commitments to the IMF.

Mallaby, who doubles as director of the Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, didn’t put a price tag on this. But it was clear that he believes the more money the better. “A bigger IMF should be on its [the Obama Administration’s] agenda, he said.

Meanwhile, now that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has admitted that his $700-billion plan didn’t work out as planned, some in the media are acknowledging that they helped stampede the Congress into passing it.

On his CNN Reliable Sources show, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post asked his colleague Steven Pearlstein, “Wasn’t there a prevailing drumbeat that this package had to pass?” The reply: “I was, I guess, part of that drumbeat. It did have to pass.” Pearlstein added, “You know, the Congress and the government had to do something to get liquidity moving in the financial system. There’s no playbook for how to do this in a situation like this. People are making it up as they go along. And so we really shouldn’t be surprised that they tried something, it doesn’t work. They try something else, maybe it works. They’re throwing a lot of darts at the wall.”

But since it didn’t work and Paulson changed the plan, Kurtz asked, “Where is the journalistic outrage here?” It’s a good question. The only outrage I can find is coming from the taxpayers.

For his part, Pearlstein’s new column, “Toward a New International Capitalism,” includes no apologies over his central role in what has happened. Instead, he hails the arrival of a new era in which America “can no longer expect to dominate the institutions of international finance and will have to share power and influence with rapidly developing countries…”

In other words, America has been cut down to size and the beneficiaries are those who were always jealous of her wealth and power. The result will not only be less U.S economic power but the diminution of American military power. One will inevitably follow the other, especially if more U.S. manufacturing industries go bankrupt.

This isn’t “international capitalism.” It’s the victory of global socialism. The stage is perfectly set for the U.S. presidency to be occupied by a revolutionary Marxist.

“We are the world” is coming true.

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