I'm Mad at White Women!

Very Special Guest Today: Agnes Kincaid
I’m mad at white women!
OK, an exaggeration, I admit. But I am mad at the 10% of white women who have deserted Obama/Biden and have gone to McCain/Palin propelling McCain from six points behind to slightly ahead in the polls.
I’ve never been a big fan of identity politics. Vote your views. Vote your interests. But PLEASE don’t vote your gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Hasn’t the reign of Clarence Thomas taught anyone anything?
I want to see a woman President too. But I’d rather see the right President than the wrong woman. Hillary, where are you? Time to Palin-bash, now!
Sheesh!
(And yes, for the record, I would feel the exact same away about Blacks flirting with a McCain/Condoleezza Rice ticket against Hillary Clinton. If Hillary had won, McCain had chosen Rice, and support among black men for Hillary had dropped 10%, this post would be labeled “I’m Mad at Black Men!”)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Last Look at the Democratic and Republican Conventions

Guests: Democratic Delegate Shannon Sullivan and Republican Strategist Mike Lane

Republicans Think You’re Stupid

And, sadly, they’re probably right.
Not about you who have The Inside Scoop, but about most Americans.

Democrats have run a positive campaign, giving detailed proposals about the need for change in this country, which 80% of Americans think is going in the wrong direction.

Republicans, the party of the Government, the people who gave us the corruption, lawlessness, and lies that is causing our economic mess, massive deficits, perpetual war, cronyism, incompetence, and addiction to oil have a plan to give you more of the same.

Republicans know they can’t run on their plan which devastates America, forcing a real decline in our country’s well-being and standing in the world for the first time since….well, for the first time really ever, so they instead have an empty convention, where they don’t tell you that they want “four more years.” Instead, they bleat “change” without telling you what they’d change. (Hint: they won’t change anything.)

And they go negative. Of course, they go negative. That’s what Republicans do. Republicans know America contains many racists just itching for a reason to vote against Obama. They cynically nominate the biggest porker/earmarker in America as a “reformer”; a politician who is well known for croneyism, incompetence, and using the Government to force religious fundamentalism down the throat of unbelievers; they hide her from the press; and they give her a Bush White House written speech full of sneer and invective and lies about Obama.

And Americans eat it up. Racists, who were looking for an excuse, have found one.

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John McCain's Biography

Also see Jon Stewart’s take on the last night of the RNC:

courtesy of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Republicans STEAL Democratic Flags! (then accuse Dems of being un-patriotic)

Republicans in right-wing Colorado Springs claim that Democrats left behind unused flags at Mile High Stadium in Denver after Obama’s speech and that they, the Republicans, saved the flags. The story surprised me, because I personally searched the stadium for leftover flags – I wanted one as a souvenir – and it took me some time to find one. The very few flags that were left behind were not in great condition. I did find one small flag (which I brought home) but unfortunately no big flags. I kept looking until the stadium staff kindly asked me (and others) to leave so they could clean up.
I assumed the Republicans were just making up the flag story in a typical, mindless challenge to Democratic Patriotism (see footnote below). But now the truth has just been reported at the Denver Post and on CBS: some McCain operative STOLE the Democratic-Party-owned flags that the Obama campaign was planning to be distribute at future Obama rallies. If I were Obama, I would press charges to get that Republican operative in jail for theft! More on the silly flag story here.
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