Palin's Favorability Rating? Still Slipping...

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not.Brit — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:29:17 GMT

Reality? Andrew, I don't think you've been paying attention.

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benighse — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:45:33 GMT

SHOOTING STAR SYNDROME.....OR FOR OLDER REPUBLICAN DROOLERS, "SHOT YOUR W.A.D. SYNDROME....NOW LET'S MOVE ON TO REAL ISSUES WITH SARAH THE CUTIE....ALL REPUBLICANS KNOW THAT IF SHE WON'T TALK TO THE MEDIA....SHE WON'T TALK TO THEM EITHER.....AND IF SHE WON'T ANSWER A SUBPENA, THERE WILL JUST BE MORE BAD STORIES TO COME FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.....BYE, BYE SARAH....

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Zig Zag — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:46:16 GMT

Andrew, I hope cleaned out your email - because the hate mail is probably sailing in right about now.

Good job!

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VoiceOfReason2008 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:52:14 GMT

If you want a fun take on Sarah's celebrity trajectory, check out Haley Speaks! on YouTube. The first one is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x3ymY7YcdE

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caraprado — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:55:42 GMT

From:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/also-will-call-for-democratization.html

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Palin Announces Palin/McCain Ticket: Ambition, Inexperience First

From ABC News:

"Uh-oh.

Gov. Sarah Palin is now talking about "a Palin and McCain administration."

Hilarious if it wasn't so frightening. The kind of slip made by a very young person whose ambitious fantasies all-too-easily break through her manifest inability to think before talking.

Incidentally, this has been her MO all along. From the New Yorker:

"Palin’s record as the mayor of Wasilla, a town forty miles north of Anchorage, told a somewhat different story. According to “Sarah,” a biography by Kaylene Johnson, Palin had got into politics after she befriended the man who was then mayor and his police chief at a step-aerobics class. She made them her allies and ran for City Council. Then she challenged them for control of City Hall, and drove them out. As she purged her former friends and patrons, she denounced them as “good ol’ boys,” although her takeover of Wasilla had been aided from the start by Alaska’s Republican Party establishment."

Impulsivity, an utter lack of reflectiveness and lack of basic knowledge combines with driving and unconsidered ambition to create a youthful, thoughtless grandiosity in reaction to the overwhelming whirl.

A dangerous combination at a time when wisdom, knowledge and reflectiveness are truly a necessity for our nation and our future.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/also-will-call-for-democratization.html

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walden333 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:20:10 GMT

It bears repeating, because the media is simply not covering it, Alaska had its biggest rally ever in the state AGAINST Sarah Palin. AK Women Reject Sarah rally had an amazing turnout last weekend. Pics here: //http://laurainak.blogspot.com

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Etchells 900 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:23:05 GMT

Slipping public opinion is not a surprise given the full court press to discredit her. Even after a hacker commits a federal crime, the press is more focused on a claim that she used her personal email for public business. Under the equal time rules, I submit some I hacked from others:

Bill,

WTF--Huge cleaning Bill regarding a blue dress???

Hill Rod

Michelle,

Where are my community organizing photos, and I don't mean the ones with the reverend?

Barry

Joe,

How do I respond to the charge that Charlie Rangel and I got rich during the Bush years? At least I paid my taxes???

Barry

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JZeppy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:57:04 GMT

"Slipping public opinion is not a surprise given the full court press to discredit her. Even after a hacker commits a federal crime, the press is more focused on a claim that she used her personal email for public business."

Calling him a "hacker" is as bit generous, He answered (guessed) 3 security questions on her Yahoo mail account and changed her password. If you're a national celebrity, you might assume people can easily guess your birthday, zip code and where you met your husband. What does this say about her awareness of basic security?

As to the focus on personal email for public business, this is EXACTLY what the Bush folks were doing during the us attorney purge scandal, bypassing official email to have off the record discussions about potential illegal actions, that now mysteriously can't be recovered. Coupled with loyalty over experience, idealism over policy, you still wonder why she is being called "Bush II"?

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SJ71 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:33:36 GMT

JZeppy: It's incredibly hypocritical of you liberals to continue citing Bush's firing of 8 U.S. Attorneys as a so-called scandal. When your hero Bill Clinton took office, he fired all 92 U.S. Attorneys and replaced them with lawyers who sang from his sheet music. Yet we never hear about that from our laughable mainstream media elites.

As for this article, it's no mystery why Palin's ratings are falling. As Etchells900 pointed out, this woman has been under a constant assault from Obama's defacto communication arm, the mainstream media. Lies are being spread about this woman, and the media is determined to trash her reputation. It's sad that the party of inclusion and progressive thought (i.e. the Democrats) are filled with hateful, SEXIST partisans.

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mishi — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:46:28 GMT

SJ71: "As for this article, it's no mystery why Palin's ratings are falling. As Etchells900 pointed out, this woman has been under a constant assault from Obama's defacto communication arm, the mainstream media. Lies are being spread about this woman.."

OK, so it's a "lie" to point out that, despite her endlessly repeated claim, she didn't say "no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere until it was already off the table? That she overstated her own state's energy production by a factor of six? That this self-proclaimed earmark opponent asked the feds for 2009 earmarks totaling nearly 300 bucks for every man, woman, and child in her state? That she opposes the right of a raped, pregnant woman to decide whether to carry to term? That Ms. Abstinence Only's own kid got knocked up? That she didn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is? Aside from the grandchild nonsense, just what, pray tell, are the lies you refer to?

And your charge of sexism? Don't make me laugh. Is there any doubt she got the nod in large part because she's a woman (yes, the "affirmative action" the right is always trashing) and is now whining in the full identity-group-victim mode despised by the GOP. Face it, you can put lipstick on a pit bull, but it's still an animal that can turn from cuddly pet to remorseless, senseless killer at a moment's notice.

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Slayeress — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:21:52 GMT

Palin should go back to Alaska and be eaten by bears. I wouldn't mourn her death.

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BadBuoy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:21:58 GMT

Well her numbers should slip alot more now that she highlights what she and McCain will do to reform Washington. Just look to how she won't allow her legislature to review her questionable activities. Hmmm, no wonder the GOP selected her; there will be many investigations that Congress will want to make of our current administration. I guess these two mavericks still believe in the same old process: STONEWALL!!!

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Dan Cohen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:59:49 GMT

Again??????? Let's not pick on poor Sarah!!!! After all, Sarah thinks that she can handle the Russians!

And her reason????? She can see a part of Russia from Alaska!?!?!?!?

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:25:44 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phEPwzptMes

Note: Last Friday, Sean Hannity was [Screaming at an Economist] saying that the Economy was Good and Stable and the economist called him a [Damn Fool, You Idiot] an less than a Week Later, Loe and Behold, the Economist was Proven to be TRUE and Sean Hannity Proven as usual to be the .....

[Damn Fool] !!!

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Read the Comments about Hannity...Hysterical..

Because its [1000% TRUE]

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:27:12 GMT

General Petraeus: Iraq Doesn't Lend Itself to "Victory Slogan"

Note: McCain and the Republican Press are the Ultimate [POW & SURGE PIMPS]

Because they are the Greatest Whores they have in his Whore House and the Customer's are getting Tired and Weary of these Harlets and the Pimps who are Pimping them 24 hours a day !!

Its Desperate, because its the Very Best Whores, they have to Offer in the... Whore House !!

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Source: The BBC NEWS

Thu, 09/11/2008 -

McCain and the Republican Party are always touting the "Surge" & "Victory" and I for one am very Glad Patraeus made this statement...

Because it Dispells this Republican "Victory" Bull-Spit !!!

General David Petraeus will leave his post as commander of US troops in Iraq, taking over US Central Command. As the chief of Central Command, the four-star general will oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This week, General Petraeus discussed progress in Iraq and the possibility of victory. Check out these highlights from his interview with BBC, which airs tonight.

On whether US troops could withdraw from Iraq by the middle of next year: It's "doable."

On whether he will ever declare victory in Iraq:

"This is not the sort of struggle where you take a hill, plant the flag, and go home to a victory parade . . . it's not war with a simple slogan."

On his new role of overseeing Afghanistan at US Central Command: "The trends in Afghanistan have not gone in the right direction . . . and that had to be addressed." Afghanistan remains a "hugely important endeavor."

On progress made by the surge: Petraeus said that recent security gains were "not irreversible" and that the US still faced a "long struggle."

Provincial elections supposed to take place this year, but still waiting on parliamentary approval, will test stability in Iraq. If the Iraq war doesn't lend itself to the traditional notion of victory, how will the US know when it's time to leave?

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:28:27 GMT

Sarah Palin says It a [Palin-McCain Administration]

Hahahaha...

John "Semi-Senile" McCain

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/the-palin-mccain-administ_n_127567.html

The Palin And McCain Administration: Sarah Flips The Ticket During A Rally (VIDEO)

This video from a Palin event today catches the vice presidential nominee putting herself before John McCain on the ticket. Check out the video and read more here from ABC News.

Politico's Jonathan Martin had this related report:

At a rally outside Youngstown, Ohio, Tuesday night, dozens of attendees left while McCain was still speaking.

I caught up with a few of them. Some explained that the airplane hangar where the rally was being held had grown crammed and uncomfortable. Others said they had other events or commitments to get to.

Notably, though, the exodous had only begun after Palin spoke.

Now, the same thing has happened again.

"I look up, about five minutes into McCain's address and see a steady stream of people walking out of the rally," writes Radio Iowa's Kay Henderson from a McCain-Palin event in Cedar Rapids.

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:29:24 GMT

Satellite Shows Ethnic Cleansing In Iraq That [Preceded Drop In Violence]

Sources: www.reuters.com & www.thehuffingtonpost.com

Satellite images show [Ethnic cleanout in Iraq]

Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:24pm EDT

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"Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning," said Agnew, who studies ethnic conflict.

Some 2 million Iraqis are displaced within Iraq, while 2 million more have sought refuge in neighboring Syria and Jordan. Previously religiously mixed neighborhoods of Baghdad became homogenized Sunni or Shi'ite Muslim enclaves.

Note: The study, published in the journal Environment and Planning A, provides more [Evidence of Ethnic Conflict in Iraq], which peaked just before ....

U.S. President George W. Bush ordered the deployment of about 30,000 extra U.S. troops.

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Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a..."

Satellite Shows Ethnic Cleansing In Iraq That Preceded Drop In Violence

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

The images support the view of international refugee organizations and Iraq experts that a major population shift was a key factor in the decline in sectarian violence, particularly in the Iraqi capital, the epicenter of the bloodletting in which hundreds of thousands were killed.

Minority Sunni Arabs were driven out of many neighborhoods by Shi'ite militants enraged by the bombing of the Samarra mosque in February 2006. The bombing, blamed on the Sunni militant group al Qaeda, sparked a wave of sectarian violence.

"By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left," geography professor John Agnew of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study, said in a statement.

The extent to which the troop build-up helped halt Iraq's slide into sectarian civil war has been debated, particularly in the United States, with supporters of the surge saying it was the main contributing factor, and others arguing it was simply one of a number of factors. Continued...

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:30:41 GMT

Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq

Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:24pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1953066020080919

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John McCain: Explain Your "The Surge" Is Working, when it was...

The Anbar Awakening and Ethnic Cleansing that caused the Drop in Violence !!

"Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning," said Agnew, who studies ethnic conflict.

The study, published in the journal Environment and Planning A, provides more evidence of ethnic conflict in Iraq, which peaked just before U.S. President George W. Bush ordered the deployment of about 30,000 extra U.S. troops.

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EXPLAIN THIS JOHN MCCAIN...PLEASE !!

Multi-National Force - Iraq (Summer and Fall 2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus

BBC News Controversy: General Patraeus on The McCain's "Victory Slogan"

And his "Victory Propoganda" Just to Win America's Vote....

In September 2008, Petreaus gave an interview to BBC News stating that he does not think using the term "victory" in describing the Iraq war is appropriate, saying "This is not the sort of struggle where you take a hill, plant the flag and go home to a victory parade... it's not war with a simple slogan."Anti-war liberal and libertarian bloggers seized on the interview to criticize Republicans who have used the term 'victory'. Conservative bloggers criticized the reaction for what they see as cherry picking and a distortion of Petraeus' words.

Petreaus had discussed the term 'victory' before in March 2008, saying to NPR News that "an Iraq that is at peace with itself, at peace with its neighbors, that has a government that is representative of — and responsive to — its citizenry and is a contributing member of the global community" could arguably be called 'victory'. He also said in September 2008 that "I don't use terms like victory or defeat...

I'm a REALIST, not an OPTIMIST or a PESSIMIST .

And the REALITY is that there has been significant progress but there are... STILL, SERIOUS CHALLEGES."

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:30:43 GMT

Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq

Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:24pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1953066020080919

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John McCain: Explain Your "The Surge" Is Working, when it was...

The Anbar Awakening and Ethnic Cleansing that caused the Drop in Violence !!

"Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning," said Agnew, who studies ethnic conflict.

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EXPLAIN THIS JOHN MCCAIN...PLEASE !!

Multi-National Force - Iraq (Summer and Fall 2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus

BBC News Controversy: General Patraeus on The McCain's "Victory Slogan"

And his "Victory Propoganda" Just to Win America's Vote....

I'm a REALIST, not an OPTIMIST or a PESSIMIST .

And the REALITY is that there has been significant progress but there are... STILL, SERIOUS CHALLEGES."

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:33:39 GMT

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5844710&page=1

Exclusive: New Doubts Over Palin's Troopergate Claims

Internal Government Document Contradicts Sarah Palin, Campaign

By JUSTIN ROOD

Sept. 19, 2008

An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."

An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief Walt Monegan, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."

(ABC News Photo Illustration)Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.

"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.

The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.

But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.

Palin Wants End to Probe She Requested Suit Filed to Stop Palin Troopergate Probe More from Brian Ross and the Investigative TeamThe document, a state travel authorization form, shows that Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan's trip to Washington, D.C., "to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski." The date next to Nizich's signature reads June 18.

In response to inquiries about the document Friday, the McCain-Palin campaign provided a statement from Randy Ruaro, another aide to Palin.

According to Ruaro, Monegan asked for -- and received -- approval for the travel without telling Palin's staff his reason for going. "As a matter of routine, the travel was approved by Mike Nizich ... weeks before the actual purpose was made clear by former Commissioner Monegan," Ruaro wrote.

"When you receive permission to travel, it does not mean that you receive blanket authorization to discuss or do whatever you would like on that trip," he added.

Last week a legislative panel approved a subpoena for Nizich to be interviewed by Stephen Branchflower, the prosecutor hired to conduct the Alaska Legislature's inquiry into Troopergate. The Attorney General informed the Legislature earlier this week that Nizich and other state employees subpoenaed in the matter would not submit to interviews.

Nizich did not respond to a message left Friday afternoon.

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Omaar — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:34:26 GMT

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/20/politics/main4462366.shtml

The Probe consist of [10 Republicans & 4 Democrats] Majority are Republicans !!!

The B!tch is a Fraud !!!

Srah Palin: The Queen Of Eramarks is challenged Bi Time regarding "Trooper Gate"

(CBS/AP) Just when it seemed the Alaska investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of a state official might have been scuttled by the pressures of presidential politics, another turn of events has kept it going.

Palin's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan last July, allegedly after pressure by her, her husband and staff members on Monegan to fire her ex-brother-in-law was ignored, is at the center of the investigation (known as Troopergate) into whether Palin abused her power.

Palin originally agreed to participate in the investigation, authorized in July by the Republican-controlled legislature. She told Alaskans, "Hold me accountable." Once named to the McCain ticket, however, Palin backpedaled. She has since refused to testify.

Palin has maintained that she fired Monegan not over the status of Trooper Mike Wooten, but over budget disagreements - specifically a trip Monegan planned to Washington which she said was unauthorized.

Earlier this week the McCain campaign released a series of e-mails detailing the frustration several Palin administration officials experienced in dealing with Monegan. The "last straw," the campaign said, was a trip Monegan planned in July to seek federal money for investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases.

Palin, saying she did not authorize the expenses for the travel, cited that trip as a primary example of the insubordination that led to Monegan's firing.

However, Palin's chief of staff did authorize the travel to Washington.

A travel authorization document signed by Palin's Chief of Staff Mike Nizich on June 18 approved Monegan's trip to Washington for the purpose of meeting Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

The document's existence was first reported by ABC News on Friday.

Monegan told ABC that the travel authorization was explicitly to pursue funding for the anti-sexual-violence program, though the document does not state that as a reason for the trip.

McCain spokesman Taylor Griffin said Friday that the travel authorization was for a routine trip, and that state commissioners regularly travel to meet members of Alaska's congressional delegation.

"He was not authorized to lobby Congress," Griffin said.

The revelation came on the same day that several individuals subpoenaed to testify in Troopergate refused to appear as ordered.

Those who refused to answer their subpoenas (including Todd Palin, the Governor's husband; Randy Ruaro, the governor's deputy chief of staff; and aide Ivy Frye) will be referred to the full Senate for contempt, said Sen. Hollis French, who is heading the investigation.

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trythetruth — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:01:20 GMT

OMAAR? Wow nice name. No guessing who u might be supporting.

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Enuff-is-enuff — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:27:39 GMT

Wow, nice, myopic attitude. Pretty obvious who YOU might be supporting, too, "trythetruth". Oh wait-- dubya can't run again, can he...?

Oh yes, she's pretty and religious and she says she's very patriotic and above all else she's Republican, so she MUST be qualified, eh?

"Country First" my butt.

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opaquemurdock — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:36:48 GMT

@trythetruth, Wow! I can't even believe you would say such a thing. I don't even care what Omaar posted... If you had a problem with what he was saying have the guts to argue with him... don't just be a coward and try to discredit him by casting some vague suspicion about his what he is called. What America where you raised in? Not the same one I was apparently.

Please consider reviewing the BASICS of what it is to be an American before you posting again in public and judging someone based on their NAME. When you do such a thing, you embarrass us all.

May I suggest the classic children's program "Great American Melting Pot" in the School House Rock series... it helped me understand how America is made up of MANY cultures back when I was 8 years old... perhaps it won't be over your head.