RNC reaches new low (even for them).

[iman]

What's your point? That picture of Obama was made by a liberal art student from Chicago, not by any republican.

OK, you can pretend to be dumb (you are pretending aren't you?), but the Obama Joker portrait, regardless of where it came from, is being used and published by the Republican National Committee.

This is from the RNC

 

[iman]

The excerpt appears to be taken from a New York Post article published October 15, 2004. I cannot find a direct link, but other sites provide that attribution.

See: The Truth About "Caging" (An [anonymous] blog: The Truth In Arkansas Politics, June 20, 2007)

Thanks opinterph. I don't recall the original controversy and the entire thing seems a relatively benign way to energize the black vote and i don't see it as being on a par with a national effort to brand Obama as a socialist or raising money by "spreading fear" or denigrating the President and Congressional leaders. So much for the "party of ideas".

 

[01solara]

Thanks opinterph. I don't recall the original controversy and the entire thing seems a relatively benign way to energize the black vote and i don't see it as being on a par with a national effort to brand Obama as a socialist or raising money by "spreading fear" or denigrating the President and Congressional leaders. So much for the "party of ideas".

Let me get this straight feigning racial voter intimidation even if it didn't occur is in your book benign. Wow just Wow. What would the DNC have to do before you would see that all political parties and churches and other groups in authority have good people and bad and all of these abuse their power and try to play things to their own benefit? There are no human institutions be they liberal or conservative or of any race that does not have some corruption. The question is what is done about it when it is exposed. In many cases, William Jefferson, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, Sam Rayburn and lately Charlie Rangel, the Democrats ignore them, allow them to run for and get reelected and resign only when it has reached a point where they have no choice but to remove them from office. Republicans although far from pure are much better at eliminating them well before they run for reelection.

 

[Centexfarmer]

Let me get this straight feigning racial voter intimidation even if it didn't occur is in your book benign. Wow just Wow.

Excuse me?

But requiring, as is a part of the current GOP Party's Platform to attempt to disenfranchise a group of minority voters; Hispanics and African Americans, by requiring additional proof of citizenship beyond a drivers license and voter registration card, some how passes muster?

What would the DNC have to do before you would see that all political parties and churches and other groups in authority have good people and bad and all of these abuse their power and try to play things to their own benefit?

Urm?

Require that they all show a level respect and decorum, and recognize that we're not all a bunch of mindless morons hanging on every word telling us how to think by the likes of Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, and Keith Olbermann.

Duh!

There are no human institutions be they liberal or conservative or of any race that does not have some corruption. The question is what is done about it when it is exposed. In many cases, William Jefferson, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, Sam Rayburn and lately Charlie Rangel, the Democrats ignore them, allow them to run for and get reelected and resign only when it has reached a point where they have no choice but to remove them from office. Republicans although far from pure are much better at eliminating them well before they run for reelection.

You are of course referring to the "Pro-Family," ANTI-GAY hypocrites within the GOP when you make the statement that I've highlighted aren't you?

This thread is about fundraising tactics as I've read it thus far.

Everytime Obama gives a speech my inbox is inundated by requests from Pelosi and Reid to "fill the coffers" to elect more asshats like themselves, with the implication that by not doing so I support the "opposition."

Well do you want to know something?

I'm not sending one red dime to any of those fuckers, or the caucuses that they claim to represent.

When either of the two parties convince me that they are truly attempting to represent the whole of the American electorate instead of some marginalized "base" or "segment of the voting population" that they feel can be manipulated into "giving" they can suck my right nut!

 

[JB3]

OK, you can pretend to be dumb (you are pretending aren't you?), but the Obama Joker portrait, regardless of where it came from, is being used and published by the Republican National Committee.

This is from the RNC

So? As I recall democrats proudly paraded around pictures of GWB as a monkey, and I would bet my bottom dollar you applauded those pictures when they were around. You haven't proved your point. You're grasping.

 

[JB3]

Thanks opinterph. I don't recall the original controversy and the entire thing seems a relatively benign way to energize the black vote and i don't see it as being on a par with a national effort to brand Obama as a socialist or raising money by "spreading fear" or denigrating the President and Congressional leaders. So much for the "party of ideas".

Oh stop faking your outrage. This is nothing new. At all. The fact that you think it is pretty much invalidates any opinion you may have.

 

[iman]

The 2004 allegations against the Dems that were cited are pretty vague, unattributed and localized if they were ever used at all. The tactic of complaining about voter intimidation is simply an effort to energize some voters in the same way that abortion, gun control and gay marriage are frequently used by the Republicans.

I'm not feigning outrage over the Republicans being caught with their pants down, I'm not outraged at all. I enjoy seeing in black & white what we all knew was going on anyway and my interest in the incident is that it once again shows that the Republicans got nothin, nothin at all, all they can do is demonize the Dems - which they do pretty well.

 

[JB3]

I enjoy seeing in black & white what we all knew was going on anyway and my interest in the incident is that it once again shows that the Republicans got nothin, nothin at all, all they can do is demonize the Dems - which they do pretty well.

That's quite enough. We know for a fact that the democrats do the exact same thing, and it is not remotely unique to republicans. Its funny you should mention republicans demonizing democrats, when the only retort that democrats have had to republicans in the last few months has been 'the party of no'. If that isn't pathetic on the same level as this, then I don't know what is. (and the democrats don't need any help being demonized by republicans, they're doing a bang-up job of demonizing themselves with the american populace)