Nah, its not about racism.

(I don't remember... (0.00 / 0)

making a run for more guns and more ammo when Dumbya was (s)elected.  I don't remember fulminating and raging about that bastard's birth certificate, either.  And, for the life of me, I can't remember anything remotely comparable to the wide-scale douchebaggery of the tea-buggers, either.)

Yes, odum, garden-variety racism grows under southern rocks and northern rocks, too.  The post-1960s GOP is the result of Birchers and McCarthy-ites making love to the Klan.  It is a toxic combination of paranoid, plain crazy and stupid.

"Ignurnt" is the operative word (along with "scared") - I'm sure Hotspur, Charity, et. al. aren't the most edumacated folks that you're ever gonna meet.  They cling to their ignorance and superstitions like some two-year olds chew on their binkies.  And they scream bloody murder when you try and take them away from them.

Obama scares them them half out of their half-wits.

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by: Undamned Yankee @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 22:47:34 PM UTC

What I notice ... (4.00 / 1)

about Charity's screed is the amount of projection. All the things she attributes to the left actually characterize the most prominent and vocal members of the right.

Some of you even forgot how not to hate and are still spewing hate on a daily basis toward anyone who dares disagree with you.

Then again,

The hate.  The screeching.  The inability to formulate coherent sentences.

Let's see, Newt (too much BS to list) Gingrich, John (The Economic Fundamentals are Sound) McCain, Rudy (a noun, a verb and 9/11) Giuliani, Sarah (Wink, Nudge, YouBetcha!) Palin, Rush (the Addict) Limbaugh, Dick (Shoots his "Friends") Cheney, George (W stands for Waterboarding) Bush ... Surely I need  not go on. The Right never actually made any logical case for waterboarding, and still clings to lies (for example, about Iraq's possession of wmd and the non-existent connection between Iraq and the 9/11 attack)  and ethically bankrupt justifications. IF we hated here on the left, we hated what BushCheneyRoveRummy, et al. were doing to our country, selling us out to Halliburton and its cephalopodian subsidaries, selling out the safety of soldiers, selling out the civil rights of citizens for surveillance, worshipping money and profit above all else. Is that sentence coherent enough for you?

This is not screeching. This is a calm recitation of fact.

When you want to know what's true, watch what those in power deny. When you want to know the nature of your opposition, listen for the attributes they ascribe to you.

NanuqFC
In a Time of Universal Deceit, TELLING the TRUTH Is a Revolutionary Act. - George Orwell

 

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by: NanuqFC @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 02:01:54 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

And speaking of projections ... (0.00 / 0)

(and mindless, thought free screeching and whining and name calling ... just think ACORN) . . .

Head of CA GOP Voter Registration Firm Pleads Guilty to Voter Registration Fraud, Brad Blog, 06/17/09: or how Republican branded voter registration company committed real voter fraud.

and

With 'Friends' Like This: Another Guilty Plea in Clay County, KY, Election Fraud Conspiracy Case, Brad Blog, 06/19/09: or how Republican election official worked to pervert our voting system and then used threats of violence against witnesses.

I've been thinking about these two stories since hearing some Republican asshole on the floor of the US House yesterday bemoaning the fact that ACORN will be helping with the census.

It's over at http://ramabahama.net ... only it's still under construction (but so is the rest of my life)

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by: Rama Schneider @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 10:07:02 AM UTC

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the projection (0.00 / 0)

is especially humorous, ironic, disturbing, and sad in light of how the Right treated Bill Clinton

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by: Doug Hoffer @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 10:02:13 AM UTC

This false equivalency stuff... (0.00 / 0)

...has been going on for quite some time now.

For some people, they saw going after Clinton for his affair with Lewinski not as anything more than revenge for Clarence Thomas.   Hell, Hyde himself even as much as admitted it was partially revenge for Nixon.

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by: JulieWaters @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 11:09:14 AM UTC

cool (0.00 / 0)

"revenge for Nixon"

as if the Left somehow made Nixon a criminal and a psychopath

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by: Doug Hoffer @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 21:07:39 PM UTC

[ Parent ]

Where'd my revenge go? (0.00 / 0)

I'm still waiting to get my revenge for Reagan!  He's the one that put this country on its dangerous, destructive, and disastrous march to the right.

-M

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by: Mike Eldred @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 23:46:39 PM UTC

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no racism, no republicans (0.00 / 0)

While it's theoretically possible for the adherents of a belief system critical of Obama and the Dems to exist without being rooted in racism, the republican party ain't it.

I hate to keep confusing chumps like charity with the facts, but I didn't detest bush because he was white any more than I detest myself for being white, I detested him because he was an incompetent, illegitimate hack who wrecked the Country.

There were no shortage of perfectly good reasons for bashing bush from pillar to post without injecting race into the equation. I didn't feel the need to go around singing "shrub, the clueless cracker" for eight years. I still don't.

But with every chorus of "Barack the Magic Negro", every hilarious "Obama's a spook" gop-staffer e-mail and every oxy-moronic charge that Powell's decision to back Obama "is totally about race", the gops just reinforce the reality that they're a Southern, uneducated, bigoted bunch who're hostile to Civil Rights Legislation and think a concealed handgun is required attire for every occasion.

These tea-bagger yahoos are just their nitwit notion of an honor roll.

If an ignorant-trash talk show host is the chief spokesman for your party according to a poll of your own membership, ya can't just cop out and claim "he's just an entertainer" every time he says something blatantly bigoted and overtly racist, which, let's face it, is pretty much the extent of his act.

The gops dug their own grave 40 years ago with Nixon's "Southern Strategy", hopped in it and they've been pulling the dirt in behind themselves ever since.

They've got no case, no clue and no one to blame but themselves.

Still, they won't go aways and they can't be taken lightly. We're just gonna have to drive the proverbial stake through their hearts.  

 

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by: Coop @ Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 14:59:23 PM UTC