Less than a month after Sarah Palin embarked on her surreal bus tour of nationwide historical sites, the former beauty queen has returned to Alaska.
Piper Palin might be wondering why her vacation was cut short, but the rest of us aren’t surprised. Let’s not forget that the reality star resigned as Governor of Alaska halfway through her term.
If a capricious God allowed Palin to become the next President of the United States, would she quit halfway through her term?
I feel sorry for Palin’s husband, you know the First Dude, Palin probably quits halfway through their love sessions. Todd must be the most frustrated husband in the state of Alaska.
Is there anyone who still thinks of Palin as presidential material?
The only two countries George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and the rest of their torture regime can travel to right now are Israel and Saudi Arabia. Apartheid Israel cannot survive without America’s patronage, while the fascist, uncivilized Saudi Arabian monarchy needs America to extract and consume its oil — in order to continue bribing its lazy citizens. Even traveling to Britain, the number one ally is potentially dangerous.
Amnesty International insists that “Anywhere in the world that the ‘Bushies’ travel, they could face investigation and potential prosecution for their responsibility for torture and other crimes in international law, particularly in any of the 147 countries that are party to the U.N. convention against torture.”
And, the guilty are afraid.
Bush canceled a trip to Geneva in February amid threats by human rights groups that they’d pursue legal charges against him for sanctioning torture.
Propelling prisoners’ heads into concrete walls by means of towels wrapped around their necks, savage beatings with fists and rifles that left prisoners crippled, hanging prisoners by the arms with their arms strung up behind them, depriving prisoners of sleep for weeks on end, which has been thought the worst torture possible for 500 years, causing prisoners to freeze — sometimes to death, and waterboarding are but a partial list of the torture methods ordered by the Bush regime.
The above mentioned are the real reasons why the failed ‘Bushies‘ are out in force, lying and spinning — since Obama “executed” of Osama Bin Laden last Sunday.
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson says he’d like to waterboard Donald Rumsfeld.
Unhinged bigot Pam Geller, a sufferer of terminal Islamophobia — allowed her overriding hatred of President Obama to take her to new and scary places as she reported that the military defied an order from Obama to abort the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. She had, in effect, accused unspecified members of the military of treason. [ READ MORE ]
President Obama’s scheduled visit to “Ground Zero” today, to meet with 9/11 families has been summarily denounced by right-wing Republican media as a “disgusting political victory Lap!”
Fox News’ in house-baboon, Glenn Beck notched it higher – calling the trip “disgusting,” “obscene,” and “grotesque.”
In lockstep with his constituency, war criminal Bush declined to join Obama at ground Zero.
Herman Cain’s shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs “authentic negritude” as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. Like the fountain at Lourdes, Cain in his designated role as black Conservative mascot, absolves the White racial reactionaries of their sins. This is a refined performance that Black Conservatives have perfected over many decades and centuries of practice. — Chauncey DeVega [ READ MORE ]
[By: Dr. Boyce Watkins] Herman Cain Plays the Race Card Against Barack Obama: It appears that Herman Cain, who is expected to be a black presidential candidate, has the race card locked and loaded for his sprint toward the White House.
Recently, Cain was asked about race during a New Hampshire campaign speech. When asked about this controversial topic, Cain had this to say:
“Now people are over this first black president thing,” he said. “But there are some people who will say, ‘I’m not going to vote for another black guy because this one didn’t work out. And my response is, ‘Well, what about those 43 white guys you put in there? How did they work out? Don’t condemn me because the first black one was bad.”
There was another interesting episode when Cain was asked on his radio show why he speaks so highly of the founding fathers, even though they owned slaves.
“They set the bar high when they said all men were created equal,” Cain said. “They could have set it where they were that day. They set it high so this nation could work up to that ideal.”
Herman Cain — A ‘Butt-Licking’ Uncle Tom
One thing that people can say about Herman Cain is that he was a successful businessman. As the CEO and part owner of Godfather’s Pizza, Cain has accumulated enough wealth and success to consider himself to be a serious candidate for the presidency. With that said, Cain also has a set of views that are reflective of the diversity of opinions within the African-American community, presenting an interesting contrast to those who want to put all black people into a nice, neat, little “liberal” box.
Let’s be clear, I don’t agree with Herman Cain. I have a difficult time appreciating any African American who panders for votes by effectively saying, “I stand with you in your disdain for the way black people behave. I assure you that I’m different from the rest of them.”
Such a divide-and-conquer political strategy has been used since we had the house negro/field negro divide during slavery (there is no faster route to the top of the political heap than by becoming a black Republican). Rather than using hatred toward President Obama as a weapon for his own political advancement, Cain might be more respectable if he simply stood on his own credentials (as his fellow conservative Colin Powell might do). Being a black conservative presidential candidate doesn’t mean you have to disrespect the first black president.
With that said, many of Cain’s views reflect a peculiar paradox within the black community: the fact that black people are actually incredibly conservative. When it comes to views on gay marriage, abortion, the separation of church and state, etc., African Americans have quite a few viewpoints that align more closely with the Republican right than with liberals who’ve come to “save us.” The problem for Republicans, however, is that they insist on advocating for programs that hurt the poor, which has a disproportionate impact on the African-American community. Their opposition to Affirmative Action and constant attacks on President Obama don’t help their cause very much either.
While the existence of men like Herman Cain represents a stomach-churning example of how the disease of racism continues to affect our society, the truth is that Cain also represents the very best of what America can possibly be. I won’t vote for Herman Cain, but I am glad that there are black politicians who allow African Americans to jump outside of predefined stereotypes given to us by the media and our political leaders. There’s no one way to be black, and both Herman Cain and President Obama reflect the diversity of the black experience in America.
MediaMatters.org: This week on The Big Picture, Julie Millican fills us in on Fox News’ electioneering, Breitbart’s bizarre writers, and conservatives attacking the administration for literally anything.
The GOP: Grand, Old and Preposterous — Republicans don’t have a policy, they have a posture. They don’t have a program; they have a “message.” We could call them the stupid party, but this is working well for them. Only for the country, it doesn’t add up. — Robert L. Borosage,Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future
