Damned racists sonsabitches won't vote for Lord God B Hussein Obama! I think I'ma declare a jihad!
As a racially insensitive White Male Oppressor, I'm several steps past fed up with the racism of Barack Obama, his allies and supporters. Even leaving out the infamous Rev Wright, Obama himself and his campaign organization have directly gone to racial nonsense repeatedly. Why, saying anything about his Fannie friend Franklin Raines is racist. Sarah Palin saying anything about Bill Ayers and Obama is apparently racist as well.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Christopher Rose
The bitter rednecks? Is that a band?
Now what would the line-up be?
27 - Dan(Miller)
Al, you forgot to include this "rant." It comes from that rag The Washington Times, along with a link to this video
Dan(Miller)
28 - Matthew T. Sussman
"McCain being slow will not hinder the operation of the government; just look at how things got along when Regan was deep into senility."
I'm convinced. Zombie Reagan '08!
29 - Les Slater
Matt,
And currently there is no effectively operating president.
Les
30 - Lisa Solod Warren
Oh, Al, you old curmudgeon.
The way I see it you have two choices:
1. You can follow Palin around and like the great unwashed masses that attend her rallies you can get your anger out by yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" and "Osama/Obama" and any number of other epithets, and hope you get a chance to lick her boots once in a while
OR
2. You can visit your doctor, ask him to give you something to put you out for 3 1/2 weeks and when you wake up it will all be over.
31 - Clavos
...ask him to give you something to put you out for 3 1/2 weeks and when you wake up it will all be over. (emphasis added)
If Obama wins, it sure will be...
32 - Baritone
I've seen most of the anti-ACORN links, and I agree that they are circular, essentially making unsubstantiated charges and quoting each other.
The terrible sin that ACORN committed was advocating for minority and other less advantaged people to have a shot at purchasing a home. ACORN representatives were not present nor instrumental in creating the mess caused by predatory lending practices.
So called "no doc" loans were initiated several years ago mainly targeting the upper echelon of home buyers - people who had squeaky clean credit histories, solid job histories and income levels. Even that was a bad idea - discriminatory and presumptive at best. But the great minds among lenders decided to lower the bar to make poorly documented loans to people with lesser credit, job and income records. It was the lending industry's decision to make 100% even 125% loan to value ratio loans.
You all want to blame the likes of ACORN and congressional Democrats for what happened. The fact is though, that these lenders would not have proceeded if they hadn't believed that they would make money on these loans - big money, most of it up front.
The lenders knew that if they offered mortgage loans to lower income people that if they fashioned adjustable rate mortgages, they could have a high success rate in enticing them to buy beyond their means. Second, they also knew that the great majority of these loans would be packaged and sold in the secondary market long before they began to default.
The same held true for most mortgage brokers, who saw a means to making a quick buck. All they had to do was get the deal to the closing table. They walk out with their check in hand not giving a rats ass that many of these loans were likely to go sour when the interest rates and, consequently, the payments began to climb.
ACORN has become the right wing scape goat. You all seem to manage hanging about every bad thing that's happened in the world on their shoulders including Rob Schneider, and then, by association, onto Obama's. It's all bullshit! The fact is that ACORN has done a lot of good for their constituents over the years, and Obama was a part of that effort. I won't claim that ACORN has been squeaky clean. They do need to clean up their act in certain quarters. But it is NOT the evil, demonic organization that you all choose to believe.
"What exactly is going to happen if Obama wins? Will the heavens open up and angels start descending to earth."
No. But the country will NOT fall into the crapper. That's the difference: McCain = crapper.
Obama Not = crapper. Quite simple actually. (Sorry, I don't know how to access unicode symbols and not sure if they would work here in any case.)
McCain cannot be trusted with his itchy, reactionary finger on the atomic button. Palin can't be trusted with, well, much of anything. I'm sure she could make some pretty dazzling snow angels on the White House lawn, but anything beyond that is just scary.
B
33 - Dr Dreadful
"FACT: Sarah and Todd Palin caught Moby Dick while out fishing for salmon. Sarah Palin clubbed him to death like a baby seal, and they lived for two years off the proceeds."
Al, may I remind you of the warning on the label that says to consult your doctor if your erection lasts for more than 3 months.
34 - Dave Nalle
I see no rational argument for the McCain=doom while Obama=salvation meme. It just doesn't stand up.
Obama has no qualifications or experience and he's a marxist who will destroy the economy by raising taxes massively to try to equalize income. His advisers are tainted by association with the worst criminals in the banking industry or else they are marxist ideologues who welcome the destruction of the economy.
McCain will at worst bring in competent advisers and steer a moderate course which won't make things substantially worse and might keep us going until the economy recovers naturally. He may be old and a bit of a waffler, but he is clearly dedicated to doing the best he can for the country and NOT destroying the economy to create a socialist paradise.
I'd say the meme that the left is promoting is exactly backwards.
Dave
35 - Dr Dreadful
I see no rational argument for the McCain=doom while Obama=salvation meme.
Well, you wouldn't, would you. That's why you're not going to be voting for him.
As for the rest of your comment, I don't think there's a single word or sentiment of it that I haven't heard on a McCain attack ad already.
36 - Al Barger
Arch [comment 16] sez: If it were up to me this whole farce would be settled by a four way ultimate fighting cage match between McCain, Obama, Biden, and Todd Palin. Why TODD Palin? Sarah could take them on her own. McCain in his young prime, would have been tough, but the moose slayer could definitely take either Obama or Biden's candy ass.
37 - Al Barger
Dr Dreadful- I thought that if the erection lasted longer than three months, I was supposed to call in more hookers.
38 - Les Slater
"...but the moose slayer..."
I lived in Alaska for 14 months and let me tell you that slaying a moose is no great feat.
39 - Clavos
No. But the country will NOT fall into the crapper...Obama Not = crapper
At this point, that is nothing but wishful thinking; you have no way of knowing how his reign will turn out.
Sure, he's a glib, smooth talker who says all the right things (or at least all the right things that Democrats and liberals want to hear-he says NO right things for me), but so does any decent conman (disclaimer - I am NOT saying he's a con man - I'll reserve that judgment until after I've seen his actual actions once he ascends to the throne); talk is cheap, even smooth talk.
40 - Christopher Rose
"he's a marxist who will destroy the economy by raising taxes massively to try to equalize income"
Dave, I bet you $100 he doesn't do that. Will you take the bet?
41 - Les Slater
Obama and McCain have different philosophies but that shouldn't make too much difference in what actually happens in the next couple of years.
After all, who would of thought that the banks would be, at least partially, nationalized under Bush?
42 - Will Brennan
Nothing like losing in the pools to bring out the
hysterical hissy fit in conservatives. Obama was editor of the Harvard Law Review, which demonstrates a person of the highest intellect, reasoning, insight and promise. Obama's track record might not be long, but he's as qualified as John Kennedy was. We elect presidents on their potential, anyway. Nobody's prepared for the job.
Obama will surround himself with the best minds and most experienced people, then he will do that very radical thing - he will lead.
It's just sad that there has to be this kind of inflamatory talk that goes into the sewer, hateful rather than helpful dialogue.
But, that's what gets attention, so I'm sure it will continue.
43 - bliffle
Baritones analysis in #32 is correct. Lenders saw a way to game the system and they took it. Lenders realized that they could clear a bunch of bad loans and shift the risk to the secondary market as aggregated bonds. Meanwhile, they would pocket the upfront fees and commissions and walk away with cash. The appraisers were remiss in improperly valuing the bonds, but they had no basis to downgrade Mortgage Backed Securities until they started to fail.
Basically, lenders liquidated their blue-sky, their goodwill.
Blaming this fiasco on borrowers is egregious scapegoating.
44 - Baritone
Clav,
Dave's prognostications carry no more weight than do mine. I know it's all bullshit, but that's what politics is all about, no?
I do honestly believe that McCain is from the same mold as Bush as regards his propensity to shoot first, and from the hip. All the hard assed ra ra "my country right or wrong" folks think that to be a virture. Since such actions could bring about great harm and destruction on us, that is an important factor to me as it should be for all. McCain tends to be vengeful and reactionary.
Hey, and what about HIS former associations? Did he not spend several years in close and intense proximity to avowed communists? In point of fact, mightn't McCain actually be the real Manchurian Candidate? Who knows what seeds were planted in his sub-conscious during his tenure at the Hanoi Hilton? Why, Super John just might be a ticking time bomb ready to discharge at first hearing "Good morning, Mr. President."
Food for thought. ;)
B
45 - Al Barger
Hey Baritone- I was on that Manchurian Candidate tip a long time ago.
46 - bliffle
ACORN did much more than register voters in low-income neighborhoods. They acquired and renovated distressed homes in low-income neighborhoods. They also initiated new construction, ala Habitat For Humanity, for low-income occupancy. Pursuant to those efforts they organized funding and political support by forming alliances with community banking and government bodies. Generally, banks and lenders were glad to have these sales opportunities brought to them.
One can argue that ACORNs efforts revolved around strengthening urban communities by improving the lot of low income citizens and integrating them into civic life, thus improving the situation for both the community and the families.
I spent a lot of time last week researching ACORN to form my opinion of them. On the other hand, most of the people on BC who are so loudly critical of ACORN seem not to have gone to basic sources, but, rather, to have accepted the opinions of various shrill rightist editorialists, such as Kurtz, whose sources are unfathomable.
47 - Al Barger
Obama is paying ACORN right now to do STUFF LIKE THIS.
48 - Holly
Wow. You are really something. I am a white 30 year old woman from Arkansas and I point to RACISM as well. Believe me, I know racism when I see it. Look around you. Listen to the people at The McCain-Palin Anti Obama rallies in which people call him an "Arab", "a terrorist", and yell "Off with his head" and "Kill him". Obama himself has barely said anything about the disgusting display of racism. You sound like a crazy person. You should really try something else besides writing articles because you aren't very good at it.
PS. Stop watching Fox. It will rot your brain.
49 - Marlowe
Al... THANK YOU SO MUCH! For taking the time to summarize all of the bigoted White fears in one rant! No doubt you're being hailed in many a back wood redoubt in northern Idaho even as I write this!
It is fascinating to watch (esp) older White Males run about in absolute TERROR that a man, HALF WHITE and HALF BLACK might actually occupy 1600 Pen.
It is the same hysterical fear they showed at the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act...
At the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and after that the Selma March...
At the USSC decision on Brown v. Board of Education...
At Appomattox in 1865...
At the realization in the late 17th Century that because it was always assumed that no Christian could enslave another human being... Somehow, in some way the White plantation owners were going to have to SHOW that Blacks were not actually QUITE human...
The only time you've cheered Al, along with your "White" brethren, is at lynchings... At Plessy v ferguson, at nailing up WHITES ONLY signs over water fountains...
Save yourself the time and frustration Al: admit you're racist. It'll do your old heart good.
Marlowe
50 - wdufkin
I wonder what Washington would look like if there were no "get out the vote" organizations and only those who were intelligent enough to register themselves, without encouragement from an organizations with obvious agendas, actually voted!?
51 - Dan(Miller)
And here's the other part of the story
Dan(Miller)
52 - Jordan Richardson
Will you Americans hurry up and get this farce over with? Please!
53 - Les Slater
Dave’s #34:
“Obama has no qualifications or experience and he's a Marxist…”
Dave seems to have no idea whatsoever what a Marxist is. He also has no clue as to what capitalism is. He never held any significant position in any significant corporation in the U.S. nor did he ever have to make executive decisions at any significant level of productive capital.
Dave’s real bogeyman seems to be John Maynard Keynes. He follows his idol Milton Friedman, and more fundamentally, Friedrich von Hayek.
Hayek believed that following Keynes’ policies would lead to greater state power and socialism. The problem with that is that state power does not lead to socialism. Great and centralized state powers, or not, the capitalists’ still own the means of production. Socialism, at least Marxian socialism, requires the overthrowing of the capitalist class by revolutionary means, led by the working class.
As for Keynes’ view on Marxism, “How can I accept the [Communist] doctrine, which sets up as its bible, above and beyond criticism, an obsolete textbook which I know not only to be scientifically erroneous but without interest or application to the modern world? How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia, who with all their faults, are the quality of life and surely carry the seeds of all human achievement? Even if we need a religion, how can we find it in the turbid rubbish of the red bookshop? It is hard for an educated, decent, intelligent son of Western Europe to find his ideals here, unless he has first suffered some strange and horrid process of conversion which has changed all his values.”
54 - Christopher Rose
The scariest thing about the story Dan(Miller) links to is the poll. Apparently the vast majority support the incredibly outrageous idea that people with criminal records shouldn't be allowed to vote. How oppressive is that?
Should felons be allowed to vote?
No, they gave up their rights when they decided to become criminals. (6753 responses) 75.2%
Yes, but only on a case-by-case basis. (483, 5.4%)
Yes, if they've finished their sentences. (1419 15.8%)
They should never lose their voting rights. (326 3.6%).
I'm actually appalled. Well done you freedom lovers!
55 - Clavos
I'm with the 75%.
Why should someone who has deliberately contravened the law and perpetrated some form of damage or injury to either the state and/or to individuals be allowed to have ANY rights - much less the right to vote?
56 - Les Slater
Chris,
I concur with your sentiments wholeheartedly.
Les
57 - troll
...only landed white men should be allowed to vote - the way that the founding fathers intended
58 - Dr Dreadful
Al @ #37:
To avoid prosecution (or moving to Nevada), your doctor will have to prescribe them first.
59 - Dr Dreadful
Clav @ #55:
Removing a felon's right to vote while they're serving their sentence is understandable; removing that right permanently is not.
Once a person has finished paying their debt to society, why should they not be allowed to resume the full benefits of citizenship?
I'd say it falls under the heading of 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
And yes, I know the laws vary by state.
60 - Al Barger
Rand forgive me, but I'm going to have to go with Chris Rose here on ex-felons voting. It's reasonable as part of their punishment not to let them vote while incarcerated. But not ever being able to vote again is pretty much marking you forever as outside the system, with no stake. If I don't get to vote, then I will certainly feel little responsibility to obey the laws that come from the voting.
If you've done something to put you in the time-out box for five years, then come five years you've done your time.
61 - Christopher Rose
I don't even see why people shouldn't be allowed to vote whilst in prison.
Punishing someone is one thing but removing their right to vote? It sounds like something more likely to occur in the world's most repressive countries not the land of the free.
62 - Al Barger
But you're not SUPPOSED to be free while you're a convict in prison.
63 - El Bicho
"It's sometimes hard to think straight when confronted by such idiocy"
stay away from the mirror when posting, Arch.
"Of course let's be fair"
Richard, that kind of thinking isn't allowed in BC politics. It's only one side that is evil and going to ruin the country with their tactics and future plans.
64 - Dan(Miller)
Whether felons or ex-felons should be allowed to vote is one question. Whether the laws should be enforced or changed is another. There are many possible answers, some of them reasonable. Unfortunately, it seems quite unlikely that any solution will be attempted, much less implemented, prior to 4 November.
The most substantial problem, as I see it, is that whoever wins the election there will be a field day for lawyers and the legitimacy of the election results will be much disputed, perhaps reasonably so. It will probably be a big mess, hardly conductive to the sort of healing which the country needs.
Dan(Miller)
65 - Dawn
Thanks for the shout out Al. You and Caribou Barbie are so ghetto.
66 - Dan(Miller)
Re comment #52,
Don't worry. It will soon be over and we can all be happy and love one another, with peace and understanding; a veritable rainbow of divergent views will shine upon us.
Dan(Miller)
67 - Al Barger
Thank you, Miss Dawn. You're a fine gal and a gracious hostess, even if you insist on voting for a danged commie. I dig your Mom, too.
68 - Jordan Richardson
If there's anything the American people are known for, it's tolerance of other views.
69 - Jordan Richardson
Oh, and peaceful discourse. (To his credit, McCain at least had the temerity to "look stunned" for a moment).
70 - Dan(Miller)
Jordan,
Yep. My point exactly. And it's probably going to get worse.
Dan(Miller)
71 - zingzing
after having viewed some youtube footage of you idiot republicans lining up to have your asses wiped, i have come to a verifiable conclusion:
republicans are dumb redneck racist assholes who are really, really sad that this election isn't going their way, so they're throwing a fucking hissy-fit and it's getting really childish and annoying and i hate them.
therefore, i say this:
republicans, like you, clavos, and you, dave and archie and al and dave and every one of you fucking children, just give up. it's over. you lost. obama isn't a racist, a marxist (that's laughable), a criminal or a terrorist. you know it, we all know it. no matter how many times you say it, it doesn't make it true. so fuck off.
god, i am sick of you.
(that's my little impersonation of this article.)
thank you. my ass is cleared of all this filthy shit.
72 - Dr Dreadful
(that's my little impersonation of this article.)
So how come it bears a striking resemblance to your own customary rhetorical style, zing?
73 - zingzing
because it comes from me.
mr. smarty pants.
plus i was just trying to cover up my own frustration with a weak attempt at satire. you caught me.
doesn't excuse you being a prick about it.
kisses.
74 - zingzing
(and it's only my "customary rhetorical style" part of the time. i am usually, you must admit, at least halfway coherent and/or logical in my arguments. but i'm just tired of republican whining right now. and i'm hung over.)
75 - Dr Dreadful
True. If you were 30 years older, though, I'd be calling you the Victor Meldrew of Blogcritics. (If your sojourn in the UK coincided with that piece of TV history, you'll know what I mean!)