Latest Attempt to Smear Palin Fails Miserably
Eric Robinson tries to smear Governor Palin in the Yale Daily News: “What has me troubled is a black bracelet firmly clasped around her left wrist….The name on her black memorial bracelet — one, like the gold star, a demonstration of a friend or associate who was killed in action — is that of her oldest son, Track. Track served honorably in Iraq, and both he and his parents should be thanked for his selfless service to his country. He is also alive.”
“Commemorating Track’s service by wearing a a black memorial bracelet which is reserved for those dead or even a red bracelet for those missing in action, demonstrates a horrifying contempt for those who gave their last full measure of devotion or an almost unbelievable ignorance of the importance of symbols in American history.”
“Unfortunately, given Palin’s reputation and frequent public statements, I assume it is the latter.”
Since Robinson is a veteran and doesn’t appear to have thrown medals into an ocean or accused marines of committing murder, let’s give him a break on this one. He was just outrageously misinformed. Chris Greta from Herobracelets.org provided Governor Palin with the bracelet. Greta writes:
In some recent photo’s of Sarah Palin, we noticed she’s wearing her Deployed HeroBracelet bearing her son’s name, Track [Palin]. Track is serving in the Middle East right now.
Back in [2008], we had heard that both Sarah Palin’s son and now Vice President Joseph Biden’s son were heading off on deployments, so we made them both a set of Deployed HeroBracelets with their son’s names on the bracelets. Our way for thanking them both for having son’s in the military. We actually got a very nice call from Senator Biden’s office, thanking us for the HeroBracelets. And now we’re quite proud to see
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Any attempt to smear Palin succeeds by fiat. She represents the death of the Republican Party, not the salvation of it. I would love to see her run as a third party Tea Party candidate in 2012, and bull-moose the Republicans into oblivion.