The Convention of Haters
A lot of the time, I’m one of those people who just doesn’t see much of a difference between The Right, and The Left. Republican, Democrat, Labour, Tory, whatever. Pretty much the same shit continues to occur whoever’s sat in the CEO’s chair. The company does its job regardless.
I was watching that Obama speech the other day. It was pretty rousing stuff. Dude promised the American people the moon on a stick and then some. It was jubilatory, messianic, magnificent. If it was a song it would have been Bowie’s Heroes. I wasn’t sure about the stage set myself. Looked like dude was in a giant plant pot. I kept expect Oscar The Grouch to pop up and headbut him or something.
My fine female companion was rather taken with the man, and I was cynical with regards to what the chap might actually acheive if granted office. We’ve all seen that Bill Hick sketch, right?
Anyway. Last night, out of curiosity, we watched republican Veep hopeful Sarah Palin’s speech. And I was, once again, reminded of the difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Those filthy warmongering swine are HATERS! No lie, those guys are bonafide Warriors Of Hatred. It’s THEM all those So Solid songs were about. Gotta be. I heard more booing than cheering coming out of that pig-ugly crowd of cracka-ass-crackers. All that freakish woman (who has a voice like chalk on slate) had to talk about was what a pussy and a dreamer Obama is and how good McCain is going to be at war. War war war war. USA! USA! USA! USA! Oh, and she said some slick shit about how community organisers have no power. There’s a message for you. YOU HAVE NO POWER AMERICA! WAR WAR WAR! USA! USA! USA!
Jay Smooth has some words on the subject.
Not much mention of Bush. Not much mention of the crippled murked economy. Just lots of crap about soldiers being awesome, how important kicking ass is, and how hockey moms are pitbulls in lipstick, or something.
Then there was Manchurian Candidate McCain. It took him less than two minutes of a 48 minute speech to mention 911 (followed by a boorish bout of USA! USA! USA!ing). We are told to like his freakish wife as she is a big fan of, “children born in poverty with birth defects”. Signs of senility appear early on - he says “I won’t let you down” three times in a row. In front of a projected backdrop of some sunny field of grass, we are promised McCain will get us “back on the road to prosperity and peace”. The mood gets downright ugly. It is terrifying.
Worse still is the fraudulent promise to work, not for a party, not for big business, but for YOU! YOU! USA! USA! USA! The crazy ole coot’s taken to swiping Obama’s snappy rhetoric, and with his pitbull at his side, he’s now the man who’s gonna bring “change”. After eight years of a Republican White House with which he voted 90% of the time, this is change we can count on! Whoo!
In other news, the electric went while I was having a shower, right in the midst of the conditioning stage. And today looks like winter. PAH! At least this mixtape’s sounding dope…
- Colon Power Backs Obama
- Final Destination
- MC Hammer Has Blog, Loves Israel!
- Bol: al Qaeda might have a point
- John McCain Can Use A Computer!
- Charles Hamilton, Asher Roth + BOB - Change Gon Come
Tags: change, haters, lies, mccain, pitbull in lipstick, republican convention, sarah palin, USA! USA! USA!
They were both as bad as each other. Look at the way the left tried to destroy Palin because her daughter is pregnant. Despite the fact that Obama’s mother had him at the age Palin’s daughter will be when her child is born. How desperate and evil is that? I find that I hate both Democrats and Republicans but with all the complaining and bitching the Democrats do about Fox News (which is the most evil thing maybe ever…after the BBC, word to my Polish brothers) the minute they get any media exposure they do the same thing. It’s an evil cycle of bitter resentment and one upsmanship. That “USA USA’ing” is what the political system in America is. Obama’s not enough of a Patriot? The fuck does that mean? Our last two Prime ministers have been Scottish! Then again, England didn’t vote for them, Scotland did. Ho hum.
I personally don’t separate them. I hate seeing desperation though and I sense a lot more of that coming from the Democrats.
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September 5th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Whoa, Tego. Let me try to explain. It’s not so much “The Left” making an issue of Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy — it started in the tabloid National Enquirer and was then carried by our equally contemptible mainstream press here. When asked, Obama has flatly stated that children of candidates should be “off-limits” and that the issue should be dropped.
That said, I disagree with him. Nobody should attack the daughter for getting pregnant, but pointing out Palin’s twisted views on the issue is entirely legitimate. Palin is one of these religious fundamentalists who’s not only anti-abortion (in all cases — even if a woman is raped by her father), but ANTI-CONTRACEPTION. The only kind of sex-ed she favors in schools is “abstinence only” — a Republican policy that is causing teen pregancy rates to skyrocket in the US, fucking up kids’ lives because their schools are forbidden to tell them what condoms are.
So when one of these “family values”, “Christian conservative”, “no-sex-before-marriage” types can’t even keep her own teenage daughter from getting pregnant, well…
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September 7th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I mean…her daughter obviously doesn’t use contraception either. Did Palin say that any parent whose child has a baby at 17 hasn’t done their job properly? Because at the moment people don’t know what point they’re making. Where does Bristol’s behaviour contradict the behaviour of her mother?
Teenage pregnancy in America is a very complexed issue. Teenage pregnancy worldwide is a very complexed issue. I don’t think you can really attribute it to backward Republican theories (and they are backwards).
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September 8th, 2008 at 4:48 am
i find it hillarious that atd is posting photoshopped pics of the RNC. I can say personally that I am boycotting you till you read up on the facts…. not the blogs of communists. Too bad, cuz i really thought you were better than stooping to this.
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September 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Huh? I thought it was a funny picture!
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September 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Didn’t the pre-shopped placards read “service”? That was funny too…
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September 8th, 2008 at 6:34 pm