abject racism
Open Thread Madness, Grover Norquist Edition
Conservative douchebag Grover Norquist is calling Obama “Kerry with a tan.”
So what does that make Grover Norquist?
Ralph Nader, “talking white.” [updated]
Ralph Nader is running for President again. I won’t go on here with the long version of my thoughts except to say that he keeps running, again and again but has never built a movement around him or used his campaigns to bolster a viable third party movement, which makes the runs feel relatively [...]
No! Not The Country Club!!
First Tiger Woods and now THIS?!
“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”
Rove went on to say [...]
Daily Kos: Obama Has Birthday, Parents
Read all about it here.
Some quick reactions:
Obama is a Leo. (In your face Capricorn!)
His mom was a dude. (Stanley???)
He was born is some crazy Muslim country named “Oahu”. (WTF???)
It turns out His middle name really isn’t Percival which totally blows a hole in my “Little Obama in the Welsh forests” joke. (just google it…)
Enough with the cranes already!
If you’ve looked at the New York City skyline recently, then you know that, as a city, we are crapping out (up?) more abominable Gerhy-esque condos then there are Saudi princes to buy them to use as gold bar storage. The fervor to fulfill the seemingly endless demand for these buildings has led to some [...]
Three really bad people.
(1) Fuck John McCain for doing nothing when Hurricane Katrina happened, then creating this faux-civil-rights, straight-talk-express=freedom riders, now I care bullshit. This is amazing and awful and turns my stomach. (Henry, you found this for me!)
Sexism, Racism and Presidential Politics
2008 has taught us a lot, but mostly it has taught us about ourselves. For instance, we have learned that all Hillary Clinton supporters are racists, all Obama supporters are sexists, and Republicans just hate everyone, even their own nominee.
But did you know that all Americans are actually jerky sexist racists?How else can you explain [...]
The White Working Class.
Lost in all the coverage last night about how shocking it is that 33% of Hillary’s supporters in Kentucky would support John McCain in the Fall instead of Obama is the fact that, in 2004, 42% of white working class Democrats voted for George Bush over John Kerry. Same thing in 2000, give or take [...]
Edwards, Hitler, blah blah blah.
I was psyched to see John Edwards endorse Barack Obama, largely because he is so lithe and sinewy committed to ending poverty, and because John Edwards is someone who can pull him to the left policy-wise and might make a killer Attorney General. But I was struck by the wording of his speech:
“There is one [...]
Patterns
This idea that white people aren’t going to vote for Obama in the general election is very troubling. It’s also built on very faulty logic. No Democrat nominee has been able to capture a majority of the white votes in the general election since before 1992. (Read that line again, slowly.) This is because democrats don’t traditionally win Presidential races by getting a majority of white voters.
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