Shorter George Will: Colin Powell endorsed Obama because he’s black. The only reason white people vote for Obama is because they hate Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
And thus, in one prissy bow-tied pundit, we encapsulate all of white America’s inability to talk about race without sounding like a gang of twelve-year-old boys talking about S-E-X. Hurh hurh!
“Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?”
–Ecclesiastes 8:7
George W. Bush has cost John McCain the presidency twice now. In 2000, it was with a Karl Rove smear campaign, including a nasty whisper in South Carolina insinuating that McCain had fathered an African-American child out of wedlock. In 2008, Bush’s toxic unpopularity has become a giant anchor, dragging McCain (and pretty much the entire Republic Party) down to defeat. In a way, I can sympathize with McCain’s plight. Of all the GOP candidates for president, he least deserves to be smeared as a tool of Bush. Until he decided to run for president again, McCain was a fairly outspoken critic of the Administration, while Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney did everything short of having Bush legally adopt them. (more…)
White voters oppressed and intimidated by the evil racist Obama campaigninto displaying Obama signs and bumper stickers and answering polls in favor of Obama will nevertheless bravely vote against him because he is a communist. And it has NOTHING to do with race. Because Obama is the REAL racist. And if McCain loses anyway, it’s all because of the Obama racist communists. For realz! Oh, and it’s purely coincidental that this story appears on FOX. Really!
I take John McCain at his word that he condemns the stupid things random idiots say at his rallies, though it was rather lame of him to conflate complaining about that to an attack on veterans, military mothers and so forth as he did during the last debate. On the other hand, when the Virginia GOP puts out a flyer with a picture of a scary brown manwho might or might not be Obama and label it “evil,” and California Republican women put out another that definately pictures Obama along with watermelon, fried chicken and food stamps, you have to wonder what kind of idiots the Republicans think we are.
UPDATE: Fear not! Texas Republicans won’t be out-yayhooed by anyone!
Didn’t liveblog this one. Sorry. Think Progress did a good job, so I’ll just rip them off. And what is the deal with McCain sticking out his tongue?
UPDATE: The Great & Powerful Kos is reporting that Obama won the CBS debate instapoll. I see that CNN is reporting the same thing, also that Obama’s favorables went up, while McCain’s went down.
…McCain’s transition chief (akin to being the Cubs’ World Series coordinator) was a lobbyist for…Saddam Hussein. Now, excuse me while I hold my breath waiting for the outrage and righteous condemnation from the Right Wing Howler Monkey Media Chorus…
Cristoforo Columbo-lousy navigator, pirate, slaver, torturer, mass murderer & crook.
God and Man on Wall Street
“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.”
–Romans 1:25
Of all the strange political marriages of convenience in recent history, by far the most bizarre and long-lasting has been the nearly thirty year long alliance between Christian evangelicals and the Republic Party. Put aside for the moment that the relationship has been totally one-sided; while Christians have dutifully turned out in droves for the GOP (and were pretty much singularly responsible for George W. Bush’s re-election), their devotion has been unrequited. Republicans have dominated the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court for the last quarter-century, and all evangelicals have to show for it is lip service. Abortion and pornography remain legal, while religious indoctrination in the public schools is still barred and homosexuals are allowed to marry (or the equivalent) with impunity in at least a couple of states. The one-sided nature of the relationship, though, is not what makes this the strangest of strange bedfellows. No, what makes it bizarre is that the Republic Party stands for a philosophy that is completely and unalterably opposed to a basic fundamental tenet of Christianity. Like dreaded secular humanism, modern Republicanism is based on the fallacious belief that, deep (more…)
Are there Left-wing nuts out there saying ugly things about John McCain and Sarah Palin? Yes, though it seems to be confined primarily to anonymous commenters on blogs for the most part. Is that the same as the delusional insanity wafting around the tin-foil hat faction of the Right concerning Obama? Oh hell no! Krugman is the right that this is the same strain of hate virus as Clinton Derangement Syndrome back in 1990′s, only with the added stench of odious racism. In fairness to John McCain, at least he (unlike his running mate) has the common decency to be appalled at this, if only because he’s starting to realize the political end is nigh and this isn’t how he wants to be remembered. Assuming an Obama victory, I look for a return to militia nuts, and huge boosts to the careers of Right Wing Howler Monkeys cranking out increasingly insane conspiracy theories in print and on teh interwebs.
UPDATE: A rundown of violent Right Wing fantasies, long before they had Obama to fear.
UPDATE 2: Glenn Greenwald makes the same point in disassembling the moral equivalency argument of Michael Crowley at TNR.
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