Keeping Score at Home

[lollardfish]

Just remember, for those voting, according to the GOP

Obama is - Muslim, Arab, Terrorist, Racist, Race-Baiting, Palestinian, Anti-Semitic, Messianic, Uppity, Elitist, Foreign, Dangerous, Risky, Socialist, National Socialist, Marxist, Communist, Fascist, Professorial, Presumptuous, Attack against American inciting, Most-Liberal, Radical, Inexperienced, Appeaser, Celebrity, Corrupt Chicago Politician, Promise Breaker, Liar, Big spender, Black, White, Half-Breed, Related to Kenyan who has killed 300,000 people, Related to Kenyan living in Poverty, Selfish to his family, and may be the Antichrist.

Did I forget any?

Edited to reflect suggestions.

Comments

[meghanh.livejournal.com]

Hah--too late! I've already voted!

I believe you should add fascist. Remember the comments made about his stadium acceptance at the DNC--"like Hitler," etc? Maybe Hitler-esque?

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Wait, wasn't fascist in there? Hmm, nope. Adding it in.

[jdonat.livejournal.com]

Yes... He's one of the "corrupt Democratic Chicago Machine Politicians".. see Rezko, Rich Daley, and family...

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Right! Nice. I want to collect these.

[groomporter.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which I've discovered I must be a Buddhist -my middle name is "Lee."

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

you forgot Democrat

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

African. The emails I got from repugs stressed that is was "African" American.


Reading all of them together has a comical quality because they are so outlandish and off base.

I think he's really stand up but I just can't wrap my head around him being terribly liberal so much as maybe say reasonable.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Despite repeated claims that he's the most liberal person to be nominated in 50 years, most people seem to place him economically to the right of Richard Nixon, for example. (Nixon being amazingly centralist economically for a Republican, it's true.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

There's this organization -- I forget the name -- that always manages to calcualte that the Democratic nominee for President is the most liberal person in whatever group they're from.

Obama is certainly a centrist; he's to the right of H. Clinton.

B

[zantony.livejournal.com]

It's amazing that he manages to be all of these things at the same time. His deviousness puts Lex Luthor's to shame.

Hey, come to think of it, didn't Lex become president at one point in the comics? Martian McCainhunter and Wonder Palin better watch out!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

The slurs are getting more historial. First he's a terrorist. Now he's a Socialist. Biden was actually, asked, on television, if Obama was a Marxist. We're going back in time. I expect that by the end of the week he'll be an anarchist...and if the election weren't on Tuesday he'd be branded a Huguenot, then a Sarassen, and finally a Pharisee.

B

[erik]

You forgot "Goth" and "Visigoth."

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Maybe he'll be a Lollard! 14th century here we come!!!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

He's probably a Wobblie, and almost certainly a Vandal, a Hun, a Gaul, and a Pict.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's also an agent of KAOS.

B

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Picts '08. We cannae fail!

[maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com]

We are the little folk we...

From Talking Points Memo

[regularpapi.livejournal.com]

A related point, nicely put, from http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/238740.php


"My dear, departed father, a biologist to the core, loved the phrase 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny', which is a perfectly deft but utterly inscrutable way of saying that the stages of growth of a fetus in the womb mimics the evolutionary history of the species itself *. (If that's still not completely clear, see this.) But we also know, if not from science than from Science Fiction or at least Star Trek, that as organisms die they often cycle back through their own individual histories, tracking off their defining moments as they wind down into oblivion.

And yesterday I had an political epiphany. As the McCain campaign staggers toward its conclusion, with electoral columns and pediments standing since 1966 buckling under their weight, the party seems to be cycling back through its history of character assassination, McCarthyism and wedge politics flimflam, only now with an desperate and parodic impotence taking the place of punishing rhetorical violence.

Southern strategy race-baiting, check! Hyper 9/11ist 'the Dems are terrorists' character assassination, check! Rep. Michelle Bachmann's neo-McCarthyite manifesto and call for a new HUAC, check! 'The Democrats want to bring socialism to America', check! Who lost Georgia? Aspirational neo-Cold Warism, check! Mix these in with a general stew of 70s-90s soft-on-crime, Dems are pedophile weirdo-freak-loser wedge politics and we've basically got the full ground covered.

I don't doubt that anti-tax politics retains a potent, if diminished resonance. And perhaps I'm just naive. But does 'socialism', as a cudgel in the context of a national political campaign, not simply sound archaic? It is one more reason I sense the GOP's and perhaps the conservative movement's dying regression into its ideological infancy.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Silver today?

Jubilation if and when Obama wins the Presidency, culminating in a rally in Chicago's Grant Park that may draw one million souls. It's not a Cubs' World Championship, but most Illinoisans will take it; what kind of odds could you have gotten in 1908 that a black dude would get elected president before the Cubs won the Series again?

Funny.

B

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

He's really good. I don't really like Sean, the guy who travels, as his posts tend to be "rah rah Obama GOTV massive McCain sucks," and maybe it's reality having a liberal bias, but I learn less.

Keven Drum

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/10/whos_the_real_barack_obama.html