Archive for the 'Politics' Tag

The claim: Hillary voters are excluded from the “privileged” group of white people. They are perceived as “less-than”, “off-white”.
The evidence: Obama is #8 on the list of Stuff White People Like, but Hillary didn’t make the list at all.
The reaction: Are you fucking kidding me?! Meghan Daum’s probably also one of those people who thinks [...]

Sorry, Obama, just because you’re cool doesn’t mean I’m not going to tell you when you’re wrong.
The comments in this thread on Pharyngula linked to a video of Barack Obama talking about gay marriage, prompting this from me, which I am also sending to him via his website:
I was dismayed to hear about the comments [...]

Sorry to link to such distasteful sources, but I was reading some political news today and found a couple of right-wing sites discussing a flyer Obama recently released to court Kentucky voters.
CBN: Obama and the Cross
Race42008: Barack Obama’s pitch in Kentucky (contains images of the flyer in question)
CBN wonders if publicizing his Christianity like this [...]

Apparently this was the winner of a recent MoveOn contest to generate an Obama ad.

Barack Obama is officially, certifiably, cool.
Exhibit A: Barack Obama appears on the Colbert Report and puts “manufactured political distractions” ON NOTICE. I’m not sure which I heartily approve of more, his willingness to call the press on their bullshit, or the suspicion I now have that he regularly watches the Report.

Exhibit B: Obama makes a [...]

Last night, Jon Stewart discussed Obama’s “bitter” gaffe and Hillary’s attempts to woo the redneck voters, and pointed out something that should be obvious: Shouldn’t we want our President to be better than us?!
Epic lulz are at the end of the video, 7 1/2 minutes in.

Via Friendly Atheist, Rep. Davis has apologized to Rob Sherman for her screed directed at him last week. She was having a bad day because she had just heard about another school shooting and took her anger and frustration out on him and, by extension, all of us.
Lameness of the apology aside, Sherman accepted it, [...]

Via Londonist, Salon, and others, London BNP leader Nick Eriksen blogged (back in 2005, apparently) that, since women enjoy sex, being raped is just like being force-fed chocolate cake. He has deleted the post from his blog (after the public uproar started, presumably), but Google knows all:
Rape is simply sex (I am talking about ‘husband-rape’ [...]

From Friendly Atheist via Spazeboy, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has named bigoted wanna-be fascist Rep. Davis tonight’s “worst person in the world”.

Preach it, brother! It’s great to see this hit the mainstream media. We may get some justice after all.

via skippy the bush kangaroo.