There is nothing so low that these fuckers won’t stoop to it. When are the Democrats going to get that through their thick skulls?
Don’t Miss That Meme
As you can see in our feature story over on the right, [here] the White House’s new line is that Barack Obama may be too “intellectually lazy” to run a serious presidential campaign let alone be President of the United States.
But don’t think this allusion to generations of stereotypes about black men was just some stray comment.
The RNC just shot off an email building on the slur. With the headline “Razzle Dazzle”, the email continues the theme that Obama is just another black fancy-pants with a slick smile and nice turn of phrase but either without the candle-power or stick-to-it-iveness to actually get things done.
“Chicago Star Obama Continues His All Show, No Substance Campaign With Event On Broadway,” the email begins.
What to expect next out of the RNC? Obama would be a better singer and tap dancer than president?
Why stop there? Why don’t the RNC just run up ol’ Dixie over Congress and hook a couple of nooses to the bumper of the presidential limo?
All they have left to appeal to now is the base of the base of the base (and I use ‘base’ in its basest sense) – the rich white trash, the social inadequates, the creationists, the hardcore eliminationists, the milporn lovin’ chickenhawks and the staring-eyed John Birchers. They infest big money political donor groups like the Veterans of Foreign Wars and National Rifle Association and they’re just salivating for the day when all their Turner Diaries-fed fantasies of themselves as an oppressed minority striking back against liberals come true, and they get to play armageddon for real.
The dogwhistle’s blowing and the flying monkey minions hear it loud and clear. There’s to be 15 more months of this, supposedly; I dread to think how much lower the Republican party is going to go. What if a candidate is assassinated as a result of these naked appeals to bigotry?
I can’t decide whether that is in fact what the GOP and White House want or whether it’s just that they’ve become so powerdrunk and so arrogant that they think they can control a rabble once they’ve roused it. Either way, presiidential politics are taking an even scarier turn. Whatever you think of his politics, Barack Obama is a very, very brave man.
JoeBuddha
September 25, 2007 at 11:28 amAnd they have the nerve to condemn the MoveOn ad? I’m sick of having to pander to their delicate sensibilities, all the while being called a traitor or worse by these same idiots. I think we should stop the “although I didn’t like the language” disclaimer and defend the MoveOn ad to the hilt. Stop rolling over, and stand up for what we believe. Maybe we could even start to move the MSM toward reality, if only a bit…
Palau
September 26, 2007 at 7:52 amI’ve been banging on for years into the void that this is yer actual down n dirty in the digital trenches information warfare we’re fighting: why is it that that Republicans and wingers (politically deluded though they are) are smart enough to get that, but the supposed ‘brights’, the soft progressives and the sensible liberal Democrats, don’t? They’re still convinced they’re going to win by the use of sweet reason when in fact it’s all about who shouts loudest, ho is the most ubiquitous and who controls the process.
Bush Sr. made an awful lot of speeches in the eighties in which he talked about process politics at which point liberals eyes glazed over. They wanted to hear about issues.
While even while the Democrats ere busy congratulating themselves on Clinton’s election the Republicans were building every town, city and state taking control of the formal and informal political process and the political spaces: tv stations, regulatory bodies like the FCC, electoral offices, district attorneys offices, courts, radio stations…staffing all these places with party loyalists. It’s what’s known as ‘entryism’
It wasn’t really until after the Gore election fesr (though the Clinton impeachment gave a clue) that liberal Americans realised that they’d been sneaked up on the night and hogtied. Both the medium and the message were now substantially owned by the corporate Right.
The rise of blogging and the protection of the first amendment has enabled a samizdat reaction, but I wonder how long that can last, as the internet ibecomes increasingly surveilled and corporate owned and controlled. As long it lasts, anayay, what we can do is call them for what they are and screw civility.