It Can't Possibly Happen Again. Can It?
Newsweek wonders if you are as easily manipulated as your parents. Are you?
The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities. The 2008 race may turn on which party will win the lower- and middle-class whites in industrial and border states—the Democrats' base from the New Deal to the 1960s, but "Reagan Democrats" in most presidential elections since then. It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as "the other"—as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots (Obama is a Christian) and hangs around with America-haters.
Georgie is getting in on the action, too, trying to scare the three people left in the world who actually listen to him.
Sure, talk about how Obama and the media are elite. While our president brags that he gave up *golf* to show his respect for our dead soldiers.
Golf.
If it hasn't become blatantly obvious, whatever Republicans tell you to do this November, do the opposite.
posted by kate @ 8:30 AM
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...but if I vote for Obama, won't Willie Horton rape my dog?
Ha! The race card may actually make that impossible this election cycle. While the Republicans have indeed tried to scare the lower and middle class and have been successful in the past, their subsequent efforts (thank you, Reagan, and I sincerely hope you find hell warm enough) have pretty much ensured that those lower economic classes are chiefly composed of minorities, specifically blacks.
Blacks who are fleeing the sinking Clinton ship in droves and throwing their support to Obama in record numbers. As many black pundits are saying, black voters finally have an option that reflects them and best suits their needs.
Not only are they less inclined to be afraid of the phantom dangers of "elitism" and "terrorism" when faced with the very tangible dangers of "hunger" and "high priced gas", they have decided exactly who put them in this situation and aren't likely to listen to further fear mongering. Add this to the fact that Republican policies have greatly expanded the "money gap", creating more lower and middle class voter groups who are more likely to either identify with Obama over McCain or be more concerned with energy and food prices than the culture wars, and you have a Republican tactic that's worked in the past but has little traction this year.
That dog will not hunt.
Oh, you mean the war hero who collaborated with his Vietnamese captors so he could get special medical attention, giving them information which subsequently led to the shooting down of American Airmen? That war hero?
http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcianhro.htm
http://polidics.com/ethics/fellow-pows-say-john-mccain-was-a-coward-and-a-traitor-in-viet-nam.html
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999-03-25/news/is-john-mccain-a-war-hero/
Do you think they served Pepperidge Farm back then? Cause I'd spew my guts for a Double Chocolate Milano.
Interesting - you can't deny that Obama is a black bigot, with his stated belief in the Black Value System that his radical pastor preached to him every Sunday for 20 years, so you point at who's repeating a bunch of lies about McCain. Interesting.
I deny Obama is a black bigot. There. Do you want me to sign something as well? The burden of proof is on you. Prove he's a bigot.
I'm not wild about the man as a candidate but he's worlds better than John "The Not-So-Straight Talk Express" McCain.
Interesting how a critique of McCain, with corroborating evidence, is a "lie" while it's perfectly legitimate to assume that Obama must share the whole of Wright's thought.
Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince w/the kids. All of a sudden, seems like Rowling's talking about Bush in Iraq:
"If Voldemort had never murdered your father, would he have imparted in you a furious desire for revenge? Of course not! If he had not forced your mother to die for you, would he have given you a magical protection he could not penetrate? Of course not! Harry! Don't you see? Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do!"
Hey Quaker, Swiftboat much?
Newsweek wonders if you are as easily manipulated as your parents. Are you?
Did your parents read Newsweek?
He proved he was a bigot in his own book, when he said very clearly that he supported the Black Value System of his pastor. Don't you bother to read?
He's a bigot. He's an anti-anything-but-black bigot. Get the stars of fake hope out of your eyes and pay attention.
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