Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh told voters in Ohio to vote in the Democratic primary to cause chaos for the Democrats. Ohio does not have an open primary. A voter has to declare their party. I lived in Ohio for eleven years and voted there for eleven years and voted in the primaries. You had to declare.
If you wanted to change parties you had to sign a document saying that you were honestly changing parties. It wasn’t a loyalty oath it was simply a legal document one signed to protect BOTH parties from people from the other party playing games. If you don’t like it, don’t vote or live in Ohio.
Well, Rush told people to make the jump. Many did and signed that they were honestly changing parties when they weren’t. Now there are allegations of voter fraud. How could people be foolish enough to listen to some fool on the radio telling them to break the law and then do so?
To think I had given up selling the Brooklyn Bridge...
But Elisabeth Hasselbeck of “The View” has to win the award for great moments in stupidity. In the conversation about Jeremiah Wright the point was made that we were looking at three minutes broken into 30 second sound bites of a twenty year career. (It was actually over thirty years.) The point was made that Wright had done an amazing amount of go
od in his pastorate there and it was unfair to judge him entirely on these sound bites.This was not enough for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, however. She compared Wright’s ministry with the statement that maybe Jeffrey Dahmer had eaten peanut butter sandwiches growing up and that didn’t make him less of a cannibal...
That’s all I have to say. She wins the great moments in stupidity award and she has rendered me speechless other than this. One of the better days in my career as a Giants fan was when they Giants cut her husband Tim. From that day on Elisabeth and I no longer had to be kin. Ugh!
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Many a Caucasian has been virtually ruined due to questionably racist albeit stupid remarks, e.g. Don Imus. Imus threw himself on the mercy of public opinion and apologized loudly and profusely. Publicly lynching Imus was wrong. Publicly lynching Wright is wrong. What Wright said is what Wright said. Does Wright refute the controversial statements? Why haven't we heard anything from him? If he is Obama's "mentor," why don't they stand together and clarify Mr. Wright's comments? The important thing in all of this, however, is to flesh out the views of the "mentor" of our potential next president. P.S. Hasselbeck’s point is that even cannibals can do good works, as can racists. Nonetheless, a cannibal is a cannibal and a racist is a racist. Her comparison of a cannibal with a racist was certainly meant as hyperbole. I am sure she would agree that cannibals are worse than racists. And, if Hasselbeck wins an award for stupidity, then you should win an award for sidestepping the real issue, which is “who” exactly is mentoring our probable next President.
I would emphatically agree with you about Imus. Actually, I blogged about Sharpton at that time in a very not very flattering way.
As for Wright and Obama. Wright, in my opinion, like all people, ought to be perceived by a whole body of work instead of 30 second sound bites.
I really haven't sidestepped this. I don't have a problem with Wright having been Obama's pastor or mentor as long as there is evidence that Obama does not agree with Wright on these hostile issues. Obama not only spoke about it, but, his book gives a very different portrait or perception than we hear from Wright's sound bites. Obama owed the country an explanation and he has given it.
Frankly, what Wright does or doesn't do, is up to him. If I were him I'd remain silent as the press has demonstrated no ability to interview anyone well. The only person I'd let interview me, if I were him, is Bill Moyers. Period. But that's my opinion.
I am aware that Hasselbeck used hyperbole but it was and is a stupid analogy.
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