Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

uhm, enjoy:

http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2008/11/09/no_we_cant

And Patrice O'neal gets mentioned, even!

Friday, November 07, 2008
MN Recounter Supported by Communists, ACORN
Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 1:14 PM

The man overseeing Minnesota’s contentious recount between incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and comedian turned candidate Al Franken is a known Democratic cheerleader with ties to far-left organizations including ACORN and the Communist Party of the USA.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has not carried out his role in the traditionally non-partisan manner expected of the office by contributing money to the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Laborer Party and speaking with press at the Democratic National Convention about “ways Democrats can sway rural voters.”

Most alarmingly, officials from ACORN and the Communist Party of the USA endorsed his candidacy for Secretary of State. Ritchie even highlighted ACORN’s endorsement on his campaign website.

Ritchie once worked as a leader of a coalition group that coordinated with ACORN in 2004. As Executive Director of the National Voice, Ritchie worked with a slew of left-wing get-out-the-vote organizations like ACORN and the People for the American Way under the umbrella group "The November 2 Project."

Today, ACORN is being investigated for fraudulent activities in Ritchie’s state among several others. The group is accused of failing to turn in registrations within the required 10-day period in Hennepin and Ramsey County.

The Communist Party of the USA wrote on their website that Ritchie “could play a valuable national role” in protecting voter rights, as opposed to the roles Republican Secretaries of State Katharine Harris of Florida and Ken Blackwell of Ohio served in previous elections.

The hard-hitting Minnesota-based blog “Minnesota Democrats Exposed” has consistently criticized Ritchie for his liberal bent. The blog published a photo (above) of Ritchie standing speaking in front of a podium with an “Obama-Biden” sign at a Democratic Farm Labor Party fundraiser in October. Blogger Michael B. Brodkorb contrasted it with statements from his office claiming non-partisanship from his office weeks before Election Day.

The Minnesota Star Tribune is giving Republican Senator Coleman a narrow 239-edge over Democrat Franken. The race was originally called by the AP for Coleman, but his winning margin was so slim Minnesota law required a recount.

Update: I'm not the only one on this. Matthew Vadum has more details on Ritchie up HERE.

switch out "florida, katherine harris, right wing, gore, bush" for a few of those

I can never remember - is the problem with Obama the fact that he never stood for anything, so we can't tell 'who he is', or that what he promised was so grandiose that he'll never be able to live up to it?

Kinder, Gentler ObamaCorps [John Derbyshire]
I dunno if it was me, but the Obama's Change website has undergone some fast changes of its own.

When I commented on Friday about the pretty-much-compulsory-looking "national service" plan proposed there, the site said this:

… developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year …
It currently says this:

… setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free …
In the minds of our college administrators, that will translate into: "Oh goody! — We can raise tuition by $4,000!" Nice, anyway, to suspect that someone in the Obama machine is reading The Corner.

11/10 01:17 PM

Yes, Derby, that's precisely it. The Obama campaign is reading you breathlessly.

uh, we are

ha but those two proposals arent v different

I think it's safe to say even if the Obama campaign is reading the Corner breathlessly (from laughter) they are not adjusting policies based on anything John Derbyshire has written.

well yes

(particularly if you discount young black voters, who probably deserve to fall under the surge in the black vote more than a surge in the youth vote)

lol

reminds of something some blogger used to go on about (Josh Marshall I think) -- conservatives who would argue, "hey, if you throw out all the votes of blacks, gays, union members and all those people who are guaranteed Dems, we'd be crushin em in every election!!"

aka massive chunk of Dem coalition = "not real America"

have fun w/ your shrinking pie, gop!

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my favorite corollary of this is libertarian republicans fantasizing that if they just had half of the latin vote + half of the black vote they'd win every time - w/o realizing that like a third of white ppl who vote republican are only doing it because the GOP isnt doing anything to get black or latin voters

its true that libertarians are some of the dumbest people

yeah it's usually fans of ron "it's impossible for a libertarian to be a racist" paul but you hear it from "moderate" GOP types sometimes too

Obama's Not Really the First [Mark Krikorian]
James Earl Jones was the first black president I'd ever seen — he was The Man, which I saw as a kid on TV (I think I also read the novel, which I remember being very different). What others? There's the president on 24 (I've never seen it, but I've heard), and apparently Morgan Freeman was the president in Deep Impact, according to an NPR segment last year on the subject. This post last week at a movie blog also lists the presidents in Idiocracy and Head of State, both of which are kind of clownish; that post also lists the president from The Fifth Element (a great movie, by the way), but he was president of Earth, not the United States. This story from the Minneapolis paper also lists 1933's Rufus Jones for President, starring an 8-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. in his first film where he somehow gets elected president (you can see the whole thing — it's short — starting here). A piece from Slate last month says Danny Glover will play the president in an upcoming film called 2012. Are there others? TV shows, novels, whatever?

11/12 12:04 AM

oh boy

wasn't C. Thomas Howell the first black student to matriculate in an Ivy League school?

that is. . . good stuff

whats the big deal about sarah palin being a candidate, we all remember when glenn close was already vice president

This post last week at a movie blog also lists the presidents in Idiocracy and Head of State, both of which are kind of clownish

Hey, you know what else is kinda clownish?

Fictional Black Presidents [Mark Krikorian]

OK, my last selection of reader contributions. This, from Izengabe:

In Philip K Dick's brilliant novel The Crack in Space centers around Jim Briskin who is campaigning to be the 1st black president of the United States and his plan to solve Earth's chronic overpopulation problem by sending people though a hole in space to colonizing a parallel alter-Earth that was found by Jifi-scuttler repairman.

And more sci-fi, from Britton W.:

Robert Heinlein wrote on [a black woman president] in “Over the Rainbow” in 1980. She was a Palin-like character who stepped in upon the death of the president.

Colin A. points out that columnist Ralph Peters's 1990 novel entitled The War in 2020 also features a black president.

Paul D. alerted me to a Richard Pryor skit from his show in 1977 where he was the president conducting a press conference that, like everything else I've seen by Pryor, manages to be both unfunny and so chock full of stereotypes it might as well have been produced by the Klan.

Not to end on a sour note, Alec B. sent along a link about a 1964 comic book called "Treasure Chest," published by the Catholic Guild for distribution to parochial schools, that featured a story line on black presidential candidate Tim Pettigrew (though the story line ended without saying whether he won, so technically it doesn't qualify).

crack in space is one of the shitter dick books

dick jokes

crack shitty dick

Uncle Shavedlongdick

bff:poor joe biden having to hang out with cheney tonight
hoos:omg what
hoos:i guess that's inevitable it just hadn't occurred to me
bff:its the tour of the naval observatory so the wives are there too but yeah if he disappears today we know why
hoos:extraordinarily rended
hoos:or as i like to call it
hoos:"the dick move"

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.

And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit.

The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he's part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous.

^^gonna be awkward

be funny if he doesn't show him anything but like the first two or three rooms, the rest are all padlocked up

only the big hoos could excelsior himself and get away with it

Not from The Corner, but close enough. K-hammer:

Liberals have always wanted the auto companies to produce the kind of cars they insist everyone should drive: small, light, green and cute. Now they will have the power to do it.

liberals demand hello kitty themed cute cars

u know all those hollywood liberals be rolling in their light green cute cars lol

fuk a smart car give me my cute car detroit

note to detroit, please to build this green car again:

http://www.cooless.com/car/71hemicuda.jpg

only plz to stick diesel engine in it this time so's we can run it off cellulose

I would like this green car:

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp328/thebuffalochronicles/TheHomer.jpg

btw guys this place is my absolute top one go-to for lol wingnuts meta-commentary (other than this thread of course ha ha)

http://thepoorman.net/

http://thepmi.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/toot_banner.jpg

Liberals have always wanted the auto companies to produce the kind of cars they insist everyone should drive: small, light, green and cute. Now they will have the power to do it.

because the market has treated them so well, as they churned out pickups, SUVs and nu-muscle cars?

why is this man allowed to write about economics?

oh it's krauthammer, i thought it was kudlow for a second

you want economic hilarity:

why is this man allowed to write

I can't wait for when the newspapers fail and liberals are accused of LETTING IT HAPPEN because of dissenting print voices like krauthammer and kristol and brooks

xps yeah that vid has been making the rounds, so amazing. it's almost as if the party of 'market discipline' is just a bunch of clueless cheerleaders for the wants of the rich or something

In World War II, government had the auto companies turning out tanks. Now they would be made to turn out hybrids. The difference is that, in the middle of a world war, tanks have a buyer. Will hybrids? One of the reasons Detroit is in such difficulty is that consumers have been resisting the smaller, less powerful, less safe cars forced on the industry by fuel-efficiency mandates. Now Detroit would be forced to make even more of them.

If you think we have economic troubles today, consider the effects of nationalizing an industry of this size, but now run by bureaucrats issuing production quotas to fit five-year plans to meet politically mandated fuel-efficiency standards — to lift us to the sunny uplands of the coming green utopia.

hands up if you have heard anyone anywhere propose nationalizing the auto manufacturers

to pick out one of the not-true sentences there, which includes all of them.

I proposed it the other day for teh lulz

the idea that detroit is in trouble because people aren't buying hybrids is like saying reagan died because of term limits or something

that youtube is incredible

you want economic hilarity: http://www.youtube.com/v/2I0QN-FYkpw&hl=en

wow, holy shit. Has Fox had a "we're sorry we ever doubted you, Schiff" segment yet? With public flaying of Ben Stein?

my favorite is the part where they all mention the financial companies ppl should be investing in and how its such a great steal

dude even mentions bear stearns although he admits its the riskier one

and the one dude who says invest in wamu!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503166.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

dude is into the blame the-government-for-encouraging-home-ownership theory though