Like Kryptonite To Stupid
Somebody thought this was a good idea.
A Brazilian judge has banned a controversial Carnival float that depicted Holocaust victims and was to be accompanied by a samba dancer dressed as Adolph Hitler.
The creators said the float was a protest against genocide, but judge in Rio de Janeiro backed a complaint from the Jewish community, saying the festival “cannot be used as a tool in the cult of hate or for any form of racism … or for the banalization of barbaric events.”
Lots of swearing. Funny. Especially when you consider the guy works for Disney.
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At the flailing Kos-wannabe site Red State, they’ve taken to begging their readers to stop using racist rhetoric.
What is not fine, okay, or within the bounds of the rules, is to use Latino names as an insult. We are speaking, specifically, of “Jorge Arbusto” and “Juan McCain,” although it’s certainly possible that others are floating out there or may yet be invented. Allow me to clue anyone who thinks these names are funny or clever in to something: racism isn’t clever or funny. If you think you’ve really zinged someone by calling them by a Latino name, that’s a pretty reliable (nearly infallible, in fact) indicator that you don’t like Latino people.
If you have to tell them that, haven’t you already lost?
Sen. Obama has raised a lot of money this month. I’d like to see Sen. Clinton’s numbers to compare.
The campaign of Barack Obama will report having raised at least $32 million in the month of January, a staggering amount for one month, campaign manager David Plouffe said this morning.
That included contributions from 170,000 new donors. That brings the campaign’s total number of contributors to 650,000, Plouffe said.
Plouffe said the money came in at a consistent pace throughout the month, but the campaign’s strongest day of fundraising came the day after the New Hampshire primary, which Obama narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton.
Taylor Marsh is all a-twitter over the media going nutty over the faux “snub” during the State Of The Union (the video looks the same as on the night of the speech, no matter how many times you slow-mo it or change the headline). Should Sen. Clinton be the nominee I expect these same people to be up in arms when the press examines the trivial minutiae of Sen. Clinton (like “the cackle”) without a hint of shame about the role they played in further legitimizing this line of nonsense.
I’m still trying to figure what the root cause of this is. Is it that progressive female bloggers see the candidacy of Sen. Obama as illegitimate because he’s a man? Or that because he’s black but not female he needs to sit down and wait his turn? More than a couple liberal bloggers sound just like Fox News when the target is Sen. Obama.
UPDATE: This picture verifies what Sen. Obama and Sen. McCaskill have been saying. I hope the anti-Obama bloggers feel very stupid and very ashamed.
I said this months ago. Sen. Clinton just echoes John Kerry in her version of her position on the Iraq War. Certainly 2008 is not 2004 and the votes on the war won’t loom as large. But this sort of mythology just won’t pass the smell test.
Sen. Obama and Hillary have identical voting records on the Iraq war.
That may be true if you pretend that 2003 never happened. Sen. Clinton voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq. She’s been good on providing support to the troops, providing body armor and even on redeployment from the region.
But she voted to authorize the use of force (Aka The Iraq War). And Sen. Obama opposed it as he ran for his seat. That’s a fact.
For once let these usually wrong people be right. It would be like getting to run against crazy Rudy after all! Please, God, make this happen.
The New York Post, the right’s entertaining if always ideologically wrong broadsheet, has endorsed Sen. Obama. Isn’t this the kind of thing Sen. Clinton sought to curtail by wooing Rupert Murdoch? A Post endorsement isn’t worth much in a Democratic primary.
But it is weird.
Reminder: The Post endorsed Sen. Clinton for re-election in 2006.
Sen. Clinton has obtained the vital “Belvis” nomination. There is no hope beyond today.
In the Republican primary. The Republican primary. The hardline position on Immigration yet again fails to help the conservative wing of the party. Now, imagine how much this will hurt in the general? But please, Republicans, listen to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for the cues on this issue. Remember, if you’re not bashing Hispanics, you’re wasting time!
Another interest rate cut? This sounds alarmingly like the cuts the Japanese made in the ’90s.
And not in a good way. These cuts just seem panicked and just flailing.
Sen. Edwards is dropping out, and while I think there were serious issues with his campaign organization since day one, he did bring important issues into the race. I think the conventional wisdom that this somehow helps Sen. Clinton is a little screwy. Even without an endorsement of Sen. Obama – which could happen – Edwards voters would seem to me to be more inclined to go with Obama than Clinton to the tune of 60-70 percent of them. Edwards was not a fringe candidate and his percentage of the vote is enough to swing Super Tuesday one way or the other.
Rudy Giuliani got creamed and came in third place after predicting a win in Florida???
Clearly, this is good for Rudy Giuliani. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama should be worried.
Lackluster candidate. A demoralized base. I’ve seen this show before…
After Tuesday, they both participated in beauty contests and won the same amount of delegates: 0.
The ODS-friendly pro-Clinton sites are echoing the mothership’s campaign spin (and right-wing style horsepuckey), but facts are stubborn things. Florida broke the rules, they lost their delegates. There’s no Clinton exception to the rules. If she wins, she has to play the same game as everyone else. Veruca Salt-style tantrums need not apply.
ALWAYS!
Here he is predicting a Romney surge and win in Florida.
And yet, his mancrush lost again by a solid 5%. (Oh, sorry, he got the “silver”)
Clearly this is the sort of pundit who should be called in to the mainstream media at every possible moment.
Remember, it’s ok if you’re a Republican.
Barring a miracle, we’re likely going to have sideline tickets to the political funeral of one of the most odious figures in U.S. political history, Rudy Giuliani. Good riddance!
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