Hawaii: "Elitist" and "Foreign" If Obama Goes There, Perfectly Acceptable Working Site When It's The GOP
Remember all the pearl-clutching over Obama going to visit his childhood home in Hawaii last year, calling it "elitist"? Or when visiting his dying grandmother in her Oahu home, Cokie Roberts complained that it made Obama appear "foreign" and "exotic" to choose to go to Hawaii, instead of say, Myrtle Beach.
Well, you silly liberals expecting consistency, that was then. This is now. And NOW, Hawaii is the perfect location for the Republican National Committee to hold their winter meeting:
Republicans delight in depicting President Obama as hopelessly out of touch with average Americans, but the decision by the Republican National Committee to hold its winter meeting at a tropical resort is turning the accusation on its head.
As the president gave his first State of the Union address Wednesday against the backdrop of the nation’s wheezing economy, the opposition party marked the event by convening a conference here – on an “island paradise.”
“Imagine lush tropical gardens, waterfalls, exotic wildlife and priceless artwork,” boasts the website of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa. “This one-of-a-kind Honolulu Hawaii hotel resort is the only true resort property in Waikiki.”
Which is to say that it’s a long way from Baltimore, where the House GOP will have its retreat later this month in a pointed effort to demonstrate their sensitivity to the tough economic times.
Yet at a moment when millions are out of work and millions more struggling to get by, the party’s governing board will plot its comeback on the island of Oahu, sipping drinks poolside, catching rays on the beach that abuts the villa and raising questions about whether they’re as politically tone-deaf as they accuse the president of being.
Oh, but it's not all sunshine and pina coladas by the pool. No, no, no. RNC Chairman Michael Steele, resplendent in his Hawaiian shirt and lei, assures us this is no vacation.
"Relax," Steele said while sporting a Hawaiian shirt and a flower lei. "We're working hard here, trust me. This is not a vacation."
Steele said the the meetings will "expose Hawaii to the rest of America." He told KHON, a local TV station, that it was important for the RNC, "as a party," to be in Hawaii, the home state of President Obama.
You know, I hear a lot of people claim Obama is playing three-dimensional chess to the RNC's checkers, but in this particular case, I'm not even sure that the RNC isn't stuck playing Chutes & Ladders instead.
When Obama goes to Hawaii, it's because he's one of the natives, an exotic brown person. When the Republicans go to Hawaii, it's to exploit the brown people. The former is dangerously un-American, the latter quintessentially American.
vacation there, meanwhile people whine when Obama went there to visit his grandma, and Cokie Roberts whines when he just wants to go there for a nice vacation. Ugh. So scummy the GOP is.
I've never seen change without a fire
because when you come back, you don't have to go thru Customs. Such has been a source of embarassment in the past. Pack up your Viagra, come on get happy...
I hope all the madams stocked up on extra hookers (ladies and men) for all those family values folks.
Of course, if they DO bang a hooker, it's just a flawed person that needs more God's love.
And by love, I mean BJ.
Don'tcha mean with boys?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Steele said the the meetings will "expose Hawaii to the rest of America." He told KHON, a local TV station, that it was important for the RNC, "as a party," to be in Hawaii, the home state of President Obama.
Did anyone ask this ignoramous "WHY?" I mean, couldn't they have their precious little "sessions" in some smoke filled backrooms like usual? And I'm sure ALL that any of them will be doing is "work'.
And did you ever consider that Hawaii may NOT want to be exposed to you? I'm pretty sure the rest of us don't.
It's certainly the perfect spot if you want to keep a bunch of teabaggers from protesting you.
While he's there he can stop by the court house and pick up Obama's Birth Certificate... I mean, why not, he's there and all... ;) It would just be the neighborly thing to do...
When you say to average republican, "Hawaii,"
They immediately start kvetching about their sciatica.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
If Hawaii is a good enough venue for Rush Limbaugh's latest heart attack (or indigestion, or sleep apnea, or whatever it was), darn it, it's good enough to host a Republican hookers 'n policy junket.
Rush had to consult a physician, something had lasted more than 4 hours. I don't think it was a brainstorming sesseion, merely and OD. He is a drug addict, doncha know.
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This guy is so lost, it isn't funny. What also isn't funny is the people that are lost with him. A clown. A confused and out of his element clown.
It never surprises me how one minute they are talking family values, and the next minute having a hooker for lunch, with diapers yet. Then there are the anti-gay movement types that are caught in the airport restroom trying to have a little with the man in the next stall.
These are such hypocritical f*cktards...it's just hard to be surprised anymore.
What kind of sauce go good on hookers?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2A6YPowfwk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
fer sure!
Didn't someone on MSNBC (a guest) complain that Obama shouldn't have stayed "in a foreign land" (hawaii) during the underwear bomber incident? Does anyone remember who said that, and the exact quote? Thanks!
BTW: Rush and his Republican minions went to Hawaii to look for Obama's birth certificate!
It was Kevin Madden
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/30/madden-ha...
Cokie Roberts took her shot during the campaign
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200808100001
Dixie Chicks will play......
Unless they aren't ready to make nice....
The guy on the daily show said it best. Won't they be embarrassed if they develop the capacity to feel shame.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
Hey Steele...go F yourself! "Expose Hawaii to the rest of America"??? Go expose yourself to your own party, why don't you? Why don't you and your racist party who are afraid of "Pacific Islanders and Asians" go home. You missed Limbaugh by a heartbeat for a ride on his private jet!
Jesus Christ. You just can't.make.this.shit.up. I'll post this on my FB page and see what the defense says. Oh, it's Miller High Life tonight!
More my preference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHXOjYaqiSc
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
hahahaha... best commercial ever.
It was a Republican who discovered the island of Hawaii in the first place...
(I'm sure this "fact" is somewhere on the GOP.com web site in the "Republican Accomplishments" section)
they prefer the warm climate and in the end they'll all enjoy the ultimate warm climate when they hold their convention in hell.
Some Republicans say stupid shit, so do Democrats. Why is there no Howard Zinn post?????
Really? No post about Zinn?
He was neither a Crook nor Liar, so no post. Progressive news is at Common Dreams, Think Progress, and DU when you need it.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
Good writeup
Just reading this part made me think for a moment that his had to be a spoof article-
"Oh, but it's not all sunshine and pina coladas by the pool. No, no, no. RNC Chairman Michael Steele, resplendent in his Hawaiian shirt and lei, assures us this is no vacation.
"Relax," Steele said while sporting a Hawaiian shirt and a flower lei. "We're working hard here, trust me. This is not a vacation.""
It's pretty sad that they don't even have to make a convincing effort at being misleading anymore to their braindead base.
There wouldn't need to be so much outrage over this pettiness, if you remember not to let partisan bullshit politics get to you in the first place. Pettiness and politics are nearly synonymous.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
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Yes, the Republicans are hypocrites. With all due respect, what else is new? When are they not hypocrites?? That glass house of theirs has more holes in it than a sieve does by this time -- one is inclined to wonder how it manages to stay standing.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
Hypocrites.
It's really that simple. There isn't a single subject on which the Republican Party members are not all flaming hypocrites. It's flabbergasting, it really is.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
the Republicans to travel to Hawaii (food, hotel, misc. expenses too) for this meeting?
- Does the RNC pay for the GOP members out of its own coffers?
- Do the GOP Congress members pay for it out of their own pockets?
- Or do the Congress members' constituents back home pay for their travels to Hawaii?
Anyone know?
Don't forget that the talking heads on the right also had no problem with Sarah Palin when she and her family vacationed in the "elitist" "foreign" Hawaii a few months ago.
Expose your handiwork to the rest of America in a fine city, like say Detroit?
... thing the Republican party has done to itself. Well, maybe tied for worst with choosing Sarah the Clueless to run for VP. Part of me is glad the Repugs keep shooting themselves in the dick, but part of me would sincerely like for them to get back to having some credibility... as it might motivate the Dems to get on the ball.
Douche bag convention stinking up the beaches of Hawaii--that is sad.
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