How long before the fact his middle name is Hussein gets tired? I really don’t think that if McCain’s full name was John Adolf McCain III they’d think it was anything more than coincidence, and it’s not like he chose his name. And the Muslim thing… Isa bin Maryam, have they just honestly never heard of snopes or factcheck or seen any of the 20,000 talk shows where that’s been discounted or even heard McCain himself say “no, he’s not a Muslim” (let alone an ‘Arab’, which some of these people don’t even seem to realize isn’t a synonym for Muslim or that there are Arab Christians or that Kenyans aren’t Arabs)?
Of course as an Alabamian I find the clip refreshing. It’s always good to know we really don’t have all of the idiots and race-baiters and Fundie wingnuts not afraid to look like ignorant loudmouths down here. (In fact some got all the way up to Alaska.)
The big Florida rally (of Palin’s) took place at The Villages, a giant retirement community near Ocala (armed-response, ain’t gonna let no nigger date my daughter-type territory).
The Villages has the highest rate of gonnorhea and syphilis in the state. Make of that what you will.
My brother’s wife and her family are all from that area of the state, and frankly I’m with Terrifel here–it’s a scenic, charming area with a lot of people who could stand to be washed away in the next flood.
They’re all voting McCain, too, even my brother. Lousy single-issue voters.
Pardon the slight hijack, but to avoid yet another “Fundie idiot supports McCain” thread, the Reverend Arnold Conrad invocation before McCain’s speech in Iowa this week was one of the oddest things I’ve heard. Emphasis mine on a couple of lines:
It seems
1- Reverend Conrad is a henotheist rather than a monotheist
2- Reverend Conrad actually feels the God he believes created and sustains and governs the universe needs the advice of an Iowa preacher, which must set a new record in arrogance
3- Reverend Conrad doesn’t believe that any Obama supporters are Christian
4- McCain doesn’t feel the need to challenge or address anything Conrad said since he went onstage, did his dance/made the sailors drink/scolded a protester but never made a comment about the prayer
Now, see? That’s a wonderful heartwarming story. You couldn’t share that story if you truly disavowed your roots. Surely there’s still plenty of decent folk back there who deserve your support and best wishes; don’t turn your back on them. Embrace your past.
Besides, you and I both know that most of the people in that video were probably from Blairsville anyway. They’re just nothing but freaks over there. Beady-eyed little monkey-guy? He’s got “Blairsville spawn” written all over him.
I’m making a collection of all of this videos. Nov 5th after Obama wins in a landslide im going to rewatch every single one of them starting with the ones from Hillary supporters back in the primaries spouting almost the same things with the biggest smile on my face. Fuck you assholes, you are going to lose and lose bad and by god im going to fucking rub it in every chance i can.
The worst thing I heard when I went to an Obama rally in New Mexico was a vendor bellowing, “Buy your Obama playing cards, then play a Republican to get your money* back. Bush and McCain are the jokers!”
Nobody in the crowd was yelling anything, good or bad, yet you could still see the excitement and passion on everybody’s face.
These are people who have decided beforehand to show up and make assholes of themselves in a misguided attempt to influence the election, and they are a tiny, tiny minority of the right.
To see people being assholes in their natural environment and caught unawares as they go about their daily business, take a look at this.
Yes.
I’d comment more, but I’m still so nauseated from all these videos.
People suck.
SA–So, that makes it all right, then, does it? To see some liberals jeering makes the racial slurs, the hate and the vitriol all just politics as usual? The woman yelling “wake up!” --man, that’s some hate speech for ya. I will say your vid has better music.
Missed the edit window. I doubt that these are “people caught unawares”–it’s a demonstration. I didn’t watch the whole thing because I am sickened by these videos. I am less and less proud of my country every day.
I will never understand this meme of “if I can tar the other side with the same brush, then it evens the score.” It doesn’t. Dems behaving badly does not make Reps behaving badly better or OK. If it gives you comfort to think so, I hope it helps you.
Was that at a Obama rally? Do you think it would have been appropriate for a McCain/Palin aide to tell the guy carrying a monkey with an Obama sticker to get the hell outta there? If so why wasn’t that done? And Starving Artist, I am more to the right than this board skews, so this isn’t a political leanings rant, this is bullshit. If Powell would have ran for President as a republican do you think the democrats would have carried a monkey with a Powell sticker on it? I think the democratic candidate would have shot that shit right down. Honest opinion, I think McCain hates the racism, despises those who are jumping on board with it, but is too concerned with them votes they have to really crack down on it.
Come on, eleanor. You know I like you, but that is just b.s. The point is that the righties acting like assholes are a small minority who planned their assholish behavior in advance. The screaming liberals in the video I posted, with faces contorted in anger and giving everyone in sight the finger are just ordinary, everyday liberals going about their business and acting the way they are normally given to act.
I wouldn’t cease to vote for Obama simply because of who supports him. Racist bastards have to vote for somebody.
But I can cease to vote for a candidate if I don’t like the direction it takes the country. In no way do I wish to see an America of KKK-1930s reborn, where the racist bastards feel justified in their tiny-minded discriminations. I can only shudder to think how the racists who support McCain would be overjoyed at his victory; they would treat it like a mandate.
It looked to me like they were just going about their business when the demonstration came upon them, though I couldn’t say for sure.
Well, you really ought to watch the whole thing. It contains much worse than some lady yelling wake up.
No, it isn’t evening the score; it’s pointing out hypocrisy. And it’s quite germane to point out that these people appear to represent a very large segment of the liberal population, vs. the tiny percentage of conservatives represented by the deliberately assholish McCain supporters.
Why is it okay with you for conservatives to be broad-brush painted with the deliberate assholish actions of a very few conservatives, but wrong to point out in response that the other side seems to be worse, and to come by it naturally?
Yes, it also contains a bunch of people giving the demonstrators the finger and one old guy who does that thing where you put your thumb on your nose and waggle your fingers around. :eek:
It’s worse to boo and give people the finger than it is to shout “commie faggot”, “terrorist”, and have monkey dolls that are supposed to represent an African-American Senator? Interesting.