Cindy McCain has said she wants Barack Obama to trade shoes/places with her, so that he would know what it’s like to have a child serving in the US military.
Wow would she be surprised at what it’s like to be black in America.
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And middle-class.
And smart.
I would suggest that Ms McCain educate herelf on the reality of race in North America. Perhaps she could start by watching some of Jane Elliott’s programs? Of course, when one lives in a skin of privlege and power, racism or sexism or homophobia doesn’t need to impinge on one’s existence.
The left wing liberal ignorance on this blog is overwhelming.
and you, westjen, are shortly going to find all your posts here spam-filtered.
post information, or objections, but the kind of crap you’ve posted lately is just hateful.
my blog, my rules.
On the other hand, I suppose this means John McCain has at least tried on her shoes, since he also voted not to fund the troops when her son was deployed.
“Cindy McCain has said she wants Barack Obama to trade shoes/places with her, so that he would know what it’s like to have a child serving in the US military.”
where did you come up with this anyway?
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I believe your next line, westjen, is:”I watch Fox cable news because they are fair and balanced”
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“I believe your next line, westjen, is:â€I watch Fox cable news because they are fair and balancedâ€
No, actually I thought I’d use the term “mouth breathing” and say fuck a few times. I thought that might somehow make me as credible as you.
Even if Cindy and Barack changed shoes/places Cindy would never learn what it is like to be black.
She would take with her her white, upper class entitlement. That particular world view is something that American people of color do not have.
She would also take with her the expectation that as soon as she was ready, she could put back on the shoes that she is most comfortable with, her Manolos.
It is an empty vainglorious statement which only highlights the disdain that Cindy, John and their ilk feel for Barack and feeds the “He’s not one of us” monster in the GOP fan base.
“No, actually I thought I’d use the term “mouth breathing†and say fuck a few times. I thought that might somehow make me as credible as you.”
Ouch.
Actually I have to have grudging admiration for someone who keeps coming back to make ultimately useless potshots at people who vehemently disagree with them, using a veneer of feigned superiority and superior insight.
I could just go onto American Spectator right now and make a few potshots on my own but it’s probably more useful to piss into the wind.
fuck: ya happy now?
PS..I hope you aren’t one of those trannies who thinks that she’s accepted by the GOP because “Transgender isn’t the same thing as being gay”
I can’t put my finger on it exactly, but there is something rather pathetic about conservative attempts at humor. Not all of it fails, but it usually does. It may be, as Roger Ebert said recently in a Sun Times column, that conservative humor, coming from a position of power, doesn’t understand the dynamics inherent interpersonal interactions–at least not beyond a certain 1950′s kind of world view. In liberal comedy, often someone not in authority is making fun of someone who is in a position of authority. Comedy then is ultimately subversive, and can explain why so many conservatives become unhinged in the face of intelligence but provocative jokesters. On the other hand, to have an authority figure laugh at a minority or someone who is repressed–by whatever measure you like, severe or minor–not only rings hollow, but displays an arresting lack of basic human understanding. It isn’t particularly funny, or, it is about as funny as someone picking up a pile of dogshit and loudly proclaiming, “hey, look what I almost stepped in.”
So there’s that.
On the other hand: Westjen. Seriously. Lighten the fuckety fucking fuck up, you mouth fucking ass breather.
I wish people would reply to Westjen (or anyone with whom people disagree) based strictly on what she writes, without ad hominems. I tend to think the moral and intellectual high road is better than responding in kind. What good is a mutual mud-sling?
Fpppt. I guess the notion of satire is lost.
ST, you should write about comedy.
Ah, jealousy. It makes even washed-up drummers go off the deep end. You keep on swinging there, sparky.
(note: previous comment was directed at a now absent comment, not helen).