Submitted by Andy Axel on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 13:41.
The newest bit of pus to ooze from the syphillitic fantasies of the Republican slime machine comes courtesy of Jonah "Doughy Pantload" Goldberg and is quickly reinforced by Tennessee's own Glenn Reynolds:
An Obama loss in a presidential election could lead to race riots...
I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee -- and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008.
...and that this fear is supposedly what's propelling the Obama candidacy.
Reynolds, for his part, claims: "He's right," although it probably sounds better in the original tear sheets from Völkischer Beobachter, rather than on the front page of Instapundit.
This sort of commentary brings me full circle (from inspiration to disgust) a short distance from Obama's very own words on Tuesday:
You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and pettiness and anger that's consumed Washington. To end the political strategy that's been all about division, and instead make it about addition. To build a coalition for change that stretches through red states and blue states. Because that's how we'll win in November, and that's how we'll finally meet the challenges that we face as a nation:
We are choosing hope over fear.
We're choosing unity over division, and sending a powerful message that change is coming to America.
Apparently, this message falls on ears deafened, plugged with years of excrement about how a melanin deficit indicates genetic superiority.
Submitted by Eleanor A on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 00:22.
Hm. So the GOP slime machine starts early. Looks like they didn't get the traction they were looking for vis a vis the "Obama on drugs" garbage they were putting out a month or two ago.
But then, maybe the Rethugs are genuinely concerned about folks becoming motivated in the event they steal yet another Presidential election...
Submitted by Andy Axel on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 12:48.
maybe the Rethugs are genuinely concerned about folks becoming motivated in the event they steal yet another Presidential election...
Glenn Greenwald did point out the "bourgeois riot" that broke out in Florida in order to shut down the recount:
Of course, when GOPers do it, it's civic disobedience.
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Race riots!?!?! Social unraveling!?!?! Put the fear in us. Be afraid. Don't listen to the person behind the curtain.
We are choosing hope over fear.
Great quote.
So I guess the admonition is to a) nominate Obama, and b) elect Obama?
I don't think these guys think these things all the way through sometimes.
Thinking would also imply the ability of simple arithmetic (i.e. 1+1=2).
I think that answers your question.
Obama won in 98% white Iowa.
The winning Republican had enough votes to finish a distant fourth in the Democratic Caucus...well behind Hillary.
Hm. So the GOP slime machine starts early. Looks like they didn't get the traction they were looking for vis a vis the "Obama on drugs" garbage they were putting out a month or two ago.
But then, maybe the Rethugs are genuinely concerned about folks becoming motivated in the event they steal yet another Presidential election...
Glenn Greenwald did point out the "bourgeois riot" that broke out in Florida in order to shut down the recount:
Of course, when GOPers do it, it's civic disobedience.
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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." -M. Twain