BlogGQ: Michael Steele – The Reconstructionist – The embattled new head of the Republican Party, on whether he’d be in this job if he were white, why he left the seminary for the GOP, and where his diminished party goes from here: [ Click Here For Interview ]
From Blatherwatch: Everyone agrees Keyes is brilliant. He’s a rhetorician who can combine the steely absolutistics of the Yale Debate Association with the emotional flourishes and furbelows of a Creflo Dollar. And he does it with the timbre eerily like that of the late Kermit the Frog. He’s amazing.
But we gotta agree with Rachel Maddow: anything Keyes says sounds crazy. He could read a Johnson’s baby powder endorsement and make it sound off-his-meds crazed.
Alan Keyes has run twice for the Senate in Maryland, and lost both times. And he’s run twice before for the Republican presidential nomination, and never won a single primary. He’s the Republican that Barack Obama stepped over to become the Senator from Illinois in 2004. [ READ MORE ]
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Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama Overheard — Spreading The Falsehood That Obama is Not An Amercican Citizen:
…… Another local resident asked Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama’s U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof.
“Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Shelby said. “You have to be born in America to be president.”
According to the Associated Press, state officials in Hawaii checked health department records during the campaign and determined there was no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii.
The nonpartisan Web site Factcheck.org examined the original document and said it does have a raised seal and the usual evidence of a genuine document. In addition, Factcheck.org reproduced an announcement of Obama’s birth, including his parents’ address in Honolulu, that was published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961.
Obama allies attack GOP leadership — The labor-backed, pro-stimulus group Americans United for Change and the public workers’ union AFSCME are going up with a national cable spot, also airing in Washington D.C., with the sharpest attack yet on Republican leaders in the House and Senate.
Julio the Obama fan
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Reference:Roll Over the Republicans — Obama and the Democrats have public opinion on their side and the wolf at the door. Republicans need to get out of the way — or get run over. Republicans are using this debate as a branding opportunity, positioning themselves as careful stewards of the public purse. This is absurd, given their record when they were in charge. It’s also cynical. They know that some kind of stimulus will get passed anyway. If it works, they’ll claim their principled intransigence made the plan better; if it doesn’t, they’ll say, “I told you so.” — [ MORE ]
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele will announce Thursday that a dozen Republican National Committee members are whipping votes on his behalf to be the next leader of the national party, Steele political advisors tell CNN.
Wisconsin Republican Party Chair Reince Priebus will unveil Steele’s whip operation in a memo to supporters — though in a copy of the document provided to CNN, he stops short of naming other RNC members who have vowed to vote for the former lieutenant governor when the national party meets at the end of the month. Read the rest of this entry
Since the New Deal, Republicans have been on the wrong side of every issue of concern to ordinary Americans; Social Security, the war in Vietnam, equal rights, civil liberties, church-state separation, consumer issues, public education, reproductive freedom, national health care, labor issues, gun policy, campaign-finance reform, the environment and tax fairness. No political party could remain so consistently wrong by accident.
The only rational conclusion is that, despite their cynical “family values” propaganda, the Republican Party is a criminal conspiracy to betray the interests of the American people in favor of plutocratic and corporate interests, and absolutist religious groups.
Therefore the assertion by National Black Republican Association (NBRA) that Democrats are ‘More Racist,‘ is utterly false. JFK and Lyndon B. Johnson “converted” the Democrats in the sixties, from a party of “Lynchers” to a party that cares a lot more about blacks than the current Republicans, who are still clinging on to, and exploiting America’s horrible racial past.
The hopelessly racist McCain/Palin campaign against Obama is clear testimony to the racial “thugism” in the Republican Party.
As the Democrats became more progressive, the Republicans, rushed in to fill the RAT HOLE vacated by southern Democrats — with Nixon the crook implementing the SOUTHERN STRATEGY — an extreme racial scheme that plays “White Fears” like a yo-yo. It has served Republicans well over the years, …..until November 4th 2008, when a majority of Americans rejected ReTHUGlicanism — with a resounding victory for Obama.
During one of John McCain’s ““Neo-Klan” Lynch Mob Rallies,” last week, a black man very conspicuously positioned himself in the front row, within easy reach of McCain.
His name is James T. Harris, a self-proclaimed expert in cultural change, societal trends, awareness, motivation, enlightenment.
This master of “multi-tasking” is also a Milwaukee based radio talk-show host, and fashions himself as a great “Black” thinker.
In a “Neo-Nazi” meeting jam-packed with white Republicans, frothing and wriggling bitterly with “Hate and Bigotry” like “dogs in heat,” Mr. Harris took great umbrage in begging McCain to “HIT” Obama. [see video below]
“I am begging you sir, I am begging you — take it to him,” pleaded the Mr. Harris, earning himself a standing ovation!. “We have the good Reverend Wright. We have [the Rev. Michael L.] Pfleger.
We have all of these shady characters that have surrounded him,” Harris bellowed. “We have corruption here in Wisconsin and voting across the nation. I am begging you, sir. I am begging you.
Take it to him.”
The “We” instantly reminded me of Malcolm X’s “Message To The Grassroots” —- “If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, “What’s the matter, boss, we sick?” We sick!
He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself.
And if you came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s run away, let’s escape, let’s separate,” the house Negro would look at you and say, “Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?”
That was that house Negro.
In those days he was called a “house nigger.” And that’s what we call him today, because we’ve still got some house niggers running around here……”
Malcolm X – Field Negro vs House Negro
That was James T. Harris — one solitary black man in a sea of stinking bigots, urging John McCain to “Lynch” Barack Obama, so to speak!
“KILL HIM!”…. “TREASONER!”…. “NIGGER!”…. “NOBAMA!”…. “SOCIALIST!”…. “COMMUNISM!”…. “SOCIALIST SWINE!”…. “OBAMA IS A MUSLIM TERRORIST!”…. “SLEAZY SCUM OF THE EARTH!”…. “OBAMA REGISTERS DEAD PEOPLE!”…. “BARACK ‘HUSSEIN‘ OBAMA!”…. “OFF WITH HIS HEAD!”…. “OBAMA WILL PAINT THE WHITEHOUSE BLACK!”…. “OBAMA IS A BLACK MUSLIM TERRORIST!”….
What a courageous brother this James Harris is!
In a country where some small towns are still off limits to blacks, this man has the courage to jump into the middle of a “Saturday Evening Lynching Party.”
I suspect this slithering Uncle-Tom! was PAID and planted in the crowd by the McCain campaign — to be used for effect and to justify their scumbag campaign.
McCain knows he is running a racist campaign, and what better than thrusting a black man to the TV cameras, carrying his shit!
I lifted this opinion from the web:
October 13th, 2008 at 12:08 am
I am white and like all of my friends, laughed so hard when I saw this black man say this. The whites in the crowd would never invite him to their dinner tables. Nor would a white man in that room hire him over a white guy.
White women in that room will still cross the street and hold their purses tighter if he approaches them. If he came home with any of their daughters, they would round up every boy in the family to whip him and send him away.
John and Sarah do not mix with, dine with, work with or embrace blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Mexicans or Indians.
They just don’t spend time with non wasps. So I feel bad for this man. His life is pretty much ruined now, and he’ll be shamed for the rest of his life because the internet will see to that.
McCain voted against the holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because as all of white America knows, he is pro white.
The only reason Mr. Harris was allowed in the room and given the mike is because he is the ‘off spring blessing‘ of Dr. King’s marches and fight for equality, which would break his heart if he saw this video – the man lost his life and left his children and wife behind, for Mr. Harris to shame himself, family and the entire black community.
We are laughing at you Mr. Harris.
You should go on the news and say you changed your mind before you become a national joke.
Vikky
Well said — Vikky!
Mr. Harris says he’s received a flood of hate mail, even death threats.
Here is why:
Mr. Harris’s claim that Democrats have done nothing to blacks is moot. They have done something….or appear to be doing something. Republicans on the other hand have done nothing I can think of off-head, and in this particular instance, McCain and Palin have been inciting what amounts to “Racial Violence” against Obama, and James Harris has been outsourced to “legitimize” it.
Arguments such us: “Republicans ended slavery,” are irrelevant, because in the sixties the two parties just re-invented themselves, by switching sides on issues affecting blacks. Using The Southern Strategy — Republicans began doing exactly what BOTH were doing pre-1960 — exploiting racism among white voters, to put down blacks.
Racism exists in both Democrat and Republican whites, but Democrats have generally embraced African Americans much more than Republicans. Republicans are diametrically opposed to civil rights and black interests.
They don’t even attempt to hide it!
My conclusion after many years dealing with both, is that Democrats are more racially tolerant in as much as they dislike Republicans. But given the racial divisions in the Democratic Primary between Clinton and Obama, I may need to rethink this.
It is therefore not surprising that minority blacks tend to gravitate to the lesser of two evils, so to speak.
I have also encountered whites who have no racist bones in their bodies, and I am sure there are many more out there. I really doubt whether they are Republicans, for to be a Republican, you have to subscribe to Republican Ideology, which is despicably intolerant and racist.
In coddling with McCain, black people see Mr. Harris as the Ultimate in Treason. To black people, and that includes me, Mr. Harris is “Uncle-Toming” for an inferior candidate, John McCain, to destroy the “Great Black Hope,” Barack Obama — most unfairly.
And, that’s TREASON!
Believe me, if it were Al Sharpton — nobody would care.
Professor Chinweizu — a Nigerian critic, poet and journalist gives us insight as to why blacks like James T. Harris do exhibit such behavior:
James T. Harris suffers from Negro Negrophobia:
Negrophobia is a psychoneurosis, a mental disorder. So too is blancophilia, its twin.
Negrophobia and blancophilia are, of course, conditioned responses to white power and black powerlessness. In a sad case of stimulus substitution, the responses to superior power have become transferred to white skin, and those to powerlessness have become transferred to black skin. The negrophobia syndrome is a chronic disease with the white race, a disease born of pride of power. It is a disease with which they have infected the whole world, including the black race, giving rise to negro negrophobia, the disease of black self-hate.
Negro negrophobia is a most absurd disease. Can you imagine some black running to escape his blackness? To escape from himself? His obsession with fleeing from himself proves he is unfit to live. His running to embrace his white enemy proves he is a suicide. The entire affair shows he is mad. Some call it alienation, a mental disorder. Yet some black sirens now sing in praise of alienation, beckoning all blacks to acquire the disease.
Negro negrophobia makes African-Americans, and now black South Africans too, believe that integrating white neighborhoods is social advancement. It makes blacks desperate to integrate white schools, white churches, white communities, white ideologies, white movements and white organizations.
Some would even gladly die to integrate the Ku Klux Klan — or a McCain Hate Meeting for that matter!
Personally, I have no qualms with integrating with well-meaning and progressive whites, who have no racism in their bones, and there are millions of them in America, but there are many more who will never change [SEE VIDEOS BELOW] — hardcore racists who given the optimum incitement (by McCain and co.), would drive this country back to the eighteenth century — back to lynching every black man and woman in sight.
These are the characters James T. Harris has been parading his black ass to, and is the principle reason why he has been getting a flood of hate-mail from fellow blacks.
Historical events have hard-wired the “perception of persecution” into the “black brain” just as much the false “perception of superiority” in white Republicans, and the two cannot mix.
James T. Harris is a “House Nigger,” a despicable ReTHUGliTOM in the mode of Clarence Thomas, and he clearly deserves the heat he is getting.
“Uncle Tom” Defends Himself on CNN
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MCCAIN-PALIN HATE-MEETING 1
MCCAIN-PALIN HATE-MEETING 2 — Bethlehem, PA
MCCAIN-PALIN HATE-MEETING 3
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References:
1.The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama — The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder.
2.The Man Behind the Whispers About Obama — A Fox News Channel program last week thrust Andy Martin, widely credited with starting a cyber-whisper campaign about Barack Obama, into the foreground.
