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Intervening Irony

imageAlthough I support the idea of intervening to stop atrocities in Africa, perhaps Phyllis Chesler could have figured out a better way to press Obama on it than “How are you going to convince your supporters not to hate black people?

The recent “Bush loves Africa” push on the part of the right is pretty much going to be the one area of socially acceptable policy supremacy they can attempt to claim; this is because it’s the one area of his presidency America isn’t intimately aware of and therefore doesn’t hate with the burning passion of a thousand unemployed suns.  But it takes the audacity of a crack binge to spend the past two years insinuating that Obama is an African Muslim and then turn around and question his allegiance to the same people to whom he was going to send unsold Chryslers and PS3s after January 20th. 

 

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 08:44 PM • (18) Comments

If he DOES intervene, then the wingnuts are going to say he did it only because his father was from Africa. He really can’t win with this.

Comment #1: Ben D.  on  12/14  at  08:59 PM

And if he half-intervenes, it’s because he’s actually a half-whitefrican.  His narrow ass is boned any way you cut it.

Comment #2: Jesse Taylor  on  12/14  at  09:00 PM

Bush has been great for Africa! (Well as long as you ignore that proxy war he started..)

Comment #3: Rob  on  12/14  at  09:02 PM

Bush has been great for Africa! (Well as long as you ignore that proxy war he started..)

And not funding condom distribution which could like, you know, prevent HIV from being spread. But yeah other than that…

Comment #4: Ben D.  on  12/14  at  09:03 PM

Did any of the money Bush promised (which was in large part taken from existing programs) actually get delivered, or was it just more talk?

Comment #5: paul  on  12/14  at  09:47 PM

Bush derangment syndrome is still alive and well I see.

Meanwhile, Mr. ChangeandHope and his Chicago thug friends are exposing themselves.

I wonder how many people know that Mr. ChangeandHope had his 2 opponents in the State legislature race removed from the ballot?

ChangeandHope
ChangeandHope

Comment #6: Robert  on  12/14  at  10:17 PM

Bush derangment syndrome is still alive and well I see.

My God, you actually used the phrase “Bush derangment [sic] syndrome” in a non-ironic manner? I haven’t seen that since before Katrina!

Comment #7: Ben D.  on  12/14  at  10:23 PM

Actually, I thought that as the Bush/Cheney thugs whimper out of town claiming no one sees and credits them for their great accomplishments, hasn’t “Bush Derangement Syndrome” morphed into “Justified Anger Against The Bush Crime Family Syndrome”?

Or don’t 2/3rds to 3/4ers of the American public who finally got fed up count…?

Comment #8: MikeEss  on  12/14  at  11:10 PM

Robert, did you volunteer for the 2004 campaign as did this lady?:

I’m not referring to what used to be called Bush Derangement Syndrome. That phrase suggested that to passionately dislike the president was to be somewhat unhinged. No one thinks that anymore. I received an email before the news conference from as rock-ribbed a Republican as you can find, a Georgia woman (middle-aged, entrepreneurial) who’d previously supported him. She said she’d had it. “I don’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth.” I was startled by her vehemence only because she is, as I said, rock-ribbed. Her email reminded me of another, one a friend received some months ago: “I took the W off my car today,” it said on the subject line. It sounded like a country western song, like a great lament.

“exposing themselves”? Obama, Ayers, and Wright are performing The Full Monty? Eek.

(Yes, yes, I know:  the wingnutosphere has decided that Obama has different “Chicago thug friends” now; but I forget who they are.)

Comment #10: Josh  on  12/14  at  11:54 PM

I think this might be the “Chicago thug friend” who, you know, got arrested for corruption when he bitched on the phone about being told no to his attempt to trade appointments. That is to say, Gov Blagovich<b>who couldn’t get Obama involved in his illegal appointment-trading?<b>

Yeah, I still don’t fucking get how the Deranged “Conservatives” manage to see this as being a strike against Obama.

Comment #11: Samantha Vimes  on  12/15  at  12:13 AM

Can you imagine the wingnut reaction if they found a tape of Ted Stevens calling Palin a “dumb bitch” or something similar because she wouldn’t go along with one of his corrupt schemes? They’d be trumpeting her as a hero!

Comment #12: Ben D.  on  12/15  at  12:17 AM

Whatever money Bush sent to Africa did more damage than good. Rather than studying what African programs were working well and then funding them, he gave the cash to his wingnut apointees to create new programs that interefered with exixting effective programs.

Hey! When GW and Laura Bush have sex why does Laura always have to be on top? Because all George W Bush can do is fuck up.

Comment #13: Bacopa  on  12/15  at  03:33 AM

I’m just happy that we now get to start talking about Obama Derangement Syndrome.  Robert seems to have a pretty bad case of it already, and the guy’s not even inaugurated yet.

Comment #14: Mnemosyne  on  12/15  at  04:18 AM

Obama is a self-confessed Muslamofascist and you Shania Law-loving Jihadi Commies know it.

Comment #15: Rugged in Montana  on  12/15  at  06:03 AM

Bush had shoes thrown at him yesterday.

If he thinks he can polish his image by leaving the country, he’s in for another think.  The rest of the world doesn’t have Fox Propaganda Network.  The rest of the world has shamed our press corps.  The rest of the world knows he’s an ass and they’re so relieved that America has finally come to her senses after being scared to death by 9-11.

Blago was a good governor as far as I was concerned.  When pharmacists here in IL started to refuse to fill BC and EC scrips, he immediately passed an executive order forcing pharmacists to do their jobs.  He passed another executive order making it legal to breastfeed anywhere in IL.  He promised to fund healthcare for any child in IL that needed it, and that included healthcare for any pregnant woman.  He promised free preschool for three and four year olds. 

He planned to raise taxes on businesses to pay for it, but State Senate President Mike Madigan blocked him.  Instead of just saying, oh well, guess we can’t have those programs, Blago forced them down the Senate’s throat.  Yeah, our budget is a mess, but that’s not the governor’s fault…that is Mike Madigan’s fault for cutting the funding in a vain attempt to cut the programs.

You see, Judy Barr Topinka ran on a program of cutting the programs.  She lost soundly.  The people of Illinois thought taking care of kids was a good idea.

Funny thing about Mike Madigan.  He’s been gung ho about impeaching Rod and tried to get a Constitutional convention passed so we could recall the governor (our current constitution prevents recalls) but now that Rod’s in real trouble, he’s been kinda quiet.

What’s Rod know, Mike?  And do you really think he’s not going to take you down with him if he possibly can?

Yeah, it turns out Rod was a crazy arrogant greedy ass.  Shocking—seriously, I was shocked that he’d try to sell the Senate seat, though not so much that he thought he should get ‘something’ for it.  I just didn’t think the ‘something’ was money.  Political capital, not money capital.

His former opponent Topinka is riding the wave now, but she was just as mixed up in shady financial deals as anyone else here.  Remember the sweetheart hotel refinancing schemes, Judy?  Cause I do.

Obama was not part of Blagojevich’s team.  Rod didn’t even get to speak at the DNC.  If they floated any name for his seat, it was probably Valerie Jarrett’s, and after finding out what an extortionist Blago was, they just gave her Senior Advisor to get as far away from the impending storm as possible.

Obama is also not part of Daley’s machine.  He’s not mobbed up.  He’s part of the largely defunct Harold Washington team, so get your thug-hating straight.

Is Obama squeaky clean?  Probably not, but compared to our state and city pols, yes, he is.

I still don’t see why this is a problem to the Olympic committee…they just had the Olympics in China, for goodness’ sake.  We’re not that totalitarian.

Comment #16: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  12/15  at  09:13 AM

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to take Phyllis Chesler seriously since she wrote an incoherent, badly researched book on women and mental illness back in the 1970s.

Comment #17: Ellid  on  12/15  at  09:18 AM

Goddamn, our president sure is pretty.

Comment #18: junk science  on  12/16  at  02:48 PM
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