I've been staying out of this

[ericcoleman]

At least in my own journal. But some things need comment

This was on the Sacramento county GOP website.



There is an article here

The important quote is from chairman of the Sacramento County Republican party, Craig MacGlashan. “Some people find it offensive, others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things.”

Comments

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

Can't see the content - work is filtering it. From the article, it sounds pretty bad. What were they thinking?

[ericcoleman]

You know what they were thinking.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

How in the wide world of sports is this not offensive?

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Good lord! CA is really just crazy on all fronts, isn't it?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

“Some people find it offensive, others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things.”

I can, and I interpret that whoever did it is an evil fuckwad.

[alymid.livejournal.com]

I almost said - "I have no words"

But what I really have is so many words that are swirling around in my head I have no coherent way of lining them up to make sense.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

Call the secret service.

Someone is advocating violence against a seated US Senator.

Offensive? Who the fuck cares? Advocation of assault is a crime. The right answer isn't moral outrage, the right answer is a perp walk.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

One does wonder what percentage of Americans such views represent. Some folk really do seem locked into the 1950's....or is that 1850's?

[billroper]

The local GOP leader quoted in the article is an idiot. The fact that he's a local GOP leader is the only thing that makes it more troublesome than this.

Of course, I'm used to that sort of thing by now.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

You need to make sure you post every day, mister Olson cause if you stop posting Im going to assume they got you.

You are, amazingly, correct, however.

[ericcoleman]

Odd, I can't find a reference to that anywhere but Malkin's website. Can you verify it elsewhere?

I wouldn't present something to you with only, say, crooksandliars.com as the reference, since their bias is obvious.

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

but, according to our own government, waterboarding isn't torture. so where's the harm?


/sarcasm.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

I find that now, after doing a little reading, I am less amused than
I was scant minutes ago.

I've only heard of this technique as "dry drowning" because of the fact that an autopsied body doesnt really show drowning as a cause of death. Sigh. Why do you damned humans gotta be so negative?

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

It still baffles me that people still want to vote for the Republican ticket when they're pulling stuff like this.

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

Not until I see the redacted content, I don't.

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

Some of us see the alternative as worse.

I know, hard to believe. But there it is.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

How so?

[blur01.livejournal.com]

I know this sounds like trolling, and I really do not mean for it to be in anyway. I like to pretend in most places that I am an openminded person, and generally accepting of many things, and I really, honestly, deep down want to know why you, or anyone, would feel that way.

I applaud you for your answer and surely dont want you to feel that you're about to get beaten up for it.

Im curious to the point that, if you're interested in telling me, Ill send you my email address so you can answer "off-line" (had to get my manager speak quote in).

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

I'm reluctant to go into details on Eric's thread; he's a good guy and I don't think he wants to host a flame thread.

So, briefly and politely and in no particular order;

1. Senator Obama's proposed tax cuts aren't tax cuts - they're refunds for everyone. Wealth transfer by another name is still wealth transfer.

2. I'm not thrilled by the people that work for Senator Obama and are his most visible and noisy supporters. I get a creepy weird vibe from people that act as if the guy is the Second Coming.

3. Voluntary Mandatory Public Service.

4. Business and long-term economic trends appear to be reacting to an all-but certain Obama victory in negative ways.

5. Advancing the idea that it is okey-dokey to invade Pakistan if we can be certain that the Talliban are there is not a good idea.

6. The Bill Ayers connection is a minor concern - it's not a deal-breaker - but I'm twitchy about pols that hang out with with guys like that.

There are more, but these are the ones at the top of my head.

Now, yes, McCain shares some of these problems and he's got a whole truck-load of his own.

But given these uncertain times I'd rather have a GOP president who promises (for what's it worth - all politician promises are a bucket of warm spit) that the GOP has learned it's lesson and they really-truly mean to be the party of small government and fiscal responsibility.

In the end, I don't trust the government and want to be treated with benign neglect. The Republicans may or may not do that.

I _know_ the Democrats won't.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Ok. Thanks.

[Since I was the one that asked, and I got my answer, I would appreciate if others would be kind enough to "move along"]

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

I applaud you for your answer and surely dont want you to feel that you're about to get beaten up for it.

Phht. If it gets too noisy I'll just politely bow out of the conversation.

Hey - I'm a semi-conservative SF fan with lots of kids - I'm used to being a minority (smile).

[ericcoleman]

I have three mildly snarky questions here ... the first is in three parts.

2 - As compared to the guy with the "Obama is a half breed muslin" sign on his yard? And the woman who said on national TV "He's an arab"? If you're going to be a bigot, at least get it right. Or the official GOP website that puts, say, a picture like the one above up. Doesn't that make it the official GOP party line, at least in Sacramento county?

5 - As compared to what our government is doing right now?

6 - As compared to William Timmons? Or Alaska First?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

As you say, this is Eric's thread so I don't want to delve into a debate, but. In all these cases, minus your editorializing, I agree with Obama and/or think McCain is far, far worse. Obama will be a great president, and he'll surround himself with great people.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

wow. someone can actually find that not offensive. tha'ts offensive.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

sadly, many presidents, including Reagan, promised to make gov't smaller, only to see it balloon once they got in office.
it's so big now i don't know if it can be reeled in by anybody.

both guys voted for the bailout, which, if you want to talk about transfer of wealth! oy! and to the very people who already robbed us blind.

obama wants to get bin laden (it's about time). mccain wants to go to war with iran. i don't want any more war. but i want a guy who has an even temper, and open mind, and will try diplomacy first. and by the track record, that's obama.

i'm ready for a smart, thoughtful president. i don't care what color.