Will Joe be like Jayson tonight?

Watching the Nationals play the Cards before the debate. These D.C. fans aren't used to baseball in October. I hope they enjoy it, because they won't be playing this late in the season again for awhile.

Anywhoo, it's almost debate time. I think I will be live blogging it with the folks at KCRW in Los Angeles. I am not a big fan of live blogging, because I like to think before I say certain things. It's so easy to get in trouble these days.

This debate should be fun. Uncle Joe is the underdog (as he should be) and there is no telling what he will say. We know Paul Ryan will run away from his record in congress, and he will try not to beat up on the old guy and get Uncle Joe sympathy from the AARP crowd.

If Uncle Joe is smart he will always refer to Ryan as congressman. Americans hate congress. Joe should make sure that Americans remember that Paul Ryan is a member of congress.

I can't wait for the spin after this one. The dems need it more than the repubs, but even if Uncle Joe wipes the floor with Eddie Munster in a suit, it won't matter much. A point here or there in the polls and that's about it. The big show will come when the guys at the top of the ticket square off again. Obama and his team really needs that one. Romney, on the other hand, just has to maintain....

Holy crap! Former Phillie, Jayson Werth, just went yard for the Nats.
Raul last night and now Werth. WTF has gotten into these former Phillies?

Lord I hope they don't get used to this October thing. There will be a game five.

Folks, I will holla at you after the debate.

The Andrew Sullivan's suicide watch, and a new political low.

Poor Andrew Sullivan has been absolutely unhinged since president Obama played nice Negro at the last debate with Mitt Romney. Andrew has been in a state of perturbation ever since. (I might have to stop following him on twitter. The guy makes me want to call the suicide hot line for him every time I read one of his tweets.)

"The Pew poll is devastating, just devastating. Before the debate, Obama had a 51 - 43 lead; now, Romney has a 49 - 45 lead. That's a simply unprecedented reversal for a candidate in October. Before Obama had leads on every policy issue and personal characteristic; now Romney leads in almost all of them. Obama's performance gave Romney a 12 point swing! I repeat: a 12 point swing.
Romney's favorables are above Obama's now. Yes, you read that right. Romney's favorables are higher than Obama's right now. That gender gap that was Obama's firewall? Over in one night....

Look: I'm trying to rally some morale, but I've never seen a candidate this late in the game, so far ahead, just throw in the towel in the way Obama did last week - throw away almost every single advantage he had with voters and manage to enable his opponent to seem as if he cares about the middle class as much as Obama does. How do you erase that imprinted first image from public consciousness: a president incapable of making a single argument or even a halfway decent closing statement? And after Romney's convincing Etch-A-Sketch, convincing because Obama was incapable of exposing it, Romney is now the centrist candidate, even as he is running to head up the most radical party in the modern era."
 

Calm down Andrew, let me explain what it is like to be a high profile black man in America when you want white folks- whose natural inclination is to be afraid of you- to see you as something less than threatening. You smile a lot, --even when it is forced. You retreat with your body language, you try not to argue or be snappy with your answers, and you do not raise your voice. Romney can act like Mel Gibson on a coffee binge, Obama, on the other hand, could not. (Head down, no eye contact)

What I am explaining is a political strategy that Barack Obama used to get elected. It worked for him because he was new, and every American was searching for that Magic Negro. Well the Magic Negro has been in power for four years, and suddenly he is not so magical anymore. Now his supporters want a fighter. They want someone to look Mitt Romney in the eye and tell him that he is a lying SOB. It's why Andrew Sullivan and others like him are so upset with his debate performance. They wanted Richard Pryor and he gave them Bill Cosby.

Now, of course, we have to see if president Obama understands the dynamics of the American electorate. They don't want an angry black man, but they do want someone who is passionate and can defend his record. Mr. Obama told black folks today while talking to Tom Joyner. (Whoops, maybe I shouldn't have said that. I know how it is when you Negroes talk to each other.) He said that he was too polite during the debate. I guess that was his wink/wink to you Negroes that he is going back to being himself, and if he comes off as angry well then so be it. We will see.

I am sure Andrew will be watching. Let's just hope that he isn't close to a very high bridge. If Obama loses again the poor guy might jump. 

Finally, will someone please tell Mitt Romney that it's not cool to score cheap political points with dead American heroes? Clearly Barbara Doherty seems to think that he needs to be told.

 "The mother of a former Navy SEAL killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is criticizing Mitt Romney for using her son as a political "football" and is questioning Romney's account of his meeting with him.
Barbara Doherty spoke with KIRO Radio's Ross and Burbank Wednesday morning. "I'm just upset that Mitt Romney is using this for his political gain and I don't think it should be a political issue when four young men have died," she said from her home in Woburn, Mass. 

   Doherty said her son never mentioned meeting Romney, saying it most likely "wasn't too meaningful."

She's not the only one questioning Romney's account. A close friend of Doherty's told The Ron and Don Show Glen had a much different recollection of the meeting. "He said it was very comical," Elf Ellefsen said in an interview with producer Libby Denkman. , "Mitt Romney approached him ultimately four times, using this private gathering as a political venture to further his image. He kept introducing himself as Mitt Romney, a political figure. The same introduction, the same opening line. Glen believed it to be very insincere and stale."Ellefson said Romney's use of Doherty for his campaign "makes him sick." [Source] 






 

An old issue is back, and Stacey disses Obama.

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Bless Abigail Fisher’s pure white heart. She was a straight A student in high school and even played the cello for good measure. Her sibling and her father attended UT Austin, and that is where she wanted to go. But, sadly for Ms. Fisher, she had to settle for one of Mrs. Field’s alma mater, LSU.(My heart bleeds.) Of course, like so many other white people in “post racial” America, she is sick of being discriminated against, so she is did what any red blooded American would do: she sued.

Now, four years later, her case is before the Supremes.
The University of Texas says that even without "affirmative action" Abigail wouldn't have made the cut. But Abigail doesn't believe it; she thinks that one of those minorities took her spot. Her spot.
 

So can a university select a student body it wants to look like the larger community and society at large? Does having a more diverse student body give students who graduate from said university a better opportunity to compete in the real world? The University of Texas seems to think so. 

Republican appointed jurist, Sandra Day O’Conner, writing for the majority in a case styled Grutter v. Bollinger, believes that it does as well. Abigail, --and  I suspect most white people in America-- does not.

You can’t use racial quotas, but you can certainly consider race as one of the factors. This seems reasonable to me if you consider other factors such as economic background and family hardships as well. I am all for a poor white kid who has been disadvantaged all of his or her life getting more consideration than a wealthy black kid with all the privileges afforded those with wealth in this country.

To me, there is affirmative action and what the University of Texas is doing. What they are doing is not affirmative action, what they are doing is trying to enhance their student body by bringing people of different backgrounds and experiences together.

But still, should we feel for some woe is me white folks like the ones I read about in Slate Magazine, today?

"I’ll start with the anger. J.R. Constable writes that after taking the community college courses he was told were required, he tried to transfer to California State University at Fresno, only to be told by a counselor there off the record: “ ‘We can’t admit you, because we have too many white males enrolled in your major.’ ” He says, “I was enraged,” and continues:

I wish I could say that within a few weeks I got over it, but I still find myself once in a while having the thoughts that I missed a promotion because of my gender, or race. Or that because I'm white I don't have as much potential, or ability. That I was being viewed as a failure. If life is supposed to be so much easier for me, why do I have to struggle so much?

Immediately after the incident, I was at the worst of my self-loathing, I was constantly hating myself for what I was, a white man. I hated myself for what I was becoming, a bigot. Race and gender went from being a non-issue, to being the only issue. I was crushed, and I dropped out of school. I settled in to the fact that because of something that happened to me at conception, that I had no control over, that is an insignificant part of the larger sum of me, I’d been doomed to being at the bottom.

 

J.R. says he was rejected from Cal State in the early 2000s, after California voters passed a referendum that barred the state from considering race, sex, or ethnicity in public employment, contracting, or education. He says he was told that the school needed more minorities in his major because of a federal funding mandate, and that trumped the state law. He also says he grew up poor, taking care of his disabled mother, and that he’s sure being on the losing side of affirmative action, as he sees it, was a terrible turning point for him."

An email from a man from Austin had the same flavor. When he didn’t get into the University of Texas at Austin law school in the mid-1970s, he was told that he’d met the minimum standard for test scores and grades, “but because of affirmative action and the fact that the University was trying to increase minority enrollment, there were not enough places for me. Tough luck.” He didn’t have the money to attend another law school, since he was living and working in Austin. “I never became an attorney,” he continues. “ I don’t harbor any ill will, but I guess just regret and sadness.

I checked on UT’s affirmative action policy in the ’70s. According to a 1994 court ruling, the law school had a separate admissions committee that considered applications from minority students and disadvantaged white students. In 1977, out of 500 applications, the committee admitted 68 minority students and three white students. So it’s true that the law school was trying to increase minority enrollment, and it’s possible that these efforts could have edged out a white student on the margin. For the man who wrote to me, that possibility is enough for a life’s worth of complicated emotion.
 

Robert Grant, who went to law school at the University of Mississippi in the 1990s, feels bitter about the scholarships he saw go to minority students. He’d just come out of the Air Force, the GI Bill didn’t cover graduate school, and he was working the graveyard shift at a local hotel to pay for school when he ran into a black classmate parking her fancy car. She was on scholarship; he was not. “This is justified as a remedy for past discrimination. Fine,” he writes. “However, I currently have over $100,000 in student loans. ... I wouldn’t be human if it didn’t leave a bad taste in my mouth.” [Source]

How did he know that the black law school student "parking her fancy car" didn't have a rich daddy? Anyway, I feel his pain. Color arousal can be a b*&^# sometimes.

Finally, I wish that you Negroes would leave Stacey Dash alone. So she supports Mitt Romney, there is nothing wrong with that. (Wasn't her biggest movie called "Clueless"?) This is America, and she pretty much has a right to support who she wants to become our president. I know I slammed her on twitter, but I was joking. I was not the person who called her a house slave.

Rip Stacey for her acting career....wait, she has no acting career. OK, fine, rip her for messing with my girl LisaRaye; but not this.

“Believe me I wish things had worked out because I thought Stacey and I were great together. She was my age and we were working it. It was sex-symbol to sex-symbol. But she didn’t want to be there. I was disappointed about that. She had some issues. I’m not sure exactly what those issues were. In the end, she and VH1 made a decision.”

Well, now we know. The poor child was having buyer's remorse over his Oness.

*Pic from Slate magazine.
  

 

Philly tough.

Here in Philly I live among a bunch of badasses. I mean everybody has an edge and an attitude. Bums in Philly don't ask you to spare some change, they pretty much tell you to give it up. And that's the women.

Everybody in Philly believes that they can kick they next guy's ass. It's why I stopped going to Eagle's games a long time ago. There is nothing worse than a bunch of liquored up Philadelphians watching their "Iggles". Sorry, I am too old to be knocking fools on their backs.

This leads me to the latest black eye on my beloved city.

Seems that a bunch of folks just couldn't get along while they were celebrating two different weddings in the same space and all hell broke loose. [Watch]

Did you see that bride at the end? Girlfriend is all Phillytude.

"PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say a man died of a heart attack amid a massive brawl that broke out between people attending two different wedding receptions in downtown Philadelphia.

The incident happened early Sunday morning at a hotel in the Society Hill section when fighting broke out among dozens of people attending the receptions.

Police say a 57-year-old guest suffered a fatal heart attack outside the reception, but they don't know if he was involved in any of the fights.
Dozens of people were involved in the altercations and police arrested three people; at least one man was subdued with a stun gun. Police say they don't know what started the brawl, but that alcohol was involved.

Gee, ya think?

Finally, I just watched some of Mitt's foreign policy speech. This is the one that was supposed to show us his gravitas on such matters and make him look even more presidential after his debate with his Oness.

Mitt thinks he is from Philly, because he was talking really tough. Mitt sounded like he was ready to take on the world and show them that the Divided States of America can kick their collective asses. 

"This president's policies have not been equal to our best examples of world leadership, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East," Romney said in his speech at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va. "It is the responsibility of our president to use America's great power to shape history, not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events. Unfortunately, that is exactly where we find ourselves in the Middle East under President Obama."

Maybe I would pay more attention to Mitt if he didn't surround himself with most of the same people who advised the last republican president. I am sure that the families of about 4,500 young Americans would agree with me.








    

Maybe Joe was right. And the campaign of the dead.

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I have to give it to republicans, at least they are consistent. Take, for instance, Arkansas state senator, John Hubbard. My man doesn't think that slavery was such a bad thing. In fact, he believes that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" for you Negroes. (Joe Biden is looking like a prophet right about now.)

"A Republican member of the Arkansas state senate’s self-published memoir claims that for black people in America, slavery was a “blessing in disguise,” that, if they were physically hardy enough to survive it, “someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” According to the Arkansas Times, Rep. Jon Hubbard, of Jonesboro, included these thought and others in his book, Letters to the Editor, Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative, which was initially written about and excerpted by writer Michael Cook at Talk Business.

“(T)he institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise,” Hubbard wrote. “The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” [Source]

Yes, because nothing says great nation like enslaving your own citizens.

Anyway, this too will pass. Just another Southern wingnut politrickster who is making the rest of us in these divided states of America believe that having them secede wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Mr. Hubbard is from Arkansas, Mr. Broun is from Georgia. --We will miss you Atlanta--. Sorry, but the thought of Paul Broun being an elected leader and policy maker in Washington is scary.

Speaking of scary politricksters, I see that Mr. Romney has been showing his more human side lately on the election trail. Well, his human side as it relates to dead people.

"Trying to convince voters that he is human. (Ann can't do all the work herself.) Of course, Romney's not super experienced when it comes to this sort of thing, so his efforts have been a little awkward. Mostly, he's been talking about dead people.

Romney spent the weekend in Florida where he debuted a new version of his stump speech containing three "revealing and personal" stories about deaths that impacted his life. The first was about an old friend from graduate school — Bill Hulse, a quadriplegic as a result of an accident — who recently attended a campaign event:

"It's not easy for Billy to get around. Quadriplegic…he can't move, of course, his arms and his legs, and he can barely speak," Romney said. "I reached down and I put my hand on Billy's shoulder and I whispered into his ear, and I said 'Billy, God bless you, I love ya.' And he whispered right back to me – and I couldn't quite hear what he said. He tried to speak loud enough for me to hear."
 

Hulse died the day after the encounter. "It’s rare that you get the chance to tell someone how much you love them while you still can," Romney added.

Next up was a tribute to a 14-year-old Mormon church member who Romney counseled during the boy's battle with leukemia. At one point, he asked "Brother Romney" to help him draft his will: "So I went to the hospital and got my legal pad to make it look official," Romney recalled. "[David] said, ‘I want my fishing rod to go to one friend, and I want my skateboard to go to another friend, and I want my rifle to go to my brother.'" For extra human appeal, he concluded the story with a Friday Night Lights reference: “I thought of that wonderful slogan some years later: clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose. David passed away, but I’ll always remember — never forget — his courage, his clear eyes, full heart. He won’t lose."

Finally, he talked about meeting a woman at the Republican National Convention whose husband had been killed in Afghanistan. Anti-war protesters had picketed the funeral. When asked "What do you think of these people?" she told Romney: "Chris died for them to be able to protest." The lesson? "This is quite a nation we live in." [Source]

Hey, at least he didn't tell any stories about bringing anyone back from the dead. I bet if he did my GOP friends in the South would believe it. After all, God does "move in mysterious ways". 

*Pic from rawstory.com

 

Big Bird is no joke.

I know that we have been joking a lot about Mitt's remark about firing Big Bird during the debates, but putting all jokes aside; there was nothing funny about what Mitt said. It shouldn't only be the kids and Jim Lehrer who are distressed about Mitt's declarations.

Let's get serious about policy for a minute. How, exactly, does Mitt plan to make up the five trillion dollars in taxes he is cutting for the wealthy among us? ("I don't have a 5 trillion dollar tax cut". Yeah right, Mitt.) Does Mitt really believe that he can make up this revenue by simply cutting funding to PBS? Here is a fact: The PBS budget is approximately 0.012% of the federal budget. And it's not just the fact that Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted it. ("Cutting PBS support 0.012% of budget to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive".) Those percentages are real.

"Governor Mitt Romney’s proposals to cap total federal spending at 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and boost defense spending to 4 percent of GDP would require very large cuts in other programs, both entitlements and discretionary programs.

This update of an earlier analysis is based on updated economic and budget projections that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued this summer and additional information that the Romney campaign has provided on his budget proposals. The resulting estimates of the required budget cuts are somewhat smaller than the ones we released on May 21, but they are still very deep.

For the most part, Governor Romney has not outlined cuts in specific programs. But if policy­makers repealed health reform (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) and exempted Social Security from cuts, as Romney has suggested, and cut Medicare, Medicaid, and all other entitlement and discretionary programs by the same percentage to meet Romney’s overall spending cap and defense spending target, then they would have to cut non-defense programs other than Social Security by 22 percent in 2016 and 34 percent in 2022 (see Figure 1). If they exempted Medicare from cuts for this period, the cuts in other programs would have to be even more dramatic — 32 percent in 2016 and 53 percent in 2022." [Source]

Mitt has a long way to make up all that revenue he is talking about taking out of the budget. Where is the money going to come from? You can't make it up by adding to the military budget, and you sure as hell can't make it up by firing poor Big Bird.

Sadly, Mitt, along with his republican colleagues, has vowed not to raise taxes. This goes contrary to the wishes of the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission who declared that we cannot solve the country's fiscal problems without "raising revenue and cutting spending".    

You black folks in Virginia better keep these facts in your mind when the robocalls start coming in.

"The Romney campaign has launched a robocall campaign in, at least, Virginia, featuring a disaffected Obama supporter who says she will give the Massachusetts Republican a chance in this election.

The call, which was flagged by Shaun Dakin, CEO and founder of StopPoliticalCalls.org, features a woman named Marketa explaining her disappointments after voting for the president in 2008.

"When I voted for Obama I was looking for a new start with the president. I was really hopeful and faithful about his promises. Obama, I've been seeing what you've been doing for four years and honestly it has not been beneficial to me or my family. All the talk he did, all the speeches, at the end of the day I feel like he still forgot about us. I want to weigh the options I want to see maybe what Romney can offer." [Source]

Marketa, I sure hope that the gun they held to your head wasn't loaded.











 

 

Off the plantation.

I am off the plantation on business. I will drop a post later today.

The narcotics cop and Big Bird.

If you are a criminal lawyer you can understand where I am coming from with this next issue that I have when I am doing my (second) day job.

So you are asking a veteran narcotics officer some questions at a preliminary hearing. He is sitting in the witness box and you know that he is lying through his teeth, but you can't call him on it, because...well, he is a veteran narcotics officer. He is good at it, because he has been prepped by the District Attorney's office, and he has been doing it a long time. So what do you do? You call him on it. You tell him that you know he is lying over the objections of opposing counsel. The Judge will sustain the objection of course, but then you tell him again that he is lying, just to let him --and everyone in the room-- know how incensed you are that an officer of the law would lie under oath.

Poor President Obama was not a trial lawyer; he was a law professor, and it showed last night. When Mitt was telling lie after lie in the thin air of Denver, (28 and counting) all he could do was stare at him like a deer caught in the middle of the night on a country road. And, to his credit, the more Mitt got away with it, is the more he lied. The shady narcotics cop had the law professor on the run.

Now,unlike my man Chris Matthews, I don't think President Obama's performance was all that bad. Yes, Flipper beat him, but only time will tell if his Mel Gibson on steroids act played well with sane moderate voters.

Folks are saying that President Obama could have closed the deal and that he failed to do it. This, of course, is ludicrous. The American chattering class and their media bosses wasn't going to allow this deal to close quite so early. There is still money to be made from advertising dollars. We need people to watch these next three debates, and listen to all the chattering that leads up to them. I suspect that even if President Obama had given a good performance last night the main stream media would have declared him the loser. 

Honestly, other than the fact that Mitt wants to take Big Bird's job, I didn't get anything from last night's debate. (Big Bird??!!WTF?) The talking points and the usual back and forth was typical and to be expected. I expected Mitt to tell us how is going to fire people, and I expected President Obama to let us know what a disaster of a country he inherited. I wasn't disappointed on either front.

President Obama talked a good game on the stump again this morning, but we all have to wonder where his fire was last night. He said that there was a different Mitt on stage with him. Well, some of my Obamaholic friends would argue that President Obama wasn't on that stage, either.

The good news for President Obama is that he has two more bites of the apple.(And he only has one wedding anniversary every year.) The bad news for president Obama is that he has never been in a court room staring down a shady narcotics cop.         

The politics of hatred.

I am getting ready for this debate tonight, -twiter here I come- so I am going to get my post out of the way now.  

Anyway, my wingnut friends have been deep in into their Obama derangement syndrome of late.

First there was that "bombshell" tape that FOX News, and Matt Drudge Dud was to deliver that would change the shape of the elections and be Mitt's answer to the 47% hidden tape.

Well, we saw it, and unfortunately for FOX and their friends, we have seen it all before. Next.

One person who was quite intrigued with the tape was our friend Ann Coulter. Ann thinks that O was trying to garner black cred by going all Malcolm X. (BTW, I happen to like how Malcolm X gave his speeches.)

"Ann Coulter: Obama is such a fraud. He grew up in Beverly Hills 90210 existence but is just desperate to have this angry black person persona. It's rather like reading about, you know, Hitler's musings on his Germanic identity. You know, he graduated from this fancy, fancy school in Hawaii, voted recently the greenest school in America. And yet when he wants to, he just turns it on and suddenly we got Malcolm X speaking to us.

Mark Levin: Well, actually, he and his wife, I mean they really have had better than the quote, unquote middle class lives, haven't they? I mean they've gone to great Ivy League schools, as you point out. They live great lives, people have helped take care of them. Now they live like a king and queen.

Coulter: Yes, and still angry. It's all an act. It's like his 70% of Twitter followers being fake. The whole thing is just smoke and mirrors. And at least for people of our generation, I mean this is a large part of why we have more child molesters than racists in America. It just isn't part of our existence. During our entire lifetimes, the only affect of being black is that you get benefits, doors open for you. You are more likely to get a position in the Harvard Law School. Anyone who grew up watching the Brady Bunch -- racism and discrimination, at least discrimination against black people, there is some discrimination against white people -- simply isn't a part of our conceptional apparatus. Which is why it is so strange, of all people, this half-black man born in Hawaii in 1961 walking around like he's Martin Luther King." [Source]
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Ann, it's you and your friend Mark who seem "angry". But I guess white anger is cool. It's that black anger we have to watch out for. 

Speaking of white anger, how about this guy?

"A Facebook photo of a handgun posted on Friday by Brad Staats, the Republican nominee for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District, has stirred controversy over its accompanying caption, which concludes with the words "welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama."

"Many people in Tennessee keep asking me about my opinion on Second Amendment rights. Apparently Tennesseans are part of that crazy crowd that Obama says ‘cling to (their) religion and guns,'" Staats wrote, referencing remarks made by then-candidate Obama at a California fundraiser in 2008. "Well, then I must be part of that crazy crowd. Here is something that I usually have with me. Welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama."

The photo of a Colt 911 semi-automatic pistol raised concerns among some who thought Staats might be threatening the President. [Source]

Oh my! Where does all this anger and hate for the beige one come from?
They have even put out a warning to "white women" (from Mitt's camp no less) about voting for his Oness. 

Gene Lyons, bless his soul, tried to understand it, and he wrote a wonderful essay about the phenomenon that is Obama hate. He rightfully concludes that by focusing on their hatred for Obama, they lose focus of what really matters and their party's brand will become tainted.

"The temptation for Southern Republicans would be to double down on the crazy, because “conservatism,” so-called, can never fail, only be failed. Also because religious melodrama is really what an awful lot of them are really about. That, and Koch Brothers money. They’re not actually conservatives at all, in the classical sense, but sentimental fanatics seeking to purge the nation of sin; adepts of “limited government” with their noses buried in women’s panty drawers; apostles of a lost Utopia located in a non-existent past, most often in 60s sitcoms like “The Andy Griffith Show.”

In that sense, fear and loathing of President Obama strikes me as a lot wider than deep; a fad, not an existential dread. They survived the Voting Rights Act; they’ll get over this. However, adapting to the new political reality may take some time.

Too bad, because the nation needs a principled conservative party to check the follies of the anti-gravity left."

Today, it hasn’t got one.[Source]

Obama better hope that Mitt doesn't jump across the stage tonight. A man can only hold in his hatred for so long.

Mitt, please chill; it's the man's wedding anniversary for crying out loud.

*Pic from sodahead.com





      

Mr. Will's race card.

"...Obama’s administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically. This may not, however, entirely be evidence of the irrationality of the electorate. Something more benign may be at work.

A significant date in the nation’s civil rights progress involved an African American baseball player named Robinson, but not Jackie. The date was Oct. 3, 1974, when Frank Robinson, one the greatest players in history, was hired by the Cleveland Indians as the major leagues’ first black manager. But an even more important milestone of progress occurred June 19, 1977, when the Indians fired him. That was colorblind equality.

Managers get fired all the time. The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson — who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams — showed that another racial barrier had fallen: Henceforth, African Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives.

Perhaps a pleasant paradox defines this political season: That Obama is African American may be important, but in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC’s excitable boys and girls who, with their (at most) one-track minds and exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors, sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up. Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head." {More}

George Will has written a lot of crap in his day, but his latest philippic against Barack Obama might be his most disgraceful to date. It was disgraceful because Mr. Will used the race card to justify his partisan rhetoric. Reasonable people can argue over Barack Obama's accomplishments or lack thereof. (I have certainly had my own issues with the guy) As I have stated before, his presidency hasn't been Kennedyesque, but it hasn't been Nixonesque or Carteresque, either. I know one thing, after eight years of W he was a welcome change. (Pun Intended.)

To suggest that the only reason President Obama is leading Mitt Romney in the polls is because Americans have some soft spot for his race is laughable. I would submit to Mr. Will that Obama is getting grief from certain people in America because of his black half.

It would be nice, as Chris Rock once said, if a black man could get a job, be incompetent while doing that job, get fired from that job, and another black man could actually be hired to take his place. But we all know that's not the case. The black man in a high profile position as president is viewed by many as a black man first.  His accomplishments, no matter how great, won't matter to some folks, because of that one little issue.  

Yes, "managers get fired all the time", but they are fired because their team is losing. I would suggest to Mr. Will that this manager is not losing. At least half the fans of the team think that the manager is doing just fine. And, unlike baseball, the fans vote to keep their manager; not the owner of the team.

     

Zingers and punches.

I am looking forward to the debates on Wednesday. Mitt is practicing zingers to throw at Obama, but honestly, he needs to tell us what he will do to improve our condition, and what his plans are for making the country better.--- Like, for instance, how he plans to pay for the trillions of tax breaks he plans to give away and all the money he will pour into the military.--- He can save the zingers for Leno's sofa.

As for Obama, I had a law professor like him back in the day, and I absolutely hated to go to my man's class. Booorrring! O is that dude who you never want to ask for directions on a street corner. "Sir, how do I get to Main Street?" "Well.....first, you have to understand, you are driving in a motor vehicle, and motorized vehicles run on gas, and so...." let me stop before you Obamaholics get all over me. But you get the point: O has got to cut to the chase scenes much quicker than he has a tendency to do.

Tune in folks, it should be fun.

Finally, I see that a member of Philly's finest got himself into some hot water . You all know damn good and well that if the officer involved with this incident was "Mr. Charlie" you would be more upset than you are. But sometimes we just have to call a spade a spade. (No pun intended.) This officer was one of my cousins, and his actions were wrong. (He was a part of our elite highway patrol unit.Watch, I will get a ticket tomorrow.) You can't just go knocking down women in the street who aren't a threat to you and who aren't resisting arrest.

Just remember Mr. Po Po, there is always a camera watching you. The person holding it might have been Spanish, but those "thousand words" do not need to be translated.