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That would be those caring compassionate dems of course.
S.C. Dem. Chair Compares GOP Gov. to Hitler's Mistress
11:43 AM, Sep 5, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPEN
South Carolina Democratic chairman Dick Harpootlian compared his state's Republican female governor, Nikki Haley, to Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun this morning at a breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina.
South Carolina's the State reports:
S.C. Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian, never a loss for a quick quip, tossed a few stinging one-liners at the Wednesday delegation breakfast.
On Gov. Nikki Haley participating in daily news briefings in a basement studio at the NASCAR Hall of Fame: “She was down in the bunker a la Eva Braun.”
Braun, along with her lover Adolf Hitler, committed suicide in a bunker as World War II was coming to an end.
The comparisons of Nazis and Hitler to the Republicans seems to be an emerging theme from this Democratic convention. Yesterday, a top Democratic delegate from Kansas compared Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to Hitler. The day before, a Democratic delegate from California compared Ryan to Nazi Joseph Goebbels |
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| And Hillary looks like Stalin's pet pooch! LOL ! |
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Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:23 pm |
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Let's look at this rationally.
Republicans hate Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders. Michelle Bachman's huband thinks he can cure them though.
Republicans hate the idea of abortions so much they have killed doctor's that perform such procedures. Thy want to eliminate Planned parenthood, an organization thet has saved the lives of many women with reproductive health issues as well as breast, ovarian and uterine cancer. They want to eliminate some forms of birth control, but offer no solutions to the women and families that cannot afford these children. Then they want place a heavier tax burden on these poorer families.
Republicans hate illegal immigrants and will even challenge those Hispanics legally here or native born and send them to Mexico.
Republicans consider minority populations as subcultures, sub-humanoids and worse. All labels regularly seen in blogs.
So who is the party of hate? |
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Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:26 pm |
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Jennifer Bendery
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LGBT Caucus At Democratic National Convention Is The Happiest
Posted: 09/05/2012 7:50 pm Updated: 09/05/2012 8:20 pm
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Plenty of people are excited to be at this year's Democratic National Convention. But one group stands out as the happiest caucus of all: the LGBT Caucus.
"Oh, no doubt about it," said Sally Phillips, a lesbian delegate from Florida decked out in Obama campaign gear.
"We've got a lot to celebrate. I mean, my gosh, I was a delegate in 2008 and we had a hard time filling the room up. And look at it now," she said, standing alongside her partner of 24 years, Ercilia Albistu. "I mean, I just got chills."
Indeed, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community have plenty to celebrate. In the last four years, President Barack Obama has arguably handed them more wins than he has to any other faction of Democrats. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' expanded hate crimes laws to include sexual orientation and gender, and made more than 30 policy changes that affect LGBT people on immigration, health care, foreign policy, housing and job discrimination. Most recently, he endorsed same-sex marriage.
On top of that, the LGBT caucus has added 200 members since 2008, putting its total at around 550. And, for the first time, the Democratic Party platform includes marriage equality.
"Of course it is," Evan Giesemann, a 22-year-old gay delegate from Wisconsin, said of the caucus being the most excited group of people in the building.
"It's hard to overlook what he's done for LGBT folks," Giesemann said, noting his excitement at being at his first Democratic convention. "Symbolically, having a president coming out in favor of gay marriage is powerful."
Attendees could hardly control their glee when the LGBT Caucus first met on Tuesday. Speeches were frequently interrupted by cheers, and some in the audience were crying as speakers ticked off successes under Obama. White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett was greeted with a hero's welcome -– and honored with an award -- when she dropped by.
"Don't make me cry, I just put my makeup on," Jarrrett said during brief remarks. "You are all the energy we need!"
Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, one of four openly gay members of Congress and now a Senate candidate, also addressed the group. She laughed when asked later if LGBT delegates had more to celebrate than others.
"I haven't compared yet, but the laughter and the applause coming out of that hall was pretty impressive," Baldwin said.
Some LGBT convention attendees said they were happy about what Obama has done for their community, but said everyone at the convention has something to celebrate.
"I think he's done a lot of other things than just help LGBT people," said Neil, a 61-year-old delegate from Hawaii with a rainbow lei around this neck. "I think the caucus is pretty happy, they're very encouraged. But they're also very worried. They know certainly it can be turned back" if Obama loses.
Janice Covington, the first transgender delegate from North Carolina, said she doesn't feel at all like Obama has given special treatment to the community.
"The president is treating us just like everybody else," Covington said. "If somebody felt like they haven't been issued the same amount of potatoes on their plate, it's their problem. You know?"
Covington said she is doing her part to highlight the LGBT presence at this year's convention: she teamed up with "a couple of friends who are drag queens" and put on a show for delegates on Monday night. HuffPost saw the photos, so she wasn't bluffing.
"We had fun," she said.
All of the LGBT delegates that HuffPost talked to said there are plenty of things that they want Obama to do. Some cited the need to pass employment nondiscrimination legislation and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Others called for a continued focus on bullying of LGBT youth.
Tom Ammiano, an openly gay California State Assembly member, said the president needs to do more to advance medical marijuana, an issue he said is important to those in the gay community with HIV/AIDS.
"Right now, there's a big kind of jihad against medical marijuana in California. And frankly, it sucks," Ammiano said. "That's where medical marijuana awareness came out of: our community. So it's an issue that's important to us."
Still, Ammiano, who is 70 and has been active in politics for decades, said he felt an "infectious" excitement during the caucus meeting.
"I think ... you're a pretty happy camper" in the LGBT Caucus, he said. "I saw so many young people. I'm thrilled about that." |
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Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:51 pm |
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Webs, I don't hate gays! I just feel their life style should not be put out there for the world to see. I honestly don't care what gays do, just don't do it around me. Gays are a minority, a freak of nature if you will and I will tell you this, I've been to countries that stone gays to death and your dear leader bows to the leaders of these countries. Say what you will but AIDS is a disease of the gay and junkie communities. The odds of catching AIDS in a normal hereof relationship is minuscule unless one of the participants is on the needle.
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Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:44 pm |
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Amanda Terkel.
aterkel@huffingtonpost.com
Emanuel Cleaver Speech At 2012 Democratic National Convention Fires Up Crowd (VIDEO)
Posted: 09/05/2012 8:19 pm Updated: 09/05/2012 8:43 pm
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, gave a speech Wednesday at the Democratic convention.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, went off-script and fired up the crowd at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, using his oratorical skills as a United Methodist pastor to urge the crowd to help reelect President Barack Obama.
In one of his most well-received moments, Cleaver passionately defended the Democratic Party and its ideals.
"Now I greatly respect my Republican colleagues and their ideas. But make no mistake: I am proud to be a Democrat. I am proud to be a member of this great party," he said. "And we have, in many instances, been hit: 'They are liberal, they are progressive.'
"Look, if being liberal and progressive means that I care for children and whether they go hungry, color me! Color me a Democrat!" exhorted Cleaver in one of many deviations from his prepared remarks. "If being a Democrat means I'm concerned about our seniors in the sunset of their life, color me Democrat! Color me liberal! After all, we are the ones who protected Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, who fought for fair wages and who ended 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' We are Democrats! And don't you ever forget it!"
Cleaver also invoked hope, a theme that was central to Obama's 2008 campaign.
"There is something essential in the human spirit that searches for hope. We are driven by hope," said Cleaver. "President Barack Obama has been lampooned for speaking of hope; hope for a better America. I want to encourage our president and all of us to continue to hope for an America that remembers, recognizes, and fervently protects its greatness."
Cleaver then improvised, again, in one of the highest points of his speech.
"Yes, Mr. President, hope on. Continue to hope, Mr. President," he said, to rousing ovations and applause. "No matter what, Mr. President, you continue to hope! As long as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob sits on the throne of grace, hope on! Hope on! Hope on! We are people of hope, Mr. President! Hope on! Hope on! When everything else is gone, hope on!"
Later in his speech, Cleaver got convention-goers in the Time Warner Center Arena marching, when he told the Democratic audience to get out the vote for Obama in November.
"Hope inspires me to believe that any day now, we will catch up to the ideals put forth by our nation's founding fathers. ... It is our hope and faith that reminds us to pray and also affirms that we must move our feet. It is our hope that tells us our latter days will be better than our former. It is our hope that instructs us to march on!" said Cleaver, marching in place. "And march on! And march on, means marching through our communities and to make sure everyone is registered and ready to vote." |
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Rep. Keith Ellison: GOP Is "Basically a Bigoted Party"
—By Tim Murphy
| Thu Sep. 6, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the nation's first-ever Muslim member of Congress, doesn't mince words when asked about the Republican party's formal proclamation that the United States is under assault from Islamic Shariah law. "It's an expression of bigotry," he said on Wednesday, in an interview with Mother Jones at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. "There has never been any legislation offered to establish Shariah law—not at the federal level, not at the state level. There's not been a municipal ordinance opposing this, there's not been anything."
For Ellison, the anti-Shariah plank was part of a broader narrative of exclusion. "Why do they want to become the party of hate? They're hating on immigrants who are from Latin America. They're demonstrating hatred toward Muslims. They're demonstrating hostility toward women. They act like they don't like gay people. Who is their party supposed to be made up of in 20 years?"
"I'm sad that they have decided to go into this dark ugly place where they see the whole world as their enemy," Ellison continued. "And this is the thing: I don't mind debating taxes and spending; we probably should. But they're the party that is basically a bigoted party and they have now officially declared themselves against a whole segment of the American population, because if we said we were going to put a plank opposing Jewish law, or Catholic canon, it would be an outrage. This is also an outrage. But you know, it'll pass."
Ellison's remarks echoed comments he made in July after his Minnesota colleague, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, accused Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood. (Bachmann's statement was condemned by some high-profile Republicans, like Arizona Sen. John McCain.) Ellison said he's spoken with Bachmann once since the Abedin controversy—in response to a bill she was proposing to audit Medicaid recipients—but didn't bring up the subject with her. "I don't find that to be a productive use of my time or hers," Ellison said. "She whipped up a million [fundraising] dollars by promulgating hate against a religious minority. I'm not gonna talk her out of that." His plan to settle the argument is to campaign for her opponent this fall, Minneapolis hotelier Jim Graves.
"She's always bragging about how great the private sector is. She should join it."
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Mother Jones LOL LOL LOL whats next Rolling stone?  |
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Mother Jones LOL LOL LOL whats next Rolling stone?
The Onion |
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| Laugh at Mother Jones, but the editor David Corn is a featured television panelist and is exceptionally articulate and knowledgeable |
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Laugh at Mother Jones, but the editor David Corn is a featured television panelist and is exceptionally articulate and knowledgeable
He has no top lip! What's that about, bet barney fwank knows!
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| David Corn is an admitted commie sympathizer. His opinion on anything is meaningless in our successful capitalist country. |
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| With you everyone is a communist or a socialist. cabn't take you seriously! |
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Fri Sep 07, 2012 7:08 pm |
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Thank MN Viking Chris Kluwe for his awesome gay marriage letter
When Baltimore Ravens player Brendon Ayanbadejo announced his support for marriage equality, it provoked a strong and mind-bogglingly outrageous reaction from Maryland lawmaker Emmett C. Burns Jr. Burns quickly shot off a letter to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti:
"Many of my constituents and your football supporters are appalled and aghast that a member of the Ravens Football Team would step into this controversial divide and try to sway public opinion one way or the other," he wrote. "I am requesting that you take the necessary action, as a National Football Franchise Owner, to inhibit such expressions from your employee, and that he be ordered to cease and decist such injurious actions. I know of no other NFL player who has done what Mr. Ayambadejo [sic] is doing." (Source: The Advocate)
When Minnesota Vikings player Chris Kluwe caught wind of this, he decided to write a letter of his own, to Burns. We don't think we're guilty of hyperbole when we say that what he produced might be the single greatest piece of writing in human history (well, up there, at least).
Read the highlights below, and then send Kluwe a message, thanking him for doing it. Let's be blunt -- he's going to get a lot of grief for this from the neanderthal portion of the population, so it's up to us to show him more than enough love to counter that. So send a message, spread the word, and tell him THANK YOU.
(Warning: There is some "not safe for work" language in here. But it is more than outweighed by its pure awesomeness)
(Key excerpts follow: You can read the full post at Deadspin)
Dear Emmett C. Burns Jr.,
I find it inconceivable that you are an elected official of Maryland's state government. Your vitriolic hatred and bigotry make me ashamed and disgusted to think that you are in any way responsible for shaping policy at any level. The views you espouse neglect to consider several fundamental key points, which I will outline in great detail (you may want to hire an intern to help you with the longer words):
Re: the Constitution:
As I suspect you have not read the Constitution, I would like to remind you that the very first, the VERY FIRST Amendment in this founding document deals with the freedom of speech, particularly the abridgment of said freedom. By using your position as an elected official (when referring to your constituents so as to implicitly threaten the Ravens organization) to state that the Ravens should "inhibit such expressions from your employees," more specifically Brendon Ayanbadejo, not only are you clearly violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain. What on earth would possess you to be so mind-boggingly stupid? It baffles me that a man such as yourself, a man who relies on that same First Amendment to pursue your own religious studies without fear of persecution from the state, could somehow justify stifling another person's right to speech. To call that hypocritical would be to do a disservice to the word. Mindfucking obscenely hypocritical starts to approach it a little bit.
Possibly the most awesome section:
How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life? If gay marriage becomes legal, are you worried that all of a sudden you'll start thinking about penis? "Oh shit. Gay marriage just passed. Gotta get me some of that hot dong action!" Will all of your friends suddenly turn gay and refuse to come to your Sunday Ticket grill-outs? (Unlikely, since gay people enjoy watching football too.)... I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population—rights like Social Security benefits, child care tax credits, Family and Medical Leave to take care of loved ones, and COBRA healthcare for spouses and children. You know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails. Do the civil-rights struggles of the past 200 years mean absolutely nothing to you?
Read the full post at Deadspin, and then send Kluwe a message, spread the word, and tell him THANK YOU |
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Charles J. Reid, Jr..
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God Is Missing From the Republican Platform
Posted: 09/07/2012 3:37 pm
Huffington Post Religion and Politics
When I look for signs of God, I follow the instructions Jesus gave us for finding him: "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me" (Matthew 25: 35-36). The hypocrite will answer: "Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee?" (Matthew 25: 44). "Then he will answer them: 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.'"
Republicans have made much about the word "God" in the Democratic platform, the struggle over to retain it or omit it. Like the Pharisees, they stand ostentatiously in the front of the synagogue, congratulating themselves on their righteousness, giving thanks that they are not like other men (Luke 18: 12).
I have looked, and I cannot find God in the GOP platform. Consider health care. Obamacare is far from perfect. But it represents a welcome first step toward the reform of America's failing health care system. At the very least, the health insurance must be made into a regulated public utility. Absent such reform, the interests of insurance companies in maximizing profits will always be pitted against the needs of the insured for coverage. Obamacare takes a few small steps in this direction by lifting lifetime insurance caps and requiring coverage for pre-existing conditions. And as the story of Stacy Lihn, whose daughter was born with congenital heart defects made so poignantly clear at last Tuesday night's DNC, Obamacare is even now saving lives.
The Republican platform is dedicated to the repeal of even these modest reforms. To the angry GOPers who approved their platform, Obamacare was not about extending health-care coverage, indeed, it "was never really about healthcare," but a "disastrous" power grab, "an attack on our Constitution" in the name of a "euro-style bureaucracy."
And what would the Republicans replace Obamacare with? "We believe that taking care of one's health is an individual responsibility. Chronic diseases, many of them related to lifestyle, drive healthcare costs." That's it. Blame the victim. And what is the solution the GOP offers besides "don't get sick"? A "free-market based system" where all the power resides in the hands of the insurance industry. All the lip service in the world about "consumer choice" won't make it happen without a regulated insurance industry that reduces disparity in bargaining power. If God judges us on how we treat the sick, this platform stands condemned.
What about the elderly? Surely they count as "the least among us." Poverty among the elderly is growing, as The Huffington Post points out (See David Callahan, "Broke Boomers and the Coming Crisis of Elderly Poverty," June 19, 2012). The Republican platform's approach toward this looming humanitarian nightmare is utter cynicism. Nothing else adequately describes the Republican plan for the voucherization of Medicare.
The Republicans speak about "empowering" Medicare recipients by throwing them onto an open and unregulated insurance market with a few dollars in vouchers and a hearty slap on the back. What insurance company will want to do business with them? They have pre-existing conditions no insurance company will want to cover, and the Republican platform promises to repeal Obamacare's protection of pre-existing conditions. They may be cognitively impaired to a greater or lesser degree and unable to navigate this horrible system. They may be physically broken and in need of assistance. No allowance is made for them.
The voucher proposal is a mockery of sound public policy. This part of the Republican platform really reads like some cruel joke dreamed up by College Republican sophomores after a long weekend at some Koch brothers seminar. God? Where is God in this?
There are many other ways this platform fails the standard Jesus set out for how he will judge us on the last day. Consider the plight of workers. Incomes are declining in the United States. We are, from the standpoint of wage growth, in a period of wage deflation. Why? One compelling reason is the growing disparity in power between the individual employee and employer. In a world of many options, employers may transfer jobs, off-shore them, eliminate them, strip them of benefits, and thereby lay waste to whole cities and towns.
Organized labor has always stood as a barrier to these sorts of depredations. Unions never truly created an equal playing field, employers have always had the upper hand, but unions at least gave workers the hope of increasing wages and job stability. And with wages and stability, we have a chance at a working class able to marry, have children and raise the next generation. You want to defend the family? You should begin by defending wage security.
For more than a century, the Catholic magisterium has endorsed labor unions for precisely these reasons. The Republican platform makes war on this very idea. It calls for "the enactment of a National Right-to-Work law." Its demand for "worker freedom" is of a piece with the social darwinist individualism embodied in discredited Supreme Court decisions like Lochner v. New York.
No one should want to be associated with this platform on Judgment Day.
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