Seriously. This is the true face of the GOP. We all know how they REALLY won the south and now those chickens are not only coming home to roost, they are coming home to vote for McCain. The Obama camp needs to make this an issue, including the buttons and where they will be sold. If only the MSM would do it's job and actually tell people about this so they don't have to find out from a cartoon.

Seems to have abandoned the concept that ANY story isn't tangentially related to being black in America.

I probably would have liked this last week. But since Obama and the Democratic leadership decided to screw the Fourth Amendment and give the telecom industry amnesty...oddly enough, I'm just not that outraged.

Yeah, racism is offensive. But it bothered me more when I was able to believe that Obama was a decent, honest person. Now that I know that he's just another corrupt and power-mad politician, well, I don't really care.

The Dems have shown themselves to be nothing more than Republican-lite - and that's apparently what they want to be. So if their brethren in the media want to stir up the racism issue, I can only see it as more smoke and mirrors, designed to blind us to the fact that they're selling out our liberties to the highest bidder.

Actually, it's not funny. It's sad. I'd better go watch some old Marx Brothers movies and cheer up.

Unfortunately, Bob lost his Morning Edition job at NPR, because he wasn't hip enough. Now he's on XM and PRI.

Cry me a river.

Surprise, surprise; Obama's a politician. Perhaps with a little more skin us Democrats can actually get behind one of the slimy bunch long enough to win by a margin larger than 1%, when only the economy and the state of the world hangs in the balance.

Naaaaah. It's easier to wash your hands of any active participation and watch more TV to numb the mind - all the while complaining about the state of politics, natch.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=30911

The sale of this "Obama doll" is the worst example I've seen in the race so far.

Perhaps racially unfortunate, but true. Those affected by Katrina really did whine about how the government wasn’t helping them. Those affected by floods in the Midwest really didn’t. They still aren’t.

Maybe the difference isn’t racial. But maybe it is. The cartoonist makes good points with the rest of the comic, especially the “white house” buttons, but the Katrina vs. Midwest issue was a total miss.

Oh, really? Check out:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-flood-foodjun24,0,7726690.story

"Those affected by floods in the Midwest really didn’t. They still aren’t."

According to today's paper, they have started. It just took longer.

Oh, by the way, "Republican Lite" may not be the best thing in the world, but it's way better than "Full-strength Republican." Fewer calories, less fooling.

I rarely, if ever, contribute to the comments here. I just have to let you know your response to Maranci made me laugh so hard, I almost spit out my tea.

"...when only the economy and the state of the world hangs in the balance. Naaaaah. It's easier to wash your hands of any active participation and watch more TV to numb the mind"

Too true. And so sad.

And if a talk radio host who has been fired for making racist comments goes on to make more racial comments, he is "being misunderstood" (yesterday's explanation) or "sarcastic" (today's). It's a lot like the way that whenever the GOP Presidential candidate makes a howling gaffe that offends people or calls his intelligence into question, that means he "misspoke."

Maybe they actually, I don't know, needed help?

It stands to reason that poor people, of any race, would sufffer more during a national disaster because they don't have the resources to bounce back.

The fact is that Republicans framed the Katrina story as those dirty black folks with a sense entitlement who don't take responsibility for themselves. They shouldn't have lived there in the first place anyway, everyone knew the levies would break some day.

Whereas the white mid-westerners are good, god fearing folk who just happened to get the short end of stick. Doesn't matter that they too knew that they were due for a flood of epic proportions. (500-year flood plan which means that in a given year, there is a 1 in 500 chance that a flood will occur.)

Doesn't matter that they too are taking government assistance and that some of them may actually be demanding it; it goes against the national story. Black people are leeches sucking at the teat of white folks. Everybody knows that.

The fact is that when those folks in the Midwest realize their insurance won't cover shit because the insurance companies will do everything in their power not to have to pay, they will seriously start whining. Of course, because they are white, they are incapabale of whining. They call it lobbying.

How many midwesterners died waiting for help? How many pictures of drowned midwesterners have we seen floating down flooded streets?

Hello? Hello?

I take it that you're the remarkably mature fellow who decided to go over to my blog and tell me to "F-CK OFF" today?

My goodness, such rage! I'd watch my blood pressure, if I were you.

The Republicans have amply demonstrated what happens to people who sacrifice their principles on the alter of the leader principle. You may consider the Constitution to be negotiable; I don't. So Obama has lost my vote and my support. But why do you find that so terribly threatening? Are you afraid that there are others out there who feel the same way? I doubt that there are enough to make a difference, unfortunately.

Try not to panic. The odds are that your precious Leader will still win the election. But you may find that when a politician proves that their principles are negotiable even before they're elected, they're not likely to become less corrupt after taking office.

The Democratic leadership is leading America down the same crooked garden path as the Republicans - just a little more slowly. I've already seen where that path leads. Sorry, but I'm not going to help ruin this country. It had some fine ideals, once.

And I, for one, really liked the Fourth Amendment. You should read it some time.