Dear America: President Obama is not (100%) Caucasian.

[akujunkan]

Get the fuck over it.

Over the past few days I've been mulling over the merits of posting a ranty rant of rantiness about how I'm becoming more convinced with each passing day that Republican obstruction of the stimulus bill is due in large, large part to the fact that Obama is black. Due to this more than the fact that they're sore losers pissed off at losing all the (often immoral, if not illegal) privileges they've amassed for themselves since the Reagan years. (If you want me to justify their "concern for future generations with anything more than a parenthetical aside, you need to stop reading this lj now.)

With all the stories about Republican malfeasance emerging in recent days I'd almost convinced myself that race didn't have much to do with it.

Then metal_dog5 linked me to this, and all I could think is, Et tu, New-York-Fucking-Post?

Seriously, country. Not everyone is white. In fact, many of those people who aren't white are even intelligent, eloquent, moral, and have what it takes to lead nations. Get the fuck over it all ready.

SERIOUSLY.


That will be all.

Comments

[bloody-american.livejournal.com]

You do remember the Obama bucks incident before election, yes?

Reading that article I find I am absolutely amazed at the ridiculous overspending by the Republicans. Amazed but somehow not surprised. Do the words "public servants" not mean anything to those in Washington anymore?

From the NYTimes article:
“No,” Mr. Azzopardi said, “I don’t believe they ever gave us the password that shut down the waterfall to enter the cave leading into the studio."

I lol'd. ^_^

“In 17 years, I’ve never refused to yield to any member’s questions,” said Senator Michael F. Nozzolio, an upstate Republican, after he was denied a chance to speak.

Senator Carl Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat, rhetorically swatted Mr. Nozzolio aside, saying simply, “I’m not finished.”

In a time when bipartisanship should be at the forefront of everyone's mind, they're starting to be petty (on both sides). WHY IS OUR GOVERNMENT BEING RUN BY CHILDREN?

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

I saw that New York Post cartoon. The cartoonist is a big jerk, I think... even if he's a complete ignoramus who doesn't know that black men used to be called "monkies," how does he think it's OK to imply that a government official should be shot by another government employee or put down like a rabid animal?

I wouldn't say the Republicans are blocking the bill because he's black, though... at least not the majority of them. It's a power play. They harass Democrats, and vice versa.

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

One of the things that is making me happy about the obstructionist Republican party is that the public is seeing them and are not impressed. Did you hear Micheal Steele, the head of the GOP, say that government has never created a job in all of history? They only create work. His position is almost a racist response to Obama. He said "We're gonna give the GOP a hip hop makeover."

And during the election Repubs were passing out Curious George dolls with Obama 08 on them. Even if the monkey thing were a news flash then it shouldn't be now, especially for someone working at a "newpaper" (remember, it is a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch).