Quote by TriSec:
Morning, comrades!

Sitting at my home desk with Momma on in the background...off for more toxins today.

Quote by velveeta jones:
By the way, I'm thinking of a contest:
SPOT THE (non-paid) BLACK PERSON AT THE RNC

Rules,
must be actually African American, not white person with a tan
must take a screen shot of person actually enjoying the event and not afraid.
black person should not be working at the event (vending, tv crew, stagehand, or hired person in the crowd etc)
Black person cannot be a white person with black skin, i.e. Clarence Thomas

Good luck!!

Quote by Mondobubba:
Personally I don't want to come to work with a massive hangover from the drinking I would need to do to get through the hot mess o' hate. I also don't want scream myself hoarse, nor do I want to destroy my teevee. So, I will spend the next frew days watching episodes of "The Wire" (season 4) and "Treme" on demand.

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Quote by Mondobubba:
Personally I don't want to come to work with a massive hangover from the drinking I would need to do to get through the hot mess o' hate. I also don't want scream myself hoarse, nor do I want to destroy my teevee. So, I will spend the next frew days watching episodes of "The Wire" (season 4) and "Treme" on demand.

We watch, so you don't have to.

Quote by clintster:
Just saw the Obama "ROPE" poster on Google (I won't even link to it out of respect). I know that there is an undercurrent of racism in the current anti-Obama rhetoric, but what the Hell?

CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment,” the network said in a statement

Quote by Raine:
Fluck CNN. About the nut incident bobber mentioned:

CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment,” the network said in a statement

This is a legitimate story-- and they won't comment on it.

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Quote by Raine:
Fluck CNN. About the nut incident bobber mentioned:

CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment,” the network said in a statement

This is a legitimate story-- and they won't comment on it.

I think there might be some lawyers involved.

Quote by Will in Chicago:
Good morning!! BobR, thanks for a great blog on the strange events in Tampa. I am not watching as I prefer reading about this sort of mess.

Racism is part of the GOP and is often coded into hate for the government and government programs. Take Neal Boortz's diatribe that government schools created Obama.

Time Wise had a great piece recently on the use of racism by the current GOP. The goal is to make the current president and Democratic politicians seem illegitimate, and their supporters to be illegitimate as Americans.

If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck: Racism, Bigotry and the Death of Respectable Conservatism
Posted on August 25, 2012


For the most part, I’ve tried to be restrained.

Although conservatives accuse those of us on the left of thinking that all critiques of President Obama are rooted in racism, this has certainly never been my argument. Indeed, I’ve written two books highly critical of Obama’s positions on a number of issues (from a place well to his left), and am fully aware that decent, honest people can disagree with Barack Obama from the right, too, without their disagreements serving as proof of some latent, let alone blatant, bigotry or anti-black bias.

That said, what I have also long maintained — and what seems increasingly evident as we move into the heart of the 2012 campaign — is that the style of opposition, its specific form, and its particular content are too often embedded in a narrative of white racial resentment, white racial anxiety, and a desire to “other” the president in ways that go well beyond the politically partisan. It is not that criticisms of Obama are quantitatively racist, per se, but rather that they are qualitatively so in too many instances; a distinction, yes, but one that does not alter the underlying reality.

In other words, it is one thing to disagree, even mightily, with a president’s policies.

It is quite another to suggest that that president is really a foreign imposter: over, and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And to accept no proof, no matter how extensive, that he really is an American after all.*

Or to suggest that he is a secret Muslim who wishes to see Sharia Law imposed in the United States, and who is working to usher in just such an outcome, and that he and his wife engage in “terrorist fist jabs” as their preferred form of greeting.

Or a Manchurian Candidate, bent on destroying America, or at least deliberately destroying the economy so as to pay whites back for slavery and racism, and insisting that he only appoints people to his administration if they hate whites, and that he only received the endorsement of Colin Powell because he’s black.

Some years back, I learned that one of my grandfathers was a Republican precinct captain in Chicago in the 1930s onwards. This current GOP bears little resemblance to a party that would support a Wendell Wilkie or a Dwight Eisenhower. This is a party that questions the patriotism and legitimacy of their political supporters. It is a party that is increasingly a party of aging Evangelical white males which makes no appeals to minority or women voters. It is a party that makes me argue for a change to our election laws to make it easier for third parties to exist to give voters more choices. I fear that the GOP will go the way of the Whigs but not go gently. This is a party that approaches too many other Americans with neither love nor respect. As such, I question their fitness to govern this nation as they seem to have forgotten Abraham Lincoln's quoting of Jesus of Nazareth who knew that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

Quayle had the support of prominent GOP figures like Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl. Over the summer, he revived his 2010 campaign ad rhetoric, calling President Obama the "worst president in history."

While Quayle had some establishment support, the influential conservative group Club for Growth warned the Republican Party to stay out of the primary. If the GOP backed Quayle, Club leaders warned they would back Schweikert.

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Quote by Raine:
Ben Quayle lost his primary last night. The GOP stayed out of the race because the Club for growth warned them to.

Quayle had the support of prominent GOP figures like Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl. Over the summer, he revived his 2010 campaign ad rhetoric, calling President Obama the "worst president in history."

While Quayle had some establishment support, the influential conservative group Club for Growth warned the Republican Party to stay out of the primary. If the GOP backed Quayle, Club leaders warned they would back Schweikert.

Isn't that what the Republicans refer to as "Chicago-style politics"?

Quote by wickedpam:
okay - so last night was the 1st day of the RNC convention and Channel 9's FB page is covered with stuff on Issac and Chris Cooley. Does this seem normal for a news agency?