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Someone PLEASE Shoot my Television!!!


I wish that someone, anyone would stand up from one of these anchor desks and yell at the top of their Lungs THIS IS HORSE SHIT!!!

Watching the pundits and all the reactors makes my stomach turn.  Never in American politics has a candidate had to hop over so many hurdles to be president.  I don't want to say that it is racism.  It's something else.  It's differentism or a prejudism maybe racialistness.  I don't know what it's called we just know what it is.

Women and People of color have had to deal with this thing their whole lives.  Just doing equal to what those in the majority isn't enough.  It's almost as its just like Randy Quad said in Kingpin talking about the Amish “We Amish do what you do plus a half.”  It's not enough to be equal, you have to be better.  Warren Moon was one of the greatest Quarterbacks in the Football.  He had to start his career in Canada because he was better than most of the Quarterbacks in the league but he wasn't “The Best.”  The NFL tried to make him into a wide receiver.

This isn't out and out racism it's something else.  But because it so subtle when black people call it racism whites grow resentful because its not someone shooting him with a fire hose or calling him a Nigger.  It's just that they had never seen a black person succeed in this position so they don't envision that one would.  They coaches tried to “help” Warren Moon by converting him to another position.  

Think about when a standardized test asks a kid about interpreting golf scores, or when years ago there was a test that asked third graders about what to do what to do when you get a cut.  The correct answer is to put on a band-aid.  For many poor kids, both black and white, if you got a cut you'd throw some dirt on it and keep playing or better yet you'd rinse it off, put a paper towel over it and tape it together and keep on playing.  The poor kids would be penalized for doing what their life experiences taught them was effective and right.  They are penalized because their parents didn't have money to keep fucking flesh toned bandages in the medicine cabinet.

What does this all mean?  It means there are Fuckers on the television questioning, not the words that Michelle Obama used but whether she means it.  Will they offer the same type of assessment when Cindy McCain gives her speech next week?  Will they question her patriotism?  

Karl Rove says that she wasn't Patriotic enough?  What the hell is the patriotic standard?  Does she have to give every American a piece of pussy in order for them to feel she is patriotic enough?  Does she have to strip naked on stage and diddle herself with an 13 inch (one inch for each original colony) American Flag draped Vibrator and have Stars and Fireworks shoot from her nipples?  When she cums does she have to simultaneously put her hand over her heart and sing America The Beautiful?  (She would probably have to fake it because if she has a REAL orgasm and makes an “O-Face” all would be negated because she'd once again be an angry black woman.  She would also have to be careful to scream “Oh AMERICA” if she said “Oh God” the liberals would be protesting about bringing religion into politics.)

In no time in modern American politics has a candidate had to PROVE THEIR PATRIOTISM.  How do you prove your patriotism and love of country?  Patriotism is usually a lot like guilt and innocence, you're supposed to be Patriotic until Proven treasonous.  We've elected two draft dodgers, a pot smoker, a few drunks, and a coke addict to the highest office in the land.  We're here with what is the closest thing to the Cosby family you'll ever see in American Politics and they have to Prove they're Patriotic.    America and the Pundits would rather give J.M. and the cast of “Dynasty” a free pass to the White House than to see the first “Clean Articulate” Candidate of Color become the President.  This is what is such HORSE SHIT!

This is what the difference is in America folks.  It's a differentness.  It's not out and out racism its brown colored glasses.  Blacks feel we have to prove ourselves innocent where as white are innocent until proven guilty.  Whites go to a great school they people assume its hard work and perseverance, a black goes to the same school and many assume its affirmative action.  Cindy McCain will be questioned on whether how good or bad the speech is.  Michelle Obama's speech is questioned on how genuine she was.  Once you get into that territory to take the joke John McCain tried to play off of, we're not asking how a guy treats his wife but how often he beats her.

If we were at this stage of the election and the Nominee was a 47 year old white guy named Barry O'Brien.  Barry was born in Hawaii and lived a few years as a child in Indonesia.  Went to school on loans and scholarships.  If he won the Democratic Nomination (okay, I'm gonna side step the question of the primary, PUMAs) we'd would be talking about what a great Story that could only happen in America.  There would be no question of Barry's Patriotism, it would be assumed.  

The elephant in the room is that there is a 5-10% of the population that wouldn't vote for Barack Obama if his Running Mate was Jesus Fucking Christ.  The fact that he's tied in the polls is a real testament to how FUCKED the Republican Party is.  A generic Democrat, Barry O'Brien, would be up by 10 points by now in this climate.

Let me take on some of the criticisms:
Farrakhan!!!  -- Barack has no association with Farrakhan, but was forced to have to Discuss him because he's black and Barack is half black.  You know all black people know each other.  Should John McCain have to Renounce all of the hate groups that have given him support because he is also white?

Reverend Wright. -- Obama went to his church.  Obama probably heard the sermons.  Did you hear the sermons, in the entirety?  Find me a false hood?  “Well, he shouldn't have said god damn America!”    Is what he said any different than what several other ministers said, NO.  Hell, Bill and Hillary Clinton called and invited Rev Wright to the White House when bill was having the Blue Dress Blues.  Should millions of Catholics renounce the Catholic Church for it's handling of the child Molestations?

Rezko – Fact Check already debunks most of the criticisms here.  There are good reasons why there hasn't been accusations hurled at Obama over this because there was nothing there but an association.  That's it.  The Republican Claim he received 14 million, NOPE, that money went to build housing for senior citizens.  Rezko did receive 700k from the deal, as any developer would have done in the circumstance.  In the life of a Politician, the reality is this shit happens.  Ask Tad Stevens.  Hell his numbers didn't dip until he was ACTUALLY indicted!  There is no indictment and if you read the articles the prosecutors tried to cut deals to get Rezko to somehow implicate Obama, but there wasn't anything there.  KEATING and the S & L scandals cost this country BILLIONS of dollars.  John McCain knew what was going on and looked the other way.  That, My Friends, in any other circumstances would be actionable evidence.  I wonder if McCain pulled out his P.O.W. Card.

Ayers – They serve on a board together.  They know each other through the community.  They were both Professors in the same city. Hey anyone ever wonder WHY ISN'T AYERS IN JAIL!!!  He was a “Terrorist” right!  That's because he didn't do all that much and they don't have much evidence.  Now he's a distinguished professor.  McCain is good buddies with convicted felon, and domestic spy G. Gordon Liddy!!!  does this get brought up.  NO!  It doesn't fit the story line of the Hero.

Obama is so Presumptuous!!!  Pop Quiz which candidate referred to himself as “The President” before the primaries were even over?  Which Candidate dispatch his own Envoys to a foreign warzone?  Which candidate gave not one but two speeches on foreign soil and criticized his opponent while he was on those trips?  Which candidate got called out for words about their country and not for taking military action on their behalf?  If you said Barack Obama to any of these you are a bald Faced fucking LIER!!!  Some of these “News Shows” should just get over it and call Obama “BOY!”

You know what, if you make a decision on Experience, or Judgment, or Tax Policy, or The Environment.  I have no qualms with you.   You have every right to.  But this invisible standard that the Obamas have to rise to.  This “Threshold of acceptability” is a media created bullshit line in the sand that keeps moving every time Obama reaches it.  Who was Bill Clinton before he ran for president?  He was the Governor of a Shit Ass State that ranked in the bottom ten in the union.  He was a year younger than Obama and just as little known on the national Scene but no one ever said “Who is this guy?”  “He's Not like us?”  “He's So Foreign?”
 
I hope to all that is wonderful, one of the Commentators Gets up grabs a camera throws it into the stands and talks about how much of this coverage is HORSE SHIT so we can have an honest dialog about how to fix this country instead of a fucking orgy of Racialist bull shit that dominates the air waves.

 P.S.  About Obama talking about them saying he doesn't look like the other presidents on the dollar bill.  Why hasn't any commentators including Keith Olbermann (who I Love) brought up the fact that the Republicans have indeed made a commercial with Obama not looking like the other presidents on the dollar bills?

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Dear fellow Obama supporter:

I feel the same way. This is totally maddening. It's been maddening for about eight years now, but this is worse.

And yeah, a large part of it is racism.

But be of good faith. These are smart people, and they've got a lot of supporters who are willing to go all out.

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My advice is to watch c-span. It's easier on the nerves.

Beat me to it. Did that last night and it was ver nice. Got to hear how great the music selections are as well w/o commercial interruptions.

Speaking of music: I wonder what they'll have in Minn?

I think it all comes down to 'fear of change', 'fear of the unknown' and ingorance.
It's like the media and the republicans are going to wriggle, squirm, lie, scream, and try to get us to look the other way/take our eyes off the goal, and basically pull out every trick they have in their hat to prevent the change that they fear, change that they believe will hurt them, etc. When I think of it this way it makes sense to me... I have heard Barack Obama talk about these things.

Unfortunately it doesn't make it less excruciating to witness...

No need to shoot it, Marquis. I just put my foot through mine. Visceral satisfaction.

Save yer bullets.

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