The reality is that the once independent-thinking McCain has by now completely remade himself into a prototypical, dumbed-down Republican Party stooge — one who plans to rely on the same GOP strategy that has been winning elections ever since Pat Buchanan and Dick Nixon cooked up a plan for cleaving the South back in 1968. Rather than serving up the "straight talk" he promises, McCain is enthusiastically jumping aboard with every low-rent, fearmongering, cock-sucking presidential aspirant who's ever traveled the Lee Atwater/William Safire highway.
Immediately after his speech in New Orleans, a pair of sweet-looking old ladies put down their McCain signs long enough to fill me in on why they're here. "I tell you," says one, "if Michelle Obama really doesn't like it here in America, I'd be very pleased to raise the money to send her back to Africa."
A few paces away, I catch up with a man named Ron Saucier and a woman who would only identify herself as Mary. Ron says his problem with Obama is the integrity thing. "He exaggerates too much," Ron says. "He's not honest."
"OK," I say. "What does he exaggerate about?"
"Well, like that time he was saying he had a white mother and a white grandmother," he says.
I ask him how this is an exaggeration.
"Well, he was saying . . ." he begins. "As if that qualifies him to . . ."
Despite my repeated prodding, Ron seems unable or unwilling to say aloud exactly what he means. Finally, his friend Mary, a grave-looking blonde with fierce anger lines around her eyes, jumps in, points a finger and blurts out one of the all-time man-on-the-street quotes.
"Look, you either are or you aren't," she says.
"And he aren't," Ron says, nodding with relief.
Only a few months ago, I was constantly running into Republicans at McCain events who had profound concerns about the Arizona senator's "liberal" record. But these days I'm hard-pressed to find anyone on the trail who even remembers that McCain once supported Roe v. Wade, and opposed the Bush tax cuts, and compared the tortures at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo to the techniques of the Spanish Inquisition, and even heretically claimed that Mexican immigrants were "God's children too." When I ask Mary Morvant, a pro-life Christian, why she's supporting McCain given his record on abortion, she gives a typical answer: "I'm much more concerned about Obama."
Break it down and this is basically the same old label game, with McCain trying to rally his crowds against all the major isms: terrorism, socialism, elitism, anti-Americanism. His crude attempts to paint Obama with these brushes are more or less the whole of his argument for the presidency. Obama is terrorist-coddler because he is "ready to talk in person with tyrants" like Ahmadinejad, he hates soldiers because he refused to condemn MoveOn's "General Betray Us" ad, and he's a socialist because he favors health-care reform — despite the fact that the Obama plan isn't "socialized" medicine any more than the universal requirement to buy private auto insurance is socialism.
Not enough bullets in the heads of southerners.Hey hey hey.
Add a picture of skeletor and you have it.(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l207/fgsfdsfargeg/1451.jpg)
Wow, Rolling Stone printed a good article? When's the last time they did that?
Break it down and this is basically the same old label game, with McCain trying to rally his crowds against all the major isms: terrorism, socialism, elitism, anti-Americanism. His crude attempts to paint Obama with these brushes are more or less the whole of his argument for the presidency. Obama is terrorist-coddler because he is "ready to talk in person with tyrants" like Ahmadinejad, he hates soldiers because he refused to condemn MoveOn's "General Betray Us" ad, and he's a socialist because he favors health-care reform — despite the fact that the Obama plan isn't "socialized" medicine any more than the universal requirement to buy private auto insurance is socialism.
QuoteBreak it down and this is basically the same old label game, with McCain trying to rally his crowds against all the major isms: terrorism, socialism, elitism, anti-Americanism. His crude attempts to paint Obama with these brushes are more or less the whole of his argument for the presidency. Obama is terrorist-coddler because he is "ready to talk in person with tyrants" like Ahmadinejad, he hates soldiers because he refused to condemn MoveOn's "General Betray Us" ad, and he's a socialist because he favors health-care reform — despite the fact that the Obama plan isn't "socialized" medicine any more than the universal requirement to buy private auto insurance is socialism.
i don't know about all that, but he's not american and i can't vote for a non-american
Not enough bullets in the heads of southerners.Hey hey hey.
I live in the only county in Georgia that voted for Kerry over Bush.
Not enough bullets in the heads of southerners.Hey hey hey.
I live in the only county in Georgia that voted for Kerry over Bush.
wow, your from Baker county?
Thats what? Tifton? Moultrie area?
Not enough bullets in the heads of southerners.Hey hey hey.
I live in the only county in Georgia that voted for Kerry over Bush.
wow, your from Baker county?
Thats what? Tifton? Moultrie area?
There were multiple counties that went for Kerry over Bush in GA: Baker, Bibb, Calhoun, Chatham, Clarke (Athens represent), Clay, Clayton, DeKalb, Dooly, Dougherty, Fulton etc. And that's just throug the "f" counties.
QuoteA few paces away, I catch up with a man named Ron Saucier and a woman who would only identify herself as Mary. Ron says his problem with Obama is the integrity thing. "He exaggerates too much," Ron says. "He's not honest."
"OK," I say. "What does he exaggerate about?"
"Well, like that time he was saying he had a white mother and a white grandmother," he says.
I ask him how this is an exaggeration.
"Well, he was saying . . ." he begins. "As if that qualifies him to . . ."
Despite my repeated prodding, Ron seems unable or unwilling to say aloud exactly what he means. Finally, his friend Mary, a grave-looking blonde with fierce anger lines around her eyes, jumps in, points a finger and blurts out one of the all-time man-on-the-street quotes.
"Look, you either are or you aren't," she says.
"And he aren't," Ron says, nodding with relief.
Huh, I just remembered reading during the election that Chatham was the only one. Maybe I misread it or something. Oh well.Not enough bullets in the heads of southerners.Hey hey hey.
I live in the only county in Georgia that voted for Kerry over Bush.
wow, your from Baker county?
Thats what? Tifton? Moultrie area?
There were multiple counties that went for Kerry over Bush in GA: Baker, Bibb, Calhoun, Chatham, Clarke (Athens represent), Clay, Clayton, DeKalb, Dooly, Dougherty, Fulton etc. And that's just throug the "f" counties.
Yea, I was responding to Crushed, then noticed that myself :)
But yea, I posted the whole list that Kerry won. He didnt win them by much though, and got destryoed in the others.
Huh, I just remembered reading during the election that Chatham was the only one. Maybe I misread it or something. Oh well.Not enough bullets in the heads of southerners.Hey hey hey.
I live in the only county in Georgia that voted for Kerry over Bush.
wow, your from Baker county?
Thats what? Tifton? Moultrie area?
There were multiple counties that went for Kerry over Bush in GA: Baker, Bibb, Calhoun, Chatham, Clarke (Athens represent), Clay, Clayton, DeKalb, Dooly, Dougherty, Fulton etc. And that's just throug the "f" counties.
Yea, I was responding to Crushed, then noticed that myself :)
But yea, I posted the whole list that Kerry won. He didnt win them by much though, and got destryoed in the others.
Wow, Rolling Stone printed a good article? When's the last time they did that?
matt taibbi is always good. he's got a bit of that gonzo spirit from the hunter s days (and the writing style), but he's a fair bit more grounded.
Wow, Rolling Stone printed a good article? When's the last time they did that?
matt taibbi is always good. he's got a bit of that gonzo spirit from the hunter s days (and the writing style), but he's a fair bit more grounded.
He is not and you know it! (http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=9643.0)
He's a good wordsmith and it's nice having his ire trained on prosperity theologists like Osteen than on the liberal activist class this time, but I can't totally trust him. I'm pretty sure he's flat out wrong on McCain having supported Roe vs. Wade (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18632802) for example.
I do think the broad thrust of the article -- McCain is following the Republican template of painting the Democratic candidate as a cultural Other -- is right, though.
I wonder what the ratio of racist voting for McCain to Stupid Junior College kids voting for Obama just to have a black president is? Not that it matters, college kids don't vote. =0
I'm not surprised.The next few months will be fucking awesome watching each side throw and eat shit. However, I think that the fear of
We're going to see a lot of racism suppressed for about 40 years rise to the surface during this election campaign.