A Palin "Word Salad" And A New Movie

For some strange reason Fox News seems to think ex-governor Sarah Palin is still politically relevant -- either that or they can't get out of the ill-advised contract they made with her. In either case, they periodically have her on to attack the president (which is all she does these days). The following word salad is in response to a question by Sean Hannity.

I have read the paragraph a couple of times, and I have to admit that I don't understand what she is trying to say at all. As near as I can figure, she trying to say that President Obama wants to go back to a time before the Civil War and re-institute slavery -- but that makes no sense at all. If any of you readers have the ability to translate Palin-speak into English, I would appreciate you're doing so (although I will understand if you don't want to publicly admit to having such a dubious skill).

What I really want to know is does she have some kind of point she is trying feebly to make, or is she just throwing out a bunch of words to cover the fact that she either didn't understand the question or has no logical answer to it. This is what she said:

He (President Obama) is bringing us back Sean, to days..uh..you can harken back to days before the Civil War! When unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men are created equal. And it was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth, that here in America yes we are equal and we all have EQUAL opportunities. Not based on the color of your skin. You have equal opportunity to work hard and to succeed, and to embrace the opportunities, God given opportunities, to develop resources and work extremely hard, and as I say, to succeed. Now it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that that gravity, that mistake, that took place before the Civil War and why the Civil War really had to start changing America, What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes, based on income, based on color of skin. Why are we allowing our country to move backwards, instead of moving forward with that understanding, that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, WE..ARE..ALL..CREATED..EQUALLY.

In other Palin "news", the long-awaited movie about her selection as John McCain's vice-presidential candidate will air on HBO tonight at 8:00pm (CST). The movie is called "Game Change" and stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris as John McCain. I am personally a big fan of both of those actors, so I am looking forward to seeing the movie. I also understand that this movie will likely be the final nail in Palin's political coffin (although I doubt any more nails were really needed).