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wndycty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 09:48 PM
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Gawker sums it all up: "This is going to be the most racist election ever."
Rush Limbaugh’s Brother Calls Barack Obama a ‘Boy’



Here's a lovely little photo essay prepared by David Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh's less drug-addicted brother. It shows Rick Perry at age 22, when he was an Air Force pilot, contrasted with "Barack Hussein Obama II" at age 22, when he was a nig—excuse me, I mean, boy. They were both boys, obviously, but Perry was a plane-flying man while Obama was really a boy. Just a boy. This is going to be the most racist election ever.

http://gawker.com/5834126/rush-limbaughs-brother-calls-barack-obama-a-boy
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 09:55 PM
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1. I think you aren't wrong on that score. Obama has to do the same
thing they lay on women and some "foreigners"--do the job twice as well in half the time to garner a third of the credit.

But what else is new? People will be harder on him, find fault more often, be quicker to judge, and in general, be assholes. Why? Because they are jerks.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 10:14 PM
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3. Seen a lot of that.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 01:15 AM
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7. " twice as well in half the time"....
...In high heels, backwards.

It's an old line, but true.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 07:49 AM
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13. Ha ha!!
I'm picturing poor Obama dancing with Fred Astaire now...it ain't a pretty sight!!
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-26-11 01:49 AM
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22. Hey now, Obama has some grace.
He needs some, or many, rehearsals.

(I'm so happy that people still know this adage/joke).
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 10:08 PM
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2. I guess that one is supposed to be a "good Ol' Boy"....
Looks just like this one!

George W. Bush as a "Boy"



George W. Bush as President and Commander-in-Chief



Barack Obama as President and Commander-in-Chief




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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 07:04 AM
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11. Well-done , FrenchieCat. Jeez, you'd think they'd wait at least another election cycle
before running a GWB clone like Perry... :crazy:
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 07:54 AM
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14. yeah, there's a great juxtaposition of photographs, if there ever was one
Nice work Frenchie
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 10:33 PM
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4. Bring it, a-holes. My money is on the American people.
Ask HClinton how that tactic worked out for her.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 11:01 PM
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5. so what was George Bush doing while Al Gore was in Vietnam?
If their "boy" George Bush does it, then its ok.
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frazzled Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 12:11 AM
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6. Obama was graduating from Columbia University at 22 (1983)
with a major in political science with a specialty in international relations.

Perry, in college, was a "yell leader" and earned a 2.22 average studying "animal science." (According to an article in this week's New Yorker: "A typical yell is: “Squads left! Squads right! / Farmers, farmers, we’re all right! / Load, ready, aim, fire, boom!” During tense moments in a football game, yellers grab their balls and shout, “Squeeze, Aggies!” http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/08/29/110829taco_talk_wright#ixzz1W0wLq8d0 ) According to Perry's own statements, he NEEDED to join the military, to avoid a life of "plac(ing) live chickens in the closet of an upperclassman during Christmas break and us(ing) M-80 firecrackers to prank students using the toilet."

Poster that.




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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 02:37 PM
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21. Sadly, this country cares less about being smart than about appearances.
If Perry "looks strong," Americans are more likely to support him even though he's wrong and mean-spirited.

I've heard even my Democratic friends say that Obama is like Carter: too weak and try to convince people will facts and intelligence rather than emotions.

Republicans have perfected the art of fear and loathing for many decades now. It helps them win elections.

We progressives are wrong to believe that just because we're right on the issues and have the facts on our side, that's all we need to convince people and WIN. We have been wrong at almost every juncture.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 05:06 AM
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8. It already is. n/t
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 06:25 AM
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9. I long for the day
when our children will ask their parents "Mom, Dad, what does this word 'racist' mean"? Sadly(not nearly a strong enoug word), I am absolutely sure that it will not be a question asked for many generations in the future. :cry:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 07:54 AM
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15. "Well, Billy and Betty, a "racist" is someone who REALLY, REALLY, REALLY likes
racing and races--all kinds! These racists are experts on bike races, foot races, car races, horse and dog races....even three legged races!!!!"

Hey, it could happen. When I was a kid, I never thought that anyone in their right mind would ever use the term "Dude" in addressing a woman.

Words do change their meanings!
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 10:02 AM
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17. It would be great,
would it not, if that was indeed the most relevant definition for that word! MAYBE SOMEDAY. :dem:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 02:31 PM
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20. +1 nt
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Wise Child Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 06:56 AM
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10. That Barack Hussein Obama dude

looks like a guy you want to have a Dos Equis with, or judging by the hat and the decade this photo was taken, maybe a wine cooler.
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 07:29 AM
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12. Bartles & James, FTW
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 09:43 AM
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16. Not sure the average American is as in love with the military as
Republicans are. Boosh looked simple doing that Mission Accomplished thing.

How about their grades and the colleges they went to? Those could be compared side by side.

I say that is only for the converted.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 10:14 AM
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18. And what were the Limpball boys doing when they were 22?
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 10:38 AM
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19. I don't think it will work. Obama's been President for almost three years.
This sort of shit might have worked in 2008 (almost did at some points), but I don't think people will care about photos of Young Obama now. It's not like he's untested and starting from being an unknown.
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