Here’s a fun contest: try to come up with a better definition of elitist than a convention full of people who don’t know what a community organizer does.
Go!
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Here’s a fun contest: try to come up with a better definition of elitist than a convention full of people who don’t know what a community organizer does.
Go!
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Hear “Elitist snob,” read uppity negro. The good ole boys knew that of course, but the rest of us weren’t supposed to make the link in such explicit terms.
I know that John mentioned this below, but it bears repeating that the Southern Strategy never died and it never will as long as there are lizard brain racists who freak out at black people who don’t wait for permission to speak.
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John McCain, as New Orleans drowned:
No Arabian horses died. Just people. Hahahaha! ! ! ! ! (via C&L)
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Just two weeks ago, Sarah Palin sat in on this sermon:
Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity.
“Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It’s very real. When [Brickner’s son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can’t miss it.”
Palin was in church that day, Kroon said, though he cautioned against attributing Brickner’s views to her.
Like Andrew Sullivan, I can’t wait to watch Sean Hannity eviscerate the man. Er, never mind.
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Republicans are becoming more open to marriage equality and civil unions:
A CBS News/New York Times poll released Monday found that 49 percent of the delegates to the Republican convention support allowing same-sex marriages or civil unions. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
A CNN/Opinion Research Poll conducted in May found that nearly half of those surveyed supported either same-sex marriages or civil union. Twenty-four percent supported same-sex marriages, while 27 percent backed civil unions. Forty-three percent backed neither option. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points
Although, as an Obama supporter, I think that the Log Cabin Republicans should have sat this one out and endorsed no one, it’s clear that the work they and other gay Republicans are doing is having an effect. Half of all Republican delegates is huge considering where we were just a few years ago. That increase didn’t happen because Republicans were routinely called hate-mongers, homophobes, and bigots. It happened because gays have been increasingly coming out of the shadows. It’s happening because people are working with supporters within the Republican party to show them that being against marriage equality is not anathema to being a good Republican.
Mostly, it’s happening because John McCain spent 5 years in a prison camp and didn’t have any homosexuals to hate.
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My highly scientific survey has determined that listening to the GOP convention on NPR has a thousand times fewer irritating windbags getting in the way of interesting discussion among delegates and ordinary voters. Public radio doesn’t have the commercial drive to constantly be PUNCHY! and IN YOUR FACE! so I find myself thinking more than when the same topic is covered by a commercial shouter.
One thing that just popped into my mind: after fifteen minutes of talk about Joe Lieberman I have the unshakeable feeling that I’ve seen this movie before. From now until forever whenever I see Sarah “soul mate” Palin my mind’s eye will flash to Anne Hathaway’s (to my knowledge) one nude scene. He made a commitment to please the powers that be but you can tell that his heart is somewhere else.