American Politics Thread 2013: I'm a cool Rodham grandma in the USA

there's a thread about syria btw

Chris Christie's 2016 tightrope walk

I'm never gonna be able to read a headline about this guy without thinking about his weight, am I?

The Civil Rights movement is “intellectually bankrupt,” Charles Krauthammer charged Monday night.

During his regular appearance on the panel segment of Special Report, Krauthammer argued that the movement is subsisting on the nostalgia from fifty years ago when it battles voter ID laws.

“Is the biggest issue in African-American life today the voter ID law? Is that going to alter the course of society in black America, the inner cities? The terrible standard in the schools? The breakdown of the family and all that?” Krauthammer asked.

“It’s nostalgia of a movement that’s intellectually bankrupt,” he said, and predicted that the voter ID laws the movement is challenging will stand up in court.

"Do you know what would help black America and its poverty and its schools and its broken homes? DISENFRANCHISEMENT. It's a fact."

Where do you vote against the breakdown of the family?

church

the breakdown of the family and all that

to an extent

lol @ use of "inner cities"

Krauthammer is such a clown

a clown who cheerfully strangles kittens

that "nostalgia" line comes from the same desperately frustrated place as that training video target shows you where they're like "unions have made many important contributions to our nation's history. but those battles are over."

except with extra hostility cuz yknow racism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/27/another-day-another-sign-that-larry-summers-will-get-the-fed-job/

ugh

yeah for once i wish the republicans were being proactively obstructionist

fuckin nast yo

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/scribble/5713/bc9021a7a1d25627178bffcd164963d497995ae1/

(link good for like a day i guess)

jesus the description of her show

Mitch McConnell speaking glowingly of MLK at US Capitol March on Washington anniversary event, on Cspan. Uh ok.

Now Boehner. Politicians

really running their left huh

they must realize he'd be protesting Obama if he was alive, eh

Now John Lewis

One speaker at the March just said King would not want to go war in Syria

Bill O'Reilly said yesterday evening that King would not like gangsta rap.

King would also not like Bill O'Reilly nor his plans for falafel usage.

a homeless person i saw yesterday told me he was King of the world

Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey had Trayvon Martin's parents onstage with them singing "Blowin' in the Wind." I am sure Rush and O'Reilly will have fun with that

@TPM Obama: Martin Luther King would like Obamacare bit.ly/1aPxuIK

Mr. Bush was invited to attend the event, but he declined because he recently underwent surgery to place a stent in a blocked heart artery.

Wall Street Journal and some online commenters are obsessed with the absence of Republican speakers at the March. McConnell just spoke at the US Capitol event.

Obama talking now

Man, I hope he chooses right now to launch his secretly-planned race war.

did he read MLK's FBI file as part of the most transparent Admin ever?

death penalty for nidal hasan

Hardly shocking

I don't totally understand why there's even a trial - he wants to the death penalty, the military wants to give it to him... what's the problem?

The system isnt Burger King, bro.

Actually...

I mean why didn't he just get plead out or something

He fully admits the crime and wants the maximum punishment

had no defense, didn't testify

onward to glorious martyrdom I guess

Good point. They should sentence him to death and keep forgetting to execute the sentence.

"sorry buddy, chair's on the fritz again. repair guy said he would be here between 10 and 4 whadayagonna do"

The system isnt Burger King, bro.

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:03 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Obviously doesn't realize where Whoppers come from

i'm not in favor of the death penalty. but my sense of justice also means that the wishes of the guilty are irrelevant at sentencing.

and wants the maximum punishment

He asked to be sentenced to work at Walmart?!

lol u dumbshit

http://gawker.com/did-cory-booker-make-up-a-newark-drug-dealer-1222369131

Incidentally, this isn’t the only famous anecdote to be questioned during Booker’s showy Senate run. Last year Booker told Du Jour magazine that, in order to escape critics, he patronized a 24-hour salon in order to obtain manicures and pedicures. Today Booker’s Republican opponent, Steve Lonegan, said his campaign staff looked all over Newark for such a 24-hour salon and came up empty. (When asked, a Booker campaign spokesman declined to immediately provide the name of the candidate’s salon to Gawker.)

LOL who the fuck cares

people from the new jersey, the internet. maybe.

Nope

I just checked and I don't give a fuck about Booker's salon, that's pretty desperate