What the movies can teach us
George W. Bush was (is?) Chance Gardiner of “Being There.” And Sarah Palin is Lonesome Rhodes of “A Face in the Crowd.”
I think I prefer Chance.
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The next generation…
…of xenophobic, grasping, snide selfish bastards:
So, last weekend, in a beautiful town in rural Vermont, my 10 year old, Sarah, looked at a purple painted house festooned with peace signs, and said — “Look. Obama voters.” We had seen plenty of Obama lawn signs — and an equal number of McCain ones as it happens — but this house didn’t have one. “How do you know they’re Obama voters,” I asked. (Not that I doubted it. I just wanted to understand how she made the connection.) She rolled her baby blues at me and said, “Mom. A peace sign. What do you think?” So I asked, “What sign would tell you that people are McCain voters?” Sarah and her 9 year old sister simultaneously and without hesitating said, “An American flag.”
-Lisa Schiffren on National Review’s “The Corner” blog
God, I loathe these people.
Tiny victories
Today I managed to get my inbox down from 437 items to 44. I consider this a personal triumph, if only a minuscule one.
Quote of the Week
“Here’s the beauty of going up against the Democrats – you may not need to deliver a knockout blow to them, as they have proven adept, over the years, at landing that punch on themselves. Who can forget Al Gore and John Kerry repeatedly smashing themselves in the face until electoral defeat. Or in Al Gore’s case, electoral victory, then electoral defeat. He even lost an election he won. Do you know how terrible you have to be at running campaigns to do that in a democracy?”
-The Daily Show’s John Oliver, on his podcast “The Bugle”
Crushed
After weeks and months of the worst and most unrepentantly evil culture war fucktardery I have ever seen (Muslim, terrorist, Communist, homo agenda, godless, traitor, nigger, Sammy Davis Jr., watermelon and fried chicken, voter fraud, baby killer, turban, white flag of surrender, small town values, gay weddings, Osama-Obama, Hussein, kill whitey, halfrican-american, sex ed for kindergarteners, community organizer, you betcha, elitist, that one, lipstick on a pig, Joe Not The Plumber, birth certificate, Wright, Ayers, ACORN), I admit that I’ve had fucking enough.
I don’t want them to lose. I want them to be crushed. I want them to be humiliated. I want them to be dragged through the streets. I want them to be thrown in jail. I want them to be required by law to attend gay weddings of two hermaphrodite late-term abortion doctors. I want the idea of them winning an election in the remainder of their sad, sick lives to be a distant fantasy.
Personally, I don’t think I’m asking too much.
Stupid Part Deux
At a Palin/McCain rally in Ohio:
“Douche of the Week” Award
Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review Online’s The Corner:
I keep reading—most recently in an email Kathryn posted—that Palin is anti-intellectual. Now I can readily see that Palin is not an intellectual herself, as most people are not, and is not interested in the type of things that intellectuals are. But why do people say she is anti-intellectual? Has she given a speech belittling book-larnin’?
If these people had an ounce of self-awareness, they would be dangerous.
Maybe I should move to the U.K.
When I place an order with Amazon.com, I get an e-mail with this subject line:
Your Amazon.com order has shipped
Yesterday, as an experiment, I ordered a book from Amazon.co.uk that’s not available in the States. And the e-mail subject line was:
Your Amazon.co.uk order has dispatched
That sounds so much friendlier, don’t you think?
These are frightening times
Comments from Rev. Arnold Conrad, giving the invocation at a McCain rally in Iowa:
“I would also pray Lord that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their God — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his [McCain’s] opponent wins for a variety of reasons.
And Lord I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you would step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day.”
It’s pretty clear now that the idea of Barack Obama actually winning the U.S. Presidency has driven a fair amount of the populace to the brink, if not over the edge completely. Racists and xenophobes and wingnuts who have been at a low simmer for months are starting to boil as Obama’s poll numbers climb. I’m beginning to get as afraid about an Obama victory as I am an Obama loss. And that’s not a fun place to be.
One day more
Thanks to The Other Adam for pointing me to this video.