anna notes:
The point of this whole race for the White House for me is about race…Obama is not a black man….His mother was white his father was black….What does that make him????? a mulatto, one who is borned to mixed parents….The way people go after him, and never look in to his back ground reminds me of Nazi Germany the way the Germany’s looked at Hitler, they thought he was for change, and he was……for the worst if you were a Jew. That is what I think of this man…”.secret muslim”…..
The next 8 months are going to be like Christmas, every fucking day.
March 12, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I, too, look forward to our country gleefully ripping open the scab and pouring buckets of salt into the racial wounds. Yee-hah! If you thought deabting Vietnam all over again in 2004 was fun…
March 12, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Rod Serling was born on Christmas day. So 8 months of Serling birthdays? It can be creepy – especially when you realize that we are leaving behind eight years of “Seven Days in May” in exchange for a future with “The Man”.
March 13, 2008 at 12:58 am
Fuck. Eight months of ugly ties and sweaters that don’t fit.
March 13, 2008 at 1:01 am
The way people go after him, and never look in to his back ground reminds me of Nazi Germany the way the Germany’s looked at Hitler…
Ignoring a candidate’s racial background = practice of Nazi Germany.
Do words have meaning any more?
Or is Anna Jonah Goldberg’s sock-puppet?
“the way the Germany’s [sic] looked at Hitler, they thought he was for change”
A compelling lesson for all Obama supporters who haven’t considered that when he says he’ll restrict the activities of lobbyists in Washington and withdraw from Iraq, what he actually means is he’ll create a genocidal slave-based fascist empire in the heart of Europe.
March 13, 2008 at 4:51 am
Or is Anna Jonah Goldberg’s sock-puppet?
Given–the, creative… “punctuation”; I–;, think)( it’”s; Kaye Grogan.
March 13, 2008 at 5:45 am
A masterpiece of deranged illogic. Thank you so much for drawing it to our attention.
Anna almost but not quite came on an interesting point: Obama has a Kenyan father and a white mother and is actually well outside Afro-American culture and experience. But to address this is to address the fact that American black/white racial identity is actually a matrix of historical class, region, and caste issues that we all find easier to think of as biological.
The “secret Muslim” meme is, however, a new benchmark of ignorance and stupidity.
March 13, 2008 at 6:00 am
Schweet jeebus roasting over a spit! That is some kind of wonderfully, chemically enhanced s.t.u.p.i.d.
heh. indeed.
March 13, 2008 at 6:28 am
Alex: was about to say the same thing. If that isn’t one of the best pieces of Jonanistic commentary I have seen in the last week, well I dunno what could be.
See, cuz Hitler was all about helping multicultural Germans open up to the world; and mixed race folks were especially prized in Nazi times. And Adolf made so many speeches warning against investiture of the Sudetenland. And Poland. And the Netherlands. And Denmark. Which was right, cuz they didn’t have any bombs or tanks anyway, unlike what those evil Weimar politicians lied about.
March 13, 2008 at 6:44 am
“Anna?” Geez, Geraldine, the least you could do is pick a sockpuppet name with a little cache, like “Kristen…”
March 13, 2008 at 7:19 am
The sexist or racist attacks from the Republicans in the general are going to blow apart McCain’s facial surgery like somebody out of the movie “Brazil”. Jiffy pop at the ready!
March 13, 2008 at 9:15 am
*snicker* “Obama isn’t a pure breed, therefore he’s just like Hitler and will kill … jews/whites/blacks/innuits?”
Easiest. Election. Ever.
March 13, 2008 at 10:47 am
I remember my first beer.
March 13, 2008 at 11:24 am
You know the quoted statement would be a lot funnier if a Dinosaur with a really laid back style said it.
March 13, 2008 at 11:26 am
I was a’borned not yesterday none either, y’all.
March 13, 2008 at 11:51 am
the way the Germany’s looked at Hitler
America it’s them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia’s power mad. She wants to take
our cars from out our garages.
March 13, 2008 at 12:29 pm
There is no black and white. There is only white and not white.
March 13, 2008 at 12:40 pm
You know they would say the exact same thing if the leading Democratic candidate to replace the boy king W was named Joe, Timmy, or ‘whatever.’
March 13, 2008 at 12:56 pm
“I remember my first beer.”
When they came for the beer drinkers, I remained silent. When they came for the glue-sniffers, paint-huffers and auto-erotic asphyxiators, I said nothing. When they came for the wino, I was passed out.
March 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I remember my first beer of the morning.
March 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm
What? How?
March 13, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I took a picture of it.
March 13, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Put a little acrylic paint in your Bud and start a new abstract expressionist school.
March 13, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Too late.
March 13, 2008 at 2:13 pm
So Hitler was a mulatto? And there’s a mulatto plot to kill the Jews? Whoa, I need another bong hit.
March 13, 2008 at 2:20 pm
“Jonanistic”
That is worth an entire ‘lol’ in and of itself. Who claims credit for coming up with that first?
March 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Alex! That was last week. Calling all toasters was the name.
March 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm
http://thepoorman.net/2008/02/28/vocabulary-corner/
March 13, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Rarely is a request for etymological origin answered so comprehensively and definitively.
“The fact that no one came up with “Jonanism” before the above suggests that the entire snarkopotamia should hang their heads in disgrace and possibly turn in their commenting badges.”
I agree. It’s time for us regular smart-arses everywhere to engage in some serious introspection as to how we dropped the ball on this one.
March 13, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I was borned a poor mulatto chile…
March 13, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I was born Robert Post’s child.
Don’t mind me, dear, I’m just going to do some tidying and sorting. Then, some tea, listen to some interesting but unlikely confessions and then on to a little dance.
March 13, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Point of interest: mulatto comes from the Spanish for “little mule.” It’s an extremely respectful term which no one could take offense to.
Also, they look at you funny if you order one at Starbucks.