Bethlehem. The one in Pennsylvania, not the one where the baby Jesus was born. If the Jesus these people claim to worship heard what comes out of their mouths, for real he’d call up Dad and ask him to hurry up the next flood. Despicable.
Ta-Nehisi Coates comments at The Atlantic on all this unbridled insanity, which the McCain/Palin/Rove camp has been aggressively stoking:
But I’ve been thinking about this McCain-Palin Obama “palling around with terrorist” idea more lately. The saddest thing about many Republicans isn’t just that they disagree with liberals on race–it’s they are largely ignorant on race. When the McCain campaign cast the spell of diabolical jingoism, they have no idea of the forces they are toying with. We remember Martin Luther King’s murder as a sad and tragic event. Less remembered is the fact that ground-work for King’s murder was seeded, not simply by rank white supremacy, but by people who slandered King as a communist.
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Let me be clear–This is the ghost that McCain Campaign is summoning. This is the Ring Of Power that they want to wield. The Muslim charge, the “Hussein” thing is nothing more than today’s red-baiting, and it is what it was then–a cover for racists. You may say I’m overreacting, and I really hope you’re right. 999,000 out 1 million times we’ll go on like normal and proceed to Election Day. But if some shit pops off, the thug and thug-mongers will not be able to throw up their hands and say “How could I have known?” Ignorance will not save them. Their stupidity is a scourge on us all.
(Thanks to correspondent mutagen for the Coates quote).
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Ugly. I had to stop watching about two thirds of the way through. I feel such hot shame and anger at the state of my country, the vast ignorance I witness on a daily basis. It is simply bewildering to see these haters with the masks of propriety stripped away. The things they will themselves to believe. Lies trumpeted by the Republican Machine, courting extremists, and amping up the vileness. All of this eerily echoes the rise of fascism in the thirties. Yes, I too fear that all this pandering to the emotions of fear and prejudice will set the ball in motion for assassination attempts if Obama gets elected. The tone McCain has taken for his campaign is unforgivable.
Just for the sake of clarity: the reason states are “battleground” states is because intelligent people live right next door to these fuckwads. I’m from Pennsylvania and went to school in Ohio — both states are FILLED with responsible voters who have no truck with this crap. I’m just sayin’, is all.
It never fails to astound me how negative and racist and uninformed and full of HATE these people are. And how very very WHITE all of them were. And old.
One of our profs. is from Pennsylvania and he describes the state as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. It is sickening to know that this type of shit is still as prevalent as it is.
For the record, our prof is one of the kindest and most intelligent human beings it has ever been my privilege to know.
I just fear for this country so much and if republicans get in, I will probably start to fear for my own safety and that of my friends.