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[elfs]

I haven't been blogging about politics too much recently. It simply horrifies me that a man so completely without honor and dignity as Candidate McCain has shown himself to be is within striking distance of the White House. And now Chris Matthews, under the guise of "analysis" on Hardball this morning gave us this punchbowl-filler:

When you see the picture together of John McCain [and Sarah Palin] .. it's like they are offering themselves up as a kind of a political couple, almost like President and Senator Clinton. They offering themselves up to run as an alternative to Barack and Michelle Obama to go to the White House. This picture is appealing to traditional Americans. They go, yeah, that's a nice traditional formal, we've seen that picture before.

I'm not sure what's more foul and revolting: Chris Matthews depicting John McCain and Sarah Palin as some kind of May/December romance, or proposing that Barack and Michelle Obama aren't "appealing to traditional Americans."

What's not appealing about the marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama? When we look at them together, you know, first marriage, two delightful children, traditional home life, churchgoing couple-- what do we see that turns off "traditional Americans?" Inquiring minds want to know, Chris Matthews...

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

You answered it the same way you answer every other question. With a mouthful of shit.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

You answered it the same way you answer every other question. With a mouthful of shit.

You're claiming Obama didn't spend 20 years going to, and taking his family to, a racist pastor?

Now which one of us is committing corprophagy?

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

I'm claiming that you're trying to change the topic. Again. Like you always try to do. And it's your problem, not ours.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I didn't "change the topic." The original text asked a question, which was what about Barack and Michelle Obama, churchgoing couple, offended the mainstream of the American people.

I simply answered it. That the church to which they went was a blatantly racist one.

If the question was meant to be rhetorical, to suggest the answer "their race," then he who asked it should have been more wary.

Rhetorical questions need not be taken rhetorically.