Poor old John Mccain, attacked for being a RINO by the Uber -Conservatives now taking over the Republican Party and Democrats who think he has become a total bigot in search of those uber-con votes. Well if he wants to give up politics he can always get a career as a rapper.
The Labour Party confirmed itself as a Party of Brothers in more ways than one today.David Milliband won every sector of the Labour electoral college, except one. The people who Ed will have to be grateful for as they have gifted him the Leadership position over the will of the Party. The Conservatives will love his. The Unite Union delivered for Ed by giving him 53% of their vote.
Among party members… David Miliband won 54% to 46%;
Among MPs/MEPs… David Miliband won 53% to 47%;
Among trade unions… Ed Miliband won 60% to 40%.
When the votes were all calculated and the candidates knocked out, Ed won through with the second preference votes of the other Ed, Ed Balls, giving him with a very narrow 50.6% to 49.4% victory. David Milliband had a large lead in all but the final round.
With David getting a massive lead in the Party as a whole, it will be hard to stop the Party feeling that outsiders stole it from the man who won. You can hear the knives sharpening, despite all the talk of unity.
You can also hear the Liberal Democrats salivating, Ed Milliband owes his Leadership position to the Alternative Vote system. Something he will be reminded of in the run up to the referendum.
In summary, there were big bad black men outside a polling station in 2008. That must have been something to do with the Obama campaign because he is black. The lack of prosecution must be because the men were black, not because there was no evidence.
As far as Republicans are concerned there’s Holder, there’s Obama and there is the New Black Panthers. Something links them all together. We are supposed to be convinced that it is both the one obvious factor, while at the same time despite their screams, we are not supposed to believe it has anything to do with that at all. Oh, no, no.
It is such an obvious pile of crap and nothing but a dirty bigoted attempt to foster racial tension shortly before the election. A continuation of the Summer of Hate.
The problem is the facts get in the way of this story.
One – the Fox News video. It does not actually provide the evidence that the likes of Fox and Republicans want.
On the video the police tell the two members of the New Black Panthers that they can not stop the people from voting. The Polling Clerk (around 30 seconds in) makes clear that they are not stopping people from voting.
Despite this the police instruct them to leave. They leave. There would have been no story about this except for the fact that New Black Panthers are big scary black men and there was a big scary black man running for President.
The polling station is in a district that went 95% for Kerry in 2004. So what the New Black Panthers were there to harass Democratic voters in to voting for a Democratic candidate?
The Bush administration opened this case in January 2009. They found no evidence but they case was kept open and was finally dropped in May 2009 as there was no evidence that any voter had actually been intimidated.
Abigail Thernstrom of the National Review (hardly a left wing rag) wrote “In the 45 years since the act was passed, there have been a total of three successful prosecutions. The incident involved only two Panthers at a single majority-black precinct in Philadelphia. So far — after months of hearings, testimony and investigation — no one has produced actual evidence that any voters were too scared to cast their ballots. Too much overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges has been devoted to this case.”
For all of the race baiting, for all of the investigations, no-one, not even Fox or Breitbart have been able to find one single intimidated voter. Not one.
For all the exciting “evidence” about the big scary black men that is being presented to Congress the reality is there is no victim. No voter was intimidated so there was no voter intimidation. Even despite this the Obama administration obtained an injunction against Shabbazz from patrolling polling stations. This continues past the 2012 election. There is no prospect of “this”, whatever this was, happening again.
This is nothing but pure racism. Republicans got so excited by the hatred they stirred against Muslims that they are not even bothering to disguise this. They really do not care. This is the the Summer of Hate repeated. It is red meat to get a bunch of bigots excited and whip them up into a continuation of hating people because of the their pigmentation. The attempt to pin this on the President and Eric Holder is simply because they are committing what is to Republicans the biggest crime of all, governing while black.
Seriously the reaction on the faces of Republican Senators as he uses their idiotic arguments against them is even funnier than when he was at the Bush Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner. Not sure why he was there as a witness and judging from his opening salvo, I do not think he knew either but he more than answered the call.
Unlike the Witch videos this one is not so old but it does show that Christine O’Donnell never lost any of her youthful desires to be a perfectly good girl.
Rather than having sex “like dogs” she wants everyone in the US to simply stop having sex because as a woman in her 30′s she remains “chaste”.
So let’s see you are now accussing 70% of AMericans and many Muslims of being Islamophobic because they don’t think a dirtball piece of shit Imam whose goal is to implement Shariah law and his c*** of a wife -shouldn’t receive tax payer money to travel the middle east to meet with terrorists to raise money? Really?
“Summer of hate?”..Uh, so your incompetent President who slanders anyone and everyone, your party which calls everyone a racist, homophobe, stupid, mocks their religion -are full of love but people who express a majority opinion based on logic are the haters?
Hey dickhead-get ready for next week…then post how stupid America is for not agreeing with the positions that you hold near and dear that 22% of Americans agree with…
Not sure what happens next week but I guess it is hardly worth discussing the difference between Sufi and Wahibi Muslims with this bigot nor would it do much to point out his disgraceful sexism. (I starred the disgusting word and his email provider).
The Republican Summer of Hate had some simple aims. First it was to insert in the mind of more Republicans an idea that was only once held by the ultra far right and the birthers. That President Obama is a Muslim. It was a simple aim to play to the racism of their base. Nothing better to get those white sheets all in a twist than pushing the meme that the President is a scary Muslim.
The other aim was far, far more despicable but it was even more obvious than the first. Even George Bush was quite clear to make sure that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not a crusade. The United States was not at war with Islam. Such an idea would be disastrous to the troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Republicans during the Summer of Hate made clear that as far as they were concerned the US was at war with Islam. Palin and the Newt drove that message. Fox news replayed it all the time for all to see. In every corner of the World the message was clear.
The Koran burning bigot was not an isolated nut. He was no different to the campaign of hate led by bigots Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Modern day KKKers that the Republican Party had no shame in sharing a platform with. In fact Palin recognised the mad Priest as one of her own. This is why her instruction to him was to “Stand down”, like a good soldier of hate.
For political gain, the Republican Party have been prepared to sacrifice the lives of American Soldiers and the allies fighting in Afghanistan. A clear message was sent. The troops are not just there to fight the Talban and defend a fledgling, if corrupt democracy. The troops are there to fight Islam.
The consequence. To force the US and the allies to leave a broken Afganistan and a defeated US or force America in to a much deeper War reminiscent of the Crusades. Either way, they want Soldiers to pay the price so that they have the political advantage.
These people have no shame and they dare to call themselves “Patriots”.
“[My comments have been] interpreted as an outburst of Marxism. [I have had] to go round explaining that that’s not what I meant.”
Marx:
“I am not a Marxist.”
On capitalism
Cable:
“Capitalism takes no prisoners and kills competition where it can.”
Marx:
“Capitalism is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”
On happiness and working for the common good
Cable:
“I am told that I look miserable. I’m sorry, conference, this is my happy face.
“‘Aren’t you having fun?’ people ask. It isn’t much fun but it’s necessary: necessary for our country that our parties work together at a time of financial crisis.”
Marx:
“If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.”
Chrissy The Hyphenated Tea Bagger or The Typical Hillbuzzer?
Chrissythehyphenated, the tea-bagging Welfare Queen, “Get your government out of my welfare” type or the typical Hizzbuller reader who still thinks that those donations are going to fight the left, build a new website, send the “boiz” to wherever?
John Mccain led the filibuster and as a result the Republicans used their minority status to block the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. His filibuster means that the Senate will not even debate the repeal of DADT.
So why does John McCain hate American troops and why did other Republicans go along with the hate spree?
Well it all fits in with the Summer of Hate. This is a continuance of the bashing of minorities that we saw whipped up by Republicans during the Summer when they decided to bash Muslim Americans for “the crime” of being Muslim.
Sadly, Senator Blanche Lincoln gave Republicans cover and voted with Republicans, as did her Arkansas partner in hate Mark Pryor. Who does she think will vote for her? Dancing with bigots will not save her seat. She has just thrown away any chance of any of the Democratic base voting for her. I will eat a big dish of crow pie of she manages to hold on.
The final vote was 56-43. Harry Reid voted no at last minute, which allows him as Senate Leader to bring the bill back.
Lisa Murkowski, the Senator successfully primaried by loony Christine O’Donnell did not vote.
So on first glance it appears that the lobbying of Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins by Lady Gaga failed. I doubt it and I also doubt that the “Maine sisters” have heard the last of Lady Gaga. She has moved them away from outright Republican hatred of gays for a start.
They now claim that they are committed to ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, but that the big bad Democratic Party would not let Republicans have an open amendment process, and so they just couldn’t vote to allow for debate. This is nothing but a ridiculously obvious stupid lie. An excuse for inaction because they know that the GOP will if elected never vote to repeal DADT.
(updated)
Here is Senator Levin pointing out the idiocy of Collins argument about why her vote to refuse any debate is because she is concerned about a lack of debate. Collins is first.
The simple fact is they joined with their fellow Republicans to not even allow debate on the repeal of DADT. By their vote they decided to continue the Summer of Hate.
One thing for sure is that it is an absolutely stupid idea that a 56-43 vote to debate means the vote fails. The filibuster must go or be reformed. It is not good for democracy.
Most Western military forces have now removed policies excluding sexual minority members; of the 26 countries that participate militarily in NATO, 22 permit open lesbians, gays, or bisexuals to serve; of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, three (United Kingdom, France, and Russia) do so. The United States stands alone with their discrimination.
America thanks to Republicans continues to have a smiliar policy to these great Nations
Cuba
China
Egypt
Greece
Iran
Jamaica
North Korea
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
South Korea
Syria
Turkey
Venezuela
Yemen
Yay for Republicans. What a great bunch of freedom loving Nations to stand with.
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