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That wasn’t you, was it B?

Oy.

Clinton compares the Florida and Michigan fight to civil rights movement.

I’m really baffled by this Florida/Michigan issue. All the candidates signed an agreement saying their delegates wouldn’t be seated, right? So why is this a controversey? All parties agreed they wouldn’t count. They don’t count. That Clinton is pulling this is not surprising. What surprises me is that the media continue to report this as if it were a on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand issue.

A request for 2009:

War crimes tribunals, please.

A walking stereotype…

…of degenerated 3rd generation wealth*. I had never heard of Huntingdon Hartford II until I read his obituary, but it sounds like he was one of the biggest twats of the 20th century.

*Other notable examples include George W. Bush and Paris Hilton.

HOLY SHIT

Michael Medved.  Easily the worst column of the year.  A serious contender for worst of the decade.  My jaw literally dropped.

Hooray for Peggy Noonan!

Longtime readers of this blog know that I heart Peggy Noonan.  Her columns fall into one of two categories: amusing but retarded, and infuriating and retarded.  Chalk another one up for the former category.  Check out this little gem:

The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They’re frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party.

I love how she tries to get into the deer’s head with those terse, stacatto sentences, but hunting party? WTF?  Hunting party?  Why not just “hunters?”  Would a deer really have “hunting party” in its conceptual vocabulary?  Peggy’s spent way too long hanging out with rich Republicans.

Show them the money.

If I were a Democratic politician/messagemaker, I would start talking about the Iraq war in mostly financial terms. When you talk about people dying it just doesn’t register anymore. Not even for American deaths. It sort of goes into this total anti-rational black hole in which people are either detached and don’t regard the death tolls as completely real, or they get incredibly pissed off and emotional about it for one reason or another.

It’s almost impossible to be like that with money though. Especially your money. The thing is: the Iraq war has been so, so, so expensive, but most people don’t realize this. I would start using metaphors like, “The Iraq war is like a family with $40,000 credit card debt going out and buying each kid a jet ski on a whim. The family lives in Arizona.” Or better yet, just state the cost outright: “The average American taxpayer’s share of the Iraq war bill is $x,xxx.” People are for the most part really stupid and morally bankrupt, so you have to explain things to them in these terms. Actual numbers and actual deaths don’t really affect them unless it happens right in front of their big, stupid faces.

The big picture

Here’s the thing: white people are slowly but surely losing their demographic edge in the United States. Various minority groups are picking up the slack, particularly Hispanics. The post-Nixon GOP has been built off the fears and resentments of lower and middle class white people toward elites, minorities, and homosexuals.

In the long term, the GOP is almost certainly doomed. My one fear is that McCain will win the presidency, and will successfully purge the Tancredos and Malkinites out of the party, and start wooing Hispanics wholesale. This is the one single thing that can guarantee the survival of the Republican party. Rove tried to do it already, but the simian wing of the party shut that down a few years back.

Otherwise, regardless of what happens in November, white people are going down in the long run. It can’t happen soon enough. I really hate white people.

Old

I was waiting in line to get on the bus Friday afternoon, and another bus came slowly rolling by with an ad for the new Indiana Jones movie emblazoned across it.  I was looking at Harrison Ford’s picture, and thinking how old and feeble he looked compared to the previous movies.  Then I heard an English woman behind me muttering to herself, “He’s so old…God…so old.  Old.”

Concern Trolls

Now that I’m writing about it, I wish I had kept track of all the instances I’d seen this in print, but there’s this phrase circulating around that is so disingenuous it makes my blood boil:

“Obama still hasn’t given an adequate explanation of his relationship with the Rev. Wright.”

I hear this over and over again. And you know what? It’s always from the David Brooks and William Kristols of the world. The NRO and Weekly Standard crew. I’m sitting here wondering what sort of “adequate explanation” these people would possibly accept. Needless to say there isn’t one, except maybe “I was going undercover for the FBI investigating un-American activities in black churches.” The thing is, we know the salient information. At this point, either it bothers you, or it doesn’t. And that’s all there is to it. Anything else is just trying to keep the issue alive under the guise of concern. In the meantime, I’d like these dipshits in the conservative media to give us an “adequate explanation” as to why we should give a fuck what their sorry, war-mongering asses think.