Obama Downplays Racism

President Obama taking the high road, downplaying the racism from the opposition, citing a general distrust in Government as a the main cause. He cites FDR and Reagan going through similar attacks.

“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are,” Mr. Obama told CNN. “That’s not the overriding issue here.”

While I agree with Obama, the loudest voices in the opposition are dead on racists. They can not stand seeing a black man is a position of power, gaining confidence and respect. The birthers, tea party philistines and sycophantic Beck robots will do anything to undermine Obama. It's time the rest of the Conservatives stopped getting their marching orders from the bobble heads on TV shows and look to their politicians for leadership.



Source: NYT

"Fired Up, Ready To Go"

Obama asks, "Are you fired up? Ready to go?" Yes.

"Let's go change the world." Let's.



Source: http://www.youtube.com/BarackObamadotcom

American Exceptionalism That Wasn't

The Washington Post demands the US should hold Iran accountable for torturing prisoners.

"The cases of torture and rape of prisoners courageously documented by opposition presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi should be as worthy of discussion as the non-nuclear subjects that Iran wants to bring up."

Thanks to "Torture Twins" George Bush and Dick Cheney, we have no leg to stand on. The days in which America could lecture any other country on torture of prisoners are over.

The American Exceptionalism touted by Republicans and Conservatives was a farce. Crudely patched together, full of double standards and inconsistencies, used to justify wars and foreign occupations.

Source: WaPo

SNL Sketch Actually Funny

Surprisingly funny SNL sketches last night. First part is behind-the-scenes how the Joe Wilson "You Lie" outburst came about, second part is Weekend Update with a pretty good James Carville segment.

Reform Opponents Hitting New Lows

Great video on Rachel Maddow regarding GOP politicians trying to scare a new group about health care reform: the young and disabled and their families. The tactic is to plant the GOP talking point that they will be victims of reform and die under Government run health care.

Seeing that that most disabled kids already have Government run insurance through S-CHIP or Medicaid, the Republicans are trying to scare these people with health care they are already on. Great message.



Source: http://www.realitychex.com/

Teabagger FAIL

Teabagger FAIL is reduntant, I know, but here is the picture from 1997 being passed around to hype their latest weekend freak-out.

"It appears that the photo was actually taken in 1997 at a rally for Promise Keepers, a group for Christian men. According to the group’s Web site, nearly 1 million people attended the event."

Nice that the current estimates of the crowd as reported by right wing blogs using the same exact picture are claiming 2 million jihadis teabaggers. Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, said the crowd ranged from 60,000 to 75,000 but “it was in no way an official estimate”.

Only off by 1,925,000.

However, their message of "Fringe Right Wingers Have Fringe Right Wing Ideas" was a resounding success. All hail the Muslim, Kenyan Fascist!



Source: Politifact.com

Partick Swayze RIP

One of the best SNL skits of all time thanks to Chris Farley. Epic. Swayze also played a great motivational speaker/paedophile in Donnie Darko.

Patrick Swayze - Chippendale
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