The "logic" of wingnuts is a joke.

somebody is going to get hurt soon. McCain and Palin will have blood on their hands.

John McCain is a White Racist and that is the truth. John McCain is also a WAR CRIMINAL, and no “War Hero.” McCain killed innocent villagers like all cowards do from way above the sky in dropping those bombs on women, children, and men. McCain should have been put on trial for the war crimes against humanity he perpetrated during the Vietnam War alongside his scum-sucking pal, Henry Kissinger. Funny how his little butt-sucking boy Joe Lieberman received five college deferments to escape serving during the Vietnam war. The scumbag Joe Lieberman claimed to be an anti-war and pro-civil rights man at that time. Lieberman never said crap about the Weathermen until this election and the irony is that both he and Ayers both opposed the Vietnam war. It is time to call Lieberman on his hypocrisy regarding his opposition to the Vietnam War. Back to McCain. John McCain's views on women's issues shows him to be a typical male chauvinist pig. The right wing has built its base upon racism, sexism, and homophobia. In election after election whether overtly or under the radar, the Republicans inject racism into presidential campaigns before denying and running from it.

It is time to revive the words racist, male chauvinist pigs and their women apologists on the right, bigots on the right, sexism, and, of course, homophobes. McCain, Palin, and all their apologists fit this description (even if they try to deny it--the more they deny and protest it--the more they fit this category). Right-wingers despise “political correctness” because it disembowels their penchant for being bigots, homophobes, male chauvinist pigs, and yes, racists. That whole “reverse racism” has been a right-wing invention to undercut real talk of white America’s history and legacy of racism.

The GOP are running their usual blustering militarist and misogynist presidential campaign with uber-femme fatale, Sarah Palin attempting to outperform all the X-rated porn actresses to show how she can take orders from Big John and the rest of the right-wing crazy fundamentalists and neocon gurus, and of course the fat slob couch potatoes.

Racism is alive and working in the McCain campaign. Black Agenda Report columnist Paul Street wrote a few weeks back that: "A recent Yahoo/Associated Press/Stanford survey found that white prejudice is costing Obama six percentage points in national polls. Six points sounds low to those like me who are canvassing in the white, small-town field. Consistent with my suspicions at least, the USA TODAY poll finds that whites prefer the atrocious, decrepit, miserable misogynist and war monger John McCain over the outwardly hyper-eloquent centrist Obama by 56 to 36 percent! But even 6 points could be enough to de-rail Obama given the closely divided nature of the U.S. electorate. The last two presidential elections have essentially been statistical ties. The GOP ticket is so malicious and dim-witted and the conjuncture is so poor for the Republicans that Obama may win anyway, but his margin of victory will be far below what a Caucasian Democratic candidate could reasonably expect."

John McCain cannot help his racism. It is rooted in his family and their structural racist past. As Salon writers Suzi Parker and Jack Tapper informed America back in 2000, with the article entitled, "McCain's ancestors owned slaves," his "great-great grandfather William Alexander McCain owned a plantation, and later died during the Civil War as a soldier for the Mississippi cavalry."

John McCain is surely an idiot for not knowing about his family history regarding its owning slaves. As Parker and Tapper wrote:

"But what McCain didn't know about his family until Tuesday was that William Alexander McCain had owned 52 slaves. The senator seemed surprised after Salon reporters showed him documents gathered from Carroll County Courthouse, the Carrollton Merrill Museum, the Mississippi State Archives and the Greenwood, Miss., Public Library...I didn't know that," McCain said in measured tones wearing a stoic expression during a midday interview, as he looked at the documents before Tuesday night's debate. "I knew they had sharecroppers. I did not know that....This documentation includes slave schedules from Sept. 8, 1860, which list as the slave owner, "W.A. McCain." The schedules list the McCain family's slaves in the customary manner of the day -- including their age, gender and "color," labelling each either "black" or "mulatto." The slaves ranged in age from 6 months to 60 years....I knew we fought in the Civil War," McCain went on. "But no, I had no idea. I guess thinking about it, I guess when you really think about it logically, it shouldn't be a surprise. They had a plantation and they fought in the Civil War so I guess that it makes sense...It's very impactful," he said of learning the news. "When you think about it, they owned a plantation, why didn't I think about that before? Obviously, I'm going to have to do a little more research."

McCain comes from a family of racists and he is also a RACIST PIG. I am not surprised such a man would go to the low-level campaign he has resorted to. I wonder why the media has not talked about McCain's shady past more often? If they are going to dig into Obama's past, it is more than fair to raise the issue that McCain hails from a Racist Family of origin.

One other thing---Being a "conservative feminist" is like being a "recovered" sex addict who just happens to eat lunch every day at the nearest strip club.

according to a recent email from a nephew, who lives/works in chicago:

I have an MBA from that university, and it truly irritates me that a public university, none-the-less one that I attended, would allow such a man to saturate the minds of young men and women. Trust me, my fellow graduates and myself are working on getting this poor excuse for a human being fired from his position at the university.

Sieg heil! ?

...in the Toronto Star today put the Ayers controversy in a whole different perspective for me. Ayers today is a well-respected professor of education at the University of Chicago. And it seems to me that his criticisms of US policy during the Vietnam War era were justified, even if his method of response was not.

Man behind Obama's radical headache

Ayers' connection to the Weather Underground is plastered on his door. A postcard for a documentary on the group shows an old mugshot of Ayers. Nearby is cover art from Ayers' 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days.

But also affixed to the door is the title that reflects how Ayers, now 63, has become known in the past two decades in Chicago: distinguished professor.

"He gives of himself greatly to his students. He gives of his time, his energies, his commitment," said Pamela Quiroz, an associate professor who works in the college of education with Ayers. "He is just a superb individual."

Quiroz is among more than 3,200 people, mostly academics, who have signed an online petition protesting the "demonization" of Ayers during the campaign for the White House.

This is a very thoughtful article and well worth the read, but hurry. The Star doesn't leave things on their servers for more than a few days.

The best thing about living here in New Mexico is that you're so close to the USofA...

prob'ly that's the worst thing, too...

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Q U E S T I O N:

Why aren't the media, the press, and reporters hitting Johnny McLobbyist about his transition chief's ties to Saddam Hussein?

WHY ALL THE SILENCE...
... To give Obama all the room to continually defend his ties to Ayers?

You do know, that the more one continually is placed into the defensive position, the more it appears that s/he is guilty of something that must be defended against...NO?

I think it is high time that blogs like C&L stop the senseless defense and repetition of needless defenses of Obama and begin to ATTACK McCun't for who he is!!! I mean, sure there was a blurb once about McCaint's transition chief... A FRICKIN' blurb!!! Where's the hard hitting, continual punching guys???

Shhhhh...
... maybe we need to defend Obama's non-ties to terrorists a little bit more, then the regular folk will get the idea that maybe we're covering for something... NO?

I just wish once, o.k. it happened once and only once to Tucker and he said STFU and everyone did and continues to behave so, however we should't forget...
... John McCain's transition chief lobbied on behalf of Saddam Hussein!!!
... What does that make John McCain???

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to the point that it becomes an art form. They don't protest. They strong arm and lean on the powers that be until it gets results.

Talk about the Nazi youth and the Brownshirts.

They have no right to bring up Free Speech ever again.

David,

You are actually describing a critical defining characteristic of sociopaths/psychopaths: their incapacity to experience moral outrage on another's behalf. They are routinely able to experience and express a hieghtened sense of moral outrage for real, or imagined, wrongs. But that capacity functions exclusively in response to wrongs happening to their own persons. A wrongful event occuring to their person, which produces tremendous moral outrage, elicits no response at all if the identical wrong happens to another. More, a sociopath or psychopath can rage against an actual or imagined wrong committed against their own person, but turn right around, with their very next breath, and sel-righteously commit the identcal wrong upon another's person, seeing nothing odd or unacceptable about doing so. Being that the Republican party has become a magnet for maladjusted and malignant personalities, it should not be a surprise to anybody that the right-wingers routinely demonstrate the kind of compartmentalized thinking and awarness that you describe.

Without going too far into this ethically challenged fraud because she simply isn't worth the time to do so, I believe Palin's ties to known anti-US Secessionists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll along with her videotaped pledge of support to this group in 2006 and 2008 means that even Sarah Palin cannot get security clearance at this point. It goes without saying that Todd Palin will never receive security clearance so I believe that her own support and contact with this anti-US fringe group will probably disqualify her and already has in the minds of most americans.

We don't even have to go into her reed-thin resume and her total lack of experience (in her office 85 days out of two years??).

Here's the skinny on Palin's "terrorist pals" -
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/...

I suppose they have had bomb threats. That is the standard attack.

While George Will's cable show was cancelled, before I even knew it existed, he was snickering about Hillary's right-wing conspiracy. But when his show was cancelled did he blame Adam Smith's Invisible Hand of the Marketplace? Hell no, he blamed a left-wing cabal.

But on the plus side he wrote a final view in Time magazine how he and his wife laughed through the torture-porn movie The Passion, because the human body doesn't contain that much blood.

)O(

Has anyone ever noticed that Republicans are the most ardent practitioners of the kind of affirmative action they decry (and no one wants)? According to them, affirmative action is itself racism, and results only in unqualified individuals wresting positions from their superiors. As with their complaint that government does not work, the response is, "Yeah, the way you do it."

Upon the death of Thurgood Marshall, the Republicans knew that his Supreme Court seat just had to be filled by a black man. Forget qualifications, said Papa Bush, just find me a conservative black man. Result: Clarence Thomas.

Always determined to outdo his father, and to prove to the world what a different, compassionate conservative he was, Shrub diversified his administration. Result: Condoleeza Rice, Alberto Gonzales.

And, of course, John McCain had to choose a woman for his vice president.

When are we going to rise above all the petty issues and start talking about things that really affect our lives, like achieving ENERGY INDEPENDENCE. Obama and McCain both say that is their top priority, however they say it will take 10 years (conveniently after they would be out of office).

There are technologies available today to give us Clean, Renewable ENERGY in a year even (especially if we took just a fraction of what is being spent in Iraq).

I am not talking about BS stuff like bio, nuclear, coal or more oil, I am talking about wind, solar, tidal, geothermal and electric/magnetic (also hydrogen using Tesla methods not conventional methods). The best thing about these is that they are abundant, completely clean, and renewable.

Whoever gets elected needs to be reminded that this is the top priority and not allowed to slack off on this. Look up Tesla and geothermal energy and check out some videos on it, also zeitgeist:addendum for more info.

... if Ayers' is given a platform where he may present his demeanor, intellect and current beliefs, then the 'boogey-man terrorist' label would diminish a measurable degree. Why doesn't a Democratic-leaning media outlet provide the invite and let Ayers speak? Or, is he really *that* radical? I do not believe that, but the Obama camp can not let this 'Ayers+Obama=TerroristInTheWhiteHouse' fear mongering fester for too much longer ... it's taking its toll.