Reverse racism? Drunk college shananigans? Or business as usual?
Compare and contrast these two headlines:
Effigy of Sen. Obama hanging from noose on the U. of Kentucky campus results in arrests, charges.
Slight problem here, netroots. How is it any less wrong to string up the effigy of a woman than a man? Because Obama has a higher approval rating? Because Governor Palin’s white, and Obama is black?
Media opinion is no justification for despicable behavior. Yet.
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
The “party of the working class” violates the privacy, the decency, and the good name of the One Who Dared Question Obama.
For reference, the One’s name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, or, as you might know him, Joe the Plumber. Check this out, as Obama mocks and derides Joe the Plumber for asking a simple question about Obama’s tax plan.
Now, the question is, if Obama runs and tattles on an American who had the cojones to just ask him a question, what is he going to do once he’s President and has to face criticism every hour of every day until he steps down? Cry? Create a Thought Police?
Why don’t you ask the Columbus, Ohio city record officials:
The Dispatch has uncovered four uses of state computer systems to access personal information on Wurzelbacher, including the child-support check authorized by Jones-Kelley.
She said on Monday that her department frequently runs checks for any unpaid child support obligations “when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight.”
Republican legislators have challenged Jones-Kelley’s reason for checking on Wurzelbacher as “frightening” and flimsy.
Jones-Kelly also has denied any connections between the computer checks on Wurzelbacher and her support for Obama. She donated the maximum $2,500 this year to the Obama campaign.
Ohio Inspector General Thomas P. Charles is investigating whether the child-support check on Wurzelbacher was legal.
Well, apparently, Obama himself isn’t the only one with his tighty whities in a knot. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher’s personal records have been delved into and aired all over the Internet and TV in the most caustic, base, and disgusting smear campaign I’ve ever s — except for what they did to Governor Palin. Nevermind.
I heretofore render 2008 as the Year the Mainstream News Media committed journalistic suicide.
BBC names “Dear Mr. Obama” best McCain ad of campaign
…And it wasn’t even HIS ad!
So, here it is, reproduced for your viewing pleasure, “Dear Mr. Obama.” Watch all the way to the end; it’s worth it.
Watching the economy grow and shrink these days is like watching an EKG on a monitor. The news is full of Obama’s “infomercial,” Palin’s clothes, and William Ayers. With a mainstream media that operates exactly like a group of lemmings hurtling wherever they’re led, it’s not surprising that the #1 election issue in 2004 and 2006 has been totally forgotten in pursuit of our personal wealth.
Iraq, people. It’s still happening. We’re still out there.
Why I’m Voting for McCain
This guy says it ALL — and then some…
I escaped, y’all!
Godwin’s law
Godwin’s Law: The length of an Internet thread is directly proportional to the likelihood of an Adolf Hitler reference. From webcomic xkcd:
Godwin’s Law: useful drinking game, but also a dictum of life for those of us who maintain our existence on the Internets.
Troofers and right-wing nut jobs, knock it off.
The courts have spoken. Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen, and, honestly, even if he wasn’t through some legal loophole, do you really think the Democrats would replace him?
Let it go, folks. He’s a citizen. It’s over.
Remember, lawmaking is an undertaking, but politics is sport.
I haven’t gotten the chance to do this in a long time. But thank you, my liberal counterpart, for being such a good (unwitting) sport. Remember: This is dialogue.
Shaun’s column on Oct 23rd accomplishes what it set out to, namely, to convince people that Americans think “liberal” is an epithet, while “conservative” is a measure of your patriotic bona fides.
The 2008 Republican primary revealed America’s severe conservative bias. I remember watching the debates, each nominee arguing about how he was the most conservative candidate, clamoring to prove how he was the most like Ronald Reagan. It was like a bunch of third-graders bickering over who gets to be the red Power Ranger.
Severe conservative bias? Were you alive in 2000? What about 2004? Or 2006, when self-spoken conservatives lost Congress seats by the largest margin since the 1980s?
Oh, you mean Republicans have a conservative bias (since this was, in fact, the Republican primary)? YOU’RE KIDDING. SAY IT AIN’T SO!
I’ll give you the Ronald Reagan crack. The Gipper is dead, and he’s not coming back. My conservative colleagues need to understand that regrettable fact. That being said, “WWRD”- What Would Reagan Do?
is a fabulous bumper sticker.
Walk around Ithaca incognito, Shaun. Go up to some people on the Commons, and tell them you’re a gun-totin’, pipe-smokin’, capitalist who thinks abortionists, Communists, and the New York Times should go to the same level of hell, and see what happens. Wear a cowboy hat for added effect.
I should tell you: You might not make it out alive. But isn’t Ithaca part of America? Try the above scenario on the streets of New York City…. better yet, try them in San Francisco. Or Seattle, Oregon. Or… you get the idea. Check your map, friend. They’re all part of America. America is a balanced nation, according to any poll right now that has McCain/Obama in the 40%-50% split. That’s as balanced as a democracy gets. Let’s move on.
John McCain’s claims of Reagan-esque conservativism are only now under criticism. Still, this is not a topic of discussion in debates or TV ads, as being conservative is not seen as negative in the U.S.
First of all, Shaun, we Republicans have criticized McCain’s conservatism so thoroughly that he was roundly defeated and even disgraced in two past Presidential races. You weren’t there in February 2008 Shaun, at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington DC, as conservative Mitt Romney conceded his chances to McCain. I was. I was in the room. People were crying.
But think an inch deeper, Shaun. Of “America’s severe conservative bias” (the first time I’ve ever heard the adjective “severe” applied to bias) — guess who the Republicans nominated: John McCain, the least conservative of them all! How biased we all are against conserv– wait…
On the other hand, “liberal” is a bad word in America. Hence, having “the most liberal voting record in the Senate” is an attack against Barack Obama, while labeling McCain a rabid conservative is a compliment. If you’re a liberal politician in America, you threaten to destroy our blue, white and very red reality with your dangerous forward-thinking convictions.
Shaun, “liberal” isn’t a “bad word” precisely because there’s been a “conservative” (I just threw up in my mouth) in the White House for 8 years. Only to Republicans is the word “liberal” a bad thing; hence, McCain uses it as a bad word. I say again: Conservatives are lumped unfairly with an administration that hasn’t conserved anything in 8 years, and that gives us a bad rap. We’re not always popular, except among people who understand our ideology.
Now, to be fair, I skipped all the way to the end, because the middle part, about change and all that, is something I spend my time debunking through the rest of this blog. The end:
If Obama loses, it means that American citizens are not ready to embrace naked liberalism — they still need its philosophical bits covered up. It will also mean that Americans are not ready for change, nor, sadly, for hope.
Now, I COULD say, ugh, just like a liberal, thinking Americans are too stupid to know what’s best for America. Or I could say: Americans don’t want liberalism, that’s why they vote against it. But that would be all too obvious. So are you trying to say, my columnist colleague, that Americans are nefariously voting against hope because we’re such a fascist, totalitarian, hopeless people?
You need to work on your conservative causality. Get to know us, so your criticisms ring true. Right now, your characterization of conservatism and John McCain’s “conservatism” and America’s conservative “bias” smack of nothing but surface stereotypes.
Maybe, just maybe, for the rest of us, Barack Obama isn’t the change we were looking for. Maybe it’s “liberalism” of the Obama stripe that isn’t ready for Americans. Instead of blaming America for not choosing the right thing, you should take a moment to think about why.
(That said, Shaun, your breakout piece about gay rights — spot on. Couldn’t have said it better myself.)
Why I support tax breaks for the job-creators among us
(Psst: also known as the “rich.”)
This video, paid for by NeverFindOut.org, lays it out better than I could:
As they go, we ALL go. If Obama raised taxes on Honeywell, a “big corporation” where my dad works, workers like him would be the first to get the boot out the door. If Obama raised taxes on the wealthy, like mailing company Pitney Bowes (worth over $6 billion), my fiance will lose HIS job and we won’t be able to pay for our wedding in June.
If Obama raises taxes on the “upper 2% of small business” my sister (who is a working mother) will get laid off from HER job as a salesperson at David’s Bridal.
And it’s not just my family. That’s not just MY life. Remember that, kiddies.
You can take Georgia out of the man, but you can’t take the man out of… Mississippi?
Two Congress races. Two political ads. Two different states.
…Same location?
Check out this ad, a subtle poke, made by the NRSC:
Politics is a nutty little world, folks.
Okay, Gross.
And you thought Elephant Man just had a skin disorder…
England’s lower Parliament has just approved the scientific creation of animal-human (yes, really) embryos for medical research. Wonder if anyone’s rubbing their hands together over their white coats and cackling. Mad scientist? I think not. This type of research has officially made the dignity of human life obsolete.
This is also a case of “embryo-farming,” a practice that even many stem-cell research advocates (like yours truly) abhor, as it entails the deliberate creation of human life as a means to a scientific end that ultimately destroys the tiny blastocyst.
This bill provides for baby-farming, too. Need a new kidney? Let’s make you a little brother or sister and let THEM grow you a kidney!
The wide-ranging bill, which has been debated for months, would also allow “saviour siblings” — children created as a close genetic match for a sick brother or sister so their genetic material can help treat them.
What happens to them afterw- Shut up.
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