Christmas Diary, Chapter One: In Which We Cut Down Our Own Tree And Live To Tell About It

This holiday season, Hayley's Comment is performing a social experiment. It's called "Getting Into The Christmas Spirit." It's not so much an experiment in the traditional sense, where you have a hypothesis and data or anything; it's more like an if-you-can't-beat-your-holiday-obsessed-teenaged-roommates-join-em-and-blog-about-it type of thing. So when the giving and good cheer are on your last nerve, come here for your dose of healthy repugnance, as I try to navigate my way through the world of the faithful and festive. CLICK TO READ MORE...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 3:29AM |
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Republicans On Racism: "Could You Use It In A Sentence Please?"
It’s officially an election year now (even though for politicians it has been 2010 since November 2008). And I’m there will plenty of baseless, inaccurate and flat-out nonsensical insults thrown around by both parties. (Here is where you should cringe if you ever referred to John Kerry as a “flip-flopper.” Go ahead, we all understand—the commercial said he voted for the war before he voted against it!) But the GOP is fast becoming the party that cried “Discrimination!”
We already had to give Sarah Palin a sexism tutorial, and now it appears the entire Republican Party needs a vocabulary lesson on the basics of racism. They are all super P.O.’ed at Harry Reid for saying that Obama was only electable because he was a “light-skinned” black person with none of that thurr negro talkin’ goin’ on—so mad that they want him resign his post and be thrown in prison for racism.
Because of Politics, Reid had to apologize to the world and most of all Barack Obama for basically pointing out that America is full of hypocrisy and racism. What he should have said is:
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