Pull Your Head Out of Your Ass Obama . . .

I have no qualms about saying for the record that I am 100% with Keith Olbermann on this one and 100% against Obama.

Obama and his administration are, to state it bluntly, unquestioningly wrong on this issue of state torture. While the deceit used to cow America into invading another sovereign nation was evil enough, the even darker stain on our national honor has been a result of the hideously amoral decision to employ the despotic techniques of torture in pursuit of phantom victory in our "global war on terror."

This country is either a beacon of civilized rule of law or it isn't. Despite the demented claims of some that they can create their own reality, the incontrovertible truth of the matter is there is no gray area at play in this critical debate. Crimes were committed - knowingly. No man or political/government entity is above the law in this country, weasely protestations to the contrary.

Obama and his handlers had better start re-reviewing their position on this issue. Otherwise they are going to start seeing a mass exodus of core progressive support and that does not bode well for the overall success on many other issues that are on their ambitious agenda.

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Old Teabaggers Never Die - They Just Fade Away (thankfully) . . .

Ok - this is my last post about the teabaggers and their corporate sponsored pity parties that were held yesterday.

First -- best estimates indicate that up to 250,000 people participated in the foot stamping and fist shaking boo-hoo fests. That is not an impressive number considering a myriad of right-wing think tanks and conservative astro-turf organizations were bankrolling, coordinating and marketing the nation-wide events. And speaking of marketing, they also had Fox news promoting it ad nauseum on America's only "Fair and Balanced" cable "news" channel the past couple of weeks. The largest turnout,an estimated 7,000 WATB's (Whiny Ass Titty Babys), appears to have occurred in Atlanta. The Atlanta metropolitan area is the nation's 8th largest with a population near 6 million. And all they could find were 7,000 yahoos to show up? And right in the heart of Dixie to boot. San Diego, California, a hotbed of GOP politics -- 500 brave WATB's showed up. Point being, for all the bluster and the shameless huckstering by Fox and right-wing media toads, it was an embarrassingly dismal show of force.

Secondly -- I bounced around the web checking out photos taken at various teabagger events and one common theme seemed to permeate them all --- these people hate Barack Obama's guts with a passion. That seething hatred seems to be the single most motivating factor that prompted people to show up at these pathetically staged group whine sessions. Look at the following photos taken at just one event in Wisconsin. The same hate-filled signs were seen over and over at just about every one of these events. Frankly I don't believe these asshats give a rat's fucking ass about taxes and government spending. I think a majority of them are nothing more than a bunch of bitter, semi-bigoted losers who are absolutely broken up about the skinny black dude sitting in the White House making decisions that will decide the direction of America's (and their) future. Take a look at these pics -- from one single teabagger rally and tell me I'm wrong:

Teabagging For Dummies . . .

Rolling Stone Magazine political writer Matt Taibbi explains the thunderously stupid mentality of the teabagger crowd alot better than I ever could. The following excerpt alone is worth the time to read the whole article:

"It took a good long while for news of the Teabag movement to penetrate the periphery of my consciousness — I kept hearing things about it and dismissing them, sure that the whole business was some kind of joke. Like a Daily Show invention, say. It pains me to say this as an American, but we are the only people on earth dumb enough to use a nationwide campaign of “teabag parties” as a form of mass protest, in the middle of a real economic crisis.

What’s next? The Great Dirty Sanchez-In of 2010? A Million Man Felch? (Insert Rusty Trombone joke here)."

Lol. I wonder if the teabaggers realize that there are a hell of alot more people laughing at them than crying with them. Being that they don't even seem to have a lucid understanding of the word "socialism", I suppose that being the object of mass ridicule wouldn't register with them as such.

I've seen some pictures this morning of the early teabag parties. The crowds appear to be comprised mostly of middle-aged white guys wearing "Obama is a Fascist" t-shirts covering distended beer bellys. That alone ought to tell you everything you need to know about this ridiculous movement and their equally ridiculous politcal whiner's convention.

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Tea Bag Culture Warriors - - Unite!

I think it's fair to say that this video is a wholly accurate representation of what most of these corporate sponsored (Fox News) "tea-party" protests are and will be about. What level-headed individual can watch this and still believe that these fucking people aren't batshit insane? "Burn the books!" Wow. That one regurgitated screech alone pretty much sums up the collective intellectual platform of the modern day conservative movement. What a pathetic bunch of childish losers.

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