AM I THE ONLY ONE OF THE INSTAPUNDIT BLOGGERS AND GUEST-BLOGGERS who loathes the Daily Caller’s exploitation of the 2007 video of Barack Obama stirring up the black churchfolk? I don’t think this is helping Mitt Romney with the swing voters at all. Like last week’s playing and replaying of the Obamaphone lady’s ravings, it repels me from Republicans. I’m a swing voter — I voted for Obama in 2008 and Bush in 2004 — and I am genuinely undecided this year. Those of you who are pleased with these seemingly exciting new weapons to use in the fight to defeat Obama are losing perspective. You are not thinking about how you look to the people you need to convince. Here’s a clue: You look ugly.
protein wisdom answers: Dear Ann: It’s preferable, I’ll submit, to “look ugly” for the crime of posting the full video of a previously expurgated and racially divisive speech kept out of view of the American electorate by a complicit press before the 2008 elections, delivered by a politician who was sold to us as a post-racial healer than it is to still be claim yourself “genuinely undecided” about voting a second time for a man who gave us $6 trillion in new debt; nationalized healthcare against the will of the electorate; ignores whatever laws he feels like ignoring (even those signed into law by Democratic Presidents); takes us to war without consulting Congress and without a real articulation of the objective; bypasses the Constitution by ignoring the appointments clause; institutes backdoor amnesty on whim while growing the ranks of the impoverished and lowering the standard of living; sends guns to Mexican drug cartels without informing the Mexican government; and engages in a cover-up of the murder of one of his own ambassadors, simultaneously and without a second thought scapegoating as the cause of a planned Islamist uprising some previously unknown filmmaker, before heading off to fundraise with Jay-Z and Beyonce.
You are not thinking about how you look to the people you need to convince, Ann. Here’s a clue. You look completely fucking stupid.
For chrissakes, grow up.
(thanks to Lee and Johninfirestone)
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update: One more thing, while I’m venting from my place of jealous marginalization: I find it repugnant that Althouse would attribute to base racialist thinking — and perhaps even racism — the fact that people on the right (and some on the left, no doubt) noticed in Obama’s 2007 speech racialist thinking and perhaps even racism, and sought to make him accountable to his own words and tone, particularly after he ran his campaign on a message of inclusivity, and delivered a 2008 speech with an entirely remodulated message on race and politics.
Were Althouse a courtesan, I suspect that when the little girl pointed out the emperor’s droopy ball sack, Ann would have had the child whipped for her impertinence and then noted that, if such abuses of decorum continue, she would have no choice but to fight to the death to protect the emperor’s honor against such ugly calumnies.
There are some truths that are just not talked about in polite company.
Anyone else think Ann’s looking for someone to blame fo her already determined upon vote for Obama?
Other than herself, I mean. Because of structuralism or something.
“For chrissakes, grow up.”
Heh. Or better, if only for the entertainment aspects of the thing, grow more voluble Ann. That way we can all take further amusement at your foolishness.
That is going to leave a mark.
I think Ernst is onto something. She is looking for excuses to vote for Teh Won again, and I’m sure she will find plenty of them.
She’s making a lot of people shake their heads and wonder what the hell is going on inside hers. She sounds like the Obama administration blaming their mideast mess on ‘the video’. I’d like to believe she’s just setting us up for a bigger discussion, but …
Of course, Jeff made that point in the post as well.
Inconvenient facts known at the time Althouse voted for Obama, Volume One.
Yeah, but it took him a paragraph to say it [smirk].
You are not thinking about how you look to the people you need to convince.
Dear Ann,
I’ve never worried about what other people think. Why do you? Insecure much?
Regards,
leigh
Like I’ve said before, she’s just Meghan McCain with a law degree.
Is transmission exploitation? Is Obama no longer proud of this video? Must 2007 go under the bus for 2012 Obama? If so, WHY?
Please, palaeomerus. He’s evolved.
“You are not thinking about how you look to the people you need to convince.”
I no longer have any confidence in “the people you need to convince” and feel little but contempt for them. They are easily manipulated over-dramatic idiots.
“More Race Incitement in Obama Speeches from 2007″
“So, according to Ann Althouse, those of us pointing out Obama’s race-baiting in this video “look ugly,” but the man in the video who is engaging in the race-baiting doesn’t. With all due respect to the professor, that’s ridiculous.
More: Althouse also walled off the Obama phone video in the same post. So tell us then, what’s acceptable to talk about? The Obama phone lady provides evidence that the president is buying votes in a swing state and increasing dependency on the government. The 2007 video provides evidence that Obama is a race hustler who lied in order to stir up racial tensions. Why should this be out of bounds to talk about?”
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“Please, palaeomerus. He’s evolved.”
Well if we elect him again who knows what he might evolve into next? And how do we know that Romney won’t evolve at least as much as Obama has?
I’m not going to watch the debate tonight. It’s not going to change anything for me and I don’t like either guy in it. Better to find something else to occupy my time.
Suppose you are an undecided voter and suppose you are a retard. But I repeat myself.
Are you sure Ann isn’t a professor of chaos instead of a law professor ? Can you get a chaos degree?
Althouse’s idiocy has rendered me speechless. She’s going to base her vote not on what a candidate actually says, but what his supporters are saying? What a dolt.
“It’s OK”
. . . that you were had.
I don’t know if she’s a bigger idiot for being undecided at this point, or believing that releasing this video is racist.
I’ll ponder that.
I’m planning on recording it, simply because there’s no way I can listen to an hour or more of Obama lying.
But at least if he beclowns himself in a particularly interesting way I’l be able to relive the moment.
BTW I’m voting for Romney to vote against Obama mostly because of the non response to the burning of embassies on 9/11 and the outrage over Romney pointing out that Obama’s foreign policy is NOT a foreign policy at all. that motivated me to hurt Obama’s political career ANY WAY I CAN within the law.
And if Romney is elected I frankly expect him to finish off the last wiffle-riddled reg of credibility and attractiveness the GOP has for the middle class.
“wiffle-riddled reg”
And burbled as it came!
At least this makes clear why so many other bloggers hate hate hate me.
Fuck ’em. If they’re wrong, they’re wrong.
Sayeth Insty:
Ann’s fer sherr gonna vote Obama now.
That’ll teach all you icky people to pay attention when others are telling you what you can and can’t say!
No, on what Romney supporters are showing Obama saying. Which is nasty and divisive! How dare they?
“Obama’s politics are, and have been, ugly in the extreme: Dishonest, personal, vicious. Compared to that, noting that the whole post-racial feelgood vibe of 2008 was, to put it in ugly-but-true fashion, a complete and total lie, seems minor. Perhaps it will nonetheless alienate swing voters, but if swing voters are that easily alienated, and that immune to facts, then maybe it doesn’t matter anyway.”
This is why I love Glen’s blog so much. He’s pretty clear about where he stands and why. And he doesn’t beg for love and offer favors for it.
Good point, Pablo.
Althouse is getting creamed in the comments at her own blog, again.
I think she’ll soon be joining the company of John Cole and Charles Johnson.
Yes, Professor Althouse is a Leftist at heart, despite her discomfort with what happened in her back yard recently.
Playing videotapes of blacks acting in ways that reinforce negative stereotypes is “ugly”, and makes her uncomfortable, so she’ll vote against Romney, who didn’t pay a cent to air the tape?
Leftism is all about feeling smug and superior to knuckle-dragging raaaaacist, sexist, homophobic gun-toting Christers.
And they have the unmitigated temerity to say they’re our intellectual betters and “the reality-based community”.
This current foreign policy debacle was my turning point. I was going to go write-in before that.
What’s wrong with her she used to be smart and pretty
she’s still pretty I think, which goes a long way in barack obama’s America really, but still
Althouse – verb – to cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
This reminds me of the last election and someone (McCardle?) said she couldn’t even consider voting for McCain because of McCain–Feingold’s strictures on the First Amendment. So we ended up with a President contemptuous of the entire Constitution. How’s that working for ya?
Ann Althouse: Peacelord of Mars.
A walking case for repealing the Nineteenth Amendment.
Althouse hands herself a spade:
Judas Maude.
Ann Althouse thinks Frum was right. Lose slowly and politely and the undecided will (not) beat a path to your door but you might get invited to a cocktail party. Or not, you sickening bigot.
Heh. Funny you mention gun toters. Got an hour range time reserved for today before they shut down our highways in preparation for tonight’s debate.
Gonna go zero in both my rifles a bit more exactly.
I should do the same on my RMR, too. But that’s on Friday.
A political religion in thrall to the needs of its own grasping moral vanity. Progressives are the political heirs of the puritans, but without all of the godbothery nonsense to make them afraid of a higher power.
Put up a target that has jug ears and see what happens. If someone asks, say it’s Alfred E. Newman.
That was very unhelpful of me. I condemn myself.
Ann Althouse thinks that the GOP isn’t pandering to and flattering the crucial Ann Althouse segment of voters enough. Thus these poor folks are practically forced to vote for Obama.
I believe this video of a flash loop from 1998 deals with the question and questioner rather perfectly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48rz8udZBmQ
keeps shoveling
GLENN, I’M SYMPATHETIC TO MANY OF YOUR ARGUMENTS, and I agree that there’s been an effort to make people feel that we’re not allowed to criticize Obama and many people — in the media and in normal life — have an instinct to protect him from criticism. Politics, like any other human endeavor, entails human emotion, and unless you want to turn away from politics altogether, you have to play within reality that exists. The emotions around race are deep and complex. I recommend not toying with them. Move to something more optimistic and positive. That’s what Romney and Ryan seem to want to do with their campaign. They can’t control what their supporters choose to talk about, but this racial material is dragging them down.
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” I recommend not toying with them.”
Right. That productive field ought to be left to Obama to reap alone to himself. Ya’ll “others”: keep out!
Liar.
What’s the point of saying again and again that people who support Obama are wrong?
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” —Mark Twain
I’ve been getting WAY too many opportunities to use that lately.
Maybe a picture of a pretty blonde. One needs to prepare themselves for the moral conflict involved in using a weapon for self defense, and if you can punch holes in a picture of a pretty blonde, you can punch holes in anything.
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Okay, Ann, riddle me this:
Would you have voted for Obama in 2008 if you’d have known of this racially charged speech? (I suspect not)
But, because this video is coming out now, you may very well vote Obama because it makes the GOP look bad?
Seriously, Ann, WTF?
How far do you have to twist your ability to reason to get to the point that presenting the truth about someone is unfair? By the time you get to that point, I doubt you can think clearly about anything.
Jeez.
Shorter Althouse:
“There’s been an effort to make people feel that we’re not allowed to criticize Obama. Ergo, emotions around race are deep and complex. I recommend denial and political suicide.”
Do us a favor, Ann: Just drop the pretense and filler and splice your thesis right to your “recommended” end result, it having not one molecule to do with either your thesis or, of infinitely more consequence to me, my survival as a free man.
You’re a progressive, Althouse, and you offend the shit out of us. I recommend you cut it out. On a planet that’s always found ways to destroy itself by The Lie, your saccharine public infantilization of what things really are disgusts me.
Althouse: “If you can’t put yourself in the minds of the people who don’t agree with you, you have no way to speak to them. You are simply choosing to forgo the possibility of being persuasive.”
Althouse: “You condemn others as emotional/irrational, but take a minute to consider how emotional and irrational it is to engage in politics without trying to get more people to agree with you.”
Althouse:”Why not go find something else to do? Why do you bother? You’re beating your head against the wall and I’m showing you where there are doors, and you’re claiming it makes sense to try to exit through the wall. And preening about your rationality. Stupid Lincoln “
The emotions around race are deep and complex. I recommend not toying with them.
Why? What reason can there be for not talking about race? Is it like sex used to be? Lord knows I wish people would STFU about that unless relevant or extrememly amusing in the telling.
Just because Althouse thinks it’s unseemly doesn’t mean the rest of us have to shut up and eat our peas.
Can’t, can’t, can’t stand the bubble. Being terrified to call out someone’s racist politics because they’re black is a terrible way to lose the country.
No wonder I’m still single.
She’s trying to prove me right about her, which decision would therefore prove me wrong about her.
Except that in addition to being a Hormonal-American she’s also a lawyer, so nothing she can do can possibly prove anything.
Coward.
/Holder
Man up, McGehee. You can be wrong this once. We won’t tell.
1. Because shut up
2. Racist
That about cover it?
My wife has been trying to get me to give it a try, but it seems to be the ONE thing that’s beyond my capabilities.
Exploitation that looks ugly…
No.
No, it’s an exhibition of ugliness.
Althouse’s main problem with the video is how it makes her feel to be shown what she’s patently been denying.
That she willingly fell for an emotional appeal.
The god’s of the copy book headings were seen today just over horizon. They waved to us from afar. I think they may be planning a visit to see if we have forgotten about them. Perhaps we should buy a bottle of Rosé and some coffee cake in case they stop by.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49267996
Seriously, this is on the level of hearing the news about Ambassador Stevens and first thinking I hope no stupid hillbilly rednecks go out and murder some innocent muslim convenience store clerk because of this!
but it seems to be the ONE thing that’s beyond my capabilities.
Heh. You can mumble it as you cough into your collar. Preferably while driving with the radio turned up loud and the windows down.
My husband did that. Once.
“The god’s of the copy book headings” -> the gods of the copy book headings
The possessive is obviously not required and incorrect.
Whittle’s takedown of Ann in her comment section is a thing of beauty:
That’s going to be hard to ignore. Easy to pretend to ignore, but that’s not the same thing.
There was this one time that I thought I was wrong, but I was wrong about that.
Leigh, it’s not the admitting that I can’t do — it’s the actually being wrong.
…you wouldn’t ask me to admit to being wrong without actually being wrong, would you?
Oh, wait — you’re a woman. Of course you would. ;-)
What’s wrong with her…
She can go jump in Lake Mendota.
That leaves Monona for you.
I gotta say, I’ve read Althouse for a long time, and I don’t understand this at all. The only thing I can think of is some dark secret she has regarding race.
I don’t agree with a good chunk of what she says, but normally she makes some good points. On this, I’ve gotta admit I’m dumbfounded.
*Move to something more optimistic and positive. That’s what Romney and Ryan seem to want to do with their campaign.&
And yet she’s undecided.
I had this same argumnt with my mom…
“Look Mommy, an ugly, race-baiting troll!”
“Don’t point and shut up or he’ll call you a racist!”
Welcome to the future your vote enables. Good times, for some.
…you wouldn’t ask me to admit to being wrong without actually being wrong, would you?
Of course not. Because that would be wrong. ; )
I used to think you had to.be at least kinda smart to be a law school professor. Now i know. I’ve been wrong all these years.
Let me see. Citizen or subject? Israel as a vibrant democracy or as a smoking rubble? Second amendment, keep or not? First amendment, keep or not? Should i be allowed to choose what my kids eat for lunch or not? Are all animals created equal, or are some more equal than others? In sbort, are we ready to snuff out the remnants of our republic and embrace tyranny or not?
From Glenn Reynolds’ piece linked above:
New video from 2002 with more racisty racist talk from the Prezzy.
meanwhile
Why Was Obama‘s Audio Book Version of ’Dreams From My Father’ Purged of All References to Communist Mentor?
Oh look — nested blockquotes work now.
Althouse has described herself as a libertarian, correct?
She saw the thug machine in Madison up close and personal last year–also correct?
Then there’s that laundry list of problematic-from-a-libertarian-perspective stuff Jeff cites in the body of the post.
Yet she’s “genuinely undecided”?
Um… I’m going to concur with everyone else who said she’s voting Obama again. The most likely reason for her saying stuff like this is that she has serious pangs of conscience about such a vote and is trying to soothe it.
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Insisting on the same standard for both black and white Presidents, judging them by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin is patently racist. And ugly. And bound to turn of those undecided voters we so desperately need.
Only Nixon could go to China. Only Obama can address the country’s racial scars. That he chooses to pick at the scabs instead is beside the point.
Perhaps the worst part of Professor Althouse’s, uh, argument is how it looks down so far on the great unwashed masses who can’t be trusted to look at this video without conjuring up their deepest racial fears.
I think it’s called projection.
Well, Althouse is a blonde (like Meghan McCain), so she probably also believes other questionable things, like that practicing safe sex means having a padded headboard.
Facts aren’t born with opinion or agenda, they simply exist. If that’s how Obama acted and its what he said, then it happened. That’s a fact.
The vid seemed like a big meh to me, perhaps even an intentional Dem psyop to distract the media from the Libya clusterfuck which was starting to get pretty real. If I were Obama, I’d willingly give up a knight to take that Libya queen off the chessboard that was killing me.
Ah, but which race is it that Ann’s afeared is about to break out in an orgy of spontaneous violence and ass rape because of this hateful and offensive video?
Call me crazy, but I like seeing the pushback to that idiocy. I thought the same thing as Jeff posted – almost word for word – when I read it this morning.
Four years ago I’m not sure so many people would have said something in similar situations.
If I were Obama, I’d willingly give up a knight to take that Libya queen off the chessboard that was killing me.
Too bad for Obama that he’s going to lose both pieces. It’s not an either/or proposition, after all.
Swear to Allah, if this SCOAMF gets re-elected, I’m getting the hell out of the city. There’s just no way that a republic which re-elects such a beast will long stand.
Also, if you’re still honestly trying to choose between Romney and Obama at this point, you don’t just look completely fucking stupid – you ARE completely fucking stupid.
What more could Obama do to make you see he’s not fit for the job than HE’S ALREADY DONE OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS?
Now, if you’re weighing voting Romney and voting third party, that’s something different I think.
I happened to see Congressman Gowdy from S. Carolina on Fox this morning, and the question addressed to him about the hearings to come (on Oct. 15th) on the Libya security debacle was “how will you get any information if the FBI can’t even get into Benghazi?” His answer: “We will have witnesses who were there, witnesses who will testify as to what happened, witnesses who themselves pled with the State department for more security at their location and were turned down.”
The O administration will be in deep shit, I think, even before the election comes. Something about being shot at and having rocket-propelled grenades fired at them makes people wake up to reality, to ask themselves very serious questions about what they’re doing with their lives, and what others would do with them.
The O administration will be in deep shit, I think, even before the election comes.
Seriously. After you’ve had al-Q lobbing mortars at you, there isn’t a lot that Obama/Clinton/Holder can threaten you with. Not without getting laughed at, anyway.
Hence my motto: The truth begs nobody’s pardon.
Whatever you might think of this arrangement, that is the arrangement. It is the Rubicon. The problem is this. There is no apparent way to conquer Rome unless you cross the Rubicon. If you cross that river then there’s no telling what will happen. In all probability hell will break loose. Beyond the Rubicon it is conquer or die. “Here peace, here broken laws be left; Farewell to treaties. Fortune, lead me on; War is our judge, and in the fates our trust.”
You can only go symmetrical on the Democrats by tearing up the tacit Red Line contract. But if you do that, then civility is gravely risked and all may be lost. That’s not a threat. That is probably an accurate estimate of consequences. Because of this it has long been incumbent on conservatives to preserve the Republic. They must retreat to preserve national unity; they must draw back to avoid racial tension. Always. But no corresponding obligation exists on the Left.
Now you can conquer the house if you are willing to burn it down. The Left is certainly willing to burn it down. But to their credit — and perhaps to their folly — the conservatives have not been willing to torch it. After all you don’t want to “destroy the village in order to save it”. For them the United States is something worth preserving. To the Left it is something worth destroying. The dilemma is the consequence of this asymmetry.
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In the video, Obama says: Now here’s the thing. When 9-11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act — said, ‘This is too serious a problem. We can’t expect New York City to rebuild on its own. Forget that dollar you gotta put in. Well, here’s ten dollars.’ And that was the right thing to do. When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, ‘Look at this devastation. We don’t expect you to come up with y’own money, here. Here’s the money to rebuild. We’re not gonna wait for you to scratch it together — because you’re part of the American family.’
“What’s happening down in New Orleans? Where’s your dollar? Where’s your Stafford Act money? Makes no sense! Tells me that somehow, the people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!
Let’s see…hmmm…New York and Florida…which group is known to have a lot of political influence in both?…hmmm…could it be a certain group of people who we often refer to as ‘The Chosen People’?
Hmmm….
Fernandez does a decent job at framing the issue, but I can’t say that I agree with his conclusions. I mean, if he thinks that Republicans throwing the race card back in the Left’s face means the end of the Republic, I can’t imagine what sort of metaphor he’d come up with to describe the federal/state entitlement gravy train drying up.
You want to see the Rubicon crossed? Zero out the balances on the Democrats’ EBT cards. The race card is nothing compared to that.
– Anyway, the resounding answer to Ann’s question is “Yes sunshine, its just you.”
To throw in another twist, the Rev. E. W. Jackson and those who accompany him are Rubicon crossing in the opposite direction.
No offense to Richard Fernandez, who I respect, but a republic that remains a republic in name only — largely because you cannot preserve it against the people determined to tear it down, lest you allow it to be torn down in the process — is not worth saving.
A republic worth saving is one that you are willing to fight to preserve, not shrink from a fight to preserve. I don’t see the latter as nobility, and there is no credit to it any longer if there ever was. The folly was in believing that a refusal to fight at the left’s level was somehow righteous. It wasn’t. Because you were all the time playing on their field, by their rules.
You were no more righteous than are the Washington Generals. You are foils and you are meant to be beaten publicly.
Now you can conquer the house if you are willing to burn it down. The Left is certainly willing to burn it down
I don’t know. It seems to me if you really wanted to be accurate with the metaphor, you’d have to admit that the house has already been burned to the ground, your sister has been porked, and those emergency $20 bills in the cookie jar have been liberated in order to buy some crystal meth and slim jims…….
AFBFOAFBF actually said this in comments: ” I just wish white folk would quit calling him African American in an effort to sound enlightened. That term is a cultural descriptor for people descended from slaves, which isn’t BHO.”
SO.
1) Implement an ever-changing taxonomy of racial descriptors and not give away the key.
2) Ridicule others for failing to adhere to rules they don’t know.
3) Smugly pat yourself on the back for your racial enlightenment for adhering to a taxonomy you yourself invented.
4) Rinse; repeat.
My rule is: really, I don’t give a flying fuck. Call yourself what you want; I’ll follow suit. Just tell me, for fuck’s sake.
Yeah, but she dyes her hair.
By the way, recall how Shelby Steele had all this Obama business down pat before Obama had even been elected? He did, by jinks.
Slart, I call them black, because nobody takes genuine offense to it anymore — if they ever did.
I also call Indians Indians, because apparently that’s what they call themselves.
If I want to insult somebody, using a group pejorative is weak sauce. Far better to make it personal.
Steele on Obama, Jan 18 2008
And on The Religion of Race, posted Jun. 30 2008
The pop psychologist in me has to suspect that Althouse is one of those folks who voted for Obama to prove to herself that she’s not a racist. She knew about Obama’s history with Rev. Wright but bought into the whole ‘it was only a couple of sermons, Obama was playing golf and missed it, and now that he’s aware of it he’s repudiated the Rev. Wright’ line. She voted for Obama to feel good about herself. Thus, having her nose rubbed in the fact that she’s a rube who voted to put a racist in the White House is just unbearable. Only ugly, ugly people would do that to her.
I see only a Potemkin Rubicon. The left has drawn a line in the sand and called it a river that we can’t cross. Behind that mighty line they yell and scream and make crude gestures, baring their ass to moon us. Knowing in their heart that we cannot cross that line they have drawn.
They are wrong. As wrong as the 17 year old tough taunting the 70 year old guy. Saying “I’m going to beat your ass man” as he dances around swinging his arms, making feints at punches.
What the teen doesn’t know is with age comes knowledge that when you really fight you don’t make threats, you don’t taunt and dance around. You either back off and let it go or if you just can’t this time you go for the win, full on and sudden.
That doesn’t change who you are. It changes who they are and who they will be from that day forward perhaps.
I too respect Mr. Fernandez. He’s been in one of the dirtiest types of wars there is and came out still a decent man. He should realize that we can also do that too here if necessary.
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Behind that mighty line they yell and scream and make crude gestures, baring their ass to moon us. Knowing in their heart that we cannot cross that line they have drawn.
They are wrong.
wisconsin proves that
If I want to insult somebody, using a group pejorative is weak sauce.
Because it implies that belonging to a particular race is a bad thing, somehow. It’s like insulting me for being 5′ 7″.
You either back off and let it go or if you just can’t this time you go for the win, full on and sudden.
“Ender’s Game,” in theaters 2013.
I frakkin’ hate you 67-inchers. You people need your own schools :)
“Anyone else think Ann’s looking for someone to blame fo her already determined upon vote for Obama?”
Forgive me for not paying enough attention–and for taking the easy way out and asking you rather that googling Ann–but has she said that she remains undecided?
If destroying the village in order to save it means I get to both save it and “gentrify” the neighborhood the liberals are busy turning into a ghetto shithole, I do.
I concur, Ernst.
Someone needs to ask Ann in what universe Obama is a better president than Romney. Is Ann going to justify voting for Obama because “he’s been president and we need the experience?” Because if that’s Ann’s rationalization, boy, I’d sure like to work for Ann, ’cause I could fuck up all I want, and as long as I have a good excuse, I’m golden.
Well, as the worldy wise Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez once said,
People talk bullshit.
Jeff is (or more properly was —what with becoming a cockroach and all) the Jim Malone of the dextrosphere.
Alas, all the sensitive, upright and self-righteous Elliot Nesses decided that no, in point of fact, they didn’t like the deal he was offering them.
Instead they decided to take counsel from the savants of moderation, who pointed out that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth would leave us all blind and toothless.
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