Please don’t repeat the partisanship bad, bipartisanship good meme. It’s really harmful to sane politics. Seriously, think about what you just wrote. Do you think Obama and Clinton are getting high scores from the ACLU, NAACP, and women’s groups for their willingness to compromise with Republicans?

trick statement, repugs don’t believe in evolution

Except as it pertains to themselves.

Dubya “evolved” from a drunken screwup to…whatever he is today. McCain “evolved” from a corrupt suckler on Charles Keating’s teat to a fearless reformer. Now he’s “evolving” from a racist panderer to an enlightened (but not too enlightened) believer in racial equality. I swear, these people have parsed evolution more finely than Darwin could have done had he lived to be 500.”

Not to mention that we must all be forced to take them at face value on their evolution the very first time they mention it, whereas when Robert Byrd votes against civil rights legislation but has since regretted it many, many times over, we must forever remind him about it and shame him for it, even as he gets 100% ratings from the NAACP.

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

(nobody like you…)

Early morning, april 4
Shot rings out in the memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love…

Dubya “evolved” from a drunken screwup to…whatever he is today.

A sober screw-up?

If it was just a fight over whether to honor one man or not, it wouldn’t make any sense to be vehemently opposed.

The problem is that MLK is more than a man. He’s a symbolic representative of Blacks in America.

I know I had relatives who didn’t understand AT ALL what Dr. King and the others were doing at the time. Too much white privilege, conservative political views, lower-class background, etc. They probably never thought for a second how their position in life differed from that of Black Americans, why it was different, and what they could do to help.

There was also a very vigorous effort, at the time, by the FBI and others to discredit MLK by any and all means - mostly “dirty” - because they saw him as a threat.

So, much later, it was no surprise when some of my relatives were against an MLK holiday. They were ignorant racists.

And so were most of the others who were against honoring MLK. They may not have been actual white-sheet-wearing load and violent racists, but they were still racists.

Many of these same people treat the confederate flag as some sort of important symbol (of freedom/hate/civil-rights…? I don’t know and don’t understand).

So when some kind of opportunity comes up for them to express their true feelings, many of them let loose about MLK and his holiday. He’s become some kind of touchstone for exposing closet racists…

:(

Except as it pertains to themselves.

Dubya “evolved” from a drunken screwup to…whatever he is today. McCain “evolved” from a corrupt suckler on Charles Keating’s teat to a fearless reformer. Now he’s “evolving” from a racist panderer to an enlightened (but not too enlightened) believer in racial equality. I swear, these people have parsed evolution more finely than Darwin could have done had he lived to be 500.

Knowing how far my dad has come, AND knowing how far he still needs to go to approach being reasonable on issues like race, sexism, bigotry against LGBT’s, etc., just gives me huge pause when contemplating the possibility of McCain/BushIII.

It would no doubt result in at least 4-more years of delay in our social evolution, and there’s a good chance it would result in retrenchment.

I think this is the strongest reason I support Obama - I’m sick to death of the endless parade of barely distinguishable old white guys who’ve counted on POTUS as their birthright.

Get out of the way and bring in some fresh perspectives. The country has never been one color. Why should POTUS always be white and male?…