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09/27/09
(the royal we, with brains) aren't freaking out b/c we've through the shittiest of shits, so wasting my time yelling about six year old beings psyched about the President is just that - a waste of time. Continue to feed your trolls and have the poor do your bidding, its what Republicans, and politicians, really do the best. But I would love there to be a day to just watch a few of these morons, these tea bagging idiots, when they get their moment of clarity, because that will be a beautiful day.
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Attention all morons: BARACK. HUSSEIN. OBAMA. IS. A. BLACK. MAN. We have not had a President who was a BLACK MAN before.
African-American people in this country have lived through generations of oppression and state supported and/or sponsored inequity. They have lived through state sponsored and/or sanctioned racial violence. They have lived through denials of their rights to vote, to hold jobs for which they are qualified, to be paid for those jobs (AT ALL), to live peacefully anywhere they choose and to live their lives free from racist terrorism. They have lived for centuries unable to trust their own governments for protection.
Someone who has lived all of that is in the fucking White House.
The. White. House.
President.
When that man was born, black voters in several states were being met with fucking fire hoses, chains and dogs - by law enforcement officers at that.
Good, bad or mediocre President that he will be, that man is now and will forever more be a HERO in American history for the centuries of oppression and segregation that he overcame. It's done. It's over. It's now. It's forever.
That's just a reminder to the bubble-living crybabies who were a little confused as to what Obama's election meant to tens of millions of Americans. It seems that many a badass "Libertarian" were confusing that chant with some indoctrination with Neo-Keynesian gospel.
Racist fucking idiots.
09/26/09
That Obama song was some creepy-ass, inappropriate line-crossing shit right there.
09/26/09
I'm so fucking sick of assholes like you who probably went around calling people unpatriotic if you disagreed with Bush's decision to invade Iraq for no fucking reason. Singing a song of praise for our President is patriotic - something my guess is that you take very seriously (and are ironically using justifying your anger towards our President b/c you just love this country so much).
So get a fucking grip and at least try to express disapproval of this administration based on policy instead of these non-issues. Then again, if you're actually getting worked up about one school singing a harmless song about our President, I doubt you're actually capable to have a discussion of issues. But do this country a favor & fuck off until you have something worth while to contribute.
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How nice that you can repurpose the same old tired names to slam anyone who doesn't think kids singing about Obama = the Khmer Rouge. Ugh.
09/27/09
"Back in 2006 children from Gulf Coast states serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the President, Congress, and Federal Emergency Management Agency for their response to -- of all things -- Hurricane Katrina. The lyrics were as follow:
Our country's stood beside us People have sent us aid. Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade. Congress, Bush and FEMA People across our land Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!"
I'm sure you were outraged about that, too.
Read more at: [www.huffingtonpost.com]
09/27/09
The thing is, the Katrina song was probably unique, whereas the Obama cult runs deep and borders on the religious. And you people shouldn't pretend it doesn't exist or make excuses for it. If you want your guys to have any chance of reelection, you'd start taking things like this very seriously.
09/27/09
Thanks but no thanks. We did just fine without your advice last time and we'll do the same next time around.
09/27/09
But as far as the "cult of Obama" goes, I don't belong to a demographic group whose members were, as recently as 50 years ago was threatened with violent death for exercising their right to vote. I am not surprised at all that some of the people in that group have gone overboard in their praise of the first of their race to be elected President of the United States. It's an amazing accomplishment. And it's fucking harmless.
But I have lived in a country that had a President for life and the attendant cult of personality (Syria) from 2000 to 2004. I know what it looks like. And it looks, sounds and feels a lot more like America under GW Bush than anything going on now. The stickers on the cars, the love it or leave it mentality, the accusations of un-Americanism for the act of dissent: that is a creepy cult of personality if ever there was one. Fucker started a war we're still bogged down in, in part, in order to force a vote ahead of the 2002 mid-term elections.
And, miraculously, we survived the Turd Blossom special.
As for Obama's re-election chances, well, if anything has poisoned the well of American politics, it's the parties and their obsession with reelection. I just want the guy to do a good job in the here and now. And it would be nice if the opposition confined its criticism to policy and got off its crazy-assed "Obama is the anti-Christ" rag.
But that's probably too much to ask.
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I'm so tired of pretending the bullshit isn't transparently false. I'm so tired of addressing it with anything remotely resembling respect of a "point". I'm all for "Go fuck yourself" diatribes these days, because these knee-jerk right wingers HAVE NO FUCKING POINT.
You, Citizen Marin, fucking rock.
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To be totally frank, does anyone not believe that in the bloodlusty heyday of post nineeleven furor, when everyone lusted for the dark, sweet blood of muslims, that lower to middle class children in country public schools weren't being indocrinated with the cult of Bush, which sounds like a hot lesbian thing but turned out to be an incredibly destructive stupid war thing? I think it's probably just as wonderful on a subconscious level for conservative elements to wage heroic war on behalf of your certain people against a certain people, as it might be subconsciously disturbing to see black people defining themselves patriotically, and to realize that they are your people too and that you have to grow and realize and accept.
It's the reason that totalitarianism always casts such a long shadow over conservatism. Because at heart, they have the same legendary, mythic view of society and race as in a great fantasy novel - a group of people tied together by descent, rising to fulfill the promise of their heritage. The famous dictators of history also held the same sorts of Manichean views, and always tried to unify a race. Of course, fantasy novels are generally also about the resolution of problems between these groups, and the increased ties that result... but maybe conservatives don't read to the ends of books?
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Really, though, I in no way think that this is the same as Chinese indoctrination, but that is what it reminds me of. That would have been a lot more salient a reference for TC to use than the Khmer Rouge.
09/26/09
I mean, every time someone sings about Johnny Appleseed, does Tucker fatface Carlson pop our of a nearby closet (yep) and scream "KHMEEEEERRRRR!" while pointing evilly?
09/26/09
BTW, I thought Black History Month is February. Maybe they're just preparing well in advance, but it makes me chuckle to think the principal just said that 'cause he figured those people screaming about this wouldn't know.
09/26/09
Not a quick bunch.
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I demand that Carlson produce a "certificate of innocence", stamped by the Federal Government, in long form.
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