Posts Tagged ‘mccain’

That giant sucking sound that you hear, is the hole in the ground where the GOP used to be. The Christian Reich Right (CR) took them over and instead of spreading out to envelop the entire country, the greedy, intolerant, deceitful hypocrites have killed the GOP. Moderate and independent citizens have spoken with their votes. It turns out that Americans really do want equality for all.

Religions claim to be the authority for how we live our lives. They claim this authority from God. Most religious organizations depend on donations from their faithful believers in order to stay in business. There are all sorts of religions, claiming to speak for / to God. Their business model consists of being paid to tell people what to do in life. Their revenue stream is tied directly to their credibility as a source of right-living advice. If people allowed to make up their own minds about their sexuality, then they are likely make up their own minds about a whole lot of things. This is what scares gay-bashing religions most of all.

Big Oil, Defense Contractors, Wall St. Speculators and Lobbyists.

They should be afraid because they will no longer have ‘one of their own’ in the White House. Barack Obama is not one of them. He is not the grandchild or child of one. He didn’t take their money to fund his campaign or his career in the US Senate. Although he may have met their children in Harvard, but he did not go to work for them.

The topic of voter suppression comes up at election time and is largely regarded as tricks to keep votes from being counted on election day or stopping voters at the polling place doors. We hear about them all and will hear about some today. These attempts are both obvious and trivial compared to the greater, large scale voter suppression that has been going on for decades.

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“I was born in a house my father built.” Thus began Richard Nixon’s autobiography. If he were alive, I would say “Well, Dick I was born in the house that Jack built. Jack Kennedy, that is. Until you came along and turned it into the out house.”

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I almost pity poor John McCain. Almost. How did he end up with this ‘crap job’? It has fallen upon him to fight the last battle of slaveholders and plantation owners. I expect this bile from Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney and any of the rest that fall into the ‘angry white patriarch’ model that is interchangeable with KKK grand wizard or plantation owner.

The thinly veiled race baiting of the GOP that has been in force since Richard Nixon’s ‘Southern strategy’ is no longer thinly veiled at all. For a generation, the GOP was able to reliably manipulate themselves into power by scaring white voters about the danger to them from ‘the other’. They have expanded the cast of dangerous people to include gays, Latinos, (always) women and Muslims.

Eugene Jarecki has detailed his experiences with and assessment of dealing with John McCain on the Huffington Post today. He is the director of “Why We Fight”, a film that I posted already on this blog. I highly recommend watching it, if you have not already done so.

Mr. Jarecki was granted an interview on camera with Sen. McCain for his opinions on Defense spending and corruption. In an all-too-familiar fashion, Sen. McCain spoke of the need for accountability, then his staff scrambled to retract his words for fear of upsetting lobbyists.

With the way things are going for them, the GOP brain trust must feel like Roy Scheider, in Jaws.

I was reading Could Tucker Bounds be a bigger douche? by sharistuff and I had to laugh. The “epic fail” of the GOP smear machine has become one of the great joys of my life. The free fall panic of rats jumping off a ship that they sunk themselves, is truly delightful.

The GOP is like The Clown Car of Fail:

My Friends,

there I was watching the 3rd and final Obama / McCain debate and it dawned on me – John McCain is recycling different aspects of previous Republican campaign strategies.

* He is using the Bush / Rove smear & spin tactics. He claims outrage over Rep. Lewis’ statements while ignoring “Kill Him!” comments as the topic of the conversation. Then, he goes on that endless diatribe about veterans at rallies, instead of talking about how he has personally addressed his crowds and told them that such behavior is specifically unacceptable….