How to insult people.

There are actually very few moments in my life that I find myself taking offence to what people say. Most times I try to laugh it off or just ignore it. I can't however ignore someone who may become president of a country whose passport I hold.

"I'm not one of those who maybe came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world." -Sarah Palin. By making this statement, she is saying that the only point in having a passport is to go backpacking in Europe (something I have still not done). She has in a sense mocked all the people in US who have a passport and have used it for work or studying purposes. I find her to be covering for her own lack of interest in the world around her. You can take a person out of a small town but in this case you can't take the small town out of the person (and small towns are not any better than big cities).

What is even more disturbing is this continual talk about America's role in the world: "We see America as the greatest force for good in this world" and Hitler thought he was doing us all a favor. America as a religion is truly a sick ideology that is being sold today, and to hear these people talk about it you'd think they'd forgotten Mossadegh, Vietnam, Segregation, and a whole host of other things they'd like to forget about. If you are still confused and you can't understand why people might hate the US then go back and read your own history.

The fact that Sarah Palin is a vice-presidential candidate shows that a little bit of ignorance goes a long way.