• bloc said on Oct 10, 2008....

  the right wing base is showing their true colors, not that they hid it all that much before, but they are coming apart at the seems now.

• ALIENated said on Oct 10, 2008....

  
  Good speech, Sean. Do you really, really trust the polls given the state that
  the media is in these days? I dare you to watch NBC, CNBC, or MSNBC for 30
  minutes and tell me that they are not rabidly, blatantly biased toward Obama.
  Anyone with a brain can see what is happening. Check out David Letterman,
  Jon Stewart, Cobert, on and on. Even dramatic shows get their jabs in. On
  one of my favorite shows, NCIS, Special Agent Gibbs says "I support the
  troops, not the war". That is right out of the liberal Democrat handbook.
  It is almost frightening how overtly biased the media is getting on every level.
  That is what is wrong with Republicans. That is what is scaring us shitless.
  That in light of all Obama is and what he is not, the polls show him ahead. 
  Either the polls are wrong or a majority of the American people have lost
  their minds. We feel a little like the German people must have felt in the late
  30s, when the world was going mad. Most of the people I know that are for
  McCain, like at work, rarely mention it or guardedly mention it because they
  fear the childish wrath of the local liberal wack jobs. And some of those 
  wack jobs are people I thought were smarter than that. Obviously, many of
  the younger people at work have swallowed the party line that is drolled out
  24 X 7 on the airwaves, but those of us who have heard it all before are just
  not buying it. I kind of expect bloc to fall for all the media hype since he fell
  for all the torture baloney, but I thought you were probably more balanced 
  and intelligent than to go for all this, but I guess I was wrong. Those Obama
  ads saying McCain is going to raise taxes and Obama is going to lower taxes
  should be enough to alert you that there is something rotten in ... this race.
  And I dare say those yelling at McCain and Palin rallies are the Republican
  equivalent of my liberal wack jobs at work. Just a bunch of silliness from
  people who are participating for the first time.
  
  

• sheltercrow said on Oct 10, 2008....

  I personally have never met a Republican that was not a closet racist.
  
  Bailout Passes: The New Color of Financial Failure from Blackprof.com
  
  
  The offensive new vogue in cable talking points asserts that the entire financial crisis was caused by the government forcing banks to make loans to poor people especially poor minorities. These cable-talkers claim that the entire weight of the global financial collapse rests on the shoulders of unqualified poor, minority borrowers who got loans as a form of economic affirmative action.  The evil institutions in the talking points scenario are the formerly quasi-government secondary home mortgage-lending creatures Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  
  
  Bringing Back Welfare As We Knew It: My Indignant Take on the Wall Street Bail-Out
  
  
  Bill Clinton’s 1996 “welfare reform” made him (and his wife) the enemy of the left and a hero to moderates and conservatives who apparently believed that single black mothers on welfare were the greatest threat to American taxpayers. Of course, AFDC payments constituted only 1% of the federal budget, and a majority of welfare beneficiaries were (and still are) white. Nevertheless, the “welfare queen” became a rallying cry for opponents to welfare. Welfare recipients, according to the royal rhetoric, are lazy, make bad choices, have ample opportunity for economic advancement, and are incentivized to idleness and pathology by governmental subsidies. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 required recipients to work, curtailed benefits to unmarried individuals (under the false assumption that marriage ends poverty), and placed a lifetime limit on benefits. By contrast, the unconditional bail-out for Wall Street, as it currently stands, marks a return to welfare as we knew it.
  

• ALIENated said on Oct 10, 2008....

  
  Here is the turd wagon. Time to go. 
  
  And I could say that about Democrats as well (being racists), even the black
  ones. We are all racists to a certain degree. Obama's pastor of 20 years 
  certainly is one. Louis Farrakhan certainly is one. Calling someone a racist
  is like calling someone a human being. Democrats are obviously sexist. Obama
  did not choose Hillary when she was the obvious choice for his VP pick (sexist).
  Every liberal in sight is rabid that McCain picked a smart woman like Palin 
  (sexists). But these are tired tricks of the liberal lefties. More name calling 
  in leiu of something substantial to say. [yawn]
  
  

• sheltercrow said on Oct 10, 2008....

  Alienation aside, I like this from 'The Reality-Based Community' where 'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.'
  
  
  By making speeches and run ads that suggest that their opponent is not a patriotic American, and then standing silently by, or nodding approvingly, as members of their mobs [audiences] yell "socialist" and "hooligan" and "traitor" and "terrorist" and "kill him!" they have forced their supporters to choose: Do you want to be a part of that howling mob, or not? Are you nostalgic for the politics of Wiemar, or do you prefer elections in which the losers acknowledge the legitimacy of the results? Are you one of the kooks, or one of the grown-ups?
  
  [And yes, class, and its correlate education, enter into this. Palin, like Agnew and Wallace, is the candidate of those proud of their ignorance and suspicious of anyone who knows things they don't know. Insofar as part of the historical attraction of Republicanism has been its association with the prosperous and the cultured, McCain has in effect decided to sacrifice preppie and wanna-be-preppie votes for yahoo votes. I like David Brooks's label for this tactic: it's "social class warfare."]
  
  Christopher Buckley (son of William F., former McCain speechwriter) has made his choice. As he says, his father devoted an entire lifetime to an effort "to separate the Right from the kooks," and he now finds the Republican ticket embracing kookiness. With his eyes wide open, William F. Buckley's son is siding with the grown-ups.

• sheltercrow said on Oct 11, 2008....

  From The lunacy of inciting nuts
  
  
  Forget for the moment the ultimate nightmare scenario — the one involving Obama himself that has haunted people from the very beginning of this campaign, long before McCain and Palin began deliberately fanning the flames of racial and cultural hatred. Without a doubt, direct violence against Obama is the most frightening possibility. But there are many other ways — not involving the person of Obama — in which one of these McCain enabled human bombs might explode.
  
  What would happen, for example, if a small group of McCain supporters, sent into a fit of rage, let’s say, by McCain’s questioning of Obama’s “otherness,” physically attacked an African American or Arab American who happened to be walking by? Or what if a drunk at one of the campaign’s rallies, infuriated by Palin’s accusations against the press, threw a bottle at a television cameraman, hitting him on the head and killing or severely injuring him?
  
  Do they seriously think either McCain or Palin could survive politically after such an incident, given the repeated warnings they’ve received?

• kelly said on Oct 11, 2008....

  "Anyone with a brain can see what is happening."
  
  
  Yes. That is why you will never, ever get it.

• sheltercrow said on Oct 11, 2008....

  'McCain has started to tell his supporters that some of their claims are untrue.  And they boo him.'
  
  After he openly had pushed them to the red meat level it must be observed. He is treading a dangerous path. If an incident happens he and Palin are culpable. 

• sheltercrow said on Oct 11, 2008....

  Progressive Politics Examiner
  
  
  The ugliness and hate being spewed at John McCain and Sarah Palin rallies is beginning to be noticed.  Commentators are expressing alarm at the frequency and ferocity of the rhetoric and that neither McCain or Palin are doing anything to quell the outrageous behavior.  Some have begun to question whether the candidates are now encouraging it.
  
  [...]
  
  The Washington Post reports today on the growing ferocity of the McCain/Palin crowds:
  
  
  Pete Cenedella | Posted October 10, 2008
  
  
  It's worth holding this imagery in mind when looking at the videos coming back from the campaign trail of recent McCain-Palin rallies. Of course the candidates have gone negative -- that's what candidates do when they have nothing worth saying. It's not the negative paragraphs larded into the stump speeches that are so disconcerting about the footage we're seeing. It's the mob. And the tacit approval of the mob emanating from McCain himself.
  
  Some lowlights: Several McCain supporters on their way into a rally in Pennsylvania actually call Obama a "terrorist," and one answers the question "Why do you think he's a terrorist?" with the retort "Look at the bloodlines. Look at his name."
  
  A voice clearly screams "Off with his head!" in reference to Obama when Sarah Palin hammers away at the Bill Ayers connection. Palin does nothing to discourage the call.
  
  A questioner at one of McCain's "Town Hall" rallies refers to Obama and Nancy Pelosi as the "socialists" who are "taking over our country."
  
  A line of McCain supporters on their way in to a rally in Ohio heckle the Obama supporters and journalists across the street with cries of "You need to go die" and "Commie faggots," and several call Obama a terrorist, a socialist, a traitor, and more.
  
  [...]
  
  
  
  
  
  Finally, when the deed is done.
  
  
  
  What's happening at these rallies is a series of convulsions and spasms no less primordial than those we make at the end of life -- a kind of death dance. The death of John McCain, American Hero -- who may be hearing plaudits from the pitchfork-wielding mob, but who is hearing nothing but disappointment and disapproval from those Republicans and Independents who once held him in such esteem. And in the throes of that death, McCain is waltzing with a dying breed of sad old white Americans, whose tragedy continues to be their belief that those who have fleeced them were their greatest friends, and those who might plausibly have their interests at heart politically are a bunch of commie faggots. These rallies smell of rot, the stench rising from these hollow crowds carries the odor of lynch mobs and blacklisters, Father Coughlin and the Silent Majority.
  
  But no more are these folks a Silent Majority. They are a loud, vocal, ugly minority. They are literally a dying breed. And when we write their obituary in the next few years, there really won't be a wet eye in the house.

• sheltercrow said on Oct 11, 2008....

  Ronald Reagan's long reach.
  
  
  750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
  
  By Julian Sanchez | Published: October 07, 2008 - ars technica
  
  A 20-year game of Telephone
  
  If you pay any attention to the endless debates over intellectual property policy in the United States, you'll hear two numbers invoked over and over again, like the stuttering chorus of some Philip Glass opera: 750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft; the second is the annual dollar cost of IP infringement to the U.S. economy. These statistics are brandished like a talisman each time Congress is asked to step up enforcement to protect the ever-beleaguered U.S. content industry. And both, as far as an extended investigation by Ars Technica has been able to determine, are utterly bogus.
  
  [...]
  
  The Christian Science Monitor quoted then-Commerce Secretary Malcom Baldridge, trumpeting Ronald Reagan's own precursor to the recently passed PRO-IP bill. Baldridge estimated the number of jobs lost to the counterfeiting of U.S. goods at "anywhere from 130,000 to 750,000."
  
  [...]
  
  Ars submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Commerce this summer, hoping to uncover the basis of Baldridge's claim—or any other Commerce Department estimates of job losses to piracy—but came up empty. So whatever marvelous proof the late secretary discovered was not to be found in the margins of any document in the government's vaults. But no matter: By 1987, that Brobdignagian statistical span had been reduced, as far as the press were concerned, to "as many as 750,000" jobs. Subsequent reportage dropped the qualifier. The 750,000 figure was still being bandied about this summer in support of the aforementioned PRO-IP bill.
  

• sheltercrow said on Oct 11, 2008....

  From bloggerinterrupted.com
  
  
  VIDEO: Same shit, different lunatics
  
  You can get this footage at every single McCain-Palin in the country.  Every single one.
  
  

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