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Awesome George W Bush Matrix Shoe Dodger Animated Image
He shouldn't have to dodge anything thrown by anyone. Attempted assault is NOT a viable form of political speech...it is a crime.
However, if anyone has a right to be pissed at Bush, it's the Iraqis. (And if they are pissed at him, it's a pretty clear sign that they do not view the invasion and occupation as a "liberation.")
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 17.12.2008 @ 18:48
BBC News, actually, Brandon. I'm taking the report with a grain of salt until it is conclusively confirmed, but I must admit that it wouldn't surprise me at all if the report were true. How sad is that?
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 17.12.2008 @ 13:02
I'll say this much for Bush: the man's amazingly agile for his age. Then again, between questions and responsibility, Bush has spent nearly his entire presidency dodging. I guess practice really does make perfect. :-)
(In all seriousness, though, while Al-Zaida should certainly spend time in jail for attempted assault, if the reports that he is being beaten in prison are true, this is very quickly going to become a very serious matter indeed...the Arab world will not stand for it. Nor should they, honestly.)
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 16.12.2008 @ 21:20
Joe The Plumber (Video) Brings Race Within 2
Also...I am greatly amused that that ad has a glaring typo: "Everbody?"
Whoops. It seems that some of the children is still not learning.
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 16.10.2008 @ 23:26
He'd have to make a cobbler instead...don't you know that only DailyKos libruls like pie? ;-)
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 16.10.2008 @ 23:24
Thinking Seriously about Endorsements
1) You have every right to be a child, it doesn't bug me at all. I actually find it rather funny whenever Limbaugh and his ilk do it.
2) Key word, of course, being "former." Unlike the supposedly good Christians of the right wing, we Democrats actually take God at his word that true repentance is always possible and always acceptable. The Jewish phrasing of the concept would be "The gates of prayer are sometimes closed, but the gates of repentance are always open." The Christian phrasing would probably be Jesus's words to the adulteress: "Go and sin no more." I take it this is not an unfamiliar concept? (Also, you do realize that Byrd was not "the leader" of the KKK, correct? He never even led a local chapter.)
3) Perhaps, Brian, you missed the part where I said that the Southern Switch happened AFTER the Civil Rights Act (and largely because of it)? So no, your little revelation is not news. But I note that you left out the crucial details that it was JFK, a Democratic president, who got the bill written and argued passionately in its defense, and that LBJ, a Democratic president, was the driving force behind the act's passage, and that all the historians agree that the act only passed because of him. What was your major, again? I really hope it wasn't history.
4) What the heck? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Who said anything about Protestants?
As for your cries of racism:
Affirmative Action--so now it's racist against minorities? I thought the GOP talking point was that it was racist against white males.
"Typical White Person"--yes, that language usage was problematic, but it's no more "radical" than when a woman talks about "typical men" or an atheist talks about "typical Christians." Stereotypical and wrong, yes. Disappointing, definitely. But let he who is without sin cast the first stone on that score. Come clean--how many times have you said someone was a "typical woman" or a "typical liberal" or a "typical Muslim" or a "typical" anything? I'm willing to bet you use it frequently (especially the first two), if you're honest with yourself. I know I say "typical men" and "typical Republican" (or some variation thereof) more often than I should, and "typical Jew" while joking around with my friends. I shouldn't, but I do--and so do you. It's hardly "outright" anything.
"Cling to guns and religion"--how, exactly, is that racist?
Jeremiah Wright--from where I sit, Wright is no more extreme or crazy than the average (dare I say typical?) Evangelical pastor or hardliner Catholic priest or ultra-Orthodox rabbi. So unless you can honestly say that you would also be concerned by a member of those religious groups in high office (which, if you are a Palin supporter, you can't), you're nothing but a hypocrite.
Jesse Jackson--so tell me, when have they ever been friends or even appeared to like each other? Or did you just assume that they must be close?
George Wallace--I see the "the Democratic Party of forty years ago is no more comparable to the Democratic Party today than the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater is comparable to the Republican Party of the neocons" history lesson flew over your head again. Once again, is the modern Catholic Church evil because of the actions of the Borgia pope or their policies during the Holocaust? No? Didn't think so. (Or better yet, how about the Mormon church, the most reliable GOP base in the country?)
Jimmy Carter--what's with the minstrel show spelling, Brian?
As for Republican racism, let's start with Limbaugh and his friends' assertions that Colin Powell only endorsed Obama because Obama is black, the baseless Republican outcry about ACORN and subsequent attempt to have people from the inner-city who had proper registrations stricken from the record (while ignoring the fact that there is no evidence that anyone has ever fraudulently cast a vote under a false name, and trying to hush up the Mark Jacoby story), the disgusting racial slurs that are being posted and encouraged on FreeRepublic and RedState (I go over there for laughs sometimes, but now they're just plain disgusting) and shouted at McCain-Palin rallies, the election and reelection of Strom Thurmond (who left the Democratic Party after LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act) and Jesse Helms in the Republican Party, and the continued insistance of a sizeable chunk of the right that all Muslims and Arabs are evil (leading to assaults on American Muslims and vandalism of mosques), not to mention the perpetuation of the Reagan myth of the "black welfare queen" and the insistance that minorities end up on welfare because they don't work hard enough.
Your move, Brian. Bring it.
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 21.10.2008 @ 11:27
Nope, didn't touch a nerve. You actually made me laugh more than I have in weeks. Thanks for that. :-)
In simple terms that you can understand:
1. It's the Democratic Party. I know that "democratic" is a hard concept for you, but you really should learn how to spell it.
2. Yes, the KKK were all Southern Democrats for a very long time--a time which ended in the 1960's when the Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and the Republicans pounced at the chance to co-opt the "Southern Strategy". The KKK is now a "subsidiary" of the Republican Party, and has been for forty years. Arguing that the post-Civil-Rights-Act Democratic Party is affiliated with the KKK is akin to arguing that Germans born post-1945 carry blame for Nazism, or that the modern Catholic Church is guilty of the crusades or inquisitions of earlier centuries. It is an argument that any child can find the flaws in--but a Marquette grad apparently can't. Go figure.
Nice try, though, kiddo.
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 19.10.2008 @ 14:42
Aw, it's so cute when the little dittoheads misspell "democratic". But I suppose it does make sense--if you don't know what a word means, you can't be expected to spell it.
It's also adorable when they make the "Yes, it's true that we intentionally court poorly educated racists in order to win the South nowadays, but the Democrats used to do the same thing up until they passed the Civil Rights Act forty years ago! Clearly, this means that modern Democrats are as bad as we are!" argument. They probably think that modern Germans are Nazis and that the modern Catholic Church officials advocate crusades and inquisitions, too! But they try so hard to make an argument, the poor things, so we really ought to give them a treat for trying.
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 19.10.2008 @ 00:59
Hyperbole and overgeneralization much, Richard? Seriously, tone it down...you're bordering on hatefulness yourself.
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 18.10.2008 @ 17:34
Daniel--look it up on YouTube. It's an eye-opener...HUAC deja vu.
Evan--you're behind the times. Her opponent has now raised more than $125,000 since that interview aired. Go Elwyn Tinklenberg!
Comment Posted By Kat, Brandon's cousin On 18.10.2008 @ 16:10
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