Why is this guy still in business?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer investigation into documents pertaining to President Barack Obama's place of birth and citizenship now includes the services of a taxpayer-funded ...
The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar.
A partial list.
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Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado.
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Rand Paul:
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There are lies...and then there are lies.
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Sullivan:
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A faggot.
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I agree with 94.7 percent of what Meghan McCain says here.
On Tom Tancredo’s ugly remarks at the Tea Party convention calling for literacy tests for voters and disparaging those who voted for “Barack Hussein Obama”…
“It’s innate racism, and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement,” McCain retorted on The View.
“I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not 65 year old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English,” McCain added.
McCain, a self-described “progressive Republican,” criticized Palin’s assertion that President Obama could get himself re-elected to a second term if he launched a war against Iran.
“You should never go to war unless its the absolute last circumstance,” McCain said.
As for Palin’s defense of Rush Limbaugh for using the word “retard” after calling for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s resignation over the same word last week, McCain said it was a symbol of “exactly what is wrong with politics today.
“We can’t placate and say Democrats can say one thing and Republicans can say another thing,” she said.
McCain added that the rhetoric coming from the Tea Party movement and from Republicans like Palin “will continue to turn off young voters, and anybody who says different is smoking something.”
My only dispute with Meghan here is the bit about revolutions and 65 year-olds. There is no reason that anyone who wishes change cannot protest, yell and make their voices heard, regardless of age. But on Tancredo, Palin, Limbaugh and Republicans, McCain is bang on.
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How I took Megan’s comment about 65 year olds was that it takes the energy of young people to actually bring about the change. Every week I see the parade of seniors marching in front of city hall and the cathedral to end the war in Iraq (and now Afghanistan) or the green seniors who hand out pamphlets. I even go to meetings where we whine about how will we make the social changes we have worked our whole lives for without the young people to carry it forward. Then we were all a little blindsided by the social network that sprang up first for Howard Dean then for Obama. It takes the imagination and fresh vision of young people to shift the paradigm. The critical mass to make a revolution has to rely on that army of young people. I can’t think of a single successful one that moved a mountain without them.
I think Megan McCain (who has blocked me on Twitter for having the temerity to remind her of her father’s moronic “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” little song) is a banal mediocrity with very little intellectual weight, but lots of gay friends and who fortunately is not a racist. That being said, revolutions do tend to begin in Universities, and are generally peopled by the young. I can think of a couple of things I would have been willing to risk my freedom and my life for when I was younger, none now that I’m a husband and have an infant at home. That being said, most of the figures from the Civil Rights movement didn’t go to college and had families. So while her blanket statement was wrong, I think we can all accept that the less you have to lose, the braver you are in fighting the establishment you seek to defeat.
Mario,
Great post… Dont completely agree with Meghan on lots of stuff.
…revolutions start with young people, not 65 year old people
My thought is revolutions start with SMART people…
I know of situations where once progressive leaning parents have now followed their 20 something children into the Tea Party movement. Also, having participated in my fair share of rallies, marches, and other progressive causes, it is my experience that it is the younger people who were the anti what ever, whether it was gay rights, health care reform, taunting those of us against the war.
perhaps it is just in my area of the country, but the farther outside of the main metropolitan area one gets, the ah, more frightening it becomes for people such as myself who are progressive, open minded, supporting equality for ALL. I mean, real confederate flag waving, gun toting, gay or immigrant bashing, angry people. And they’re far from being senior citizens.
I’m afraid that Megan is giving young people credit that they do not deserve.
How I took Megan’s comment about 65 year olds was that it takes the energy of young people to actually bring about the change. Every week I see the parade of seniors marching in front of city hall and the cathedral to end the war in Iraq (and now Afghanistan) or the green seniors who hand out pamphlets. I even go to meetings where we whine about how will we make the social changes we have worked our whole lives for without the young people to carry it forward. Then we were all a little blindsided by the social network that sprang up first for Howard Dean then for Obama. It takes the imagination and fresh vision of young people to shift the paradigm. The critical mass to make a revolution has to rely on that army of young people. I can’t think of a single successful one that moved a mountain without them.
@Julia – How so?
@Sandi – Good point.
I think Megan McCain (who has blocked me on Twitter for having the temerity to remind her of her father’s moronic “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” little song) is a banal mediocrity with very little intellectual weight, but lots of gay friends and who fortunately is not a racist. That being said, revolutions do tend to begin in Universities, and are generally peopled by the young. I can think of a couple of things I would have been willing to risk my freedom and my life for when I was younger, none now that I’m a husband and have an infant at home. That being said, most of the figures from the Civil Rights movement didn’t go to college and had families. So while her blanket statement was wrong, I think we can all accept that the less you have to lose, the braver you are in fighting the establishment you seek to defeat.
There are a fair number of younger people in that wretched Tea Party movement, a sizable number of 20 somethings.
Mario,
Great post… Dont completely agree with Meghan on lots of stuff.
…revolutions start with young people, not 65 year old people
My thought is revolutions start with SMART people…
I know of situations where once progressive leaning parents have now followed their 20 something children into the Tea Party movement. Also, having participated in my fair share of rallies, marches, and other progressive causes, it is my experience that it is the younger people who were the anti what ever, whether it was gay rights, health care reform, taunting those of us against the war.
perhaps it is just in my area of the country, but the farther outside of the main metropolitan area one gets, the ah, more frightening it becomes for people such as myself who are progressive, open minded, supporting equality for ALL. I mean, real confederate flag waving, gun toting, gay or immigrant bashing, angry people. And they’re far from being senior citizens.