After my tea and blogging, I rode public transportation to get close to where the Dalai Lama was. I saw thousands of fellow elitists, carrying their lattes or orange juices with them, getting ready to fill the stadium to hear about peace and compassion. Then I headed on foot (for sustainability and exercise) to the Convention Center to take in another politically correct event, along with a bunch of other college-educated urban liberals (no bowling or duck hunting for us.)
The Green Festival was sponsored by Global Exchange and Co-Op America, with liberals gathering to hear major speakers such as Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Jim Hightower, Medea Benjamin and Thom Hartman of Air America along with dozens of others. Here I learned about such extravagantly out of touch activities as eating sustainable seafood, avoiding pollution in our homes, avoiding toxins and supporting fair trade instead of sweatshops and WALMART.
Pictured below are some of the lead-free toys, non sweatshop clothing, toxin-free food and sustainable energy booths as well as for political activities that we politically correct secular humanists and/or spiritual seekers of the leisure class engage in here in the city.
Slugbug (who grew up in a town in South Dakota with a population of 500 & is bitter due to pandering
multimillionaire candidates masquerading as common people)
This is from Firedoglake
Greater Wingnuttia is outraged that Barack Obama said people in small towns with crappy economies might be "bitter" about how they're ignored by the federal government and as a consequence develop irrational political resentments often centering around God & guns & Arabs & gays & immigrants.
This outrage is comical in that pretty much all the right blogosphere does is endlessly screech out irrational political resentments centering around God & guns & Arabs & gays & immigrants. And, of course, liberals. Which explains all the hysterical wingnut squawking over Obama's "gaffe" -- it'd be pretty bad for GOP business if vicious scapegoating ever went out of style. It's all they have: if they didn't have "bitterness," they wouldn't have squat. The Right blog dingleberries would no longer be scary clowns -- just creepy and pathetic clowns, which, uh, they also happen to be at the moment...
As Roy Edroso says, if the prospect of even a semi-honest national dialogue on race freaked them out, the prospect of a national dialogue on class makes them even squirmier. Hence all the race, rube, and red baiting. I mean, come on. The party of Rush & Rove whining about someone saying people are "bitter"? Sheesh.
The delightful cherry? Via Oliver Willis, David Sirota shows that McCain's said the same stuff he's now going after Obama for, only smarmier. And on top of that, McCain really and for true does too want 100 years or more of war in Iraq -- but in that case, the wingnuts scream "context!" and the media thoughtfully decides to give it to them, even though the "context" makes it worse. Because everyone knows McCain's not insane! Unless you're so gauche and ill-bred as to actually pay attention to the crazy shit that constantly comes out of his mouth.
Crap.
Posted by: Not My President | April 12, 2008 at 10:34 PM
This hit me.
the Clinton campaign is using a Republican line of attack to smear Barack Obama and divide the Democratic party by attacking Obama's coalition as elitist and un-American. We are now locked in a battle where the DLC and the Republicans are making essentially the same arguments about the campaign of a Democratic reformer.
Posted by: Not My President | April 12, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Stupid conservatives. They just don't realize how much of their bidding the hated IMMIGRANTS are doing thanklessly on their behalf - like banning gay marriage again in California later this year.
Too bad Obama is himself coddling a major homophobe!
Posted by: Ally McRepuke | April 12, 2008 at 11:09 PM
A McCain or Hillary world will be much more homophobic than an Obama world.
Posted by: Not My President | April 13, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Now the real question is - how hard-line will Obama be against the Moonies?
He's not saying much. Yet.
He'll have my support again if he makes a firm stance against the Moonies. Opposing the South Korean FTA (which Hillary also does) is a start, but NOT ENOUGH.
Posted by: Ally McRepuke | April 13, 2008 at 11:20 AM
The best way to fight the Moonies and Scientology as well would be to not give them tax-exempt status or to let them near politics or political figures. Expose them for what they are.
Posted by: Not My President | April 13, 2008 at 11:42 AM