Comments Posted By Richard Bottoms
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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SATURDAY
BTW, please also assume that no watermelon jokes, monkey jokes, any references to cotton or witch doctors will be given the benefit of the doubt.
Ever.
I'm 54 so I've heard them all and we have no sense of humor about it.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 21.09.2009 @ 14:19
Other than racism, do you see ANY possible motive for any of those things you’re asking about? Or are these things automatically racist?
They aren't automatically racist.
If however your target's for vote caging are always black then that is de facto a tool to hurt black voters.
I'll give an example of something that I am sure no one in their heart thinks is racist but turns on the loathing of the GOP to 11.
It is the assumption that all black people care about from the Democratic party is welfare. It is as if some time warp exists and these people think it's always 1972.
Turth is most black Democrats care about the same thing every other Democrat cares about and most Republicans too. Having a good job in a safe environment, good schools for their kids, adequate police protection without violating their civil rights, and clean water.
The goodies we do want are the same as everyone else, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment benefits at a decent level when we need them.
Welfare is a non-issue. It was dealt wil nearly 20 yars ago.
Personally when the economy is on its feet I make over six figures and that's not counting my wife's income.
I've never been on welfare nor do I know anyone who has. That's one insult, one we perceive as solely based on race you could put a stop to right now.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 21.09.2009 @ 10:42
Is there any lengths to which some Obama supporters won’t go in order to discredit a particular swath of criticism?
Now, having gotten that out of your system could you address the specific issue of paying for mailing lists to magazines that are known to be popular with that who are unquestionably racist (i.e. Spotlight) in order to reach their readers without having to actually say anything racist yourself.
Will the GOP explicitly take on the issue of the Confederate flag in official government settings?
Will the GOP stop using vote caging and voter roll purging tactics in areas dominated by black voters?
A simple yes or no will do for a start. Details can follow.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 20.09.2009 @ 02:06
Anyway, I am very glad he said this. But we must demand he go much farther in condemning the wild, out of control explosion of charges being made by his supporters that tar opposition to his policies as motivated solely by race.
May I ask by name which supporters of Obama have saud the charges are soely based on race?
I can't think of any.
What I do hear is them saying it is clear some of it is based on race and more importantly pointing out what their see as evidence. And what hear them asking for for voices other than yours, Frum, and Dreher to denounce it when the evidence supports it.
I believe I am quoting you accurately when you say you don't believe Rush is a racist, rather a racial agitator. What is the difference?
Except that the race agitator is more cynical and damaging since they know what they are saying generates heat precisely because of race and that they say those things even when they know it is based on bulls**t.
I completely get that the teabaggers are angry at everybody. What I don't get is why Senators and Congressmen from the GOP can't say without equivocation or qualifiers that the birthers are whacked out about Obama and the reason, obvious to me, is his race.
That's not everyone on the Right, that's the birthers on the Right who the GOP politician won't call out because when it comes down to voting day they expect them to pull the lever for the GOP.
Can you understand why a Congressman who is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans would get no benefit of the doubt about his motivations for disrespecting the President.
We see the GOP katowing to a segment of their base who romanticize their "lost cause" and can never admit their ancestors were traitors who lost a war they started. We know this because the leadership of the party can never come right out and say the Confederate flag should not be flown on government buildings (or like McCain they say it and recant when it's politically expedient).
Bob Jones University is known its ban on interracial dating. The ban was lifted after George Bush I visited, not because the leaders there think it was wrong in the first place but because it had became known. When Dole, Bush II, and McCain go there during GOP campaigns we see it as a wink to the segment of the party that can't accept blacks.
We believe there is a significant segment of the GOP who follow and agree with the writings of Samuel Francis, Peter Brimelow, and others connected the American Renaissance. These people state explicitly that blacks are inferior and use that as the basis for how they approach everything from welfare reform to health care.
These groups and many like them are founded by current and former members of the GOP. The don't wear sheets and they've learned to to say that word, but its pretty clear what they believe. Not all of the GOP, just some.
I don't overstate their influence, I simply state their existence and why certain parts of the Republican apparatus uses their manpower and money to stay in office.
They buy their mailing lists and aim direct mail efforts at AmRen types, knowing they don't have to come right out and say why the GOP pols believes they have similar aims:
For eight years, a major direct-mail firm "specializing in the Christian and conservative markets" has been selling lists of the readers of America's leading anti-Semitic newspaper and, since about 2001, its successor publication.
Zodhiates also peddles lists of subscribers to the American Free Press, which replaced The Spotlight when that tabloid was shut down amid legal and financial troubles surrounding Carto. The Free Press began immediately after The Spotlight fizzled in 2001 and picked up many of its predecessor paper's propagandists.
Today, the Free Press carries stories on Zionism, secret "New World Order" conspiracies, American Jews and Israel. Mixed in are advertisements for outfits like Pete Peter's Scriptures for America and Kingdom Identity Ministries -- practitioners of Christian Identity, a theology that claims that Jews are the literal descendants of Satan.
I am not saying the GOP agrees with what these people believe, I am saying their are those in the GOP who aim their advertising to these people solely for political gain.
That is what we are asking to the GOP to won up to and to cease. I write about it to encourage you to add this to the list of things you'd like the Republican party to stop do on small or large scale. Stop it period.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 19.09.2009 @ 18:24
RUSH AND RACE: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
Already Mr. Limbaugh’s behavior is raising the ire of folks who already dislike him, but this transgression against honesty and prudence is so obvious and grave that his audience members should take it upon themselves to contact the talk radio host, politely articulate why his commentary in this instance is so irresponsible, and request that he never engage in such behavior again.
I hear Hell is freezing over this weekend.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 16.09.2009 @ 11:24
NO WONDER BUSH WAS A FAILURE AS PRESIDENT
P.S.
You have every right not to accept getting laughed at on your own blog.
Elsewhere...
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.09.2009 @ 20:29
Can I say the Nelson Muntz "Ha Ha"?
BTW, some of us despised George Bush for perfectly legitimate reasons like almost destroying the Army that I once served in.
It may not have been clear from where you were standing but it was perfectly obvious to me he was playing the anti-abortion, NRA, anti-gay crow of the GOP for suckers.
It may be irritating to hear we told you so... but we did.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 15.09.2009 @ 19:57
DEBATE OVER TEA PARTY PROTEST NUMBERS MASKS THE REAL HISTORY MADE
“Small moves, Ellie. Small moves…” was the advice that Elenore Arroway’s dad gave to the youngster as she fiddled with the dial of her ham radio in the film Contact. By moving the dial in small increments, she was much more likely to be rewarded by making contact with another ham radio enthusiast.
Hundreds of thousands of people at the Capitol yesterday gave President Obama the same message.
To take you movie analogy further, in Contact we were faced with a radio message, an historic even and one that required a response of some nuance and precision with some question as to the worth of the final result.
Unfortunately the movie that Obama found himself in upon taking office was Armageddon, with a giant financial asteroid heading towards the Earth and not much time to respond. (Lehman collapse, AIG)
During the time the scientists worked on their solution smaller, quite devastating impacts were felt. (GM collapse)
Failing to stop the rock was not an option, so the government threw the most outlandish and highly expensive solution they could at the problem, and it worked.
There's still a big mess to clean up from the other collisions (Foreclosure mess), but it appears the worst has been avoided.
And that was what happened in movie terms.
It's unclear whether the second half of this double feature is Land of the Lost or Iron Man 2.
Time will tell.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.09.2009 @ 13:21
THE LEFT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT JOE WILSON
nd what - no comment about the left going ape over this while Democrats booed Bush and called him a liar?
Gee…what a surprise THAT is - hypocrite.
ed.
Sorry, just now saw this one.
Collective grumbling has been going on from both sides of the aisle for some time now.
That's a qualitative difference from a single voice, clearly identifiable apparently, calling the president a liar during a joint session of congress.
I am not upset that the Republicans call Obama a liar (though he's not), nor surprised but for 233 years or so it's been done some time after the enclave so that we offer up at least the pretense of decorum.
Decorum so ridgedly enforced that Ciny Sheehan's t-shirt was enough to give the GOP the vapors. She was ejected, and perhaps rightly so since she was making a point that ought not to be made in that setting, in that way.
But Cindy's not an elected official and thus is not held to the standard that Rep. Wilson should be. And close to $1,000,000 has passed to his opponent as a show of how violating that standard is a bridge too far for a lot of people.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 14.09.2009 @ 17:02
My point was that Wilson’s actions have only hurt the GOP’s changes of containing Obamacare.
It certainly wasn't helpful to boost his opponent's war chest by almost a million dollars in the space of a few days either.
The biggest rhetorical guns of the Democratic party will be brought to bear against Joe Wilson.
Rob Miller went from complete unknown without a chance to dead even and more money than he'll know what to do with. And it's not even a week yet.
Comment Posted By Richard bottoms On 12.09.2009 @ 21:39
