Obama Vs GOPers....."No Contest? The GOP is old generals fighting old wars...outdated and irreveren

[opihimoimoi]

[Critters2]

1. Irreverent? Well, they may be, but I'm guessing you meant to say "irrelevant". nt

[opihimoimoi]

2. LOL...:o) Me thinks I BOO BOO

[RagAss]

3. No...The GOP is Goose-stepping into Oblivion !

[calimary]

5. I loved how the panel on Tweety's show, Tweety included, noted that one of paul ryan's

speech highlight was about how "America's greatest century was the last one," while Obama sounded lots of upbeat notes about the future.

EXCELLENT! Point made - the GOP seems to want to be all about the past.

The past. Negativity. Party of No. "No you can't" and/or its boner corollary: "Hell No You Can't!" "I want my America BACK!" "Take our country BACK!" Bad future ahead. Hopelessness unless you do it our way and throw everything out and - what's our way, you say? Uh - wait right there, we'll get back to ya!"

While Obama had stirring statements about a NEW "Sputnik Moment" and inspiration and Can-Do Yankee Ingenuity and "We Do Big Things" and all that positive uplifting stuff that we need our president to help us envision, and put the words to, so we have a figurative place on which to hang our own hopes and mental images of a better future. Metaphors that MEAN something - something positive and hopeful.

GREAT positioning! The upbeat, optimistic president on the one side, and the dour, gloomy-looking, guy-who-looks-like-an-undertaker, with just as much charisma on the other - and let's not forget the card-carrying teabagger ding dong lady, Miss Bachmann from Ding-Dong School, out in orbit somewhere.

[RagAss]

7. They hate the change they see in front of them. !!!.....

A "Non-White" in the White House.

It's so pitiful. Their eyes tell the whole story. These bastards don't even have to talk.

[calimary]

9. Unfortunately, and VERY sadly, you are correct.

I think that's the gold nugget that keeps tumbling around in the pan that these gold-diggers keep coming up with and are perpetually unable to avoid. There's a black guy in the Oval Office and he's not the janitor.

I think, after Obama won, they all either gritted their teeth and told themselves it wouldn't matter all that much, OR they all congratulated themselves for a "see? You're wrong about us! We're NOT racists after all! We're just fine with that black guy in the Oval Office who isn't the janitor!" And the days wore on, and all the news coverage was about how he'd won and what that meant and how the days were counting down til his inauguration and then he WAS inaugurated and they couldn't pretend that away, nor could they hide from it, because it was EVERYWHERE And In Their Faces, Around The Clock, Every Day. And as time has marched on, he's STILL that black guy in the Oval Office who isn't the janitor and it WASN'T just a bad dream they had. It's all real. All too real for this bunch.

I think those who assumed they could just grin and bear it and it wouldn't be so bad after all, have suddenly learned that those feelings actually had a limited shelf-life and expiration happened a long time ago and they're still stuck with the reality they never wanted and tried to pretend they were okay with: there's a black guy in the Oval Office and he isn't the janitor. I think it's finally dawned on them that they're really, deep-down, NOT okay with it and he WON'T go away and he WON'T STOP being that black guy in the Oval Office who isn't the janitor. I think that realization just has fucked with their whole bedrock down-in-their-bone-marrow understanding of "How Things Are Just Supposed To Be In Their America." It's gone on way too long to be nothing but a bad dream. And watch them start to panic as the poll numbers start pointing toward a second term for Barack Obama. Because it means their reality is gonna be knocked on its ass for ANOTHER four years, when it's something that should NEVER have been allowed to happen in the first place.

That's why they never said "peep" when bush/cheney spent American tax money like drunk frat boys with daddy's car keys and credit card. They never said "peep" when cheney claimed flat-out that "deficits don't matter." Hell, they never said "peep" when bush/quayle did it, and they never said "peep" when their precious Saint ronnie did it, either. They only started having public dry-heaves when the republi-CONS were turned out of the White House and Dems got in. First Clinton, and now Obama. But it's even worse with Obama because Obama adds insult to injury. Clinton at least was a white guy, so it wasn't quite apoplexy time.

Now, the President is African-American, and we didn't just make it up and it wasn't just a bad dream and he's still around, going into his third year as President and it's something they just can't avoid or pretend doesn't exist. I think it's made all hell break loose - like a big fat zit that's finally come to a head and then popped, no matter how much Clearasil they used or Max Factor pimple-mask cream they've used over the last several months, and these people just can't pretend anymore. It's brought out all their ugliness - their dirty little secret that up til now they've been able to keep well-hidden. Obama's very presence, his very existence, brings their dirty little shame that they've been able to pretend wasn't there - out into the sunlight, up to the surface, out front, and full-on center stage.

That IS, BEYOND ANY DOUBT, the bedrock foundational reason these assholes are puking all over their hysterical closet-racist little selves. It's the closet racist in them that's been inside, fighting and kicking and screaming to get out, ever since the era of Obama dawned. It's like the soda bottle that's been shaken so hard for so many years that the bottle top can't contain the pressure build-up anymore.

Ironically - Obama's now said "for many, the change has been painful." AND HOW! Understatement of the 21st Century!

[opihimoimoi]

8. They will fail without realizing why....

[piedmont]

4. PWH?

posting while high? :silly:

[Orsino]

6. And winning. n/t