Follow-up on Anne Kilkenny - the "I know Sarah Palin" lady

from Wasilla. This is getting ugly, folks.

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/saradise-lost-chapter-thirty-six.html

the right-wing fundie stuff. She's not just using it for her political purposes as ** has.

See also this one. http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/saradise-lost-chapter-thirty-eight.html

Scary stuff.

They can't write a sentence, they use words without knowing their meaning and they are unafraid to torture English spelling in public. Forget about ideas -- all they have are playground insults.

Yikes.

The whole Midwest is just full of them. And they are idiots and they are very dangerous when they start working together in groups.

The Assembly of God church is way out there. Its Pentecostal, I believe. They believe in a very real satan and in demons. I mean they are way out there.

You put that kind of religion with a lifelong membership in the NRA and you've got a really radical rightwinger.

This is a very scary scenario. McCain has just struck a match under the whole rightwing crazy population. This could get really wild. I've been hearing all kinds of whispers about Obama. These people are scared to death of him. They are scared to death that the "blacks" are going to get in and take everything over. Sarah Palin referred to Obama as Sambo. How much more rightwing redneck can you be? Now they actually have a candidate that is one of them and they are thrilled. I don't think the Republicans have any idea just what they have started - they don't live out here where the angry white people are so they can't feel it. But I sure can. I hear stuff in every restaurant I go in.

That those who are terrified Obama will make America the Black Nation have found a savior in Sarah. That's alarming.

Savior Sarah. Kind of fits, doesn't it.

They want to get away from life down here. They don't like the government much, they don't like minorities at all. Its the same bunch that live up in Northern Idaho and Northern Washington and Montana. They might not be the really crazy Nazi, Arian Nation people. But they believe a lot of the same things.

Here comes Obama - a smart, black man. And every crazy insecurity they have just had the heat turned up on it.

Sarah Palin is a Godsend for them.

but I think maybe your saying "they don't like minorities at all" is a little over the top. I can only speak for Anchorage, of course, since I live here, but this is a very ethnically diverse city. Over 90 languages are spoken by students in our school district, and the district is 50-50 with minorities. We have a large Asian population, many Pacific Islanders, Native Alaskans, Filipinos, African-Americans, Middle Easterners. We have recently become home to Somalian refugees. We have a Hmong community.

I'll grant you that there are pockets of deep conservatism in rural Alaska (places like Wasilla, for instance), but I think it's wrong to paint all Alaskans as a bunch of red-neck racists. That just hasn't been my experience in the years that I've lived here. In fact, I have a very good friend who left Alaska and moved to the Detroit area, and she said she couldn't wait to get back here where racism is not such an issue. She didn't want her kids raised in that environment.

http://www.asd.k12.ak.us/CulturalResp/

http://www.adn.com/newcity/story/184286.html

And I'm glad you pointed that out.

I'm not concerned about regular citizens. I'm worried about the right wing crazies that always try to escape to places like northern Washington (where I come from) and northern Idaho and Montana. And Alaska.

We have a lot of ultra, kind of racist people here in Missouri. But I don't think we have much in the way of white supremacists (I could be dead wrong about that).

But I can remember problems with white supremacist groupe up there in northern Idaho clear back to when I was a teenager and that was over 50 years ago.