McCain Republican’s Going Racist!

When you have a broken household appliance, you call on someone to fix it. You call Sears if you have a warranty to get it fixed as soon as possible. You get an appointment where nine times out of ten you have to take time off from work. All you know is that if the appliance is not working then your household is screwed. When that person walks in the door of your home do you really care what color their skin is if they can fix your broken appliance? Being President of this nation is not about the color of your skin but getting the damn job done, done right, and your being able to be proud in your government appliance once more.

Our government is an appliance that touches each and every single one of our lives at one point or another during our life cycle. Be it Social Security when you retire or the Veterans Administration from injuries you received in service to America, at some point you will be on the phone with your Federal Government in your lifetime. Right now as I type this post, the only response coming from our government appliance is please hold.

What I find ironic about the election process between John McCain and Barack Obama is the rude accusation coming from the McCain campaign that Obama is playing the race card. Over at the Washington Post they have this little update of interest…

“Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,” Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, charged in a statement with which Mr. McCain later said he agreed. “It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.”

In leveling the charge, Mr. Davis was referring to comments that Mr. Obama made Wednesday in Missouri when he reacted to the increasingly negative tone and negative advertisements from the McCain campaign, including one that likens Mr. Obama’s celebrity status to that of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

“So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Mr. Obama said in Springfield, Mo., echoing earlier remarks. “You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He’s risky. That’s essentially the argument they’re making.”

With his rejoinder about playing “the race card,” Mr. Davis effectively assured that race would once again become an unavoidable issue as voters face an election in which, for the first time, one of the major parties’ nominees is African-American.

And with its criticism, the McCain campaign was ensuring that Mr. Obama’s race — he is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas — would again be a factor in coverage of the presidential race. On Thursday, it took the spotlight from Mr. Obama when he had sought to attack Mr. McCain on energy issues. - New York Times

Race card played and by none other than the campaign to elect John McCain for President. Well that is a really scary thought when it comes to Presidential elections! Is the distinguished Senator from Arizona going to outright declare that Americans should not vote for an African American? Is he or is he not declaring that Senator Obama is in fact a black man even though his mother is a white woman to corner the racist vote? Do you notice that none of this has to do with the issues we face in America other than the color of one persons skin?

Do yourself a favor and put a blindfold on, listen to John McCain on energy policies (his latest flip anyway), and then listen to Barack Obama (Consistent Policy) on his energy policies and you decide who has a real clue as to what America really needs?

If the McCain campaign wants to play the race card then that is their folly. If they want to discuss real issues then I’m sure Senator Obama would be willing to debate him/his aides/his campaign manager/the janitor or whoever is really running the McCain for President campaign.

All I have to offer you in this post is a better day, a better life, a chance for change when the darkness of our people living as best they can and seeing the opportunities for them to succeed in life surpassing them every day that staying the course promises. John McCain is not promising that, not even hinting at it but we the people can say “Yes We Can”.

Hope is alive in America and Racism should pass the way that time has given us to grow past it. (Video Link)



In the course of our lives we all must look to the future, our children, and hope that their lives will be just one step better than ours. Racism has no place in our melting pot society and “Yes We Can” change America. While Senator McCain goes off playing the race card, my children’s future depends on policies that will change the path of America for the better. In that thought, believing that we as a people can make it better is the message of hope and only one candidate is selling hope. Thank you Senator Obama for doing so.

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Gender Identity Politics And Free Speech; Hillarynauts To Gag Dissent

BY MICHAEL LINN JONES

How many times have you heard that we need a president who "can bring us together?" Those dissatisfied with the current course of the country lament the fact that public discourse has become so poisonous during the Bush 43 years.

In the words of that great American philosopher, Gomer Pyle, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" It isn't going away; it's just crossing the street. It is difficult to articulate what I've witnessed since the 3% landslide victory of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. I've read more than one column that has morphed a primary election cycle for the presidency into a national litmus test for sexism. As in anything politically correct, the judges are also the accusers.

Frankly, there ARE no current candidates who convince me that they belong in the White House. Joe Biden was the most serious, but he's unelectable precisely because he has the presidential timber for the job, warts and all. Obam's rhetoric is soaring, but there's a difference between preaching and working. John Edwards' message resonates with people, but corporate America will shun him, and this is a corporate state.

So I'm skeptical but haven't ruled anyone out for my vote. Except one candidate, and that is Hillary Clinton. As I read recent articles portraying "attacks" on Clinton as anti-feminist viciousness, I'm reminded of how anyone opposed to a flood of illegal aliens into the country is a "nativist" or "xenophobe." One applied in haste, that tar and feather treatment is hard to rub off.

My allergic reaction to Bill Clinton began after he took office. I had hope because that was what he offered. He lied. He lied for 8 years, wrapped in a cocoon of selfishness that placed him in my mind as the worst president since Lyndon Johnson. He was easily exceeded by George W. Bush.

But, I DO remember seeing William Clinton and Albert Gore on the ballot. I do NOT remember seeing Hillary Clinton on it, nor can I find anything constitutionally that provides a role for the first spouse.

I knew Hillary Clinton was not a "stand by your man kind of woman like Tammy Wynette" because she said so. I did NOT know that there was a "co-presidency," underlined by the quote, "WE are the president." The healthcare debacle at the beginning of the Clinton presidency had a large bearing on the 1994 Congressional elections, resulting in our first taste of the Rabid Republicans forming a posse that rode on for years.

I remember the unseemly details of the "travelgate" fiasco, which while not illegal wss an example of the exercise in power. A power derived through a MARRIAGE LICENSE to the President of the United States. There was the ridiculous and false claim in 1995 that Hillary Clinton was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, six years before he was known outside of New Zealand.

There was the convenient purchase of a home in Chappaqua, New York some months before the end of the Clinton presidency in 2000. Bill Clinton pardoned 16 Puerto Rican terrorists, members of FALN, responsible for 120 bombings in the U.S. It need not be mentioned that a large number of Puerto Ricans live in New York City. It was an insult to the victims of the FALN bombings, as well as to the patriotism of Puerto Ricans, which is strong. But it was a bald-faced attempt to secure votes for a candidate for the U.S. Senate, one Hillary Clinton.

There is enough to fill a book. What I know is that I have one vote in November. It will not be wasted on someone who wants the world to work both ways at once and at the same time. One thing Bill and Hillary Clinton have in common is a unique ability to fold, spindle, and mutilate people in acquiring what they seek.

But now.....the fog horns of "feminism" are blaring out the message that any criticism, any questioning of Hillary Clinton is an attack on women. Bull. Shit.

I've watched for 30 years the campaigns for "womens' rights." Unfortunately the women I've worked with were untouched (and unthought of) by these "brave" attempts to break glass ceilings in corporate boardrooms. The women in the offices and factories worked just as hard as the men, were mistreated just as badly as the men, and their miserable pay and conditions were the same as for the men.

I wonder how many of these suddenly gender-concious women voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984, unlike a fascist pig like me who voted for Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.

But that's not relevant. Eaten bread is soon forgotten. The message I see popping up now is: Hillary is teflon because she is a woman. She's human. She deserves special consideration. She was tired and exhausted. Sure, like John Edwards, Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson were sleeping for the last few months.

Hillary Clinton may be a marvelous candidate. Big deal. I've seen many "marvelous" candidates turn out to be lousy office-holders. Apparently, though, in 2008 neither I nor anyone else is to feel free to express their opinion. That is, unless it is approved by those in an elite position to know what's best.

If you want more elitism, more authoritarianism, more divisiveness, then vote for Hillary Clinton. Insist that there is no connection whatsoever between herself and her husband. She's just a warm and fuzzy innocent who wants to be president so badly she could just cry. Amazing how one can be so tought yet a victim at the same time.

Demanding obediance to some speech code is anathema to what America is, or was. I reject it and if that offends some, I can only remind them of the 1st Amendment. The horribly inconvenient thing about Americans is that they have a bad habit of refusing to be told what to think. Or say.
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Cross-posted at Michaellinnjones.com