I’m not so interested in the Sarah Palin book, but I’m depressed that this is still getting tossed around (h/t reader JK): Certainly his wife expressed this view when she said during the 2008 campaign that she had never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections. In retrospect, I guess this …
Post-racial America
And the Uppity Negro Meme is Back
Was checking the local newspaper and was appalled to see the Virgin Ben on the op-ed pages: Third, Obama’s childhood shows us that he was always a narcissist concerned with his own power. Not only did he want to be president, he thought the presidency was all about him. Soldiers were there for defending him; …
Stuff white people like
I was having dinner with some friends this evening, one of whom is a Republican. I started explaining my theory of American politics which is that white voters are, as a group, very right-wing while non-white voters are liberal. He got a little miffed and told me I was generalizing and I told him “no, …
Voting While Black Is Fraud
Just a quick update while working on something longer — but this from TPM caught my eye as the Republican campaign in microcosm: Two middle-aged white Republican activists in Texas allegedly harassed and intimidated at least seven elderly African-American voters at their homes in eastern Texas, according to a complaint filed with the Justice Department …
Impending voter fraud
With James O’Keefe out of commission, who’s going to give this scandal the coverage it deserves? A major survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University found that 80 percent of black Democrats are as interested or more interested in the midterms than they were in the 2008 …
Jigger what, jigger who
I just can’t think of what all these areas have in common (via): Kirk’s campaign confirmed the candidate was secretly taped last week as he was talking about his anti-voter fraud effort. “These are lawyers and other people that will be deployed in key, vulnerable precincts, for example, South and West sides of Chicago, Rockford, …
“Are There No Orphanages?”
Mistermix’s post on Philosopher-King Gingrich’s latest GOP talking point about “food stamps” reminded me that some of you probably don’t remember back in 1994, when Newt was actually holding political office and talking up orphanages: … Orphanages were not the subject of Gingrich’s speech, but they were not a throwaway either. The notion reappeared in …