Rush Limbaugh's decided that Obama's hiding his real ethnicity from the American public...and he'll expose the truth to an unwitting public.
I would like to remind everyone that every time I wrote a blog post about the housing bubble or the Bush administration's general path to drive this economy into the ground, a bunch of conservatives would show up to oh-so-patiently explain to me that my wee little lady brain doesn't understand economics. Ever heard of supply and demand? The fact that wee lady brains are attached to wee lady arms that pull voting levers is reason enough, you see, to get economic decisions out of voters hands and make the management of our economy a de facto dictatorship. But buck up, campers! The United States took the path of many third world dictatorships before us, of having an ubercapitalist moron drive up our debts and destroy our economy in hopes of putting economic management out of the reach of our democracy, but we were able to get here without military coups or rounding up dissenters to be disappeared. We elected our own asshole, and the only lives lost on our soil were taken by terrorists. True, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost in Iraq, but that was just a very expensive side hobby for your President, albeit one that helped dismantle our functioning economy. By shock doctrine standards, we got off relatively easy.
Wow; what a menace on the road. Paul Lindemann, a Republican Palmetto State Republican councilman racking up his third DUI arrest, shows you what "impairment" means.
I feel bad about the post I wrote earlier today, in that I might have been unduly harsh, though I'm still thinking that everything I said was right. It got me to thinking about a favorite word bandied about, by myself as much as by anyone else, on the anti-oppression blogosphere, which is "privilege". It's a useful concept, simple really. Privilege is something you have that other people don't. Inequality is all about privileges, who has them and who doesn't.
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show Mike Rogers and Mike S. revealed yet another hypocrite within the ranks of the McCain campaign, his gay chief of staff Mark Buse.
Stories like this, more than anything, expose how much of a lie it is when Republicans go on about how they're the party of "family values". At bare minimum, what families need to be valued is steady employment and reasonable cost of living, both things that have been snatched away from Americans in a frenzy of feed the rich deregulation and other lobbyist gravy trains. I think that's what really bothered me about PortlyDyke's scolding us to remember that some kids in China don't have vegetables to eat. In trying to make people feel bad because they're mocking the very same super-wealthy people who brought this on us for losing their planes or their expensive mistresses, she reminds us that having a house with four walls is considered rich to some people.
