Listen to this “man in the street” at today’s Glenn Beck rally in Seattle:
“The race card being played by the left side of the aisle is wrong.”
OK. I suppose to be fair, then, I ought to lead with an ace. The following was sparked by the 9-09-09 edition of this blog:
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Meet Scott Brown. Scott Brown is a Massachusetts state senator, and he is the “most prominent politician to announce for the suicide mission that will be the GOP nomination to replace Kennedy.” You got to just laugh about those Republican values again:
In 1982, when he was a 22-year-old law school student, he won Cosmo’s “America’s Sexiest Man” [...]
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Some abolitionist Republicans dissed President Abraham Lincoln for not getting rid of slavery fast enough.
Some Socialists panned President Franklin D. Roosevelt for not taking the New Deal far enough.
Some liberals are all but accusing President Obama of selling out to the Republicans because he’s not calling for a single payer health care plan.
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I got this in my inbox and thought it was worth sharing and giving readers some food for thought about the ‘10 election cycle…
Via the Democratic Governors Association:
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Paul Begala, the CNN pundit and Democratic political guru, wonders “if at long last there is no decency on the far right.”
He cited a professionally-printed sign from the recent Washington tea party. “BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY,” it said.
“Oh, I get it,” Begala jabbed on the Huffington Post Internet site. “Sen. Kennedy is dead, and these [...]
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Suggest that there’s the slightest whiff of racism going on here, and they go apoplectic, calling anyone who suggests such a base canard “racist” and worse. Nobody’s yet topped Glenn Beck’s Gold Medal for Chutzpah performance — “Obama is a racist!” — but there’s still plenty of time.
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Via the NY Times:
Representative Joe Wilson was formally rebuked by the House on Tuesday for his outburst during President Obama’s health care address. The vote came after a Congressional clash over civility that showcased the deep partisan divisions in the House.
In a mainly party line vote of 240 to 179, the House held that by [...]
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Saturday morning when I was leaving for work I could hear the drums beating for the funeral procession of young Amesbury, MA soldier who died in a truck rollover Sept. 2 while serving his second tour of duty in Iraq.
Sgt. Jordan Shay, a 2005 Amesbury High School graduate, was a specialist in the 5th Battalion, 20th [...]
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I was getting ready for work this morning when I heard church bells ringing around the corner. It was in rememberance of 9/11.
Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising eptitomizes the memories of that horrific day for me:
The City Room live-blogged the ceremony “near the pit where the twin towers once stood” in NYC.
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The spirit of Preston “Bully” Brooks is alive in Joe Wilson.
Wilson is the South Carolina congressman who shouted “You lie!” at President Barack Obama during his health care speech to a joint session of Congress the other night.
Brooks was a South Carolina congressman who knocked out U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in 1856.
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