As a human, it's racist to the core.

No developer I know uses Flash anymore.

I've stripped it from the web sites of several companies in the last few years.

of this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/iraq

That's just....fucking sad that it is probably working.

He's an immigrant.

And his ad could incite attacks against Asian Americans who were actually born in the US.

Why should we listen to this Wooden Shoe wearing, European Socialist?

Which would probably recommend him, if he actually would bother to fit the stereotype!

When you find a candidate that actually meets those qualifications, sign me up.

GOP conventions are either on the stage singing, or working in other capacities. That's a "forty foot pole" institution, as in "I wouldn't touch it with a...."

Edited to add--that woman in that commercial is about as native Chinese as Paddy's Pig. They should find her, and ask her WTF was she THINKING? The Charlie Chan movies in the thirties were less racist than that shit!

I always get the impression that they have to pay minorities to stand in front of the cameras at the convention.

I felt bad for the girl in the ad. I figure she is a struggling actress really looking for that break. She probably has to take whatever work she can get. I certainly hope it paid well.

I'd be curious to learn if this woman knew the context of the job or was just given a line and told to say it.

She could be someone who isn't political and who doesn't follow election contests at all, and thought the ad was something it wasn't.

I feel sorry for her as well. We know that in Hollywood way back when, actors had no choice if they wanted to work in their profession--unless they were in a film or play with a director from their same group, or a director with some sensitivity and a writer with basic human decency, they were often stuck acting out a stereotype.

And speaking of a stereotype, that awful thing has it all--it's very tone deaf. I'm surprised the idiot didn't use that typical racist Chinese musical riff to fire the thing off--you know, this one (this guy calls it like it is):

I think they were mostly very uncomfortable with the ad. Hoekstra's a moron, and he's not listening to the Republican handlers.

This country has lost a sense.

(if you don't think so, remember Rand Paul got elected opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Hard to believe that a guy who's an immigrant thinks he's more American than mutli-generational American families with Chinese last names.

I can imagine how a 'solid' Republican of Chinese American heritage, whose forebears survived the horrors of working on the railroad and all sorts of discrimination down the years, might react after having a look at that ghastly thing.

I think it would be enough to consider a party affiliation change, at least to the "Independent" rolls.