Anyone else near the beltway want to join me on election day?

these guys don't play.

Are we Dems doing shit like this? It's easy to demonize the Right, but at moments like this...I have to wonder if there really is some moral difference.

Your neighbor is an ass, Veteran.

That's all I have to say about that.

I guess this stuff is happening in California too:

http://cbs13.com/local/carmichael.obama. campaign.2.827465.html

This campaign is starting to scare me.  I guess it was bound to happen, but when I look at the words being thrown around by the Republican party and some disaffected Democrats, all I can think of is how much closer we always are to chaos than we believe we are.

I think Obama is going to win, but this month is going to be hell.

I'm down here in southside VA, as important it is for my ego to get 'er done here, I'd like to participate in a more population dense area.

Plus, I really, really, really hate fucking racists.

This was written by a religious propagandist, for sure. The use of specific words such as besotted is an appeal to a very specific group of people with a shared cultural precedent. Appalling and twisted, yes. Effective? I think not. People are actually too economically shocked at this point to be responsive. This is like Dr. Laura playing a very bad, yet licensed clinical psychologist. I expect this and many other forms of racist appeals to be the only remaining thrust of the McCain campaign. Let them pick each other's sores. (Hey, wasn't that a line from a Melanie song? /snark) It will backfire in a big ugly way.  

The organization referenced in the letter - The Institute for Healing Racism - has a disclaimer on the front page of its website:

Important Notice

The Institute for Healing Racism has no association with a recent mailing from "A Clarendon neighbor" nor did they have the permission required to reference our Web site address in the letter.

Enough said.

The syntax in the first sentence that covers the "ostentatious" support seems to support the religious nut theory.  If the signs are ubiquitous as this guy seems to think (at least among white yuppies) then, by definition, it can't be ostentatious.

Anyway, I use to live in Clarendon and that letter won't get far in that highly educated community.

My guess this is random Republican or Larry Johnson/Roger Stone freelancing horseshittery.  It's way too cute to be a really organized push.

It reminds me of the stories of Colonel Whathisface from the Eisenhauer era, dropping condoms filled with iron filings in cars in North Vietnam, thinking that sort of stunt would bring down the government.  If anyone knows what I'm talking about, good, if not, just imagine an underbudgeted CIA guy with nothing to do.

I meant to post this here instead of the other diary:

"You probably don't know what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are."

I'll admit; I didn't know what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were before they were in crisis, but that's more because I have never been interested in a credit economy or its trappings.  That guy asked a serious question about the economy; assuming the same about him wasn't such a good idea.  For all McCain knows, "homeboy" there is an econ major.

I don't expect Obama to make an ad about McCain talking down to a young black guy, but it wouldn't surprise me if it started making the YouTube rounds.

And no, I don't think it was intentional racism or race baiting; I think he was going to use that phrase no matter who asked that question.  It just shows how condescending and out-of-touch he is.

No different than mounting horses and riding through the streets carrying flaming torches and dressed as ghosts . This is disgusting!

I just can't take these politics of hate.  Palin and McCain are whipping up the hate in this country and it is scary!!!  If there IS an attempt on Obama's life, I think they should both be held accountable for attempted murder.  That is what their rhetoric is doing!

I get so infuriated that the Right buys right into what these hate mongers are selling, and are too blind to see the associations their own canidates have, that are much, much more damning than any that Obama has had in these past years.

I am terrified that Palin will get into office.  She scares me beyond belief.  Her delusions of grandeur are unbelievable, fed to her by a church filled with hate!  Christians who feel they are christian just because they go to church, not living by any form of Christian values at all.  She's dangerous, and what's scarier is that the people she's talking to are just as dangerous if not more so, with their mob mentality.

I have no idea where this is going, or where it stops, but the main stream media have GOT to stop feeding the frenzy and call a spade a spade!

There's no way, no how that I'm voting for Obama because he's black! I'm voting for him because his middle name is Hussein...and he gives mean fist bumps!

In additional to it's overall racist tone, there are some racial stereotypes that jumped out at me.

Only white people drive Volvos?
Only white people shop at Whole Foods?

That's complete bullshit!

Don't be ashamed, the card says. We know you mean well. You know in our heart that you don't want to.

It is a very well done card. It is icky but it will swing some people. But not many. We have come too far. You know those "some of my best friends are black" people? Well now Obama is known to them. He is one of those "best friends."

On race, I thought America would not get this far in my lifetime. I am still afraid, afraid of hate and ignorance. But I am less afraid than I was three months ago. I am less afraid than I was two weeks ago.

And this card does not scare me.

We are going to win this.