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Only You Can Stop the Election of Idiots

You have to watch this tragic train wreck.

I heard about Jan Brewer saying “we have did…,” but this is so much, so very much worse than I imagined. To be so terribly inarticulate, yet seeking to be governor. This is her closing, 60 pathetic seconds and she goes blank twice – perhaps 20 seconds of her time. Is that what Arizona wants in a leader?

But then, is she really any dumber than DUHbya or Saruh? What the hell happened to the self-proclaimed Deep Thinkers of the Republican party? Do the Mad Hatters really believe the Founders were anti-intellectual mouth-breathers?

[hat tip to newmexiken and AE]

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This Week’s OMFG-WTF?!

At least 20% of the American public is horribly, woefully, tragically – proudly and intentionally – dumb as shit. Are our pipes made of lead? Does HFCS decrease intelligence? Maybe global warming makes people stupid?

Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim: OVERVIEW – Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows.

A new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009. Only about one-third of adults (34%) say Obama is a Christian, down sharply from 48% in 2009. Fully 43% say they do not know what Obama’s religion is. The survey was completed in early August, before Obama’s recent comments about the proposed construction of a mosque near the site of the former World Trade Center. …

The belief that Obama is a Muslim has increased most sharply among Republicans (up 14 points since 2009), especially conservative Republicans (up 16 points). But the number of independents who say Obama is a Muslim has also increased significantly (up eight points). There has been little change in the number of Democrats who say Obama is a Muslim, but fewer Democrats today say he is a Christian (down nine points since 2009).

Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim: OVERVIEW – Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

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OMG, This Week’s LOL+WTF?!

This photo is priceless. The guy looks like a member of Draco’s clan – the one who embarrasses them all. Geert must have been made up by a Hollywood hack with the intent of making fascists look bad. What a jackass. A ‘political tool,’ indeed.

Think Progress » Gingrich, Bolton, Breitbart Team Up With Far-Right Muslim-Basher Geert Wilders For 9/11 Rally

[Photo of] the far-right Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders. “Islam is not a religion, it’s an ideology,” Wilders told the Guardian in 2009, “the ideology of a retarded culture.”

In the past, Wilders’ extremism has been condemned by conservatives such as Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and even Glenn Beck, who called Wilders “fascist.” It’s a clear sign of how far the Republicans have shifted to the right and embraced Islamophobia as a political tool that movement figures like Gingrich, Bolton, and Breitbart now have no problem sharing a stage with Wilders.

Think Progress » Gingrich, Bolton, Breitbart Team Up With Far-Right Muslim-Basher Geert Wilders For 9/11 Rally

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One Idiot Does Not Spoil the Whole Bunch

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Only 30% of idiots believe Obama is a foreign-born Muslim socialist. Hey, they’re idiots – they’re not crazy.

[below: from a year ago]

mjh’s blog — Why Are ‘Birthers’ Hiding the Results of Their IQ Tests?

It’s time to demand tangible proof that the people who question Obama’s citizenship aren’t the idiots they appear to be. Show us proof you graduated from the 6th Grade. Submit to a drug test, while you’re at it.

There is, indeed, a conspiracy afoot. Dangerous fanatics are conspiring to stir up the easily-confused so that some freedom-loving kook does something horrible. And when the next Timothy McVeigh strikes, all these vile rabble-rousers will say, “oh, we never intended such consequences.” Liars. Destruction is their goal.

mjh’s blog — Why Are ‘Birthers’ Hiding the Results of Their IQ Tests?

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Happy Birthday, Barrack Hussein Obama!

I don’t like veneration or adulation. That ties into my rejection of religion and certainty there is no god. It’s why I don’t give a damn about American Idol or idolatry or most celebrities.

So, I’m not the kinda guy to wish the President a happy birthday just because he’s president.

It’s troubling how many people who consider themselves patriots absolutely hate Obama beyond all restraint. These are people who stand and cover their hearts for the National Anthem and who pledge allegiance to the flag. I do not. These people coined “My country, right or wrong,” and “America, Love it or leave it.” Indeed, just six years ago, they were joyously hoping for a liberal exodus to Canada or some other socialist nation (hear the sneer). They screamed for us to sit down and shut up. They herded us into Free Speech Zones without a clue about irony.

Today, many good, decent, upright, gawdfearin’ sons and daughters of the Republic hate one man with every fiber of their beings. They pray and hope for his death. He is Satan, as far as they are concerned. And it has nothing to do with his race.

Now, to be fair – and I do want to be fair, even to people who aren’t fair themselves – I know something about anger and hatred and I have plenty of both for some people. I hate George Duhbya Bush to this very day. Spit on the ground. I hate Big Dick Cheney. I hate Karl der Grosse Rove. Yes, I hate them passionately and I won’t shed a tear when they die. But I want them to live out a natural life. I want them to live long enough to realize that if they are remembered at all, it won’t be kindly.

I think the damage those vile men wrecked on the nation is as obvious as taking off your shoes for the Homeland. I think they are evil villains. So, I voted against them and spoke out against them every chance I got. I endured their horrible reign over the nation for eight awful years. I never once waived a gun in their directions.

I believe change is inevitable and only fools fight it. And I think the biggest fools waive their guns the hardest. I know the crazies won’t simply SHUT THE FUCK UP and wait for 2016. With luck, their venom will poison only them or they’ll shoot each other.

Happy Birthday to Barrack Hussein Obama. I thank him for his extraordinary courage in taking on the huge mess made by Duhbya and AmeriCo. I wish Obama good luck, and a long, long life.

Happy “Birth” Day, Mr. President; Welcome to the Post-Fact Era – Tuned In – TIME.com

Posted by James Poniewozik Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 3:07 pm

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Barack Obama celebrates his 49th birthday today. Or so he claims. According to a CNN survey, more than a quarter of Americans doubt that Obama was born in the United States; 29% say he probably was; and a mere plurality of 42% have no doubt. This despite widely reported empirical documentation of the President’s birth in Hawaii in 1961, contemporary newspaper reports of his birth and the dismissal of birther rumors by Hawaii’s Republican governor. Speaking of which, big shocker, there’s a partisan divide in the findings: 41% of Republicans believe Obama probably or definitely was not born here, next to (a not entirely comforting itself) 15% of Democrats.

There is no reasonable basis to believe Obama was born outside the U.S.; a lot of people believe it anyway.

Happy “Birth” Day, Mr. President; Welcome to the Post-Fact Era – Tuned In – TIME.com

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This Week’s–no! This Month’s WTF?!

OMG. You thought Tenthers are idiots – meet the Thirteenthers! Read the highlighted text twice.

Think Progress » Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize

The Iowa GOP is not trying to overturn this amendment to reinstate slavery. Instead, it wants to reintroduce the “original 13th Amendment” first offered by senator Phillip Reed of Maryland in 1810. The amendment states that “if any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor” from a “foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen” and “shall be incapable of holding any office of trust.” In receiving only 12 out of the 13 votes needed for ratification, the amendment was never adopted.

Traditional supporters of the idea are known as “Thirteenthers,” who seek to prevent those with the title of “esquire,” such as lawyers and bankers, from participating in government. But according to its spokeswoman, Danielle Plogmann, the Iowa GOP supports it as an attack on President Obama’s Nobel Prize win:

There are, of course, other implications of Thirteenthism, such as ensuring that the United States never again suffers the humiliation of having a president win the Nobel Peace Prize. That was just what the Iowa Republicans had in mind, according to Plogmann, who wrote in an e-mail that the plank “was meant to make a statement about the delegates’ opinion about Mr. Obama receiving the prize.” (Presumably they didn’t mind if, in the process, they were also making a statement about any American scientist or writer unlucky enough to win a Nobel.) Unfortunately for them, the Department of Justice looked into whether Obama needed Congressional approval to accept the Nobel under the existing emoluments clause, and based on the meaning of “foreign state” (which would not cover the Nobel Prize Committee) concluded that he did not.

Iowa is currently “the only state where this type of plank has been introduced into the GOP platform.”

Think Progress » Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize

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The Company They Keep

Regarding yesterday’s mjh’s blog — The Asshat of History: Ugh. This guy is as bad as you would imagine.

Be sure to read EJ Dione regarding what the NAACP is really saying about the Madhatters.

E.J. Dionne Jr. – What the NAACP is really asking on racism within the Tea Party

Here’s what Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, asked of the Tea Party during a speech at the civil rights group’s convention in Kansas City, Mo.: "Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions. We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards."

The NAACP is doing what conservatives have done for decades in demanding that liberals and progressives separate themselves from left-wing extremists who trashed America, burned flags and praised foreign dictators. The racists are the Tea Party’s flag-burners. It’s fair to ask the democratic left to condemn extremism. It’s fair to ask the same of the democratic right. (Note the small "d.")

When I reached Jealous by telephone, he went out of his way to emphasize that his group is not making a blanket charge of racism. "We have never called the Tea Party racist," he said. "We know there are black Tea Party members, and we want black people to feel comfortable taking leadership positions in all parties in this country."

But speaking of Tea Party leaders, he added: "We’ve seen the signs, we’ve heard the slurs, and all we’re asking is for you to act responsibly and say there’s no space for bigots in the Tea Party."

E.J. Dionne Jr. – What the NAACP is really asking on racism within the Tea Party

And, Yes, there is racism in the Tea Party movement.

ThinkProgress has produced a short video demonstrating the vile racism that has been exhibited at some Tea Party events:

DENNIS: The Tea Party does not focus on the pigment of people’s skin. […]

TEA PARTY ACTIVIST1: He’s too black to be President.

TEA PARTY ACTIVIST2: I’m a proud racist, I’m white.

TEA PARTY ACTIVIST3: Afro-Leninism! Coming to you on a silver platter, Barack Hussein Obama!