Sarah Palin: "Shuck and jive ends with Benghazi lives"

[tarheel-leftist85]

Bro, we can't let Sarah Palin win! Forward(TM) with BrObama! Forward(TM) with Simpson-Bowles!  Most pwogwessive pwesident ever!!! Wants bros to marry each other!

Good Lord you're insufferable.

What's insufferable is the usual women-bashing and/or vapid memes being trotted out, the opportunity cost of which is discussing the austerity BrObama will inflict during his second imperial term. Had them figured out five years ago: Just as right-wing on punishing the poorest 99+% supposedly to balance a meaningless accounting identity (which isn't the intention anyway, just to redistribute wealth upward) but deriving their libewal/pwogwessive cred by assuming "culturally" transgressive affectations. Romney would be an all-too-obvious villain for handing Social Security to the banksters, droning civilians into red mist, normalizing/expanding/usurping executive power, retroactively legalizing foreclosure fraud, normalizing (8% nominal / 20% real DISemployment), and approving reckless resource extractions for his bankster bros to speculate on. Better to pick someone who can hide behind identity "politics." And they really hate ambitious women ...

If anyone has any doubt about Obie's second term policy objectives and/or cares about the implementation of austerity, all they need to do is google his Hamilton Project speech from 2006. The guy was handpicked to privatize* SS/Medicare under the pretext of "fiscal prudence" - and his bros [paper towel, Jon Stewart?] are completely in favor of all the imperialism and austerity.

* Privatize, not cut, because like Shrub's/Pinochet's/Ray-gun's approach, it's about "shock-and-awe" responses in the face of ["]crisis["] - "fiscal cliff" included.

[tarheel-leftist85]

95% of the Republican Party is at least mildly racist.

I'd like to see a source for that.

In my experience, 95% of democrats are racist.  Don't forget the democratic base is made up of trade unionists (I know union members--100% racist) and blacks, the majority of whom couldn't concieve of voting for a white against a black.

http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/MD/S/01/epolls.0.html

This data tells me blacks are 500% more likely to vote Rethug when said Rethug is black.  More generally, Libewals are more vastly more likely to vote for a bankster-loving warmonger as long as said bankster-loving warmonger has a D behind their name, and doubly that if they're non-white.

[tarheel-leftist85]

Libewals will use any distraction - particularly "cultural" "issues" or identity "politics" - to distract from their candidate's demonstrated warmongering and austerity implementation.  Obama's put Social Security under the guillotine in his 2006 speech to the Hamilton Project.  Obama's overseen the murder of more civilians in less than four years at the hands of drones in Af-Pak than during Shrub.  It's OK, though, so long as the emperor isn't a wannabe cowboy.  Even by their own metrics, Obie signed an executive order restricting funds for abortion.  Where's the libewal outrage?  As someone who worked on a Democratic presidential campaign in 2008, I am completely aware that Obie's base is as right-wing on empirical policy outcomes as any soi dissant conservative.

[tarheel-leftist85]

"Grow up," "word vomit" - all cogent retorts!

Let's take an exchange:

STEPHANOPOULOS: You've also said that with Social Security, everything should be on the table.
OBAMA: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Raising the retirement age?
OBAMA: Everything should be on the table.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Raising payroll taxes?
OBAMA: Everything should be on the table.

Now, I realize that COLA adjustments, retirement age, payroll tax - the fiddling on the margins stuff - is what's being discussed now, the stuff proposed by Simpson-Bowles which Obie commissioned even after it'd been tabled by the Senate.  Obie isn't one to take no for an answer, though; see 2008, when he whipped Congress to pass TARP after they had voted it down.  Now, I'm extrapolating, but I'd say the talking about reforming SS will culminate in a "shock-and-awe" privatization after some "crisis" emerges.  At the very least, Obie is on the record numerous times explaining that he is in favor of reforming(TM) SS to balance accounting identities.  Social Security isn't constrained by revenues, first and foremost,; the government can always fulfill its obligation just like it took it upon itself to fulfill the wishes of the financial sector without raising taxes, reallocating spending, or issuing debt instruments to finance obligations.  It simply marked up the accounts that banks have at the Federal Reserve.  Appointing an AG who has declined to pursue criminal charges against banksters who committed accounting control fraud, issued fraudulent foreclosure documents, pushed people to buy homes they knew they could dispossess them off and have the government clean up.  Unfortunately, these are all empirical forms of evidence, not fanboy memes about binders. 

And, yes, it's Pandora's box woman-bashing all the time:  Using to surrogates to branding Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro as racists, John Favreau's fratty self is still writing speeches, Palin-bashing when there are plenty of more relevant people and *policies* we could be talking about.  Oh, and the "War on Women" stuff:  Let's ignore Obie's signing into law the Stupak amendment.

I'm certainly glad that Dems are glad I'm out of the party (it was actually the Edwards campaign, the only campaign that didn't push the "we're reaching a fiscal cliff" myth and was calling for a mandatory moratorium on foreclosures in 2007).  I left, after a couple of cycles of holding my nose to vote for the "lesser evil" (what Mittbots are doing now) upon realizing Dems are the more effective evil, and that they are the ones who can do Wall Street's bidding with the least public resistance.

Of course, people would label this racism or anti-semitism (actually, Jewish people have a tradition of strong egalitarianism, social criticism, and a rejection of usury).  Identity "politics" (including classism, treating class - including the mythical, extinct "middle class" - a just another identity and redirecting discourse away from class exploitation) is the carte blanche for ultra right-wing policies effected under Democrats.