JVO
03-03-2008, 07:26 PM
So I am very frightened about tomorrow's primaries. I really think Sen. Clinton is going to win both Texas and Ohio. I think she may win Ohio by as many as 15 points and that she will win Texas by 5+. Because the Democratic Party is run by a bunch of idiots, the Texas Primary is an open primary in which anybody can vote. Because of this, a number of Conservative politicians and pundits are asking Republicans to vote for Hillary in the Democratic primary because they feel they have a much better chance of beating her than Obama, and if nothing else they can extend the democratic mudslinging for another couple of months while John McCain has a free pass through the convention. If Clinton wins both of these states, it will represent a huge momentum shift with very few states remaining that actually matter. Pennsylvania would be the next one, and if Hillary wins Ohio there is no reason to think she won't win Pennsylvania. I really hope I am wrong and am just having last minute jitters.
(stop reading now, as the rest of this is just a meaningless rant on my part)
Also, something very interesting happened on the Rush Limbaugh radio show today. Rush was busy lambasting Obama and calling for Texas Republicans to vote for Hillary. Then this lady called and proceeded to ream Obama a new one by stating that he has no experience and that he is playing on people’s emotions in a religious fervor that is absent of substance (I love it when conservatives compare Obama to religion that has no substance!). Basically this is the same old crap that they have been saying about Obama for awhile now. Anyway at the end of the call she said that her 10 year old daughter saw Obama talking on TV and pointed out how much he looks like Curious George, so now her entire family refers to him as Curious George and not as Sen. Obama. Rush thanked her for her call and then they went to a break. Now honestly I didn’t think anything about the call, after all it is the Rush Limbaugh show so per usual I pretty much discredit everything everybody (especially callers) say, but when Rush returned from break the first thing that he did was apologize to Sen. Obama for letting that comment air and that if he had known who Curious George was he would have condemned that lady immediately for that comment and told his listeners that, that type of behavior would not be tolerated on his show. He said there were a multitude of legitimate reasons to attack Obama, and that he planned to attack him on each and every one of them, but he would never make nor tolerate any racial attacks against him. So then after about 15 minutes of apologizing he went back to the phone lines. About 20 minutes later another lady called and absolutely went off on Rush. She said that Rush had planned that phone call so that he could subliminally call Obama a monkey and that his excuse that he didn’t know who Curious George was, was completely impossible to believe and that he should be ashamed of himself and that he represents all of worst of the institutional racism that is prevalent in the Republican Party.
Now I have to tell you that phone call really pissed me off for a number of reasons. It made me very sorry, and come to the defense of freaking Rush Limbaugh, which is reason enough to really piss me off. I have no doubt that Rush didn’t know who Curious George was. He has never had any kids, and probably was never much of a kid himself even when he was a kid. I have heard of Curious George before, but there are all sorts of things that I totally know nothing about that seem to be common knowledge for my generation. I have never once read or had any desire to read a comic book. I don’t read comic strips in the news paper (in fact comic strips piss me off because it is just more crap shoved in a newspaper that should be reserved for news. I think that all movies based on comic books or old toys from the 80’s are a complete waste of celluloid. I didn’t collect Star Wars memorabilia; I honestly didn’t even like the Star Wars movies with the exception of Empire. I am the youngest of 6 kids so I virtually ignored all kid things my entire childhood because I was hanging out with people 7-11 years older than me. My entire life as a child revolved around getting good grades, playing sports, and listening to music. The only point for me sharing any of that is just to state, that I completely believe that Rush didn’t know who Curious George was because a vast majority of times that I have conversations with Slam or Matty about the 80’s, I don’t understand any of the topics that were important to them. Before the movies came out I couldn’t name you a single X-man (or X person), I didn’t know the difference between Marvel Comics and DC comics, with the exception of Bugs Bunny I didn’t watch any cartoons, I had never even heard of Transformers before, basically I didn’t give a damn about any of that stuff (and honestly I still don’t). I certainly don’t think there is anything wrong with enjoying those things, and some of the smartest people I have ever know were fans of all of those things, it just turns out that I wasn’t. So I honestly thought that Rush did exactly the right thing and handled the situation in a surprisingly tactful and honest way, and to hear him condemned for that really made me mad.
Ok disregard all but the first paragraph.
(stop reading now, as the rest of this is just a meaningless rant on my part)
Also, something very interesting happened on the Rush Limbaugh radio show today. Rush was busy lambasting Obama and calling for Texas Republicans to vote for Hillary. Then this lady called and proceeded to ream Obama a new one by stating that he has no experience and that he is playing on people’s emotions in a religious fervor that is absent of substance (I love it when conservatives compare Obama to religion that has no substance!). Basically this is the same old crap that they have been saying about Obama for awhile now. Anyway at the end of the call she said that her 10 year old daughter saw Obama talking on TV and pointed out how much he looks like Curious George, so now her entire family refers to him as Curious George and not as Sen. Obama. Rush thanked her for her call and then they went to a break. Now honestly I didn’t think anything about the call, after all it is the Rush Limbaugh show so per usual I pretty much discredit everything everybody (especially callers) say, but when Rush returned from break the first thing that he did was apologize to Sen. Obama for letting that comment air and that if he had known who Curious George was he would have condemned that lady immediately for that comment and told his listeners that, that type of behavior would not be tolerated on his show. He said there were a multitude of legitimate reasons to attack Obama, and that he planned to attack him on each and every one of them, but he would never make nor tolerate any racial attacks against him. So then after about 15 minutes of apologizing he went back to the phone lines. About 20 minutes later another lady called and absolutely went off on Rush. She said that Rush had planned that phone call so that he could subliminally call Obama a monkey and that his excuse that he didn’t know who Curious George was, was completely impossible to believe and that he should be ashamed of himself and that he represents all of worst of the institutional racism that is prevalent in the Republican Party.
Now I have to tell you that phone call really pissed me off for a number of reasons. It made me very sorry, and come to the defense of freaking Rush Limbaugh, which is reason enough to really piss me off. I have no doubt that Rush didn’t know who Curious George was. He has never had any kids, and probably was never much of a kid himself even when he was a kid. I have heard of Curious George before, but there are all sorts of things that I totally know nothing about that seem to be common knowledge for my generation. I have never once read or had any desire to read a comic book. I don’t read comic strips in the news paper (in fact comic strips piss me off because it is just more crap shoved in a newspaper that should be reserved for news. I think that all movies based on comic books or old toys from the 80’s are a complete waste of celluloid. I didn’t collect Star Wars memorabilia; I honestly didn’t even like the Star Wars movies with the exception of Empire. I am the youngest of 6 kids so I virtually ignored all kid things my entire childhood because I was hanging out with people 7-11 years older than me. My entire life as a child revolved around getting good grades, playing sports, and listening to music. The only point for me sharing any of that is just to state, that I completely believe that Rush didn’t know who Curious George was because a vast majority of times that I have conversations with Slam or Matty about the 80’s, I don’t understand any of the topics that were important to them. Before the movies came out I couldn’t name you a single X-man (or X person), I didn’t know the difference between Marvel Comics and DC comics, with the exception of Bugs Bunny I didn’t watch any cartoons, I had never even heard of Transformers before, basically I didn’t give a damn about any of that stuff (and honestly I still don’t). I certainly don’t think there is anything wrong with enjoying those things, and some of the smartest people I have ever know were fans of all of those things, it just turns out that I wasn’t. So I honestly thought that Rush did exactly the right thing and handled the situation in a surprisingly tactful and honest way, and to hear him condemned for that really made me mad.
Ok disregard all but the first paragraph.