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So I guess this alone with the birther joke means Robme plans to win on the white vote alone? Who’s left for them to piss off?

RNC Official Says NM Governor Disrespected Custer by Meeting American Indians
Yes, a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee

rikyrah is right; this really is Goldie Taylor’s vaseline, earrings taken off issue:

@goldietaylor
I watched that clip again and again. He wasn’t joking. It was an all out assault of the legitimacy of this president.

‏@goldietaylor
Jabbing his finger at the ground, his voice did not waver. The only thing missing was “unlike somebody I know…”

@goldietaylor
I am deeply offended that any news outlet would deem this a joke.

@goldietaylor
Limbaugh On Romney’s ‘Test-Driving’ Birth Certificate Line: ‘Right On, Right On, Right On’ http://mediaite.com/a/vfsdm

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She’s not playing. I thank her, and everyone else who saw Mittens’ nod to birthers (the second of his campaign–his son got into hot water for a birther “joke” last December). It’s a relief that there are some voices speaking strongly on this issue.

so wait, they are moving Marco’s speech so Miss Ann can speak on national tele? methinks some Cuban Americans are gonna be pissed.

Oh and BTW, Obama will have the “Hispanic Oprah” Cristina and J Castro as speakers!

Seriously, is there anyone left for Mittens to poop on?

The idea that Tanehisi Coates as terribly unimpressive and barely average as he is, has some advanced and compelling perspective on, over and about President Obama and race that qualifies him as credible and trumps the President’s – and to be invited to make categorical pronouncements on television and elsewhere as an expert on the subject or any other for that matter, is frightening.

The idea that Tanehisi Coates as painfully average, small,  insecure, not really well- spoken, generally unimpressive, inconsequential, obviously burdened with an incurable inferiority complex that compels him to try to elevate himself for money & notoriety by offering  up his terribly unimpressive black face service to cater to the narrative the racist professional left and right are desperate to push about President Obama’;

The very idea that this person gets to be enthusiastically embraced and given not just several platforms and a megaphone, but the benefit of the doubt, and is cast as somehow credible and even qualified to challenge President Obama  - his unique life experiences, opinions, assertions and narratives, – by the very same folks who consistently query, insult and attempt to poke holes in President Obama’s personal and professional being, is all we need to know to understand that this bogus and hate driven effort to diminish and put President Obama in his white supremacist assigned place has indeed reached new amusing and unbelievable heights.

In a world were the red carpet is laid out  for Tahenisi Coates and Tahenisi Coates  is even momentarily treated as relevant and somehow more credible, compelling & intelligent –  even if just for convenience – by the vey same group of folks who’ll do anything in their power to destroy, tear down, denigrate and diminish the most superior, most brilliant, most dignified, most evolved, most inspirational, most amazing President in a generation  - simply because he happens to be black and refuses to fit their prescribed stereotypes and kowtow to them - 

In that world were Donald Trump is a statesman and requiring that Romney as previous presidential candidates have done, release his taxes, is considered “prying and disrespectful” and an “attack”; 

In that world, folks like Tahenisi Coates can opt to be humored, undeservedly celebrated and conveniently elevated by agreeing to be used and exploited in return for a few pieces of silver, to give cover or to simply amplify the voices and efforts of hate blinded, self-aggrandizing, deluded racists on the left and right.

But Tahenisi Coates must know that not only do his masters have zero regard for him – they actually disdain and mock his type – and in the end, he returns to his hell hole to count his soon to be used up spoils.

He serves no purpose beyond being embarrassingly and laughably used to demean, chip away at and denigrate the brilliant black man in the White House.

Nobody will ever ask Tahenisi Coates his thoughts or opinions about any white president past or future. Not even the folks on Sesame Street will have the need for a Tahenisi Coates analysis on anything.

That’s just how relevant Tahenisi Coates really is in the scheme of things.

Just saw TNC on msnbc. I must be losing my mind

Well, I will be unfriending another high school classmate of mine. She wished me a happy birthday, I said thank you. Why am I unfriending her? She “liked” Paul Ryan. Anyone who likes him doesn’t like me. He and she are white, so how would they know how I feel about shit? And she obviously doesn’t care. After all these years, some just will never quite get it.

Fri Aug 24, 2012 at 01:50 PM PDT.
Mitt Romney says ‘big business is doing fine’ thanks to ‘offshore tax havens’+*
by Jed Lewison

This guy just can’t make it through a day without shoving his foot right in his mouth, can he?

“Big business is doing fine in many places,” Romney said during a campaign fundraiser Thursday. “They get the loans they need, they can deal with all the regulation. They know how to find ways to get through the tax code, save money by putting various things in the places where there are low tax havens around the world for their businesses.”

I know “big business is doing fine” sounds like “the private sector is doing fine,” but it’s not exactly the same thing—though Mitt Romney would probably justify removing the “big” from his quote, because who cares about what words actually mean. Still, I’ll read the quote like a normal person instead of a Romney hack and cut him some slack on hypocrisy there. But here’s the thing: I honestly don’t know if he’s praising or condemning offshore tax havens.

I mean, with a normal politician you’d assume Romney was condemning them. And you’d assume he wasn’t speaking highly of big business. But Mitt is a guy who says that anyone who dares criticize business hates America, and that anything other than unadulterated love for free enterprise is akin* to Stalinism—so he couldn’t be criticizing big business. And given that he says offshore tax havens are part of the reason that big business is doing fine, you have to assume that he’s in favor of them, right?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/24/1123866/-Mitt-Romney-says-big-business-is-doing-fine-thanks-to-offshore-tax-havens

miranda- -NOW SOME of -THIS is the —BUSINESS :>) —-

- – –Poll: President Obama trounces on likability —

- —- President Barack Obama maintains a significant advantage on likability over opponent Mitt Romney, although the Republican candidate bests him on the perceived ability to handle the economy, a USA Today/Gallup poll reveals.

Obama further leads Romney, 45 percent to 40 percent, on the issue of who would be better working with both parties to get things done in Washington.
THERE IS MORE- —- [Way 2 many negatives.]