Grampa's off his meds

Just a suggestion to all bystanders, friends, and family of really old, really white, really Southern Republicans and ex-Democrats who decide that they suddenly want to opine on the black guy in the White House: grab them, muzzle them, and kindly escort them to a facility that dispenses mint juleps and has a constant loop of the Dukes of Hazzard theme playing. Otherwise you get a Zell Miller situation.

Former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller criticized President Barack Obama's recent travels overseas, telling a group of mostly Republican lawmakers Thursday that the White House Chief of Staff needs to put "Gorilla Glue" on Obama's chair to keep him in the Oval Office.

"Our globe-trotting president needs to stop and take a break and quit gallivanting around," said Miller

Yeah. Someone tell Zell about Elmer's glue. Tell him how's it's fairly popular, sticky, and how the name Elmer and Elmer related things don't have a large history of racial connotations behind them. It'll serve him well next time he decides to combine a glue reference with black guys and take a strong whack on the uppity effete liberal homo bell.

Promotion of the day

Footy club sorry for KKK promotion

The Torquay Tigers became embroiled in a racism scandal yesterday, after images of the white supremacist group were used as part of a photo montage to promote the event on the club's website.
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Mr McMahon stressed the "All White Night" theme of the function related to the dress code and had no racial overtones, although he conceded people were now "obviously going to read other things into it". He insisted the club was not racist: "One person's mistake is not a reflection of our club.
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"The latest Ku Klux Klan scandal comes after Fremantle this month denied claims by its assistant coach, Steve Malaxos, that players had dressed in Klan gear and raided each others homes as a prank.

Gee, now I'm slightly more impressed that the Penguins were able to pull off their Game 5 Whiteout without using the phrases "All Whites", "Whites Only", "No Darks", photos that reference a couple hundred years of racism/murder/intimidation, or reference an anecdote where Evgeni Malkin dressed as a Grand Wizard and ransacked Sidney Crosby's house. Who knew it was so difficult?

I don't have as high hopes for their Game 3 combo brownout and "German National Socialist Movement Appreciation Night", that one has fiasco written all over it. Word to the wise amateur sporting promoters: think twice before you decide to put that photo of a racist organization in your promotion. Or just think. Thinking would probably head most of this stuff off.

You stay classy McCain crowds: part 2

Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame

Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

Uppity

There are many who think that the constant references to Barack Obama as an elitist, a celebrity, arrogant, as somebody outside the mainstream, the other, references that 'he's not one of us,'and various references to Obama thinking of himself as Godlike (huh?) are just code words the Republicans were using against him because they just wanted to call him uppity, but didn't want to actually say uppity due to the racial connotations of the word. Well, good news everybody, they decided to throw that right out the window. Uppity is on the table!

Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term "uppity" to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday.

Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare her with Michelle Obama.

"Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.

Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”

Good that they aren't trying to shade it. Nice also to see that Westmoreland , the guy who couldn't remember the 10 commandments on the Colbert Report, also refused to back down when given an out. He's back out there today, claiming innocence, saying “I’ve never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition of ‘uppity’ is ‘affecting an air of inflated self-esteem —- snobbish.’ That’s what we meant by uppity when we used it in the mill village where I grew up.”

Sure you did Lynn, I bet you also just always happened to say it about a black person in the company of only white people. But good luck trying to back yourself out of this. It's not exactly what I predicted back in June, no "N-bomb", and it was out in the open, not a closed door fundraiser. But there we are, the first incursion of overtly racial language in the 2008 presidential campaign from a GOP House backbencher in early September. I am the racial internet genius. God, this is going to be a classy campaign season.

"Not a racist" Watch

VIA Blue Jersey Bravo Pemberton and Burlington County GOP. This was an improvement over their earlier slogan "Obama wants to know where all the white women at." Keep it up GOP. Like I said, I can only enjoy misery of others now and I can't enjoy this election unless you completely melt down. Melt. MELT!

Republican "Not a racist" watch

"John Kerry with a tan."

CHA-CHING!!

That's how Republican strategist Grover Norquist decided he wants to label Barack Obama. Thumbs up from me, Grove-dawg! I'm incapable of enjoying anything other than someone else's misery, so I need you guys to lose this election big. More of this please.

But remember everyone: He's not a racist. Because. And stuff.

I guess he thinks pointing out blackness is an electoral winner. Because Barack Obama is, if you haven't heard, a black skinned black guy who is black. Also he's a Muslim, unless you're too smart to believe that, in which case he's a crazy black separtist with a crazy black preacher who is black. BLACK I SAY!

I guess because this ad,

and this button

and this sock concoction

did so much great PR work for them, they really wanted to run full bore into racial overtones as fast as they can.

Anyone want to put odds on when the "N-Bomb" gets dropped? I'm saying early Septemberish, southern state congressman (feels like an Alabama or a Kentucky), GOP closed door fundraiser.