The Handmaid's Tale

Palin and her dim-bulb bible-beating compatriots are straight out of the "Handmaid's Tale", at least in their dreams. And the one book one will find in their libraries and bookstores (in as many shapes, sizes and colors as the works of Lenin came in in the East Berlin bookshop back when I hopped over Checkpoint Charlie and had a look) says: And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men....when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret... ...(but then they never wuz much on readin' not like them pointy-headed Harvard types)... And to compare Palin with la Presidenta Michelle Batchelet (heard her speak in Valdivia: impressive), a physician tortured by the Christo-Fascist pet Pinochet, or even Cristina Fernandez de Kerchner... Since the Christo-Fascists as a rule hate and fear furriners and other countries, they will never realize that the US is now viewed more with pity and contempt than with fear in South America and among the numerous Asians and Europeans I spent time with there. I will give the Bible-Beating Bushites one thing: they sure know how to quickly ruin a country, to reduce what was once a rich and powerful empire, variously loved, hated, feared and admired, but certainly respected as a power by friend and foe alike, to a country skirting bankruptcy whose most visible distinguishing marks on a global scale are how fat Americans are and how stupid they appear to have become.