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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2012 / Back in Black

Back in Black

by John Cole|  October 25, 201211:39 pm| 155 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Post-racial America, Assholes

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Brothers gotta stick together, right Sununu:

SUNUNU: You have to wonder whether that’s an endorsement based on issues or that he’s got a slightly different reason for President Obama.

MORGAN: What reason would that be?

SUNUNU: Well, I think that when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being President of the United States — I applaud Colin for standing with him.

Racial pride. That is why Colin is voting for Obama. I guess that is why Sununu is voting for Romney and making all sorts of racially loaded comments. Condi Rice and JC Watts were unavailable for comment.

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  1. 1.

    lamh35

    October 25, 2012 at 11:41 pm

    ugh, seriously, why the fuck hasn’t this sumabitch been wrapped around Romney’s freakin’ neck? The Obama camp can’t do it, so serously WTF!!

  2. 2.

    robotswillstealyourjobs

    October 25, 2012 at 11:41 pm

    We’ve still got a couple weeks left for a NI-clang moment. C’mon Sununu, you can do it!

  3. 3.

    GregB

    October 25, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    I am ashamed that this venomous, troll like sack of bilge is from my state.

    Keep slinging the muck fuck-face.

  4. 4.

    fleeting expletive

    October 25, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    wow, I can’t hardly believe I come to BJ tonight and happen upon that Sususnnusuusnnuu quote. Did anyone watch Speaker Pelosi on Jon stewart’s show tonight?

  5. 5.

    the Conster

    October 25, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    That fat ugly fuck should have stayed under the rock he crawled out from. That’s a face that’s just crying out for a brick in it.

  6. 6.

    Keith

    October 25, 2012 at 11:44 pm

    OT but the main Colbert bit tonight has me in tears. Incredible…

  7. 7.

    bemused

    October 25, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    Mitt surrounds his campaign with the most charming people.

    Sununu: Reason #gazillion not to vote for Mitt.

  8. 8.

    Lurking Canadian

    October 25, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    Sununu’s so awful, you don’t want to believe he’s real. He’s like the straw conservative in an Aaron Sorkin show, only worse.

  9. 9.

    Mike in NC

    October 25, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    Would love the apportunity to piss down Sununu’s throat.

  10. 10.

    Anya

    October 25, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    I cannot wait for the tears from that senile old crook when Mittens loses. I so hope POTUS wins with a comfortable margin. What a racist prick.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    October 25, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    @Lurking Canadian:

    He’s like the straw conservative in an Aaron Sorkin show, only worse.

    Sorkin always bent over backwards to make the Republicans look better than they are.

    Sununu is the reason why Obama is going to win NH.

  12. 12.

    Hill Dweller

    October 25, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    @Keith: The Hanks bit was great, too.

  13. 13.

    Hill Dweller

    October 25, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    Don’t forget, Sununu also called the President dumb and lazy after the first debate.

  14. 14.

    The Dangerman

    October 25, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Would love the oppurtunity to piss down Sunnunu’s throat.

    He’s added his name to the list of graves to piss on.

  15. 15.

    Punchy

    October 25, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    And everyone glances in Condi’s direction….

  16. 16.

    Steve

    October 25, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    There’s some meme going around Facebook with Colin Powell sitting next to Louis Farrakhan at some recent event they were both entitled to… oh that must be it! Colin Powell has become a radical black separatist, who knew. These people are such loons, it’s small wonder rational people want nothing to do with them.

    By the way, John Sununu ain’t the whitest guy on the block, I’m just sayin.

  17. 17.

    Hill Dweller

    October 25, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    Ryan is holding a fundraiser with Glenn Beck and Dick Cheney in Texas tonight.

  18. 18.

    aimai

    October 25, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    @Lurking Canadian:

    Oh, hey, Lurking Canadian, please tell Mrs. Lurking Canadian that I got banned (insert crying emoticon) at the DWIL so we won’t be bumping into each other there. I decided to take the hint and try to go cold turkey on it instead of re-upping with a new avatar. But if I get weak I’ll reintroduce myself to her under whatever new avatar I end up with.

    aimai

  19. 19.

    Hawes

    October 25, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    So who would you like to be the guy to have the NI-CLANG moment?

    I kind of want it to be Rick Scott. Cock headed man whore that he is.

  20. 20.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 25, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    It never occurs to racist shitstains like Sununu that Powell might be endorsing Obama because he’s the better man in the race.

    Oh, wait. In Sununu’s eyes, Obama will always be a boy.

  21. 21.

    danielx

    October 25, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Ryan is holding a fundraiser with Glenn Beck and Dick Cheney in Texas tonight.

    You’re just fucking with us, aren’t you.

  22. 22.

    SFAW

    October 25, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    For some time, I have been openly advocating for the secession of Dumbfuckistan (ne’ Tejas a/k/a “Nuevo Aztlan”), after having all the Rethug assholes (sorry for the redundancy) move there. I think it would be fitting and proper that the Preznit of Dumbfuckistan be the Head Asshole himself. Of course, to honor him properly, the title will have to change to Head Prolapsed-Pig-Rectum, but you get the idea.

    I think it would be good humor if someone tied Sununununununu to the terrists, due to his Palestinian heritage, and to the commies, since he was born in Cuba.

  23. 23.

    Citizen Alan

    October 25, 2012 at 11:59 pm

    “Prolapsed pig rectums … vast rolls of sweaty flesh never meant to see daylight, centered with a nasty little red wound,” said Annie Laurie. Perhaps the most evocative and yet accurate description ever offered in the history of the Internet. I sincerely hope that a day will come when you can’t google John Sununu’s name without “prolapsed pig rectum” showing up in the first three hits.

  24. 24.

    Hill Dweller

    October 26, 2012 at 12:00 am

    @danielx: Nope. Maddow had the scoop on her show.

  25. 25.

    fleeting expletive

    October 26, 2012 at 12:03 am

    Hawes, I think it might be one of the more hotheaded TB guys, or Louie Gohmert of TX. maybe one of them. Or it could be Jim Inhoff. I believe he could rise to that challenge.

    Well. It still is likely to happen. Maybe even ol’ Macaca himself (Allen of (Virginia?)) himself.

  26. 26.

    gex

    October 26, 2012 at 12:03 am

    @SFAW: Love the plan. We should offer political asylum to the sane people who want to GTFO of that Glibertarian/Taliban paradise, but that’s my only quibble with your proposal.

  27. 27.

    kindness

    October 26, 2012 at 12:05 am

    Too early to push the Giants win tonight?

  28. 28.

    pseudonymous in nc

    October 26, 2012 at 12:05 am

    It’s Casual Racism Thursday.

    Or Sununu is the Designated Troll, and we haven’t even got to the American League park yet.

  29. 29.

    Keith

    October 26, 2012 at 12:10 am

    @Hill Dweller: That’s the one I was talking about (just assumed it was the main bit because of how long it went)

  30. 30.

    Frankensteinbeck

    October 26, 2012 at 12:11 am

    @Hawes:
    Romney. I would like it to be Romney. I don’t think there’s the slightest chance there will be, or that there will be a ni-CLANG moment from anyone we’d consider a major GOP figure. But hey, if I’m wishing, I’d like Romney to be recorded ranting how humiliating it is to be losing to…

  31. 31.

    aimai

    October 26, 2012 at 12:15 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    One of the few things that gives me pleasure in this crazy, cockeyed world, is the thought that Mr. and Mrs. Average Millionaire Romney will never, ever, eat out or stay in a hotel again without the niggling knowledge that 47 percent of the people in the country (at least) have spat in their soup, or are recording their every fart and moan.

    aimai

  32. 32.

    GxB

    October 26, 2012 at 12:16 am

    There’s a word that’s been on his mind
    Wants use it all the time

    Oh Su-su-Sunu-neo

    If only those church bells rang
    He’d bring about the great “Ni-CLANG”

    Su-su-Sunu-neo

    It’s… all… he… needs
    To fulfill his life
    He’d feel so good
    If he could just say the word!

    (Now I’ll have to take up trepanning to get that earworm out)

  33. 33.

    JCT

    October 26, 2012 at 12:17 am

    @Citizen Alan: That’s just crying out for the “Santorum” treatment, isn’t it?

  34. 34.

    Shakespeare

    October 26, 2012 at 12:18 am

    @aimai: “Spat”? Oh, my dear, no. More viscous, tangy, and salty (depending on what the busboy had for breakfast).

  35. 35.

    KG

    October 26, 2012 at 12:20 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: That would be something…

  36. 36.

    SatanicPanic

    October 26, 2012 at 12:21 am

    Meatloaf endorsed Romney. Damn, the Republicans are getting all the dubious talents.

  37. 37.

    GxB

    October 26, 2012 at 12:22 am

    @Mike in NC: Christ, that would require your junk to be near that shitheel’s mouth… think, man, think.

  38. 38.

    Quaker in a Basement

    October 26, 2012 at 12:30 am

    Were these people born without the capacity for embarrassment or do they have it surgically removed?

  39. 39.

    General Stuck

    October 26, 2012 at 12:32 am

    What the worst is, I can hardly get outraged about this shit anymore. And I just want to board my canoe and paddle south to the equator, when I read polls that say 65 percent of white men are voting for Romney. Not only stupid, but suicidal to boot. Sununu is what we used to call fascist pigs, and still do.

    Romney now holds a whopping 65-32 percent lead among white men, his highest yet of the campaign. This surge in support has further widened the gender gap, giving Romney a 17-point lead among male voters.

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-obama-white-men-2012-10#ixzz2ANOXZywG

  40. 40.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    October 26, 2012 at 12:33 am

    @SatanicPanic: is that his second choice, after Trump? “absolutely!”

  41. 41.

    TexasMango

    October 26, 2012 at 12:40 am

    @General Stuck: White male privilege is in terrible danger dontcha know? They are rallying to protect it.

    Politics has become a cultural and tribal identity. It’s like the majority of white males against the majority of everyone else. Pretty much everyone voting Republican is voting their whiteness now. The GOP should change to the WPP, White People’s Party.

  42. 42.

    danielx

    October 26, 2012 at 12:40 am

    Yow! Temperature is dropping faster than Richard Mourdock’s election chance. Has gone down 15 degrees in 20 minutes; was 76 today and will reach a high of 45 tomorrow with high winds all day.

    And here I was going to clean out the gutters tomorrow. What a shame.

  43. 43.

    KG

    October 26, 2012 at 12:40 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: Actually, the more I think about it… The more I’d rather it be someone else, just to watch Romney try to reject the statement without distancing himself too far from the base. He would be in full weasel form. It’d be amazing, I think.

    On the other hand, I’d love to see the media coverage. Would they actually use the word? Or bleep it when playing the clip? Or would it be all innuendo?

  44. 44.

    RaflW

    October 26, 2012 at 12:41 am

    It’s time to bring back shunning. People in the TV studio should just shut up, turn their backs, and refuse to engage these unrepentant assholes.

    Cashiers, flight attendants, bank tellers, everyone. Just give John Sununu the fuckin cold shoulder full-time for realz.

  45. 45.

    TexasMango

    October 26, 2012 at 12:43 am

    @General Stuck: Also too, Romney needs 65% of all white voters to win. Hopefully, white women haven’t gone completely batshit crazy too.

  46. 46.

    Anya

    October 26, 2012 at 12:43 am

    @General Stuck: Wasn’t there some analysis about how Romney needs 70% of the white male vote to win? So, in some aspect these numbers are good news.

  47. 47.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 12:43 am

    @General Stuck: There’s something weird about those numbers. How does 65-32 come out to 17? Does it mean that, adding together men and women, there’s a 17-point gender gap?

    Also, the article says the two are still virtually tied, yet then starts examining entrails to find the hidden momentum in favor of Romney. Not exactly a dispassionate analysis, but if the numbers don’t tell the story you want to sell . . .

  48. 48.

    Culture of Truth

    October 26, 2012 at 12:50 am

    Earlier today I wrote that Powell’s endorsement didn’t count because, well, you know…

    Aaaand….scene.

  49. 49.

    PeakVT

    October 26, 2012 at 12:52 am

    Tina Fey is about to lose her mind.

  50. 50.

    TexasMango

    October 26, 2012 at 12:54 am

    Notice how the meme that Romney couldn’t win without 40% of the Latino vote just disappeared as soon as the polls showed he was being beaten by PBO by 50 points?

    And then it was Romney needed to break even with women and then they stopped talking about that once polls showed that Obama was beating him by double digits?

    Now we are back to only white men mattering. Of course.

  51. 51.

    Redshift

    October 26, 2012 at 12:57 am

    @danielx: Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck, and Reince Priebus walk into a fundraiser…

    No joke.

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 26, 2012 at 12:58 am

    From Think Progress:

    Sununu releases statement in response to controversy:
    Colin Powell is a friend and I respect the endorsement decision he made, I do not doubt that it was based on anything but his support of the President’s policies. Piers Morgan’s question was whether Colin Powell should leave the party, and I don’t think he should.

    Nope, it wasn’t. It really wasn’t.

  53. 53.

    Redshift

    October 26, 2012 at 1:02 am

    @Hill Dweller:

    Don’t forget, Sununu also called the President dumb and lazy after the first debate.

    That one’s particularly hilarious. Back in the Bush I Administration, Sununu had a reputation for being really smart. Everyone in the Village knew he had a high IQ.

    Eventually some enterprising reporter tracked down the source of the story, and of course it was Sununu himself. He found out he had a high IQ by taking a self-test in the back page of OMNI Magazine. (For you youngsters, OMNI was a soft-core science magazine from the publishers of Penthouse.)

  54. 54.

    Thatgaljill

    October 26, 2012 at 1:02 am

    @fleeting expletive:
    Some of us have to wait until the sun goes down and the Giants shut out the Tigers before we can watch The Daily Show.

  55. 55.

    General Stuck

    October 26, 2012 at 1:03 am

    @Anya:

    I think the total number suggested for Romney to win with the overall white vote is 60 percent male and female. A majority of white women voters are still for Romney, but in the low 50 percentile. So I think the mythical 60 percent white vote, right now comes in around 55 to 57 percent. But there are all sorts of cultural and demographic cross currents at play that makes that hard to predict. Like say the hardest core evangelical voters are notorious for not showing up to vote when expected. Then there is the Latino vote that is swinging wildly to Obama, well under another threshold point of the GOP needing 40 percent of those to win.

    I think what it boils down to is Ohio and its seeming rock solid, though small margin preference for Obama, mostly due to the auto bailout and Kasich fatigue. And Obama’s OFA being far superior than Romney’s GOTV in Ohio and elsewhere.

    An enthusiastic evangelical vote and more importantly those folks working to get their brethren to the polls, was widely credited for Ohio going for Bush in 2004. I wonder if that will be the same with Romney as the nominee.

  56. 56.

    Violet

    October 26, 2012 at 1:05 am

    @Hawes: I think it would be awesome if it were John McCain. It would simultaneously destroy McCain’s reputation and puncture any pretense “reasonable Republicans” still being in existence. And since he was the previous GOP presidential candidate, it would show the rot going back a ways.

    Eric Ferhnstrom would be another good choice. Top adviser to Mitt, so it would directly impact Mitt’s campaign, plus that little shit would be out of a job.

    Trump would provide comic relief if he did it. It would impact Romney’s campaign to some extent but the biggest impact would be in getting The Apprentice off the air and hurting Trump’s reputation.

  57. 57.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:05 am

    Colin Powell sat in front of the U.N. and the world and lied his ass off about imaginary weapons of mass destruction, using his alleged credibility and reputation to enable the Iraq War, as a result of which hundreds of thousands of people died.

    He was the Secretary of State for George W. Bush’s criminal administration. That Barack Obama would desire or accept this crook’s endorsement just goes to show how thoroughly intertwined are the “good” guys and the “bad” guys in American government.

    Fuck him.

  58. 58.

    J R in WV

    October 26, 2012 at 1:06 am

    Well, a long time ago, when I was a boy, there were Republicans who had honour, who actually admired Martin Luther King, who joined the NAACP because they wanted to support the advancement of the African-Americans.

    People who hired folks regardless of their race. People you could trust to live up to their deal, on their handshake.

    Those Republicans, my father was one, are all dead and gone now.

    What we have left is the scum that floats to the top of a vat of molten metal, the impurities that need to be burned away from the pure metal.

    Honour is foreign to American Republicans. They don’t understand that winning by cheating isn’t really winning, it’s just cheating. That is ‘W’ to a word – willing to steal an election when everyone in the world will know that he stole it.

    So sad! Because America really needs two honorable political parties, in order for Democracy to work properly.

    If one party is crazed, dishonorable, crooked political Republican thieves, with no ideas other than to pander and lie and cheat to gain political power, and then to use that power to steal money from the commonweal, well, Democracy becomes a hollow dream.

    So sad!

  59. 59.

    RaflW

    October 26, 2012 at 1:10 am

    @Spatula:
    That’s one interpretation.

    Another: Willard is so corrupt/incompetent that even a UN-lying war criminal Republican won’t endorse him.

  60. 60.

    Joey Maloney

    October 26, 2012 at 1:11 am

    @gex: Except we should insist on keeping Austin in the USA with an open air corridor so we could airlift supplies (Obama merch, birth control pills, etc.). We could rename it New West Berlin.

  61. 61.

    priscianusjr

    October 26, 2012 at 1:11 am

    No surprise. That racial thing was going around big the last time Powell endorsed Obama.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/19/limbaugh-george-will-powe_n_135968.html

  62. 62.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    October 26, 2012 at 1:11 am

    I got this mailer a day or two ago labelled “Official Law Enforcement Voter Guide” here in the Bay Area, and for the ballot initiatives, there were a couple of doozies in it.

    For Prop 34, to abolish the death penalty: “Prop 34 would let serial killers and those who murder children, peace officers and the elderly, escape justice. Prop 34 punishes the families of victims of these heinous crimes.”

    For Prop 36, which narrows California’s ridiculous “Three Strikes” law: “Prop 36 narrows the Three Strikes Law, requiring the third strike to be ‘serious or violent’. California’s Three Strikes works. Keep violent offenders off our streets.”

    The first one is a flat-out lie, and the second one is self-contradicting.

  63. 63.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 1:11 am

    @Spatula: Right, Obama should publicly insult a man beloved of the Beltway and self-proclaimed moderates everywhere? You’re not very good at this whole election thing, are you?

    Not to mention, lending support to someone who is correcting some of his old boss’s screw-ups is certainly the least that Powell can do.

  64. 64.

    TexasMango

    October 26, 2012 at 1:13 am

    @General Stuck: I remember back in 2008 the continuous refrain was that white males would realize that Obama was about to become president and turn out in droves. Obviously it didn’t happen.

    Also back in 2010, the turn out of Republican voters wasn’t a surprise. There was a clear trend that predicted the outcome of the election.

    I suppose anything will happen, but there is a trend and it’s in Obama’s favor. In terms of percentages Romney needs Bush’s number from 2008: 40% of the Latino vote and nearly half of the women’s vote and he’s not getting it. Because of changing demographics he needs 65% of the white vote and he doesn’t appear to be getting that either. The fact that the MSM doesn’t want to talk about it anymore doesn’t change things.

  65. 65.

    hells littlest angel

    October 26, 2012 at 1:21 am

    Powell supports Obama because they’re both black.

    Sununu supports Romney because they’re both jerkoffs.

  66. 66.

    Hill Dweller

    October 26, 2012 at 1:21 am

    @TexasMango: The MSM also doesn’t want to talk about the reason for Willard getting such a disproportionate amount of the white male vote. It can’t be about policy, because Romney doesn’t have a policy plan.

  67. 67.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:23 am

    @dslak:

    Right, Obama should publicly insult a man beloved of the Beltway and self-proclaimed moderates everywhere? You’re not very good at this whole election thing, are you?
    Not to mention, lending support to someone who is correcting some of his old boss’s screw-ups is certainly the least that Powell can do.

    Do you have any standards/principles whatsoever?

    Colin Powell is a lying sack of shit war criminal, and because he just might help your guy get elected, you’re more than ok with that.

    Fuck you too.

  68. 68.

    Cmm

    October 26, 2012 at 1:24 am

    @RaflW: Or as they like to call it in Regency romances, “the Cut Direct” …

  69. 69.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:28 am

    If Colin the Killer had endorsed Mittens, the BJ Kook Kids would be shrieking about how it was a net negative for Romney because Powell is a soulless MIC war criminal with no integrity or honor.

    But because he is fellating Barack, all is forgiven.

    This is what John has allowed BJ to become.

  70. 70.

    Sherlock Hound

    October 26, 2012 at 1:30 am

    @Violet:

    I wish it were Ferhnstrom too, but the Romney staffer I truly despised during his term in Mass. was Eric Kriss.

    He gave the warmup to Romney’s “47%” speech to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the infamous “Givers and Takers” speech. Romney disavowed it at the time, of course.

    In a blog of mine several years later, I said that I did not believe Romney for a moment as he and all his friends and associates were all of a piece., i.e. all assholes.

    Surprise!

  71. 71.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 1:30 am

    @Spatula: And what does Obama gain by taking on the crusade against Powell you so desire? If you only want coalitions of the pure and untainted, I would suggest a religious order, but you know how guys in robes can be . . .

  72. 72.

    Spaghetti Lee

    October 26, 2012 at 1:32 am

    I dunno, guys. Can we trust the judgment of a wily Palestinian like Sununu?

  73. 73.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:35 am

    @dslak:

    You’re disgusting.

  74. 74.

    amk

    October 26, 2012 at 1:36 am

    @SFAW: Let’s call it foxistan, as some BJ’er did.

  75. 75.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 1:42 am

    @Spatula: I sure hope you’re consistent in your principles and called for Obama to tell Bill Clinton where to shove it when the latter endorsed Obama.

    After all, Clinton had those obstruction of justice issues, and that whole infidelity thing that took a toll on his party. Plus, he signed DOMA.

    But I guess you’re okay with that, since the Big Dog will help Obama get elected. And, of course, you don’t find it all deplorable when Politico et al attempt to refute Clinton with references to his past infidelities. Because you’re all about principles!

  76. 76.

    Yutsano

    October 26, 2012 at 1:42 am

    @Spaghetti Lee: I thought he was Lebanese. He’s still a shitstain regardless of his ethnicity.

  77. 77.

    freelancer

    October 26, 2012 at 1:42 am

    @Spatula:

    And you’re as subtle as the ‘b’ in ‘subtle’.

  78. 78.

    amk

    October 26, 2012 at 1:45 am

    Ah, spats, the aargle bargle is here. The poutrage cup runneth over.

  79. 79.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:48 am

    @amk:

    Ah, Barack Obama’s Political Career Is the Most Important Thing Ever AMK is here. The lack of principle runneth under.

  80. 80.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:50 am

    @dslak:

    Very weak.

    Lying to the U.N./enabling hundreds of thousands of war dead and maimed/waste of trillions of dollars/serving as GWB’s SOS = blow job/DOMA.

    Got it.

    You suck.

  81. 81.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    October 26, 2012 at 1:50 am

    I’m on the highway to pie. And I’m going down. All the way.

    Heh heh.

    and more!

    Sarah Palin came over last night, and we ate her famous moose pie.

  82. 82.

    amk

    October 26, 2012 at 1:51 am

    @Spatula: Eyyup. Makes you wanna pop a pill, or better yet, pop a vein, doesn’t it ? Go ahead and have a meltdown, you clown.

  83. 83.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:52 am

    @freelancer:

    And you’re as subtle as the ‘b’ in ‘subtle’.

    Actually, the b in subtle seems pretty subtle to me, seeing as how it’s not pronounced and all.

    Did you work on that analogy for a while?

  84. 84.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:53 am

    @amk:

    No, neither of those, actually. It just makes me want to point at you and laugh at what a clueless cultist you are. And so I do.

  85. 85.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 1:53 am

    @Spatula: But this is a difference in degree, not kind. Where have your precious principles gone?

    Not to mention, there likely would not even have been a second President Bush, absent that blowjob. So do you repudiate Clinton?

  86. 86.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 1:56 am

    @dslak:

    Hmmm… seeing as how those degrees are about 5,000 miles apart, I’m pretty OK with it. You’re the one implying that purity is the issue here, not me.

    I just draw the line somewhere before we get to facilitating mass murder on behalf of GWB.

    You, your line is somewhere on beyond that.

  87. 87.

    Narcissus

    October 26, 2012 at 1:56 am

    @Yutsano: You gotta admit he’s got a sweet sail barge

  88. 88.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 1:58 am

    @Spatula: Oh, so purity isn’t the issue here? You were the one who invoked “principles/standards,” but I see you’ve jettisoned those now that they’ve become inconvenient to your preening. Well played, Sir!

  89. 89.

    James E. Powell

    October 26, 2012 at 1:59 am

    @Spatula:

    You completely miss the point. You either have never read the commentary here or you didn’t understand it when you did.

    The Most Important Thing Ever aspect of this campaign is that Romney, Ryan, Boehner, McConnell, and all the Republicans, and their corrupt corporate sponsors, and the ignorant, hateful bigots that are their base voters, and the religious fanatics, and the whole policy package of “Let’s give the rich more money and we’ll all be fine!” have to lose.

    If they don’t lose, we are screwed. So if that means I have to pump up the all too human Barack Obama, then that’s the way it has to be. It’s either him or the party of Everything That’s Wrong About America and Has Been Wrong Since the Founding.

    Which do you prefer?

  90. 90.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:02 am

    @dslak:

    I haven’t jettisoned anything, you prevaricating idiot. My principle is that there are lines that are not crossed; not that there are NO lines (that’s YOUR schtick). One of them should be drawn before accepting the endorsement of war criminal liars who worked for GWB.

    Let’s play a little game: The endorsement of PBO by Dick Cheney would probably move some Republitards toward the Dem. Cheney endorses PBO publicly. You’re PBO’s campaign manager. Do you accept and embrace this endorsement?

  91. 91.

    Yutsano

    October 26, 2012 at 2:04 am

    @James E. Powell: Jill Stein. Duh.

  92. 92.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:07 am

    @James E. Powell:

    So wait a minute: So no discussion is allowed anywhere, even on blogs 99.9 percent of the American people do not read?

    I’m asking about the core values/principles of your president. Does he have any? Apparently not regarding the past administration and its horrendous war crimes.

    And now some idiot claims that Obama can’t reject Powell’s endorsement because the Beltway hacks love him, the same beltway hacks you folks spend a great deal of time mocking and bemoaning.

    Again, I have no doubt this blog would be screaming about Powell’s mendacity had he endorsed Mittens. Please try to at least pretend to have some cohesive principles or values. It’s kind of stunning.

  93. 93.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:10 am

    @Yutsano:

    Jill Stein. Duh.

    Jill STein is actually kind of awesome.

    I live in Massachusetts which will go for PBO. He doesn’t need my vote to continue his Republican Light occupation of the White House, so I may well vote for Jill Stein.

    Unlike you, I’ve matured past the point where I feel the need to vote for the winning “team” to help shore up my self esteem. That’s your thang.

    Also too: I’m rather fond of a theory I heard recently, contending that the election of Mittens to the White House would cause the Dems in the Senate to so firmly unite in opposition to the potential destruction of the Republic by this horrible robot president, that they would pull tight and play like Republicans, completely blocking Mittens’ ability to get anything done.

    Why wouldn’t that work? After all, the only thing standing between us and the fall of America is the Democratic party, or is it just BO, The One?

  94. 94.

    James E. Powell

    October 26, 2012 at 2:14 am

    @Spatula:

    I thought I stated my principles pretty clearly. Romney and all the Republicans need to lose. Unless and until that happens, we can’t move forward on anything else.

  95. 95.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:16 am

    @James E. Powell:

    ALL the republicans? AS long as one is elected you’ll have an excuse, is that it?

    Do you work directly for the DNC or as a freelancer?

  96. 96.

    James E. Powell

    October 26, 2012 at 2:16 am

    @Spatula:

    Jill Stein is actually kind of awesome.

    It’s not that hard to be awesome when the burdens of actually governing are not part of the package.

  97. 97.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 2:20 am

    @Spatula: Well, let’s consider this: In the lead-up to the war, we can assume that Clinton was privy to estimates regarding Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs.

    So why then did Clinton not contradict the Bush administration’s claims about those programs? If he believed the same as Powell did, and thereby facilitated an interventionist policy in Iraq, how is he any better than Powell? If he did not believe the same as Powell, but did not publicly repudiate the claims made by the Bush administration, doesn’t that make him worse?

    Just curious where these uncrossable lines are.

  98. 98.

    amk

    October 26, 2012 at 2:31 am

    mittbot’s & meatloaf’s Epic Ohio Fail.

    good gawd.

  99. 99.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:32 am

    @dslak:

    I know where one of them is. It’s the one regarding Colin Powell and his endorsement, you know…the subject of this post.

    Would you accept the endorsement of Dick Cheney?

  100. 100.

    Narcissus

    October 26, 2012 at 2:32 am

    @Spatula:

    Also too: I’m rather fond of a theory I heard recently, contending that the election of Mittens to the White House would cause the Dems in the Senate to so firmly unite in opposition to the potential destruction of the Republic by this horrible robot president, that they would pull tight and play like Republicans, completely blocking Mittens’ ability to get anything done.

    Tough titty for anybody who might be depending on a not-crazy supreme court, huh?

  101. 101.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 2:35 am

    @Spatula: I’m sorry, but if we’re not supposed to discuss people who aren’t mentioned in the post, I’m afraid I can’t answer your question about Dick Cheney.

    Once we’ve got the okay to discuss people other than Colin Powell however, let me know why the Clinton endorsement shouldn’t be repudiated, and then I can can tell you my response to a hypothetical Cheney endorsement of Obama.

  102. 102.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 2:37 am

    @Narcissus: Or for anybody depending on the PPACA being properly administered rather than gutted by the executive branch.

  103. 103.

    freelancer

    October 26, 2012 at 2:43 am

    @amk:

    Saw that at Rumproast. Didn’t make it all the way through until I clicked on your link. Sweet fucking Christ. I will lose faith in the internet if that doesn’t go viral by Sunday.

    Just awful.

  104. 104.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:43 am

    @Narcissus:

    Tough titty for anybody who might be depending on a not-crazy supreme court, huh?

    Oh gosh no! I’m relying on the same Democratic Senate, which I am certain would stand united against any untoward persons nominated by the presidential robot.

    Why, aren’t you certain of that?

  105. 105.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:45 am

    @dslak:

    Fair enough.

    So let’s go back to CP: You’re OK with the endorsement of GWB’s lackey/liar, whom he sent to the U.N. to do his dirty work regarding the Iraq War, as a result of which hundreds of thousands are dead and maimed, lives destroyed, and trillions wasted.

    I am not OK with that.

    And that’s where we stand.

  106. 106.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 2:49 am

    @Spatula: Right, because repudiating endorsements by people who aid his re-election chances should be the prime focus of the Obama campaign. You’ve really crystallized this election down to its essence, and that is endorsements.

  107. 107.

    Yutsano

    October 26, 2012 at 2:51 am

    @Spatula: When she actually bothers to build a party apparatus and gets candidates in local, state, and Congressional elections, then I would take her seriously. Otherwise she’s nothing more than a vanity project.

    My state will go Obama easily. I will vote for him to strengthen his mandate in the next two years. You vote on your feelings.

  108. 108.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 2:53 am

    @Yutsano: I think it’s fine if he votes on his feelings. But I won’t hold my breath waiting for when those feelings finally result in a winning political coalition.

  109. 109.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:55 am

    @dslak:

    Again: No standards/no principles. You’ve made your position clear. ALL that matters is the re election of Supreme Leader PBO.

    All else is static. Got it.

  110. 110.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 2:57 am

    @Yutsano:

    My state will go Obama easily. I will vote for him to strengthen his mandate in the next two years. You vote on your feelings.

    Spare me. Yutsano alone, among all voter humans, is free of the influence of those nasty feeeeeelings…even as he votes based on his feeling that doing so aids PBO’s mandate.

    Got it.

  111. 111.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 2:58 am

    @Spatula: And you’ve made yours clear: ALL that matters is erecting a straw man of your opponents’ positions.

    All else is preening. Got it.

  112. 112.

    freelancer

    October 26, 2012 at 2:59 am

    @Spatula:

    Easy to be absolutist and dissatisfied when you’re in a blue state fortress like Mass. As much as you hate Ben Nelson or say Bob Kerrey, being a Nebraska Democrat, he is what you are given as a Democrat, so you fucking vote for them because it’s not about what you want, it’s about voting as close to your principles as you can, and repudiating the principles of the other side.

    In the last few months, there have been discussions by high profile people in uncontested states making principled stands about voting or abstaining from voting because they didn’t want to make a choice between “the lesser of two evils” cliche. The sane percentage of the commentariat on the web landed on the side of voting and engaging in democracy right up until the point has been reached where you feel morally compelled to take up arms against the government.

    Yours seems to be the flip side to that. My state is safe, so I’m going to shit on everything that claims to represent my side because they aren’t addressing my niche concerns.

    Fuck, spats. I know you claim to share misanthropic tendencies with Cole, and are disappointed by Democrats, but it’s baffling. Even purists like Cornell West and PZ Myers who regularly flame the party are going to hold their nose and pull the lever for Obama. Then they are going to make their voices heard.

    As a lib who grew up in red states and lives in a probable red state/possible toss-up, your “Jill Stein rawks”, “safe protest vote in Massachusetts” bullshit sounds fucking stupid to everyone else in the country that doesn’t have the privilege of setting their ballot on fire in a whinging fit of pony-deficiency.

    Give it a rest.

  113. 113.

    Citizen Alan

    October 26, 2012 at 3:00 am

    @Spatula:

    Let’s play a little game: The endorsement of PBO by Dick Cheney would probably move some Republitards toward the Dem. Cheney endorses PBO publicly. You’re PBO’s campaign manager. Do you accept and embrace this endorsement?

    Your game is stupid. You are stupid. This comment is stupid. You’re like a little kid asking who would win in a fight between Batman and Jesus except that the little kid isn’t as stupid as you are.

    I mean shit, “If Dick Cheney were to endorse Obama, SHOULD he accept the endorsement?” is literally comparable to saying “If Obama ripped off his mask tomorrow and revealed that he was a brain-sucking alien from planet Zog, would you still vote for him?” That is literally the level of stupidity you just wrote. And I mean literally literally. Because I literally believe that the Planet Zog scenario is more plausible than Cheney endorsing Obama. Jesus H. Christ!

  114. 114.

    Narcissus

    October 26, 2012 at 3:05 am

    @Spatula: Better than PO but still rote, pro forma.

    C+

  115. 115.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 3:09 am

    @freelancer:

    As a lib who grew up in red states and lives in a probable red state/possible toss-up, your “Jill Stein rawks”, “safe protest vote in Massachusetts” bullshit sounds fucking stupid to everyone else in the country that doesn’t have the privilege of setting their ballot on fire in a whinging fit of pony-deficiency.

    Blow me, you self righteous dingle berry.

    Are you really saying that even in a state that is going to go your way, and my vote for someone other than Obama will not deprive him of his god given right to inhabit the white house, that I STILL don’t have your permission to cast my vote as I see fit?

    I spent most of my life as an unwilling hostage in the state of Kansas. Don’t lecture me; I’ll vote as I choose, and fuck off.

    Your candidate does not OWN my vote. Haven’t you picked up on that?

  116. 116.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 3:12 am

    @Citizen Alan:

    blah..blah…blah…and still no answer of course.

    How can you plausibly pretend that Darth Cheney is such a beyond the pale monster, yet Colin Powell, the snake who did its monster master’s bidding in front of the U.N., is A-OK?

    Could you explain that?

    Thanks. I’ll wait.

  117. 117.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 3:13 am

    @Spatula:
    Shorter Spatula: “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”

  118. 118.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 3:15 am

    @dslak:

    Wow. You’re really pathetic.

  119. 119.

    dslak

    October 26, 2012 at 3:16 am

    Now you’ve done it: You’ve killed irony. I hope you’re happy with yourself.

  120. 120.

    El Cid

    October 26, 2012 at 3:17 am

    So Sununu likes Mitt because of Mitt’s Arabic ethnic background?

  121. 121.

    freelancer

    October 26, 2012 at 3:29 am

    @Spatula:

    What I’m saying, if you choose to employ some reading comprehension is that we, all 330 million of us should be so lucky as to be able to have a realistic choice between Obama, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders, Al Gore, and Chomsky. You do. You can. That’s great. Bully for you, you lucky sumbitch.

    Stop being a raging hemorrhoid for those who face definitive and stark choices like Romney vs Obama, or Brown vs. Mandel, or Flake vs. Carmona, Bob Kerrey vs Deb Fischer, Akin vs. McCaskill.

    Am I self-righteous for telling you that your state may be sugar-gumdrop-fairyland and it’s capitol is the Big Rock Candy Mountain, but for the rest of the left, it isn’t?

    I might be. But there are bigger choices in the fall of 2012 than the risk of the further enabling of the Democratic Party of the United States. That is the danger of the further empowerment of the conservative faction of the American electorate. And someone who chooses to ignore that and lecture everyone on them just to say “I told you so” at some unforeseen point in the future isn’t operating in good faith.

    Vote for Stein, and that’s fine. Thinking that trolling a liberal website on how much Democratic candidates suck, and that that commentary will inspire readers to move to the more principled, liberal, progressive, alternative position or candidate? Twelve days before a national election?

    You’re dreaming. Grow the fuck up.

  122. 122.

    amk

    October 26, 2012 at 3:35 am

    @freelancer: You’re arguing with a politically impotent idjit.

  123. 123.

    Citizen Alan

    October 26, 2012 at 3:37 am

    @Spatula:

    Thanks. I’ll wait.

    Wait as long as you like, jerk-off. You’re pie’d.

  124. 124.

    freelancer

    October 26, 2012 at 3:37 am

    @amk:

    He’s a good painter. Also, I don’t think he’s stupid, fwiw.

  125. 125.

    Mister Harvest

    October 26, 2012 at 4:02 am

    @Spatula:

    No standards/no principles.

    You seem to be confusing your “principles” with your privileges and entitlement. This is not uncommon on the Too Pure For This Fallen World pseudo-left.

  126. 126.

    El Cid

    October 26, 2012 at 4:08 am

    On the plus side, I don’t think Obama nominated cheap careerist pathetic lying sack of shit war-promoting hack propagandist and My Lai cleaner-upper Colin Powell for anything.

  127. 127.

    Batocchio

    October 26, 2012 at 5:20 am

    I applaud Colin for standing with him.

    He’s not his most snide delivering this, but damn, is that patronizing. Sununu has always been a bully and an asshole, but he’s hit new lows this campaign.

  128. 128.

    SFAW

    October 26, 2012 at 6:25 am

    @gex:

    We should offer political asylum to the sane people who want to GTFO of that Glibertarian/Taliban paradise,

    I’m OK with that, I should have thought of it. Thanks for covering my butt.

    @amk:

    Let’s call it foxistan, as some BJ’er did.

    Tempting, but it doesn’t really encapsulate That Nation’s ethos quite as well, because it’s still a bit of inside-baseball.

  129. 129.

    Unsympathetic

    October 26, 2012 at 6:37 am

    Colin Powell couldn’t vote for Obama because Powell actually believes Obama is better than Romney. In Sununu’s beautiful mind, Powell was Head of the Joint Chiefs because of affirmative action. As Sununu knows, black people don’t get anywhere without whitey to help them out!

  130. 130.

    SFAW

    October 26, 2012 at 6:37 am

    One of the bestest things in the whole entire world is waking up and seeing Spatula get on his/her self-righteous high horse, then tell myriad opponents to go fuck themselves (in more or fewer words).

    What if Cheney endorses Obama? Right.

    Why stop there? What if a resurrected Nathan Bedford Forrest endorsed Obama? What if a resurrected Joe McCarthy endorsed Obama? What if David Duke endorsed Obama? What if “Free Republic” endorsed Obama? What if Erick Ericksdottir endorsed Obama?

    and so on and so forth.

    What if that giant meteor hits tonight? What if dinosaurs rule the earth? And … what about Naomi?

    I could probably come up with a shitload more hypotheticals that have zero chance of occurring, but I have a life beyond this joint. I would have said “but you (Spatula) get the point”, but I realize you (Spatula) won’t.

    And your weaseling in and out of justifications for your purity would be charming, if it weren’t so pathetic.

  131. 131.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 26, 2012 at 6:40 am

    @General Stuck: Wow. I knew that he had the White male vote, but didn’t know it was that large of a gap..

  132. 132.

    Lurking Canadian

    October 26, 2012 at 6:40 am

    @aimai: They have cut off their own nose to spite their face, it seems. I have passed on the news. Mrs LC shares my shock and dismay and hopes you will return.

  133. 133.

    SFAW

    October 26, 2012 at 6:41 am

    @Batocchio:

    Sununu has always been a bully and an asshole, but he’s hit new lows this campaign.

    Sorta like “Peak Wingnut”, in that every time we think they can’t get any “X”-ier, they prove us wrong.

  134. 134.

    SFAW

    October 26, 2012 at 6:43 am

    @Lurking Canadian: Not to betray my stupidity too much, but … “DWIL”?

    I’m sure that, after you explain, I’ll have a facepalm moment or some such.

  135. 135.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 26, 2012 at 6:45 am

    @SFAW: I’m not the only one who wonders what DWIL means. Whew.

  136. 136.

    SFAW

    October 26, 2012 at 6:48 am

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    I am a walking, talking embodiment of the old adage: “There are no stupid questions, only stupid people what asks them.”

    Well, I’m not walking and talking as I type this, but everything else is accurate.

  137. 137.

    SRW1

    October 26, 2012 at 6:53 am

    @robotswillstealyourjobs:

    I can imagine it happening if they actually believe their own spin that Romney is surging and on Nov 3 their own internal polls cut that last straw. Having got nothing left to lose but frustration, the temptation could be just overwhelming.

  138. 138.

    Aimai

    October 26, 2012 at 6:58 am

    Thanks LC. It’s a bit like becoming a soviet era nonperson so quite freaky.

    For the others it’s a website called ” dealing with the in laws and family of origin.”

  139. 139.

    SFAW

    October 26, 2012 at 7:20 am

    @Aimai:
    Thanks for the explanation.

    Sorry to hear about it, but if it’s any consolation, you’ll never be a non-person or shun-ee to me/us.

    But what’s with the upper case in your name/nom?

  140. 140.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 26, 2012 at 7:22 am

    @SFAW:

    Sorry to hear about it, but if it’s any consolation, you’ll never be a non-person or shun-ee to me/us.

    Unless she gets some of that UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!

  141. 141.

    Lurking Canadian

    October 26, 2012 at 7:24 am

    @SFAW: Aimai lives two lives. We know her as a penetrating and witty political commentator. In her other life, she dispenses wise and sage advice to parents (mostly women) dealing with difficult situations with extended family.

    In one of life’s funny coincidences, Mrs LC and I realized some time ago that each of us had encountered one of the two aimais, and that both personae lived in the same, apparently tireless, woman.

  142. 142.

    Lurking Canadian

    October 26, 2012 at 7:25 am

    @SFAW: Aimai lives two lives. We know her as a penetrating and witty political commentator. In her other life, she dispenses wise and sage advice to parents (mostly women) dealing with difficult situations with extended family.

    In one of life’s funny coincidences, Mrs LC and I realized some time ago that each of us had encountered one of the two aimais, and that both personae lived in the same, apparently tireless, woman.

  143. 143.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 26, 2012 at 7:26 am

    @SFAW:

    Sorry to hear about it, but if it’s any consolation, you’ll never be a non-person or shun-ee to me/us.

    Until/Unless she gets some of that UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!

  144. 144.

    Lurking Canadian

    October 26, 2012 at 7:27 am

    @SFAW: Aimai lives two lives. We know her as a penetrating and witty political commentator. In her other life, she dispenses wise and sage advice to parents (mostly women) dealing with difficult situations with extended family.

    In one of life’s funny coincidences, Mrs LC and I realized some time ago that each of us had encountered one of the two aimais, and that both personae lived in the same, apparently tireless, woman.

  145. 145.

    arguingwithsignposts

    October 26, 2012 at 7:35 am

    FYWP!

  146. 146.

    SFAW

    October 26, 2012 at 8:02 am

    @Lurking Canadian:
    Thanks for the insight.

    But, you didn’t have to post multiple times to make the point about “two lives,” I would have gotten it anyway.

    Yes, I know it was just WP F’ing with your post.

  147. 147.

    gocart mozart

    October 26, 2012 at 10:58 am

    @Steve:

    Sununu was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of Victoria (née Dada) and John Saleh Sununu, an international film distributor of Rûm Palestinian descent[1][2] who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem.[3] His father grew up in the Ottoman Empire’s Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem in Palestine and his mother was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, as part of the mass exodus of Ottoman subjects seeking a better life abroad

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Sununu
    So, a Hispanic/Palestinian/Hamas-Loving/Jew-Hating anchor baby.*

    As we all know, the anti-Jewish/anti-colonial gene is inherited from the father.

  148. 148.

    KXB

    October 26, 2012 at 11:02 am

    @J R in WV:

    For an example of a Republican who actually dealt with black voters in a responsible way, I’d encourage you to watch Boardwalk Empire. The fictional Atlantic City treasurer Enoch “Nucky” Thompson is based on Enoch “Nucky” Johnson. Johnson was a Republican who actively assisted bootleggers during Prohibition. He had a reputation for courting the black vote in Atlantic City, which by some estimates was 15% of the city’s voting population. Many of these black people fled Jim Crow, and established their own independent businesses in Atlantic City. He made sure they got enough goodies (legal and otherwise) between elections, city contracts – you know, actually trying to win their vote. Black voters rewarded Thompson by consistently voting GOP in election after election.

    Sad that you have to go to television to see such depictions now.

  149. 149.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    @Citizen Alan:

    Wait as long as you like, jerk-off. You’re pie’d.

    Awww…you mad, bro?

  150. 150.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    @freelancer:

    Thinking that trolling a liberal website on how much Democratic candidates suck…

    Reading this, a number of our analysts issued sad, mordant chuckles…

    BJ is not a liberal web site; BJ is an OBAMA FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS web site.

  151. 151.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    @SFAW:

    And your weaseling in and out of justifications for your purity would be charming, if it weren’t so pathetic.

    yeah yeah yeah…and yet, still no answer to my question, nor an explanation of why Cheney is beyond the pale, but the monster who did the monster’s bidding re the Iraq War is a groovy dude.

    You’re quite stupid.

  152. 152.

    Brachiator

    October 26, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    @TexasMango:

    White male privilege is in terrible danger dontcha know?

    Which privilege is that? The privilege to have plutocrats put a boot up their ass? The privilege to have neo-cons fire up another war to consume millions of lives?

    It amazes me that the media, including progressive media, is either to lazy or stupid to have ever done much in the way of interviewing these morans to plumb the depths of their dissatisfaction with Obama and the Democrats.

    @KXB:

    For an example of a Republican who actually dealt with black voters in a responsible way, I’d encourage you to watch Boardwalk Empire

    Or not. Black people still largely supported the Republican Party in the 1920s and 1930s, so Enoch Johnson was not an exception to the political norm. In addition, blacks in Atlantic City had to accomodate themselves to forms of segregation very similar to the crap practiced in the South:

    By the 1920s, the Census shows a significant African American population in Atlantic City of 10,946 residents – approximately 22% of the total population. While African Americans in the North were “free” they were still subject to much racial prejudice, violence and segregation, and Atlantic City was no exception. Within the city, the African American community established themselves in a section of the city commonly referred to as the Northside.
    __
    The Northside ultimately functioned as a self-contained city within a city – a direct response to racist barriers African Americans faced elsewhere in Atlantic City. The main street and center for much of the Northside’s culture was Kentucky Avenue – a vibrant street of bars, restaurants, commercial and residential buildings. The Northside All Wars Memorial Building, dedicated in 1925, served as a community center. The Northside provided everything that one might need from retail shopping to funeral homes, all owned by African American business owners. To promote all of the businesses, community leaders in the African American community formed the Atlantic City Board of Trade.
    __
    African American students attended schools in segregated neighborhood elementary schools in the 1920s, with African American teachers educating students of the same race. The Girls’ Vocational Schools were also segregated to focus on developing culture-specific trades, such as hairdressing. Atlantic City High School remained integrated for secondary education, as did the Boys’ Vocational School.

    This takes nothing away from the excellecnce and complexity of Boardwalk Empire. And some of the production notes HBO provided to the series dealt honestly with the perisistence and expansion of racism against black people in Atlantic City.

  153. 153.

    Brachiator

    October 26, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    @Spatula:

    yeah yeah yeah…and yet, still no answer to my question, nor an explanation of why Cheney is beyond the pale, but the monster who did the monster’s bidding re the Iraq War is a groovy dude.

    Ya got something to show that Powell knew that the evidence about WMDs, etc., was totally bogus and willingly joined in with Bush and Cheney’s little game?

    What’s been published about the era indicates that Cheney and his little cabal within State and Defense deliberately played on Powell’s integrity at home and in the world. It’s also noteworthy that Cheney in interviews later shit on Powell and even Condoleeza Rice for not being loyal enough to the neocon cause.

    And I will bet good money that you will falsely presume that this means that I am absolving Powell and Rice of responsibility for their role in Bush and Cheney’s murderous deceptions.

  154. 154.

    Spatula

    October 26, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    @Brachiator:

    And I will bet good money that you will falsely presume that this means that I am absolving Powell and Rice of responsibility for their role in Bush and Cheney’s murderous deceptions.

    Well, gee..it does kind of sound that way.

  155. 155.

    Jebediah

    October 26, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    @The prophet Nostradumbass:
    I got a picture of a piece of pie! I didn’t know the pie filter sometimes gives pictures!

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