Monkey business
It's evolution, baby!
I swear I’m not jumping out on a new political limb here, people. It’s just that the news lately is too damn mind-blowing to pass up. Here is another fine demonstration of what the American voter feels is important as we wind down the weeks to new leadership. It’s ironic that they use a monkey to express their views on race. It’s also a fine representation of the utter reluctance to evolve. Do you get the feeling that the shelf life of the United States is growing skimpier by the day? No? God bless your optimism, you little monkey.
(PHILADELPHIA) As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead…
After Palin finished her remarks this morning, the man holding the stuffed monkey seemed to notice that a video camera was pointed at him, at which point he removed the Obama sticker from the doll’s head and crumpling it up in his hand. He then handed the doll to a young boy who was watching the rally from his father’s shoulders. The boy’s parents later told CBS News that they weren’t acquainted with the man who gave their son the stuffed monkey.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Blatant racism is alive and well in the U.S, and it largely exists among the uneducated, ignorant element of our society…OBama is an attorney and a US Senator and the guy holding the monkey likely is not very bright…We really have a long way to go for us to truly evolve in this area. Obama’s election would go a long way toward that.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I’m black, and I don’t give a frig what color our next president is. But Evets is right. It’s going to come down to a massive segment of the votership who just can’t bring himself to vote for a “negro,” no matter how qualified.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Its especially obvious in the deep south where deep roots in racism exist…some polls show macain with huge leads in many of those states.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Yes. And you could run the Boston Strangler for president down there and he would beat Obama. Because people like treehugger and gil, and ten million other voters would rather vote for what’s familiar than what is safe.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
well said
October 11th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
IT’S NOT BECAUSE HE IS A NIGGER ITS BECAUSE HE IS A MUSLIM NIGGEr!!! BARACK SADAM HUSSIEN OBAMA IS AN ARAB FUCKL!!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
SORRY FOR THE EXTRA L. AN ARAB FUCK HE IS!!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
you are painfully ignorant and dont even warrant any more replies…go to high school did you? bye bye racist moron…you wont hear from me again
October 11th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
BeeRight, please tell me you’re a 14 year old boy who doesn’t know better. Because I’m afraid you might be just another Republican who hasn’t figured out capslock.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
We really have a long way to go for us to truly evolve in this area.
“Evolve”, monkeys, too funny! Get it? Haaa!
October 11th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
It’s so easy for Tony, and evets, and the myriad unthinking syncophants of BHO to dismiss anyone who disagrees with their candidate choice as racist. If they had to ponder the multitude of reasons not to vote for BHO they would give up an go home. The man is inexperienced enough to not qualify for the job he has now, let alone President. He runs on his judgement and he has yet to show any good judgement. He has Frank David Marshall as a mentor when he is a young lad in Hawaii (look him up, if you don’t know who he is, you shouldn’t be arguing for BHO, you should be at home watching Survivor reruns on your fucking tivo). He follows the Reverend Jeremiah Wright for 20 years. Sits in his pew, has the rev officiate at his wedding, baptize his children. Then he pretends that after 20 years of Wrights anti-American and anti-white rhetoric that he had no idea of the reverends leanings? The man he claims had such an influence over his life? This the same clown who thought it would be good idea to hang out with William Ayers, unrepentant Weather Underground bomber. He announces the beginning of his political aspirations in the house that Ayers shares with his also unrepentant WU bomber wife. And the child of his girlfriend that he blew up in Greenwich Village while making pipe bombs to kill and maim soldiers. This is who your candidate picks to associate with and you can’t call him on his judgement? And that doesn’t even address his dealings with Rezco (sp?) and his other pastor. White, black, hispanic, Christian, Muslim, or Rastafarian, it shouldn’t matter when your candidate is as fucked up as this one. You defend him all you want, though I can’t see how. That’s why it’s easier just to call us racists.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
what in BeeRights’ posting leads you to believe that that person is NOT a racist? are you kidding me…I can agree to disagree with those that support Mccain, but the language in that blog is blatantly ignorant and in poor taste.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
GIL: “The man is inexperienced enough to not qualify for the job he has now, let alone President”
As opposed to Sarah Palin who has that impressive two years as mayor of nowhere?
Gil, seriously. You should not weigh in on anything.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I agree with the previous post. gil is an idiot. shut up already
October 12th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Sarah Palin is not running for President dumbass. Yet another sad, tired tactic of the left is to try to divert attention away from the topic by introducing another. Defend your messiah against his opponent, McCain, not the opponents running mate. And beeright is obviously some tool looking to get a rise using the N word. Ignore the idiots who stoop to that level.
And I know you seriously don’t want to compare Palin to Obama, cause your messiah loses even against the hockey mom. She has more experience than him in an executive position. All of the crazy shit that the left has thrown at her has failed to stick, Unless you have proof of any of the bullshit allegations then don’t even bring them up.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Can’t we all, just get along?
Right after 5 PM mass, there will be a ol’ fashion cross burning in Kennedy Park.
Bring your Monkey.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Speaking of Obama associates and his past…….
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10122008/news/politics/7_yr__old_gets_an_acorn_vote_133207.htm
October 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
http://www.cottonforpresident.com/
October 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I think the reason some people question Pallin’s qualifications for presidency is because she’d be a 72- 76 year old’s heartbeat away from that responsibility, and men’s average lifespans in the USA are about that.
There are some people whose political leanings are the opposite of mine so I wouldn’t expect anything I say to sway them and vice-versa, but they do like to go on and on criticising my candidate.
Concerning reverends: I have been a visitor in a church here in Lewiston and also one in CA – that my relatives attend- and that each one there was a pastor proclaiming from the pulpit that liberals “are going to hell” so it is not uncommon for pastors to use this kind of language to push their political leanings. And the way I understood it, Wright was talking about the injustices that have been and continue to occur in our country, which we do have to take responsibility for and fix if we expect to be a civil society. Anyway, I don’t for a minute think that Obama agrees with the statements that Wright made. I also don’t believe for a minute that he’s a terrorist just because he was in a meeting with Ayers. If you are going to judge people for “pallin’ around” with people of dubious lifehistory backgrounds or beliefs, then that would mean I couldn’t even go to a family reunion because I’d be pallin’ around with some people who have opposing politics and beliefs.
I can work with and socialise with various people who don’t have the same beliefs, and we can get along.
Nobody’s said it yet, so I will:
Obama is not Muslim, he’s Christian and his name is just a name, it is not his religion. He has a white mother, and I wonder, what if she named him after her own maiden name and gave him a less “exotic” first & middle name? He’d be the same person, but we’d perceive him differently?
There’s a lot of mixed kids in the USA and I like to think they can grow up to be president too.
I recently travelled across the country to CA and back, and it was disturbing how often I did hear someone say that when he’s elected, they’d expect an assassination. It’s not just the south. I’ve heard it in Boston, in southern Ca, and in Maine. It’s very scarey that peopel don’t see what ‘s wrong with saying that. I think the Republican candidates and their supporters need to address and squelch this.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I meant to say: I can socialise with people who have differing politics and beliefs, and that doesn’t mean I am one of them, agree with them or should be judged for being in their presence.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
”…if McCarthy-era guilt-by-association is once again a valid political consideration, Palin, it would seem, has more to lose than Obama. Palin, it could be argued, following her own logic, thinks so little of America’s perfection that she continues to “pal around” with a man – her husband, actually – who only recently terminated his seven-year membership in the Alaskan Independence Party. Putting plunder above patriotism, the members of this treasonous cabal aim to break our country into pieces and walk away with Alaska’s rich federal oil fields and one-fifth of America’s land base – an area three-fourths the size of the Civil War Confederacy.
AIP’s charter commits the party “to the ultimate independence of Alaska,” from the United States which it refers to as “the colonial bureaucracy in Washington.” It proclaims Alaska’s 1959 induction as a state “as illegal and in violation of the United Nations charter and international law.”
AIP’s creation was inspired by the rabidly violent anti-Americanism of its founding father Joe Vogler, “I’m an Alaskan, not an American,” reads a favorite Vogler quote on AIP’s current website, “I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.” According to Vogler AIP’s central purpose was to drive Alaska’s secession from the United States. Alaska, says current Chairwoman Lynette Clark, “should be an independent nation.”
Vogler was murdered in 1993 during an illegal sale of plastic explosives that went bad. The prior year, he had renounced his allegiance to the United States explaining that, “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.” He cursed the stars and stripes, promising, “I won’t be buried under their damned flag…when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.” Palin has never denounced Vogler or his detestable anti-Americanism.
Palin’s husband Todd remained an AIP party member from 1995 to 2002. Sarah can be described in McCarthy-era palaver as a “fellow traveler.” While retaining her Republican registration, she attended the AIP’s 1994 convention where the party called for a draft constitution to secede from the United States and create an independent nation of Alaska. The McCain Campaign has reluctantly acknowledged that she also attended AIP’s 2000 Convention. She apparently found the experience so inspiring that she agreed to give a keynote address at the AIP’s 2006 convention and she recorded a video greeting for this year’s 2008 convention. In other words, this is not something that happened when she was eight!
So when Palin accuses Barack of “not seeing the same America as you and me,” maybe she is referring to an America without Alaska. In any case, isn’t it time the media start giving equal time to Palin’s buddy list of anti-American bombers and other radical associates? ”
This is from Robert F. Kennedy JR, Huffington Post
He said it better than I could.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
hey mark, when I tried to email you this is what happens:
<marklaflamme@verizon.net>:
Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias:
marklaflamme@verizon.net [RCPT_TO]
am I allowed to email you anymore? Or am I spam?
October 12th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se_ iKo3GwRg