Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
At least according to Congressman Geoff Davis (R-1960).
“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Mr. Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Das right! Massah don’t need no negroes wit dey fingahs on da button.
Asshole.
Over the last month I found out that Barack Obama is a Muslim, that he is captive to his pastor at the United Church of Christ and that he is a Marxist. Talk about transcending! Normally any one of those things would necessarily exclude the other two.
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
If you throw in fantasies like Iraq’s WMDs, Saddam’s ties to 9/11, the Laffer curve, the War on Christmas, creationism, climate denial and the easter bunny small government Republican, modern conservatives make the red queen look like a piker.
Maybe Walt Whitman will help.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Buck up, wingnuts. By uncle Walt’s standards you’re huge.
The military has determined that Bilal Hussein is no longer a threat. I find that hard to believe, because in the picture he is clearly brown and his name is, after all, Hussein. Not to mention bloggers and the military have been telling me he was a threat for two years.
/wingnut
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Then there is this. I swear to God a team of monkeys runs that campaign. As one commenter notes, too bad most of the money was spent on “I’m not bitter” buttons already.
Well played, fine sir:
U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Hebron Republican, compared Obama and his message for change similar to a “snake oil salesman.”
He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated in a “highly classified, national security simulation” with Obama.
“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Although the McCain/Obama general election fight is bound to get ugly (and I really don’t think McCain himself will stoop to this sort of thing), part of me wishes the Republicans who can’t help themselves would just come right out and call him a nigger and lay it all on the table.
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And before the weak attempts to claim that the use of “boy” was just due to an age differential, let me point out that this casting call reject from O Brother Where Art Thou is 49 years old. Obama is 45.
More here.
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Priceless. Now wingnut blogs are accusing me of being racist for using the “n-word.” The projection is astounding. A republican calls Obama “boy,” and an Obama supporter, someone who has contributed to his campaign and fully supports him (that would be me, wingnuts) notes that it will get uglier in the general election and that racists probably will start using the “n-word,” and I am to blame. It really is amazing.
And just so it is fully clear, I despise the “n-word.” Not, however, as much as I despise the people who use it to describe other human beings.
Charming:
No good can come from the unholy union of Michelle Malkin and Larry Johnson.
Start stocking up on canned goods, bottled water, and batteries (for the radio, Larry Craig supporters). I am so ready for this election to be over.
So what do you do after a weekend of trashing your opponent for being elitist, divisive, and out of touch? You go play the victim:
I am well aware that I am beyond the point where I can discuss Hillary rationally, but I really can not stress enough how much I have grown to hate her. I really, really tried to give her a chance. I was a Clinton hater through the 90’s, although after she was elected to the Senate and was a non-factor in my daily life, much of that hatred waned (and it did not hurt Hillary that the disastrous Bush administration helped me to re-evaluate the Clinton Presidency). Throughout the Bush administration, I frequently warned Republicans to consider the Bush executive power grabs by asking them how they would feel with President Hillary Clinton having those powers. In short, I was always skeptical of her, but my anger towards her faded. On more than one occasion, I remarked that she has actually a pretty middle of the road Senator and hawkish on national security issues.
And I came to the Democratic party prepared to vote for her. When I left the GOP and registered as a Democrat, Hillary was the inevitable nominee. It was the number one question I was asked- “Are you going to vote for Hillary?” I always said yes.
When people say that this is nothing more than my old Clinton hatred bubbling up, and this is nothing more than my pathologies rising up, there is something to it. But I really did try to give this candidate a shot. I defended her when she was getting the shaft, I was skeptical of Obama and I mocked his supporters and thought Hillary was not getting a fair break with the media elites, and I really tried. But the past few months have shown me that while I may have a number of issues with Hillary, they are not because I was brainwashed by dipshits like Bill Kristol and Richard Mellon Scaife and the rest of the vast right-wing conspiracy who Hillary is now courting while parroting their rhetoric. I don’t like Hillary because of who she is. Hell, I spent months trying to blame everything on her advisors. But this isn’t just the putrid Mark Penn or execrable Howard Wolfson. This is just who she is.
She and her low-brow coterie of lackeys have left a trail of slime and unpaid vendor bills everywhere they have gone the past few months. They have lied, distorted, polled, and then lied some more. They attack viciously, then play the victim when punched back. There is literally NOTHING they will not do to win this nomination. They have convinced themselves and their rabid but diminishing band of followers that she somehow got screwed in Florida and Michigan. They have shit all over every caucus state. They have dismissed every state they have not won as unimportant. They have come up with new names for delegates depending on how useful they are today, and tomorrow they will change their name and corresponding level of importance. Some days they are super delegates. Other days they are automatic delegates. Pledged delegates don’t have to stick with their candidate, we are told, except for Hillary’s who have to stick with her. The only consistent principle is that the only people who matter are the ones who have voted for Hillary. They have threatened, hell, they have promised, a bitter convention fight if the super-delegates do not crown her as the nominee. They bring out the worst in everyone around them, me included.
And I am sick of it, and I am sick of her. This past week-end was just the final boiling point for me, as I watched her run to every microphone with a zeal that would impress Chuck Schumer to claim that America’s blue collar workers are under assault from a San Francisco effite liberal latte-sipping out-of-touch Obama:
But I think his comments were elitist and divisive. And the Democratic party has been unfortunately viewed by many people over the last decades as being elitist and out of touch,” Clinton said. “I mean we have waged elections over that and you don’t have to think back too far to remember that good men running for president were viewed as elitist and out of touch with the values and the lives of millions of Americans. So I think this is a very significant concern that people have expressed.”
Not only are average Americans under assault from that LIEBERAL Obama, but from the passive voice, as well. This would merely be stupid and offensive if she actually believed that Obama doesn’t like or looks down on average Americans, but she knows that isn’t true. As it is, though, it is far more than offensive and stupid, as she just thinks she has an angle where she can score some political points. Dutifully and methodically, in an effort to save us from ourselves, she seeks out the nearest microphone and with robotic and unemotional precision invokes San Francisco and gets in on some of that class warfare loving the Republicans have used so well in the past few elections. Make sure you wear gloves when you stick the knife in, and do it firmly and dispassionately. Otherwise you might get some blood on yourself.
The woman is a moral black hole- soulless, empty, calculating and nasty all the way to her core (I know, I know- I just don’t know the “real” Hillary, who is charming and friendly and down to earth and likes pizza and beer). While her super-human ambition is admirable, it is not grounded in a sense of decency, and she knows no boundaries. Watching her the past few days has been a real eye opener, and watching her campaign the past few months should be a clear enough indication what America has to look forward to if she should win the election (although, I simply can not conceive how that happens). While she runs around lying about Obama, allowing her surrogates to portray him as unelectable, she fails to mention how she is going to win the general election when she can not even convince a majority of her own party to choose her.
Enough is enough. Go ahead and call me “Sullivanesque” in my rants about this awful person. Sullivan was right about her essential character and who she really is, and we all know what we will get if she is elected. Four years of bullshit, division, victimhood, and failed policies that would have been great, but those mean old Republicans just didn’t let it pass or people just were not smart enough to do what she wanted. It won’t be her fault, it will be the opposition party for opposing her, or it will be our fault because we didn’t support her enough, or, well, you know how it is with her.
Count me out.
BTW- I promise I am going to do my best to avoid talking about this tedious woman for a while. We all need a break.
Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney released a letter this morning endorsing Senator Barack Obama for President.
“As a grandfather and a citizen of this community I think Barack Obama’s thoughtful, strategic approach is important for America,” said Rooney. “When I hear how excited young people seem to be when they about this man, I believe he will do what is best for them, which is to inspire them to be great Americans.”
Obama even acknowledge Rooney’s presence in the crowd at this morning’s Alliance for American Manufacturing forum at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Go Stillers! No word yet on who Steely McBeam prefers. My guess is Mark Foley.