Palin's Bragging Rites - Reading The Pictures

FORT BRAGG, NC - NOVEMBER 23: 82nd Airborne Sgt. David Vogelsang, War Transition Unit, takes a picture of a military police officer in front of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's tour bus at the signing of her memoir "Going Rogue" at the North Post Exchange on November 23, 2009 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Hundreds of people turned out for Palin's appearance. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

I’m really curious about your take on these two shots (from Palin’s appearance at Fort Bragg), especially the second one which really freaks me out. (And why is this woman allowed anywhere close to America’s military installations with this PR charade?)

What the first shot prompts — and why Palin must have been in heaven Monday — is (shudder): “Commander-in-Chief.”

FORT BRAGG, NC - NOVEMBER 23: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's signature is seen on an Iraqi dinar note she signed for 82nd Airborne's Sgt. David Vogelslang during the signing of her memoir "Going Rogue" at the North Post Exchange on November 23, 2009 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Hundreds of people turned out for Palin's appearance. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Concerning the second pic, I guess Sarah doesn’t finish her last name on the John Hancock, which makes her “Sarah Pal.” (I checked other examples and it’s how she’s been doing it. (Very folksy — except for the end of the “l” about to run up Saddam’s nose.)

It’s truly impressive how automatically Palin — piggybacking on the Saddam-branded dinar brought back from Iraq as a soldier’s souvenier — lends her endorsement to the cost and false justification of stamping this guy out.

(photos: Sara D. Davis/Getty. November 23, 2009. Fort Bragg, North Carolina)

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