Snooki to the rescue.

My friends, we are living in strange times. They are rioting in the Middle East against the West because of a poorly produced D movie by a mysterious right wing dude with a criminal record. Zombies are still on the loose here in America. And they are ticketing  two year old kids in my hometown for public urination. (Young bucks are shooting each other like they are in a video game and the po po goes after a two year old. Unbelievable!) It's crazy out here.

Anyway, at least Mitt and his lovely wife Ann are doing their best to make us all feel like everything is alright with the world. There they were on television with Kelly and America's latest happy Negro. (Don't you just love Michael's smile?) They were sharing some light moments and giving us some insight into the real Mitt. He told us that he liked Snooki, and that he liked peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate milk. (Chocolate milk? Walking a little on the wild side there. Funny, I always figured Mitt for a white milk kind of guy.) There was more:

"Mitt Romney described the night he met Ann at a party at a friend’s house. Mitt Romney was a senior in high school and Ann Romney was a sophomore.

“She caught my eye I went up to her and found she’d come with someone else. And I said to the guy she came with, you know, I live closer to Ann than you do. Can I give her a ride home for you? And he said sure.
Strahan: He fell for that?

M. Romney: Yeah, he fell for that. So, we’ve been going steady ever since then.”

That damn Mitt was sneaky even back then.

I know that they say this wasn't a good week for Mitt, but hey, at least he ended it with Snooki. Americans love their Snooki.

Finally, if there is anyone reading this post who happens to live in the state of Kansas please reach out to me. I would love to send you a medal. If you live in that state you deserve it.

"Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November... The board will send records requests to Hawaii, Arizona and Mississippi for more documentation of Obama’s birth." [Source] 

Relax folks, all is well that ends well.

"A Kansas man who filed an objection with the state to President Barack Obama appearing on the state's ballot, is withdrawing his objection.

Joe Montgomery's decision, which he communicated in an email to the secretary of state's office Friday afternoon, ends a process that caused the all-Republican Kansas Objections Board to vote unanimously Thursday to seek further information before making a decision on whether Obama could be on the ballot."

Joe withdrew his objection, but unfortunately the elected officials in Kansas are still there.

John is to Mitt what Hillary is to Barack.

As American embassies in the Middle East continue to burn, and the "Arab Spring" turns into the winter of our discontent, we have to ask ourselves one important question: Who do we want to be our Secretary of State? Do we want Hillary Rodham Clinton, or do we want John Bolton? Mr. Bolton is the man most likely to be pegged for that position if Mitt Romney wins in November.

"One of Mitt Romney’s top campaign advisers (and potential Secretary of State if Obama loses) has such inadequate understanding of the Iranian issue, and is so belligerently wrong on the fundamentals, that it should frighten any observer of the 2012 race. In his latest piece at the Weekly Standard, John Bolton says that negotiations are “delusional” and that our only option at this point is to launch a war against Iran. And he’s not kidding." [Read more] 

This might explain the brash imperious posture Mitt is taking when it comes to foreign policy. In case you have been only watching tasteless reality shows on television of late, let me cue you in on where Mitt stands on foreign policy:

Mitt wants to increase military spending by at least two trillion dollars--- according to one estimate--- over the next decade. This is troubling, since, according to him, he plans to cut taxes. Combine this with his Neoconservative policy advisers like the aforementioned Mr. Bolton, and you can see that recipe for disaster just brewing in the pot.

Mitt has declared that when he is president America will be stronger and will deal more forcefully with everyone from Russia to Iran. It is no secret that he will be willing to go to war with Iran, because he has declared himself to be our warrior in chief. No apologies from this guy. He will not apologize for America. (BTW, I would love to see a clip of Obama apologizing for America. This apology is more elusive and mysterious than "Big Foot". And yet I hear these republicans talking about it all the time.)

I love what Ron Westgard had to say about this subject:

"After stumbling through Britain on a recent tour, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney then landed in Israel with bugles sounding and war drums rolling, Iran in his sights. Now he is critical of President Barack Obama for his alleged weakness in the face of the attack on our consulate in Libya.
As with former President George W. Bush, who sounded the trumpets for the invasion of Iraq, Romney would, of course, be safe in Washington, D.C., while others serve on any new battlefield. I suggest we skip new wars with Iran and Libya until we have paid for Iraq and Afghanistan.

It’s obvious Romney wants to prove his manhood before the electorate, perhaps as a way of halting the current slide in his poll numbers. He could have proved it in Vietnam, but he found a way to do his service in southern France. Romney supported the Vietnam War — just not enough to get involved, as he used student deferments and missionary status to stay well away." [More]   

Mitt, in a speech, gave us some insight into how his administration would approach foreign policy:

"My foreign policy has three fundamental branches: first, confidence in our cause, a recognition that the principles America was based upon are not something we shrink from or apologise for, that we stand for those principles," Romney said.

"The second is clarity in our purpose, which is that when we have a foreign policy objective, we describe it honestly and clearly to the American people, to Congress and to the people of the world," he said.

"And number three is resolve in our might, that in those rare circumstances where we decide it's essential for us to apply military might, that we do so with overwhelming force, that we do so in the clarity of a mission, understanding the nature of the US interest involved, understanding when the mission would be complete, what will be left behind us when that mission has been terminated," Romney said."

"Clarity of a mission". Sound familiar? Yes, of course it does; that's what the guy who got us into Iraq said. Unfortunately that mission wasn't so clear, and we are still paying the price for it. Mitt says that he will use "overwhelming force"  to "apply military might". That force better wipe out over a billion people, or the mission will not be "terminated" for generations to come. A "mission" of this sort isn't like an employee you don't need. You can't just terminate it when you feel like it.

If Mitt does become president, he is going to learn very quickly that the structured boardrooms of corporate America-- with their set rules and regulations-- is nothing like the real world he will have to deal with as its most powerful leader. 



 

The "savage" one will never apologize.

"But we must be clear-eyed even in our grief. This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or government of Libya,"

I don't think that the "small and savage group" Secretary of State Clinton was referring to was Mitt Romney and his band of Neoconservative advisors.

But still, there was Mitt, just a day after September 11 he was attacking the president for the death of an American ambassador by a "savage group" of religious extremists on foreign soil. I think that rather than trying to comprehend the true nature of the act that killed the Ambassador to Libya, the professional campaigner in chief thought that he saw a political opening and jumped right into it. But Mitt would be wise to follow an old trial lawyer adage of never going into something unless he knows what's on the other side.

"Then all hell broke loose and four Americans were murdered in Benghazi. (AFTER the initial American Embassy statement)

But by 10 p.m. Boston time, before the last beacon of light dimmed at Ground Zero, before Taps had finished echoing through Lower Manhattan, before the last grieving family member had gone to bed on a politics- and politician-free

9/11 commemoration, Romney headquarters issued an embargoed statement to the media on the barbaric attacks.

The campaign okayed its release at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 12." 

"I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi," Romney said. "It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks." [Source]

Oh my! I wonder how the family of John Christopher Stevens feels. Did Mr. Romney even offer his condolences to the Ambassador and others who were killed? Outrage was the mood of the day; not sorrow or empathy. No wonder Mitt had Clint Eastwood do his empty chair act at his convention. I guess he is trying to channel his inner tough guy. 

Anyway, rather than back down from his disgraceful and inglorious statements, Mitt has doubled down on his actions from earlier in the day.

"Their administration spoke. The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth, but also from the words that come from his ambassadors from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department," he said. "They clearly sent mixed messages to the world and the statement that came from the administration and the embassy is the administration. The statement that came from the administration was -- was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a -- a severe miscalculation." [Source] 

Yes Mitt, way to go; attack the president and his Ambassadors.

Still, it would have been nice if you waited until after we buried them.  




 

Eleven years.

It's that day again. The day we are all forced to remember that we are not as safe and insulated from the rest of the world as we would like to believe. And, of course, that human beings can be extremely evil and diabolical.

We all remember where we were and what we were doing that day some eleven years ago, and we all swore that our lives would change when it was over. Americans came together and the country was one big Kumbaya moment. We found out that there were plenty of heroes to go around, and that even a monumental tragedy doesn't prevent our government from doing inexplainable things.

It was fun while it lasted, and then we went back to being the same mean nasty divided country that we were before September 11, 2001. We are in that place now (mean and nasty) but, just for tonight, (unlike the classless former VP) I am not going to contribute to the cattiness.













 

   

Feeling the love, and perps walking.

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OK, calm down Obamaholics, I know that your boy is up in all of the latest polls and that he is getting a lot of love in all the right places, but this race is going to be close. (I am talking percentage points here.) But I see you "bouncing" up and down after the dumbocratic convention. Mitt's people are calling it a "sugar high", but their own internal polls are not showing them any love.

Still, if you are a republican you have to be wondering about Mitt. Is he turning on us already? Why just yesterday Mitt was saying that he likes some parts of "Obamacare":

"Mitt Romney said on Sunday that if he were elected president he would keep portions of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, a seemingly abrupt turn on an early campaign promise.

"Well, I'm not getting rid of all of health care reform," the former Massachusetts governor said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press." "Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I'm going to put in place. One is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage. Two is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their family up to whatever age they might like. I also want individuals to be able to buy insurance, health insurance, on their own as opposed to only being able to get it on a tax advantage basis through their company." [Source]

My goodness, he was against Obamacare before he was for it.(???????)

Finally, it's time to attack black.

You all know how much I despise politricksters who betray the public trust. Especially black ones. They are particularly contemptible, because they were put in office by people who are for the most part powerless, and who trusted them to do the right thing on behalf of the community that they serve.

We can now add Trenton, New Jersey Mayor, Tony Mack, to the list of black politricksters who did their people wrong by looking out for themselves, first. Mack allegedly sold his office and was perp walked by the feds this morning in yet another embarrassing chapter in the story of local black elected politricksters in America. (I see you Kwame)

"Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack -- a.k.a. "Napoleon," "the Little Guy" and "Honey Fitz" -- was arrested and charged with corruption Monday following a two-year federal probe into kickbacks allegedly taken by city officials in connection with a development project.

A 31-page complaint also accuses two other men -- the mayor's brother, Ralphiel Mack, and Joseph A. Giorgianni (a.k.a. "the Fat Man," among other monikers) -- of demanding $119,000 in payments from a man they thought was vying to build a parking garage in Trenton, the state capital.

 

In reality, the man was working with federal agents in a sting operation that had begun in September 2010. That's when the man met with Giorgianni in Giorgianni's eatery, JoJo's Steakhouse, under the guise of representing a developer willing to pay bribes for the right to build a parking garage on city property...

 

Once the cash began flowing, prosecutors say, the accused used a system of code words and nicknames to send messages to each other, including using "Uncle Remus" to refer to money received by Giorgianni for the mayor." [Source] 

Now before one of you Negroes give me the "field, they all do it" speech, please understand that I don't really care. This is not about them. This is about our community needing those of us who get to a position of power and influence doing the right thing and not letting power corrupt them.

* Pic from Politic365





  

A very lame media.

I am going to leave Mitt Romney alone today, because this is getting way too easy. He says that Obama wants to take God off of our currency. He wants to keep some portions of Obamacare. He ripped the debt ceiling deal that his own VP backed, and he.....wait a minute; let me back up a little bit. Did he say that he now approves portions of Obamacare?

"Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them.

Romney, who faces Obama in the November 6 election, has vowed throughout the campaign to repeal and replace the Obama healthcare law. But asked about the Obama healthcare law on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, Romney said, "Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform."

So now he was against Obamacare before he was for it, or was it the other way around? I am going to have to leave Flipper alone; dude has my head spinning. I honestly don't know how his supporters keep up with him.

Anywhoo, back to my issues with the "lame- stream- media": (I am starting to feel like Sarah Palin) Seems that CBS thought it would be cool to hire republican strategist and pollster, Frank Luntz. I am sorry, did FOX suddenly go out of business? Why is a news organization striving for any kind of journalistic credibility hire this republican shill?

"CBS News has reportedly hired Frank Luntz, the Republican strategist and pollster best known for helping Republicans craft often-deceptive messaging to torpedo liberal policies. In his post announcing the move, Politico media reporter Dylan Byers writes that Luntz will "make a number of appearances across the network between now and Election Day." Luntz's hiring comes only a few months after New York Times Magazine contributor Robert Draper reported that Luntz orchestrated a 2009 meeting where prominent Republicans formulated a plan to win back Congress and the White House.

In his book Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives, Draper reported that Luntz "organized a dinner" on Obama's inauguration night featuring a handful of "the Republican Party's most energetic thinkers." The attendees -- which included current vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan -- reportedly emerged from the nearly four hour dinner "almost giddily" after having agreed on "a way forward."

According to Draper, the Republican plan involved showing "united and unyielding opposition to the president's economic policies," with an eventual goal of defeating Obama and taking back the Senate in 2012:"

The "lame-street-media" just got even more lame.

Finally, I know that he is not little JonBenet Ramsey or Caylee Anthony in America's eyes, but could we try to remember little Amir Jennings? I am sure the little man's family would like to have some closure.

His Mother isn't talking, which is sad, so some national spotlight might lead to someone coming forward with some information about what happened to the little guy.

Sadly, there is no story here to see for the "lame-$tream-media-" . They are too busy hiring republican pollsters.

   

The silence of the sheep.

Let us, for purposes of this article, call the main stream media, sheep.

Sheep have certain characteristics that fit the frauds who have been pretending to be real reporters and journalists in America these days:

1.  Timid, fearful, easily panicked

2. Dumb stupid, gullible

3. Very vulnerable to fear, frustration, pests, hunger

4. Esily influenced by a leader, by the shepherd

5. Stampede easily, vulnerable to mob psychology

6. Little or no means of self-defense; can only run

7. Easily killed by enemies

8. Jealous, competitive for dominance..... (Source)

You get the idea.

Let’s take, for instance, this latest Mitt Romney pronouncement while visiting his friends over at FOX NEWS:

"We understand you went to the American Legion the day before and you talked about the service and sacrifice of the military there,” Baier continued. “Do you regret opening up this line of attack, now a recurring attack, by leaving out that issue in the speech?'I’m going to regret you repeating it day in and day out,” Romney replied. “Hahaha. No. When you– when you give a speech, you don’t go through a laundry list, you talk about the things you think are important.”
Romney added that he thinks it’s important for the military to be “strong,” and that he used the word “military” in his convention speech interchangeably with “troops.” [Source]

 

Now, I have to ask you, why isn’t this story being reported on major news outlets? Can you imagine if the other guy running for president had made similar comments?

But the plethora of  sheep who masquerade as journalists in America have nothing to say. They won't follow up to Mr. Romney; they don’t want to know how the troops in the battlefield feel; they don’t try to connect the dots and focus in on Mitt Romney’s obvious disdain for the American soldier. He didn’t mention them in his acceptance speech, and he rarely talks about them when he is out stumping in Middle America.

So what gives?   Folks, this is what they call in basketball parlance a make up call. In 2008 the perception was that journalists (sheep) were fawning all over the “chosen one”. Now they will be damned if they make that mistake again; so they bend over backwards to make a non-story out of  something that should be leading every news cycle.

I guess the sheep in the press were scared that Mitt would do his Etch A Sketch "Jedi mind game" on them.

“I think they’re the same thing,” he told Baier, in a comment that practically echoes his one-time insistence that “corporations are people, my friend.” An analysis of Romney’s speech reveals he used the word “America” more than any other, but said “military” just twice.

 

Unbelievable!

 

 

A "Drop Squad" candidate didn't like Obama's speech. Wait until you read why.

A lot of you Negroes despise John McWhorter; you think that he has been dodging the "Drop Squad" for a long time. I personally have mixed emotions about the guy. Sometimes he makes sense, and sometimes he leaves you scratching your head.

His latest article about Obama's speech was a head- scratcher. Not because he didn't like it, but because of the reasons he gave for not liking it.

"Why was the President’s speech at the DNC convention kind of boring?
Especially when it's this President? Remember that sense of drama there used to be whenever he was about to do some talking? Yet let’s face it, most of us were more titillated in anticipation of Mitt Romney’s speech than Obama’s.
It’s easy to forget how novel Obama’s way of making a speech was just four years ago for someone in the Oval Office. Bill Clinton’s Southern speaking flavor was notorious, but hardly unknown at 1600 Pennsylvania. America had heard a similar sound from Jimmy Carter, not to mention Lyndon Johnson in his more buttoned-down moments.

Obama brought the black English “flava” to the Presidency. Who would have even imagined, as recently as six years ago, a State of the Union addresses sprinkled with the floating speech melodies of the black church? Who would have imagined a President who, with all of his dignity and even reserve, can speak with a faint but perceptible hint of the street?

It was easy to drift into thinking of that melody as lyrics. The humble honesty we hear in the black sound — hiphop, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock — can come off as a statement in itself. Many, for instance, might be hard-pressed to remember just what black rock star academic Cornel West actually says. What moves people is the funky way that he says it.

Obama got by on that kind of thing to a certain extent in the old days. But like songs that get overplayed and jokes that run stale, the novelty in Obama’s gift of gab has worn off for most of us.

It’s great that his oratorical gifts helped get him elected. But after four years we just hear him talking, again. Comedians do imitations. Reality has caught up to “24” and “Deep Impact”: the President is black and kind of sounds like it. We’ve moved on.

Now what we need from the man is content over form, and at the convention he underperformed on that.

“Explainer-in-Chief,” the media has dubbed Bill Clinton for his masterful bullet-point refutation of the Republicans’ nonsense charges against Obama. But why in the world isn’t the President himself the explainer-in-chief?
Why can’t a former law professor, who could even give a tease in his speech about how being American entails not only rights but responsibilities, give us as good a teaching as Clinton did?

“Think about this,” Clinton often said before launching into a careful elucidation. It’s Obama who should have done more of this. He’s got enough gray hair and gravitas now to do that without seeming pedantic. The black cadence would even help rub out any possible air of Adlai Stevenson, just as Clinton’s down-home accent does for him.

Yet many people still thrill viscerally to Obama’s rising intonations because it reminds them of being in church. There is even a whole book about to be published about how Barack Obama talks, written by people to whom this mindset is likely not alien.....

 ....But that brand of spoken-word poetry won’t have the potency today that it did in 2008. There are people who are more interested in how Obama will deal with Sen. Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Fox News than in whether he can bust a move." [Source]

"Black English flava"? Did he really write that? "Bust a move"? Yes, I think he did. McWhorter's incoherent and silly article was a serious waste of his time not to mention the folks who took the ten minutes or so out of their time to read it. When he writes about people liking the "funky way" that Obama says things you have to wonder where he gets his motivation for such crap. Is he simply trying to impress his white editors by showing them that he has some insight into black thought? If he is, using seventies lingo-- that is both silly and stereotypical-- to help his readers reaffirm their stereotypes was lazy and superficial on McWhorter's part.

Right now I am thinking that I just might have to make that call to the "Drop Squad" after all.   

Radicals needed.

I am trying to get ready and pumped up for O's big speech. Popcorn? Check. Television? Check. Foot up on coffee table? (Mrs. Field out of town on business.) Check. This should be fun.

But not so fast; someone is trying to be a killjoy. I was reading George Will's article today, and he was writing about what a radical president Obama is because of his political ideology and leanings.

I suppose, that in his mind, Mr. Will felt that he was dissing Obama by comparing him to Wilson and Roosevelt. In his mind. For those of us secular progressives in America, that article was actually an approbation of Barack Obama. If only Barack Obama himself would embrace all of the labels that the [right] wingnuts constantly throw at him.

"As such, Obama has earned what he now receives, the tribute of a serious intellectual exegesis by a distinguished political philosopher. In “I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism,” Charles Kesler of Claremont McKenna College rightly says Obama is “playing a long, high-stakes game.” Concerning the stakes, Obama practices prudent reticence, not specifying America’s displeasing features that are fundamental. Shortly before the 2008 election, he said only: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming” America. Tonight, consider Obama’s acceptance speech in the context that Kesler gives it in the American political tradition.
Progress, as progressives understand it, means advancing away from, up from, something. But from what?

From the Constitution’s constricting anachronisms. In 1912, Wilson said, “The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power.” But as Kesler notes, Wilson never said the future of liberty consisted of such limitation"

I am not sure that Mr. Will -or Mr. Kessler for that matter- can read President Wilson's mind anymore than I can, but I certainly hope that is what he meant. Because, I would submit to Mr. Will, that by limiting government we do not insure liberty for all. Quite the opposite. Those individuals who owned slaves in the South were not going to end that practice on their own. They weren't going to stop the practice because their pastors said that it was wrong. Women didn't get the right to vote because their husbands all of a sudden wanted to discuss politics with them over the dinner table.

I have some news for Mr.Will: we are the government.The people. That is what makes a true democracy.

"Wilson, the first transformative progressive, called this the “New Freedom.” The old kind was the Founders’ kind — government existing to “secure” natural rights (see the Declaration) that preexist government. Wilson thought this had become an impediment to progress. The pedigree of Obama’s thought runs straight to Wilson.

And through the second transformative progressive, Franklin Roosevelt, who counseled against the Founders’ sober practicality and fear of government power: “We are beginning to wipe out the line that divides the practical from the ideal” and are making government “an instrument of unimagined power” for social improvement. The only thing we have to fear is fear of a government of unimagined power:"

No, the "only thing we have to fear" are individuals who would choose to subvert the government (and thus the will of the people) to push forward their own selfish and backwards agenda. The right is full of radicals, it's time the left got some radicals of their own. Sorry George, I know that it doesn't fit into your narrative, but Barack Obama is not a radical.

"This, says Kesler, is “the First Law of Big Government: the more power we give the government, the more rights it will give us.” It also is the ultimate American radicalism, striking at the roots of the American regime, the doctrine of natural rights" [Source]

Remember George, we are the government. It can't get any more natural than that.

MSNBC? Check.


   







 

Unfriendly skies for Glenn, and Mitt's Negro council is up and running.

I have always been a US Air man myself, but from here on out I will be flying American Airlines every chance I get. I will tell you why in a minute.

Folks, nothing is more pathetic than watching a white man -especially a privileged one- play the victim role here in America. We have been seeing it a lot after Barack Obama became president of these divided states. It's as if a switch went off when they had to look at someone else who doesn't look like them hold the highest office on earth for once. There is nothing quite like envy and fear to kick in that "color arousal", but I digress, back to American Airlines.

The biggest "woe is me" white man in America, Glenn Beck, is playing the victim card once again. This time he is blaming American Airlines for all of his woes.

 "Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck says he was treated rudely on an American Airlines flight and will never fly on the carrier again.

American apologized and said it's looking into the incident.
Beck said on his radio show Tuesday that a flight attendant on a New York-to-Dallas plane "treated me as a subhuman." Beck said the man "fawned over the other passengers" but "barked" at Beck and slammed a can of soda down in front of him.

Beck implied that the flight attendant singled him out because of his political views. He wondered whether American even wanted conservatives on its planes.
"My family will never choose American Airlines again ... if this is the kind of people that American Airlines likes to hire," Beck said." [Source]

First of all, why is this clown even flying commercial? The guy's franchise is worth damn near a billion dollars and he can't afford his own Gulfstream?
Anyway, I am not sure what Beck expects when he goes out in public. He makes a living being nasty to people and expects the world to turn off a switch when they see him in public? Sorry, not going to happen. And Beck won't let it go, it's been days since the incident and he is still whining about it.

But this is par for the course for Mr. Victim. He complains about everything from people at an outdoor movie to the people of New York. His latest rant about New York is classic.

 "After a weekend in New York City, I remembered why I was so glad to move out of New York City. It started for me on a Friday night, this last Friday at a barbecue restaurant. Now why my daughter who lives in the city thought that coming from Texas we should go have barbecue in New York City is beyond me, but we did. As we walked in, my wife said, oh, my gosh, this is so‑and‑so very famous, you know, barbecue couple that do this barbecue thing, you know, on TV. And I said, “Oh, okay.” She said, “It’s supposed to be really good.” Well, I have to tell you, the look that I was given by those in charge at this restaurant was, how dare you even come in here. It was quite amazing. I said to my wife as we were walking up the stairs, I said, this isn’t going to go well. And she said, no, this was really a mistake. This is a minority‑owned shop. Was that the line that I dared to cross? No? No, it couldn’t be because there were white people in there. So it must be something else besides my character. It’s amazing to me. One would think that ‑‑ you wouldn’t want to shun people that might have diverse opinions. Maybe they could put a second door in or another entrance in for people like me." Read more here. It only gets better.

Whaaaa. What a pathetic loser. Mr. Beck, I am sure that the people of New York are all glad to see you go.
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Finally, I think that seeing all those "blah" people and other minorities at the dumbocrat's convention got Mitt thinking that maybe he needs some advice on how to deal with you people of color.

To address that problem Mitt went out and did what all good business men do when faced with a problem; he formed an advisory council to address it.

"Mitt Romney's presidential campaign announced Wednesday the formation of a Black Leadership Council.

The group is chaired by Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., and Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. Its advisory council includes Mia Love, who as mayor of Saratoga Springs is the first black woman to govern a Utah city. Love was one of the stars of the Republican convention last week in Tampa, Fla.
In recent decades, blacks have been the most reliably Democratic group in the country and voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama, the first black to receive the presidential nomination from a major party.

The Romney group's leaders argue this year their candidate is the one who can help blacks." [Source] 

Mitt, I am still waiting for my call. I am not sure that Allen West and Tim Scott are going to help you reach black folks. You don't need the people you selected, you already have the house vote.

But seriously, poor Mitt makes the classic mistake that folks in the majority population always make when dealing with black folks: they think that we vote for skin color and not ideology. Negroes like Scott and West are never going to help Mitt reach blacks folks, and it's because of their political ideology. Both those men could be blacker than Djimon Hounsou after a day in the sun, and they ain't moving the Negro needle one little bit for towards the republican side.

Sorry Mitt, "The House Black Leadership Council might need to be redone. (h/t to my twitter fam, @JamesWSmittIII for this story) 


*Pic of Mr. West from the Hinterlandgazette 

     





 


   

Mitt's fabulous flood tour, and Paul's nose keeps growing.

Mitt couldn't wait to get to Louisiana after his convention. Not because he cares about those poor people down in the boot, but because he wanted to beat the president to the photo op. (Real classy guys those republicans)

But one of his high priced side- kicks needed to get into his ears and teach Mitt how to connect to normal folks. Especially normal folks who are experiencing real problems.

"It was already a risky decision for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to visit Hurricane Isaac-ravaged New Orleans immediately following the Hurricane Katrina anniversary-timed Republican National Convention, a risk exacerbated by conservative gloating that Romney had beaten President Obama to the “prize.”

Already open to criticism that he was using the disaster as a political prop, Romney could hardly have asked for a worse headline than what he reportedly told one flooding victim.

When the White House’s announcement that President Obama would visit New Orleans on Monday followed the Romney campaign’s announcement by a few hours, conservatives were quick to childishly declare he was simply following Romney’s lead, despite the fact that the President’s trip had already been planned, and despite the fact that the President actually has a legitimate purpose for going to tour a disaster. While this delighted right-wingers, it could only seem crass, at best, to everyone else.

Still, Romney isn’t responsible for what his stupidest supporters say, and could have as easily faced criticism had he decided not to go. When faced with one of the victims of the flood, however, Romney came up well short in the empathy department:

"Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac’s flooding.

“He just told me to, um, there’s assistance out there,” Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. “He said, go home and call 211.” That’s a public service number offered in many states.

Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding." [Source]

"GO HOME AND CALL 211"? Sorry Jodie, it's time to rebuild your home.
Maybe you can get some republicans to help you, because, if you let them tell it; they built damn near everything else.

Finally, let me say for the record that I think that the dumbocrat who compared Paul Ryan and his lies to Joseph Goebbels was wrong. It's never cool to use the Nazi analogy. As much as I despise wingnuts I do not think that comparing them to Nazis is fair or appropriate. John Burton was wrong, and those who called him out for his characterization of Paul Ryan were right to do so.

Having said that, a comparison to Pinnochio would have been more apropos.

 "Republican vice-presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been getting so much ink for being an exceptionally prolific liar that it was inevitable the media would miss a big one, but he snuck out a doozy on Thursday that deserves some kind of an award. NBC News’ Brian Williams confronted Ryan about the Republican Party Platform’s abortion plank, which contains no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. Ryan’s response was literally unbelievable.

'Are you prepared to leave this gathering and own the fact that the platform of this party allows a woman who has been raped no exception but to carry that child to term?' Williams asked.

'Well, I think the platform is– is silent on that particular issue,' Rep. Ryan replied. “Mitt Romney has a position on this. The president of the United States sets the policy. And Mitt Romney’s position is that there are exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.”

'There’s no exception in the platform,' Williams astutely, correctly pointed out.

 'Well, I think the platform’s silent either one way or the other on that,' Ryan repeated. “The platform – of which I think is a great document. I’m proud of the platform – it’s something that was produced by the delegates, and the president of the United States sets policy on this issue. And Mitt Romney’s policy is well known....

For the life of me, I’m trying to cut Brian Williams some slack for not turning to Ryan and saying “Pardon me, but how the eff can you be silent about an exception? An exception is, by definition, something you have to say out loud in order for it to exist. That’s like saying ‘This pizza isn’t plain, it’s just silent on the issue of toppings,’ or ‘I’m not naked, I’m just invisible on the issue of clothing.’” [Source]

But this is what makes republicans so good at what they do. This isn't talking out of two sides of your mouth; this is talking out of your ass and making it look like your lips are moving.