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Just when you think they can’t sink any lower…

Published

Pedro Timóteo

on April 22, 2008

in bigotry, christianity, politics, racism and stupidity

. 5 Comments

… they put up a sign like this:

From the article:

Pastor Byrd says the sign is not meant to be racial or political but rather to make people think. “His name is so close to Osama I have a feeling he might be Islamic therefore he doesn’t recognize Christ,” Pastor Byrd said.

and:

Pastor Byrd told News Channel 7 he would ask his congregation to vote on whether to keep the sign. They voted unanimously to keep the sign up Sunday night.

Jonesville Church of God does not have any African American members.

You know what really infuriates me about this? Not that these assholes do this, but that it works. A good percentage of Americans probably “have a feeling” that Obama might be a Muslim, simply because of his name. How stupid can you get?

(via Friendly Atheist)

Childish stupidity among Democrats?

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Pedro Timóteo

on March 27, 2008

in politics

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According to this article,

Just as reports of thousands of Republicans switching to the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania came streaming in this week, Gallup says Democrats are equally intent on crossing over to the GOP and voting for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) if a candidate they do not support wins the Democratic party nomination.

The pollster said 28 percent of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY)supporters and 19 percent of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) supporters would vote for McCain if their candidate lost the party nomination.

I have one little question for these 28% of Clinton supporters and 19% of Obama supporters:

**Are you retarded or something!?!?**

Do you have any idea of what the consequences of such petulance, such stubbornness, such “I’m taking him/her down with me” sore losing, such stupidity are? Do you hate your candidate’s Democratic rival so much, so irrationally, that you’re prepared to condemn your country to 4 more years of neoconservatism? Do you have any idea what the party of war, torture, tax cuts to the rich, wiretapping, and the Religious Right, emboldened by a third victory in a row, can do to your country and even to the rest of the world?

Do you honestly think — that is, assuming you think at all, which I find doubtful — that the Democratic candidate other than your favorite is as bad, or even worse, as McCain, even though he or she has positions on the issues much closer to your candidate’s than McCain?

Have you even considered the fact that, regardless of whether Obama or Clinton wins, the administration will be filled with Democrats, while McCain will keep the Republican thugs who have done so much damage?

I don’t like Hillary myself. I think she just cares about power, about getting elected, and that she should have conceded already. But I’d never, in a million years, say I’d rather have McCain, or that they’re as bad as each other. And anyone who claims that much, who supports McCain out of childish, unthinking spite, is a complete imbecile, and shouldn’t even be considered mature enough to vote.

Obama’s speech on race

Published

Pedro Timóteo

on March 19, 2008

in politics and racism

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You owe it to yourself to watch it (below), or at least read it.

Excerpt:

And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable. I can assure you it is not. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.

But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

Double standards by conservative hypocrites… what a surprise

Published

Pedro Timóteo

on March 17, 2008

in politics

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I call your attention to this piece on OpEdNews. Apparently, Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was quote-mined for controversial remarks, and he had a few choice ones, and, of course, conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly are calling for Obama’s head, or at least for him to unequivocally condemn Wright.

The article reveals the conservatives’ hypocrisy by showing videos where Republican politicians / candidates accepted endorsements from much worse, and nobody called for them to distance themselves from the endorsers. We’re talking about people who have made anti-Semitic comments, blamed 9/11 and Katrina on “teh gay”, and so on… and yet endorse candidates and advise presidents. I think this should be widely known — ignorance and obscurity only helps those vermin to thrive.

Obama as Dream (from Neil Gaiman’s "Sandman")?

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Pedro Timóteo

on March 10, 2008

in politics

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obamasandman

Don’t know who created this (the place I found it in just linked to it as a remote image), but it is certainly something you don’t see every day. One of the best parts from the first volume of Gaiman’s Sandman, with Obama as Morpheus/Dream and Hillary as Choronzon, a demon. I hadn’t read that comic in years, but after looking at the image for a couple of sentences, it “clicked”, and I remembered where it was from, and the unexpected ending, still beautiful after all these years: “I am hope.”

I don’t think Hillary is pure evil, though. I just think that she doesn’t yet understand a fact of U.S. politics, which even a foreigner like myself has already realized: between a Republican and a Republican wannabe, Republicans will vote for the real thing, and Democrats will stay at home. (John Kerry, anyone?)

Anyway, I thought about posting the entire dialogue here, but I think the effect is better if you read it on the image above. Just try to read it from the beginning (”I am a dire wolf…”).