I’m so glad this thread is back! It’s been so much fun, and I haven’t been keeping enough up to date with stupid Republican ideas to refresh the thread myself.
It’s also placed in a line-up of utterly normal pictures of all the other (white) Presidents. Were the ‘depiction’ of Obama in isolation, I might agree with you, but it’s clearly meant to imply “He’s different and so doesn’t get a normal picture like the others; we’re going to reduce him to a caricature.”
I mean, hell, it’s arguable that this picture is somewhat racist, too, but the depiction of Obama is no different from the depictions of the other Presidents. It doesn’t attempt to remove the humanity from Obama, just points out the fact that he’s the first black President.
It’s the difference between saying “He’s our first black President” and “He’s our first spook President.”
And the punchline that you’re supposed to “get” is that our president is a nigger spook.
You’d think that a joke that’s been making the rounds for 400+ years would be a bit stale by now. Apparently there’s a lot of neaderthals who still think it’s as funny as that time that Og Jr. threw the bear femur in the air and it came down on his head.
The specific image of a black man being invisible in the dark except for his eyes (wide open from fear) has a specific history. Think about the old joke with the punchline “Ain’t nobody here but us chickens, Massah.” The fugitive black man trying to hide from a white man who’s too stupid to realize that his glow-in-the-dark eyes (or, in the case of the joke, the idea of a chicken responding in English) would give him away.
Well sure they were cheap. They stayed in, and the only cost was a cigar.
To be fair, the femur thing was pretty funny.
“Tragedy is when I lose my best flint knapper. Comedy is when you are trampled by a mastodon and die.”
Ha. Ha! Oh, man.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/35940-1.html?type=printer_friendly
They’re getting good at this “Put out a basically blank plan to try to steal some thunder from Obama”.
Yeah, but it’s not p…p…p…PUBLIC! AHHHHHHHHH!!
(runs screaming)
Didn’t… wait… didn’t they do the same thing with the budget?
“Iranian activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut out in the House” Oh, Pete Hoekstra. You’re a fucking moron.
It takes a real fucking winner to be redundant in a 140-character format.
I know what he means though. My cat scratched me last night and boy, now I know how Jesus felt being nailed to the cross.
Truly. I got called into work last night which is similar to what third-world sweatshop workers are going through.
It’s probably worth noting that Carrot accidentally left out a word. I doubt it was deliberate, since you can’t C&P the twitter part from the front page of Hoekstra’s blog.
“Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut out in the House”
Puts a bit of a different spin on the statement. Juuuust a tad.
(Also, “Pete Hoekstra is a meme”? You’re doing it wrong!)
Enough of this Republican bashing. GOP Chairman Michael Steele has single-handedly solved the health-care crisis:
Now why didn’t Obama think of that? Huh?
PS Clearly, this is good news for the McCain campaign.
I think what Mr. Steele means is a means for people without health insurance to observe health care being provided. Incentivizing.
I really wish the federal government would stay the fuck away from everything and anything to do with health care.
To me, its mostly about priorities. First take away all the guns, then force Eagle Scouts into gay marriages, and then universal health care.