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Ijon Tichy

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Saturday, November 1, 2008 02:19 AM
Original article: Four more days

The greatest gift

You know what the greatest gift an Obama presidency would be?

It's not just a repudiation of the horrors of the Bush administration.

It's not just a repudiation of the neocons and their "I love war and especially war fought by others."

It's not just the con job against working class people to continue to support the welfare queens of the financial class.

It is this:

If you elect a black man as president, then the next time you see a black man or woman at the grocery store or on the street, you will smile or tip your hat to them as they are as good or better than you, because they have one of them as your president. With Obama in the office, white people will stop crossing the street to avoid black people, but instead walk up to them and smile and say "How are you?" Because for the first time in four hundred years a black president will tell us that black people are not only just like us, but special.

I am voting for a black man just so I can tip my hat and smile at a black man.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 04:19 PM

How could you miss

How these commercials defined Sarah Palin and her fellow "feminists."

Prior to the feminist movement women were whore's before marriage and virgins afterward. We assumed the basis of the feminist movement was that women didn't want to be sex objects, but equals; capable of bringing home the bacon, too. This was supposed to lead to a whole new understanding of sexuality, based on equality not dominant submissive. Instead, corporations like the perfume (or "sex appeal") industry put out commercials defining feminism not as "I don't want to be a whore, but an equal" to "I want to be equal, but only until I get home where I still want to be a whore." The Enjoli commercial is the epitome of redefining feminism to being an "equal" from nine to five, but once the clock rings its home to cook for the Mister, with the rolls in the oven, then slapping on the hot perfume and skimpy lingerie and getting one's buns in bed.

While the likes of Hillary Clinton were pursuing shedding their domestic slavery for equality, the likes of Sarah Palin were watching Enjoli commercials and imagining shooting their own moose, getting undressed while it was getting dressed, cooking it up for the mister then anticipating him ravishing her while admiring her talents the way pre-feminists imagined being ravaged for their talents with a Campbell's casserole.

Palin is a psuedo feminist who came of age when those commercials, responding to the fear that feminism might ruin their business, created the idea of psuedo-feminists.

Leave your perfume and thongs at home on Tuesday when you vote. Better yet, bring them both, spray the perfume on your lace thong, then set it on fire.

Twirl it around in flames and talk about bringing home the moose and vote Obama.

Sunday, October 19, 2008 04:38 PM

No racism here

"It's totally about the color of skin for these people."

"These people." Nice.

Stay classy Freepers.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 02:53 PM

I've noticed that her new bugaboo is...

voter fraud.

This woman is trumped out like the Pets.com sock puppet to mimic whatever talking point the extreme right has latched onto. This time it is voter fraud.

The fact she knowns not a wit of what the fuck she is talking about doesn't bother me. The fact that at this late stage and the attorney general investigation will likely prevent any chance to stifle voter turnout or influence elections does not bother me.

What bothers me is that the GOP will likely do, the day after the election, is what the Dems didn't do in 2000; use "voter fraud" and the racist rants to accuse the Obama presidency of being illegitimate, thus setting the stage for 4 to 8 years of undermining any attempt by him to change the course of this country through baseless accusations and investigations.

It is now clear that McCain and the Right Wing's lapdog Palin were sent racist marching orders, and now racist "voter fraud" marching orders, not to boost his campaign, but to pave the way for challenging Obama's legitimacy as president.

The moment Palin and McCain were instructed to go racist, was the day, the powers that be knew Obama would win and were preparing for the next stage.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 02:55 PM

And we, the NRO

who always embrace standing up to enemies and proclaiming our proud willingness to man the ramparts against the enemies of democracy, have fired a true conservative member of our staff and the SON OF OUR FOUNDER because we were too scared by a few angry e-mails. NRO. We are so tough and patriotic that we will gladly fight to anyone else's death, unless someone who pays our salaries sends us an angry e-mail, then its every man for himself and "Mommie!!!"

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