Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

oh yeah people hated the shit out of him

Z. Dwight

Z. Dwight Billingsly sounds like a Family Guy character name reject

also:

"Some people"

Does his byline really include (is black btw)?

I hope so.

I spend a lot of time around blacks who went to Ivy League schools and sit around and congratulate themselves on being the "chosen" ones. I believe many of these people would be dangerous for America if they were to gain political power.

Dan would make Cure song national anthem, so I agree.

Believing in Barack [Jay Nordlinger]

This morning, I saw a photo of Barack Obama huddled in conversation with Edward Said — some formal dinner. At first, the photo made my blood run cold. But then I thought, “No, you must believe in The One: He was surely refuting Said on the nature of the Middle East. Said is saying, ‘The Zionist entity is the source of all trouble in the region.’ And Obama is saying, ‘I’m sorry, professor, but that kind of thinking is what is keeping the Arab world in its mental chains.’”

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

if dan made 'killing an arab' the national anthem i think the corner would embrace him

Dan would make Cure song national anthem, so I agree.

It is this kind of dissent which must be crushed.

McCarthy seems a bit annoyed today.

"depth of relationship"

I think it says a lot more about these people than it does about Obama that they can't seem capable of conceiving that it is possible to understand, respect, or even have sympathy for someone else's viewpoint without agreeing with it or embracing it, or that it is possible to recognize when your own biases are impeding your judgment and act against them.

Dan OTM. It's crazy.

YES DAN BUT ISRAEL DO YOU SEE???

seriously did you just OTM dan on the point that corner dirtbags are psychotic authoritarians

I mean at this point in the race if you're a mccain supporter then it is basically guaranteed that your being a mccain supporter says more about you than it says about EITHER of the candidates

Pretty much all hardcore partisans are psychotic authoritarians so it's not that much of a surprise

again I must rep the john dean book

oh snap, he went to college with my dad, I wonder if they know each other

I am still laughing at K-lo linking to Corey Hart videos to shore up her hopes of a McCain win.

oh, McCarthy:

McCain is McCain. I doubt anyone at National Review has been more critical of him or is less enthusiastic about a McCain presidency than I am.* He is a big-government centrist who is more left than right on countless important issues. He became our nominee out of a crowded field no candidate dominated because of early support from Democrats and independents (i.e., non-Republicans) as well as some influential pundits who told us that only someone like McCain — a reach-across-the-aisle moderate — could win in what they assured us was a Democrat year. Now, predictably, many of those same folks have abandoned McCain for Obama, and McCain's only chance to eek out a win is to convince the very conservatives he's been jabbing all these years. In effect, McCain's Lefty-light has made beating Obama much more difficult because his many maverick forays make it hard for us to get traction on subjects like ACORN, Khalidi, speech-suppression, immigration, enhanced due-process for terrorists, etc. A real conservative could have made a much more compelling fight on the issues than McCain has.

But that's water under the bridge now, and none of it changes the obvious: Whatever typically infurating dalliances McCain may have had with Khalidi and ACORN, they don't compare to the depth of relationship that Obama had with Khalidi and ACORN — and like-minded Leftists. It's not even close.

"McCain is nasty, but Obama is NASTIER, so there."

"It's Andy. Mr. McCarthy if you're nasty."

That argument makes absolutely no sense.

Only someone who is a complete amnesiac could really think Mitt Romney or Huckabee or Fred Thompson wasn't going to get their clock cleaned just as bad if not worse by Obama.

enhanced due-process for terrorists

i will say that i doubt romney would have done something a detrimental as pick a Palin.

but yer right: i can't say how it would have affected the electoral vote, but I doubt Mittens would be doing any better than the 52.0/46.4% popular vote split 538 is calling

Sure but Romney didn't need to pick Palin. He's would have been just as detrimental all by his lonesome.

It's kind of crazy that the two most credible Republican candidates were McCain and HUCKABEE.

Huckabee wasn't really credible though. It's very difficult to campaign with no money.

That's kind of my point! He probably stood the best chance of being elected after McCain just based on who he is (affable God-botherer) and really it was the lack of campaign funds that did him in more than anything else.

Yeah it was a bad crop. Let's hope it stays that way.

K LO linked to a Corey Hart song, oh lawd

My favorite thing about these posts is that their notions of what constitutes dangerous subversive activity goes so far that I can't even manage to feel insulted or smeared by it. Do I think it was okay for people to have conversations with Edward Said? Umm, yeah, totally! Do I conceive of a world where America is no better than any other country? If that means I don't think the U.S. has some god-given standing that makes it and its citizens inherently more important and morally significant than, like, Canadians, then, umm, sure? It's like reading a blog about how the nation is threatened by OMG people who eat grapefruit! How can you stand idly by while they eat grapefruit?

Eating fruits? A sin, surely.

any mofo I catch eating my grapefruit is gonna catch a case

ps not a euphemism, stay the fuck away from my grapefruit or I'll cut you

'Anyone watch the afro-mercial last night?'

+ bonus comment on why this statement isn't racist

not the corner, but close enough

jeez, when did Edward Said become such a bugabooo on the right? In graduate school I don't remember his views re Palestine getting much play in National Review.

+ note that Obama "sounds and looks" like J.J. from Good Times

This is gonna be a fun future of trying not to bother explaining to people what's wrong with the things they say

Last night I thought I was watching Barrys Afromerical and realized after a 1/2 hour that I was wathcing Good Times...doesnt barry sound and look alot like JJ Walker???

srsly wtf

xp: hahaha nabisco hi-5

Alfred I feel like the right has spent the past 6 years or so drifting toward the position that anyone who remotely thinks there are issues that need to be addressed re: the situation of Palestinian civilians is either evil or an apologist thereof

http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/barack-obama-official-small.jpghttp://www.tvparty.com/vgifs13/jjgoodtimes.jpg

MY GOD I'M SEEING DOUBLE

I'm almost tempted to read through their discussion of Obama's Sanford & Son / Jeffersons mix-up, as the slip has shaken my confidence in this candidate to its very foundations

Is Corey Hart a Conservative, Liberal, NDP, or Separatist?

I don't know if I can speak to you if you're going to call yourself "SHAPOOPI!"

s Corey Hart a Conservative, Liberal, NDP, or Separatist?

he's a Celine Dion Songwriter.

when you read stuff like that its hard to understand why people on the left AND the right think that its the socially conservative wing of the party that is gonna be left behind in a new inclusive GOP

tom was pretty otm when he said that having a black commander in chief will have the side effect of making racists even more obvious (and obviously racist)

i think they were always obvious - its just served to marginalize their other, non-race-related interests