Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

New Wisconsin Flyer Preys on Fear of Black Power / Stereohyped.

Well, their first mistake was writing out Obama’s middle name. That’s trademark Republiscum.

Some San Francisco parents are furious after discovering that the Yes on 8 campaign was using their children’s images in their fear-mongering commercials and on their fund-raising website. The parents – all heterosexual, I might add – have demanded that Yes on 8 stop exploiting their children for Yes on 8’s political agenda.

Ponder this for a moment. These are the same zealots who insist that children will be indoctrinated in schools, against parents’ wishes. And yet, they are using footage of a wedding attended by 1st-graders, EVERY SINGLE ONE of whom had parental permission to be there. The parents who wanted their children to stay home simply did not send their children on the field trip. It was that easy.

So these conservative parents were able to opt-out of this lesson, despite what Yes on 8 would have you believe – and yet, the same Yes on 8 people have denied these children and their parents the same respect, dignity, and control over their personal image, by failing to get permission to splash these children’s faces all over their television and website advertising.

Just how despicable and hypocritical can these Yes on 8 people get???

Some voters ‘purged’ from voter rolls – CNN.com.

More big surprises. Oh wait. NOT.

And people wonder why I am worried about this election.

You are going to hell, Christian Newswire. You are going to hell for this statement:

Prop 8 Impact: Child prostitutes predominantly come from broken homes where girls do not have a stable two parent family. Instead they are either thrown away, run away or lured. If these children had the balance of a mother and a father the chances of them falling into the hands of the predator are drastically reduced.

I am appalled, seething, horrified, seeing-red furious over this article. This isn’t just an attack on gay parents. If you are an adoptive parent or a stepparent, or if you love your adoptive parents or your stepparents, then you should be furious at this comparison as well.

Children of households with same-gender parents HAVE STABLE TWO-PARENT HOMES. The only instability is the instability imposed by the state if Prop 8 passes.

I am sick to fucking death of people comparing the children of gay parents to the children of single parents. This comparison completely denigrates non-biological parents – ALL non-biological parents, including step-parents and adoptive parents of ALL sexual orientations – by dismissing them altogether, ignoring them, and pretending they do not exist unless they are genetically linked to the child. Adoptive parents and step-parents are parents too – to ignore them is to do a huge disservice not only to the parents, but to the children as well.

If you truly believe that children deserve a stable two-parent home, then for the love of God, LET THEIR PARENTS GET MARRIED!

Honor ALL mothers and fathers, not just the heterosexual ones. Vote NO on Prop 8.

What is wrong with this picture?

People Magazine: “Sarah Palin: My Wedding Hope for Bristol” – Page 6.

Your future son-in-law told the Associated Press that Obama seems like a nice guy. Tammy of Nashville asks, Do you like Obama as a person?

SP: I’ve never met him.

She’s never met him??!?!!?!?!?!?!?!

What. The. WHAT????

Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says – CNN.com.

Um, no. Sorry. Palin was “rogue” to begin with; you’re only now beginning to admit it, because you want an excuse/scapegoat if your man doesn’t win. But let’s not forget who PICKED Palin as the VP running mate, and who “vetted” her thoroughly (as claimed), and who has been telling everybody who will listen that he loves her, thinks he made a great decision, and couldn’t be more proud of her.

Don’t get me wrong – I *do* think that if McCain wins, a huge part of it will be because of Palin – and I couldn’t thank him more for it. But when you choose to create a monster, you can’t blame the monster when it starts going wild – you have to blame yourself for creating it.

York Voters Untangle Rhetoric On Race : NPR.

Essence.com – The Truth About ACORN.

Pretty much clears up any confusion you might have.

kdka.com – McCain Campaign Volunteer: Attack Story Snowballed Out Of Control.

A campaign worker who claimed she was the victim of a politically-motivated attack in which she was beaten, kicked and cut, now admits that she made the whole story up.

[Update: CNN is reporting on this as well. Glad to see it making the MSM.]

The ‘real’ America, really – Los Angeles Times.

The GOP code isn't hard to crack: There's the America that might vote for Obama (a suspect America populated by people with liberal notions, big-city ways and, no doubt, dark skin), and then there's the "real" America, where people live in small towns, believe in God and country, and are … well … white.

Yep. That’s pretty much what I thought Palin was saying…

Ex-ACORN worker: ‘I paid the price’ for voter registration fraud – CNN.com.

Ex-GOP operative tells cautionary tale about ‘how to rig an election’ – CNN.com.

Read both articles, and then you tell me which entity had a greater impact on actual votes cast, which is what really matters when it comes to voter fraud and voter repression.

The answer should be obvious. ACORN’s issues did not lead to a single vote being cast fraudulently. In fact, the only entity to actually suffer was ACORN, which paid workers for registrations that turned out to be faked. They were the victims in that ordeal.

For the GOP operative? Not so much. What he did – that is voter fraud, and that is how elections are stolen, and that is how democracy dies.

I love it!

YouTube – Ain’t Funny – Vice President. Vote Obama-Biden..

Yesterday we were walking through the middle of campus, and one of those crazy bible thumpers was standing on the walkway with one of those huge signs that tells everybody how much they are going to hell. From far away it looked like he had a huge crowd gathered around him… but as we got closer, we realized that he only had a few people engaging with him – the real crowd was about 10 feet away, forming a circle. At first I thought maybe they were having some sort of like, prayer circle to protest the crazy guy… but then I realized that the students were all clustered around a tiny baby squirrel chowing down on a piece of pizza, completely oblivious to the ruckus it was causing.

What a perfect way for the universe to send a this distraction so people can focus on things that are real and beautiful (okay, and skinny and hairless) instead of things that are hateful and violent.

Plus, it was SO CUTE.

Obama to leave campaign trail to visit ailing grandmother – CNN.com.

Anybody want to take a shot at guessing how long it will take before somebody tries to paint Obama as a villain for visiting his grandmother, or tries to accuse him of going on a tropical vacation in a foreign, exotic land?

So this may be a huge-normous “duh,” but I just want to make sure I’m keeping up. When Sarah Palin says “real America,” she means “white,” right?

I mean, what else could she mean? “Fake America” is where all the people live.

Pam’s House Blend:: The Right’s ACORN head fake unleashes more evil.

More insight as to just how ridiculous this whole ACORN thing really is.

McCain Employing GOP Operative Accused Of Voter Registration Fraud.

So let’s ask ourselves – what is worse: 1) Some invalid registrations being submitted (as they are required to by law) and rejected, or 2) Valid registrations deliberately being thrown away rather than submitted, so that people who believe they are registered show up to the polls and are turned away?

Which is more likely to result in voter disenfranchisement? Which is actually fraudulent?

Michigan Republicans admit to illegal scheme to disenfranchise voters using foreclosure lists

Pam’s House Blend:: Michigan Republicans admit to illegal scheme to disenfranchise voters using foreclosure lists.

Big surprise there.

The Charleston Gazette – West Virginia News and Sports – News – More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes .

But of course, all the Republicans want to say is, “Hey, look over there at that ACORN!”

The fabric of democracy, indeed. How scared do you have to be of losing to actually rig the machines so people’s votes flip?

Think you’re getting your fair share of McCain’s tax breaks? Think again.

Ben Smith’s Blog: Purging Joe the plumber? – Politico.com.

The greatest irony? If the GOP had its way, “Joe the Plumber” – that uber-conservative GOP plant – would not be allowed to vote at all. Why? There is a one-letter typo on his name in the voter rolls. That is the kind of mistake the GOP wants to use to block voters. And they’re talking about things that undermine the fabric of democracy?!

…and boy, did they let her off easy. They didn’t give her a chance to wow America with her superior script-reading, word-parroting skillz, but they also didn’t really give her room to mess it up for herself. They pretty much wrote her a few snarky lines, and let her off the hook. Frankly, I’m kind of disappointed. I would have loved to see her trying to do improv or something.

Tina Fey, though, was hilarious, as usual. “The real one? Byee!” I wonder if they talked after the show, because onstage they barely made eye contact.

Okay… I SUCK at geography, but even I know that you can’t really go much farther east than New Hampshire unless you want to wind up in a) the Atlantic Ocean, or b) Canada. (Or okay, Maine or Vermont – but I had to consult a map for that one). But seriously, folks… North WEST? SERIOUSLY?

Wow. At least the people in New Hampshire actually
reacted to her gaffe, unlike those who just let McCain go on and on about sharing his plans with “my fellow prisoners.”

Wow… seriously?

YouTube – SNL: The REAL Sarah Palin.

Watch it while ya can, ’cause you know it won’t be up long! She wasn’t awful, but then again, she had a script. I still say Tina Fey is way, way hotter – and more intelligent, and better in unscripted moments…