You can't say they don't try to please everyone, and since most people are idiots, or at least made equivalent to idiots by their ignorance, their faiths, beliefs, prejudices and anger; the way to please one idiot without offending the other is to make ambiguous hints, to use a mouthpiece to provide plausible deniability and to make it sound like it's only a joke. You libtards got no sensa humor! Just jokin' here.
"No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this the place that we were born and raised.”
For example, we have Willard Mitt Romney "joking" that everyone knows where he was born ( not like that watermelon thief hiding in the woodpile) for the benefit of Detroit's demented minions who might suspect that WMR is secretly one of the boys. Indeed Mitt is good at making everyone think he's secretly on their side rather than being simply ambitious for power.
My memory is good enough to remember son Matt ( how cute) bloviating his Birther bullshit last year, of which Raw Story is good enough to remind us. I also remember Plastic Matt "joking" about how Plastic Mitt would release his tax returns after Obama would release his (already released) birth certificate. Just adorable, who cares if it's true?
Reminds me of all the folks I know who take pains to be polite in public but trot out the racist epithets in conspiratorial tones when they feel safe. Yes Rombo and company are good at playing both sides of everything without actually stating any principles and their constituents are really bad at noticing. Have you noticed?
Any sentient being who saw the clip in question should know that there was NO contextual justification for Romney to bring up birth certificates other than to remind us all - wink, wink, HINT - that our president really wasn't born here. It's WORSE that he doesn't believe in birtherism because it means there's a conniving, *ickheaded level of awareness on his part: he's self-consciously insinuating a vicious lie, keeping it current in the seething, if tiny, brains of the racist cretins and xenophobes whose votes he courts in the quest to get to that magical 50.1%. And even though his own world view has in the past seemed cosmopolitan enough, he will by no means fail to say whatever proves necessary to get those votes. Mitt may be arrogant as hell, but he isn't proud.
ReplyDeleteThat's just it -- anything it takes, the end sanctifies the means and anything gets their tacit support if it helps defeat Obama. There really is no coherent platform other than beating Obama and there's no telling what real agenda will emerge until and unless they do. There's no telling what they actually advocate or believe in, but I'm sure it has little to do with improving life in America except for the Aristocracy.
ReplyDeleteNo lie too ridiculous, too shameful, too false or too often.
It is despicable. I guess nobody is worried about it, because even NPR always trots out one right-wing republican pundit who tells us it is nothing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of Hawaiian birth certificate would be okay for the racists who pretend not to be racists? Clearly a child born to European residents of Hawaii would be alright. Children of missionaries or the U.S. Navy. Maybe owners of a sugar plantation. Solid businessmen, soldiers or politicians? No surfers please. For the more daring perhaps a full-blooded Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, mixed with white? Japanese or Chinese ancestry? Something normal, for God's sake! But some poor bastard sired by a Kenyan Muslim? Named after his African father? Whose hippie mother took him to live, of all places, in Indonesia? Surely a half-breed of such dubious pedigree and tutelage could never be allowed to be president of the United States of America? Who am I kidding? Other than Obama, Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro the only non-WASP or female candidates to get anywhere near a presidency were Catholic, Jewish or Wasillani!
Oh yeah, and some Mormon who has been devoting twenty hours a week to serving others since he was a little lad.
Every time I pass a television, the television has a near-death experience. Whenever Rmoney is on the airwaves, and I feel like smashing the fuckin' thing to smithereens.
ReplyDeleteKnow the feeling. Doubly as much, because I feel the same about Obama and Romney. Come to think of it I won't be watching either convention this year. Won't be able to stomach either.
DeleteOur conventions are embarrassing -- a bit like American Idol but with less apparent talent.
ReplyDeleteI dunno. I thought the 2004 keynote was a thing of beauty.
ReplyDeleteA while back, I met a young man named Seamus in a VFW hall in East Moline, Illinois. He was a good-looking kid, 6'2", 6'3", clear eyed, with an easy smile. He told me he'd joined the Marines and was heading to Iraq the following week. And as I listened to him explain why he had enlisted -- the absolute faith he had in our country and its leaders, his devotion to duty and service -- I thought, this young man was all that any of us might ever hope for in a child. But then I asked myself: Are we serving Seamus as well as he's serving us?
I thought of the 900 men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors who won't be returning to their own hometowns. I thought of the families I had met who were struggling to get by without a loved one's full income or whose loved ones had returned with a limb missing or nerves shattered, but still lacked long-term health benefits because they were Reservists.
When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they are going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return and to never, ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace and earn the respect of the world…
If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.
It is that fundamental belief -- it is that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sisters' keeper -- that makes this country work.
It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: "E pluribus unum," out of many, one…
Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
Too bad he was mistaken.