Clintonite Politics Redux

I know it has been about a year and your memory might be fuzzy on this, but we had immense delight this weekend watching Hillary Clinton get rolled out in front of the media to comment on the Iranian elections.

To listen to her have to remark on things like “respecting the will of the people” and to let “the voters decide” just made me laugh. Hell, I probably actually chortled. I mean, a year ago, this lady was officially out of the running for the Democratic nomination and was insisting on not conceding until the superdelegates could pull a backdoor stunt to give the brass ring to her. Or, as she so delicately stated, until someone assassinated Barack Obama.

Here, take a look:

In another fun bit of Clintonian failure, vulgar Clinton Mouthpiece Terry McAuliffe lost his carpetbagger stunt at being the Democratic nominee for the governor’s race in Virginia.

Let us hope that this streak continues and the Clintons and their followers are continually forced to a) eat their words, and b) fail when trying to gain leadership roles in this nation. Their advise is of use and they do not require constant shunning, but their brand of self-serving “leadership” is something we need to move on from.

altmuslim – Terrorism: The unequal treatment of two religiously motivated crimes

A psychotic white right winger violates the sanctity of a church and kills a doctor.

A hardcore black Muslim convert shoots at two recruiters and kills one.

Only one of them gets charged with terrorism. If you guessed the black Muslim, you’d be correct.

I’m not saying the recruiter shooter shouldn’t have the book thrown at him – he should – but so should the assassin who actually knew the name of his target.

Read this for more on the injustice between the two scumbags.

I imagine Old van Brunn the Nazi Lover will be treated with kid gloves too, even though he, too, is another right wing terrorist. You know, because of the color of his skin.

It may not be overt racism, but it IS there. And it is playing out – once again – in courtrooms across America.

Asia Times Online :: The Meaning of Tehran Spring

Even though CNN has ignored it, there is a viable political protest going on in Iran. The people there are protesting what increasingly seems to be a flawed and rigged election. The will of the people has definitely not been listened to.

Aside from the violence, wouldn’t it have been great to see Americans protest a stolen election? You know, perhaps in 2000 or 2004? Just saying. The Iranians had a FIVE MILE LONG protest march through Tehran today. We sat on our asses and let Bush steal two elections.

And you wonder why the world laughs at us.

The first part of today’s Here and Now covers the protests. The BBC has, as usual, provided excellent coverage.

The Boston Globe uses images to tell the story.

As does Time Magazine.

Time also addressed the argument for why the vote was rigged.

News is increasingly being more and more censored in Iraq. The BBC complains that it’s Persian service is being jammed and cell signals are pretty much a no-no. What internet that remains is being utilized by various Twitter feeds. Here is one and Andrew Sullivan has a list of others.

The irony here is that even an alternative to Ahmedinejad would still be anti-West and fairly conservative. There is no liberal democratic movement on the ballot. That said, even given a choice, the people’s voice should be respected.

And to think we could have voted for a small-minded man whose only regional policy was “Bomb, Bomb, Iran”.

Still want to hate on Obama jerks?

Minuteman group arrested for murdering family

You probably won’t hear this on TV or read it in the news, but apparently we’ve had a THIRD incident of conservative terrorism.

Shooting a doctor in church and trying to assassinate a crowd in the Holocaust museum wasn’t enough for these guys.

Now, they’ve taken to race-based home invasion and murder. Three Minuteman terrorists staged a drug raid on a Latino family and rob them. But just for the hell of it, they decided to execute them, presumably for the color of their skin. This included shooting an eight year old girl.

The mother of the family survived and called the police. Bonus vengeance: she found a gun and shot one of the attackers when they returned to check that everyone was dead. Bonus bonus: she shot the one named Bush. Just saying.

Here is an actual news article on this. The local racists originally thought this was a race-on-race attack. Because, you know, all Mexicans are murderers.

More hate in Arizona: Volunteer-Humanitarian Convicted of Littering while “Trying to Save Lives”

Following on the Minuteman terrorist story I just posted comes this story of a decent human being who has been charged with littering for leaving water in the desert for illegal aliens crossing – let me say it again – THE DESERT!

Fish and Wildlife Service officers confiscated the water as, you know, it’s the compassionate conservative thing to do.

U.S. Neocons Favor Ahmadinejad in Iranian Election

Just to be against the voices of moderation and change (even by Iranian approved standards) the Rethugs were in favor of Ahmadinejad winning the election.

Granted, the apparently thievery of the vote in his name now makes him the illegitimate bastard brother of Bush, but the irony of that seems to be lost on both Mahmoud and the neocons as well.

So, in a nutshell, the hardcore conservatives are in favor of a guy who wants to wipe Israel off the map, and they still claim the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum isn’t one of their’s?

Morons.

Way to abuse the Internet

They say the Republican Party has to embrace the web to maintain traction in this current political environment.

Personally, I think they’d be better off trying to cull the racists, bigots, terrorists and loudmouth drug addict sex fiend radio shitheels in their midst. But that’s just me.

As for the whole “we know Web 2.0” thing? They have a lot to learn.

Last year, for some reason, I started getting email from Jim Inhofe. You know, the anti-climate change racist asswipe. I don’t know how I got on his list. Presumably they trolled a list of any email account that ever sent a message from Oklahoma and spammed it. I mean, I haven’t lived there since 2003, never voted for the asshole or his ilk, and I have never been a member of the GOP, KKK, or NRA.

It was mildly entertaining to read his detached from reality BS during the election, until the rise of the Palinites and Inhofe’s willingness to join their racist sedition bandwagon. I unsubscribed and was the better for doing so.

Until this week. Mary Fallin, another OK Rethug cretin, is running for governor. And suddenly I’m getting email from her.

Yeah, these spam artists have a lot to learn about properly using technology for something other than to blow up brown people and assassinate people in churches and Holocaust museums.