Wake up because the masses are not going to vote for this closet Homosexual.
The Liberal Elite are nothing but a thin vapor in the USA population. You only make up 3% that’s it… Go back to the mansion you came from you don’t belong here
Ellen R. Malcolm is very white. She has written this article which is a collection of universal platitudes and stereotypes that can be applied to any non-white-non-male politician. This is what she could have written if she was an Obama supporter and Clinton was first in all categories (you should read her original first):
When I was growing up in the 1960s, I wanted to be considered equal to white citizens. In those days, the rules said that black people were not equal to white people. To make sure that we followed the rules, there were lynchings, killings, burnings, beatings, and assassinations. It’s a wonder our activist brethren could stay alive.
It’s remarkable that my generation of black people entered the workforce and began to compete in business, politics and the hurly-burly of life outside the home. How did we ever learn to locate, much less channel, our competitive instincts in a world that made us subordinate and assumed that we would be content as three fifths. It’s a tremendous tribute to black people of my generation that we sucked it up and learned to compete in the toughest environments.
Which brings us to Barack Obama running for president. This brilliant man believes that he can compete for the most powerful office in the world. He believes that he can do a better job than any of the white people running to lead our country through these challenging times. And millions of Americans, women and men, believe that she is correct.
Yet over and over again the media and his opponents have claimed that he is defeated — it’s over, he can’t win, he’s a loser. And over and over again — in Iowa, in Alabama and Georgia, in Mississippi and Vermont last month, and in North Carolina this week — black voters poured out of their homes to cast their ballots for him. They know that a black man can compete, and they want to make sure that black men, especially this black man, can win.
It’s not surprising that low-income working black people are the cornerstone of Obama’s success. Many of these black people live on the edge of disaster. A pink slip, a family member’s illness, a parent who can no longer work, no family car or rent that goes up — all are threats that could devastate the family. And yet these black people do what black people have done for ages. They put on a confident face, feed their children breakfast and get them off to school. They don’t quit. They suck it up and fight back against whatever life throws their way.
They see in Barack Obama a candidate who understands the pressures they face. As they watch him tough it out against all odds, refusing to quit and continuing to compete against whatever the media and his opponents throw his way, they see a black man as tough and resilient as they are. They clearly want him to win. His victory, I believe, is their victory.
So here we are in the fourth quarter of the nominating process and the game is too close to call. Once again, the opponents and the media are calling for Obama to quit. The first black man ever to win a presidential primary as a national contender is supposed to stop competing, to tip his hat and exit stage right.
Why on earth should one candidate quit before the contest is finished? Democrats need not be so fainthearted. Both of the party’s remaining candidates have raised tens of millions of dollars. Both have the respect of Democrats nationwide. Each has a progressive agenda that stands in stark contrast to Sen. John McCain and his adherence to Bush administration policies.
So why are some Democrats so afraid? We simply need to count every vote, let the remaining states have their say and see the process through to its conclusion.
Barack Obama certainly has the right to compete till the end. But I believe Obama also has a responsibility to play the game to its conclusion. For the black people of my generation who learned to find and channel their competitiveness, for the working black people who never falter in the face of pressure, for the younger black people who still believe they can do anything, Obama is a champion. He’s shown us over and over that winners never quit and that quitters never win. We’ll cheer him on until the game is over. And we hope that when the final whistle blows, we will have elected the first black president and the best president our country has ever had.
Neat, huh?
A shifting definition of winning. Who else has changed the definition of winning when the old definition became politically unsuitable? From now on, I’m going to refer to Hillary as Bullary. This combines Bush (or Bullshit) and Hillary and helps describe that slimy stench you smell each time she adopts an upcoming primary state’s accent.
I swear I did not read this Weekly Standard article before posting this. From the article (via Andrew Sullivan):
And what caused this display of intense irritation? She’s running a right-wing campaign. She’s running the classic Republican race against her opponent, running on toughness and use-of-force issues[.]
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And better–or worse–she is becoming a social conservative, a feminist form of George Bush. Against an opponent who shops for arugula, hangs out with ex-Weathermen, and says rural residents cling to guns and to God in unenlightened despair at their circumstances, she has rushed to the defense of religion and firearms, while knocking back shots of Crown Royal and beer. Her harsh, football-playing Republican father (the villain of the piece, against whom she rebelled in earlier takes on her story) has become a role model, a working class hero, whose name she evokes with great reverence. Any day now, she’ll start talking Texan, and cutting the brush out in Chappaqua or at her posh mansion on Embassy Row.
From Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton has just started doing an Indiana town-hall meeting being broadcast on ABC, and George Stephanopoulos asked her a direct question:
Could she name a single economist who agrees with her support for the gas tax holiday?
Hillary sidestepped the question, and tried to use the complete dearth of expert support for the idea to her advantage, pointing to it as proof that she’s on the side of ordinary folks against “elite opinion” — a phrase she used twice.
“I think we’ve been for the last seven years seeing a tremendous amount of government power and elite opinion behind policies that haven’t worked well for hard working Americans,” she said.
A bit later she added: “It’s really odd to me that arguing to give relief to a vast majority of Americans creates this incredible pushback…Elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that don’t benefit” the vast majority of the American people.
Emphasis mine. If you had any doubt that this woman is Bush 43 redux–an insufferable and delusional jackass with a widely recognized last name–you should not after reading her above statements. It’s politics, yes. But a stone’s throw beyond using “elite opinion” is the adoption of the the O’Reilly tactic of referring to everyone with whom you disagree as “far left.” Though, since she is running as a Republican, characterizing Obama as “far left” would be her at her most honest.
Well, now McCain is part of that discussion. And it’s a dangerous place for him to be, what with Rev. John Hagee’s anti-gay remarks (curiously unremarked upon by anyone in the McCain campaign — is the McCain campaign afraid to repudiate anti-gay remarks?), his anti-Catholic remarks (once condemned by McCain, but now McCain wants to give Hagee the benefit of the doubt)?, his millennialism (which means, as some honest McCain adviser must have explained to the candidate by now, the death of millions of innocent Muslims)… also: Jerry Falwell, and his casual association of 9/11 with the sins of homosexuality, and Rod Parsley, a man who McCain has called a “spiritual guide,” a man who has also called Islam a “false religion” and has advocated war against it and various other bad things.
Why are these folks entitled to these opinions and Wright isn’t entitled to his?
Dear Marc,
Because important White Christians hate fagots, towel-heads, and fiery niggers.
Try thinking harder next time,
Will
“If Hillary Clinton takes this by 10 or more percentage points, I’m done paying attention to this nomination process,” I told myself before the Pennsylvania primary. She took it by 10 and I plan to keep my promise to myself.
It’s not that I am a Obama shill though I find him charismatic. It’s that I find Clinton to be insufferable. We’ve had 8 years of the Bush dauphin–a mentally simple man whose followers believed that he deserved to be president twice. Clinton and her followers share the same delusion.
When he first became the national favorite, Clinton tried running to the left of Obama. But, when no one was fooled into believing that she is as politically left as Obama, she came at him as a Republican and has proceeded to divide the registered Democrats and bully her way into a brokered convention.
The rest of the election might go like this. Clinton will continue to drag Obama through the mud. Obama, fearing a split in the Democratic party that will prevent him from winning in November, will drop out of the race “for the good of the party.” Clinton will proceed to run to the left of McCain and advertise her motherly and feminine sides. She will then lose to McCain in the general election by losing Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania and losing the popular vote by 1 percentage point.
Of course, that’s my nightmare scenario. Perhaps Obama’s delegate lead will count for something at the convention, but I don’t hold my breath. The status quo loving products of incest and nepotism who reside in Washington D.C. part-time have never needed your consent.
Can this end yet?
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Quick quiz: Is this man “clinging to” his religion or is he expressing his faith? Is he exhibiting “antipathy toward” those who aren’t like himself or is he simply indicating his unhappiness with how other people conduct their business?
I see a man who is clinging to his religion and expressing antipathy toward everyone and everything not like himself. This is the type of individual about which Obama was referring. This type of individual may make public declarations of hate. Usually though, this type of individual hates privately. He hates liberals and clings to a gun collection to stick it to the Democrats. He hates Mexicanos and clings to his belief that they are bringing down the White middle class. He hates everyone not like himself and clings to a religion to justify his hate.
Unfortunately, the media’s unquestioning coverage of this sort of thing should make a sane politico want to punch himself in the face rather than point this out. Anyone with an ax to grind will jump on this and claim that the quote was made in reference to each and every one of their small-town constituents. Already, Hillary has stated that rural folk are the greatest folk on the planet. The McCain campaign has referred to it as breathtaking “elitism and condescension.”
Since the only way to turn the quote against Obama is to claim that he was referring to all small-town blue-collar White Americans, there is a tacit admission that fundamentalists and wacko gun-hoarders are viewed as representative of the larger social orders of Christians and Second Amendment enthusiasts. Though I do find this sort of admission hilarious, I wish Republicans and opportunistic Democrats would refrain from clouding the issue with buzzwords like “elitism” when the discussion isn’t framed in a way that kisses the collective asses of their constituents.
The best Iraq-related ad I’ve seen this year:
Barack Obama was smeared recently for the words of his long-time friend and mentor Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama has had his patriotism repeatedly questioned and his connection to Wright, who is explicitly Afrocentric, did nothing to quell the onslaught of lovingly raised eyebrows from the right-wing thought police.
Incidentally, Wright worked as a med tech in the Navy. And, incidentally, Wright assisted during surgery on President LBJ. Via TruthToPower:
This won’t make all those Sean Hannitys feel any better though. I’m sure the answer will be something like “Well, what about all those surgeries on American presidents that Hitler participated in?” Still, I hope the normal slightly-left-of-center media runs with this and Obama can freely acknowledge that he’s proud of Wright’s service.
Jonathan Chait on Hillary Clinton’s egomaniacal presidential bid:
Clinton’s path to the nomination, then, involves the following steps: kneecap an eloquent, inspiring, reform-minded young leader who happens to be the first serious African American presidential candidate (meanwhile cementing her own reputation for Nixonian ruthlessness) and then win a contested convention by persuading party elites to override the results at the polls. The plan may also involve trying to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations, after having explicitly agreed that the results would not count toward delegate totals.
(On the left: Bill Donohue. On the right: John Hagee.)
The vile President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, took on the equally vile evangelical pastor John Hagee after Hagee endorsed the 2008 Republican nominee John McCain. From Greenwald’s interview with Donohue:
If someone said to me: who is the biggest anti-Catholic bigot in the evangelical community, I would say: hands down, John Hagee.
This is Hagee’s take on the Catholic Church:
Adolf Hitler attended a Catholic school as a child and heard all the fiery anti-Semitic rantings from Chrysostom to Martin Luther. When Hitler became a global demonic monster, the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII never, ever slightly criticized him. Pope Pius XII, called by historians ‘Hitler’s Pope,’ joined Hitler in the infamous Concordat of Collaboration, which turned the youth of the [sic] Germany over to Nazism, and the churches became the stage background for the bloodthirsty cry, ‘Pereat Judea’…. In all of his [Hitler's] years of absolute brutality, he was never denounced or even scolded by Pope Pius XII or any Catholic leader in the world. To those Christians who believe that Jewish hearts will be warmed by the sight of the cross, please be informed-to them it’s an electric chair. (pp. 79-81)
The Roman Catholic Church, which was supposed to carry the light of the gospel, plunged the world into the Dark Ages…. The Crusaders were a motley mob of thieves, rapists, robbers, and murderers whose sins had been forgiven by the pope in advance of the Crusade…. The brutal truth is that the Crusades were military campaigns of the Roman Catholic Church to gain control of Jerusalem from the Muslims and to punish the Jews as the alleged Christ killers on the road to and from Jerusalem. (p. 73)
Unfortunately for Hagee, although he’s correct about the Catholic Church’s desire to destroy that which was a danger to its existence, at the end of the day Hagee is a dogmatic wackjob. His take on the Harry Potter series:
“As millions of people anticipate the release of the latest Harry Potter book and film, we’re reminded once again of Satan’s ongoing attempt to deceive and destroy. The whole purpose of the Potter books is to desensitize readers and introduce them to the occult [emphasis mine].”
Donohue is absolutely no exception:
On October 13, 2005, he appeared on NBC’s Today Show. While on the show he asserted that the crisis was “a homosexual scandal, not a pedophilia scandal”.
It’s my hope that these two strikingly similar looking obese white men (see above) eat each other or something.
