Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #23--Clint Eastwood

After the debacle that was Clint Eastwood's performance at the republican National Convention this year, republicans were wont to complain that Democrats were using a double standard:  it was perfectly okay for Democrats to cheer on Bill Maher, Barbra Streisand, or Jon Stewart, but not for the republicans to react in kind to Clint Eastwood?

Um...the big difference is that we weren't fucking stupid enough to put our celebrities on two spots before our party's nominee and even if we had, we certainly wouldn't have let him have free reign with his script, and we most assuredly wouldn't have put someone up there who was anti-choice and an opponent of LGBT rights.  Which is exactly what the republicans, and by extension, Willard's campaign chose to do.

Do we really want an administration that would fuck up one of the most important moments of its campaign so badly?  I mean these conventions are scripted down to when it's appropriate to fart and they put an addled old coot out there with completely free reign to talk to a fucking chair? 

Give me a fucking break--I wouldn't have these idiots cut my lawn, let alone run the most powerful country in the world.

Peace,
emaycee

A pop-up caught in foul territory

Apparently in the fantasy world of the Free Press' Stephen Henderson (Editorial Page Editor, no less) a mediocre speech with very little in the way of explanation of exactly how Mr. Romney is going to do a beter job for all of us than President Obama is considered "knock[ing] it out of the park."

Sigh.  Mr. Henderson, whose political sensibilities would be what we used to call a moderate republican (liberal on social issues, fiscally conservative) but what passes for a Liberal in the Free Press (trust me, if Mr. Henderson's political views were Liberal, I wouldn't fucking be one), thinks if only Willard was campaigning like the Governor he was in Massachusetts, all of our problems would be solved.

In a word, bullshit.  Romeny is a chameleon--he was a left-leaning republican in Massachusetts because he had to be to survive in a solidly blue state and he didn't run for re-election because he had as much chance of winning as I did and I wasn't even in the fucking race.  Mr. Romney will be completely beholden to the radical right and the Antoinettes, and if Mr. Henderson believes otherwise he is an idiot (from reading his columns he's not naive).

Funny how the Free Press never once mentioned--not fucking once--that economists are predicting that we'll create 12 million jobs by 2016 regardless of who is in the White House, and Mr. Romney promised us 12 million jobs by 2020.  Talk about things that make you go hmmmm.

If Mr. Henderson truly cared about his readers, the city of Detroit, or the state of Michigan, he would be wise to educate his readership via this piece by Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi.  It's a piece written of facts and it doesn't give a shit what republicans think of it and it doesn't give them a chance to falsely spin it.  It portrays Willard Romney for what he is:  a vulture capitalist who preys on others and offers nothing in the way of good jobs and financial security for ordinary Americans. 

We may be disappointed with the level of progress from President Obama's administration, but we will be utterly devasted economically by a Romney administation--think Bush the Lesser on steroids times two.

Peace,
emaycee

What a difference a day makes

This was the Detroit Free Press on Friday morning, trumpeting Clint Eastwood's  speech at the RNC Convention the prior evening.

This was the Detroit Free Press on Saturday morning, letting us know (about 24 hours too late) that, well, maybe, after all, it wasn't received all that well outside of mainstream republicans.

Fucking seriously?  It took the Free Press 24 hours to figure this out?  For fuck's sake, I was on the web all night Thursday and the speech was almost universally panned.  Twitter had dozens of negative comments just on the couple of sites I was following that night.

I appreciate that their readership continues to fall and that they're trying to swing a little to the right to garner more republican subscribers (and good luck with that), but Jesus H. Christ this was like a man with a tin ear trying to play a guitar.  Just brutal.

Peace,
emaycee