Plunderbund

Eric wrote this earlier today in reaction to Obama’s speech about race.
I got the sense today that Barack Obama was tired. Tired of the hatred and fear-mongering insanity that has gripped not just Republicans, but Democrats as well. I know I get tired when I have to endure the same types of slurs I saw […]

They don’t call him Slick Willy for nothing. Bill Clinton, in an attempt to re-write history, tries to claim that his statement in South Carolina was not playing the race card. Funny thing is, he just can’t resist the temptation to do it again:
(CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton defended his role in […]

… because I really don’t want to stir the pot any more, but… I think it’s too important to ignore.
It appears the Clinton campaign might have been doing some additional race-baiting.
Tensions are running high in Democratic circles between the supporters of senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — and nowhere is that more evident than […]

Honestly, I expected a narrow Clinton win here in Ohio (after all, if there is one thing we’re good at, it’s fucking things up for the rest of the country), but I was a little surprised by the margin. As I pointed out last night, exit polling wasn’t exactly flattering to Clinton voters, as […]

It may have flown under the radar with all of the election hullabaloo, but William F. Buckley Jr. died last week. He’s often been viewed as a paragon of conservative thought. And to some extent, this is true - this is half of an interesting debate he had with Noam Chomsky in 1969, […]

Simply the best speech ever written, ever delivered, ever recorded:

Do we still have dreams?

Huck’s got a little Old Testament in him.
“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.
“In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what […]

This is the first page from a comic commissioned by George C. Wallace’s 1960 campaign for Governor of Alabama.

The first thing he touts in official campaign materials wasn’t pensions, or roads, or education (well, kinda), or his economic plan. No, it was standing up to the federal government to protect Alabama’s right to be […]

On Meet the Press, Pat Buchanan had this gem:
“[L]et me explain it, 90 percent of Republican votes are — in the general election are non-Hispanic, white. That is a higher percentage in the primaries, even higher percentage in New Hampshire and Iowa. These are [sic] what is going to decide this nomination, Tim.
“There is a […]

Given Bill O’Reilly’s shocking claims that Sylvia’s is just like any white restaurant, The Daily Show decided to send Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore to check it out for himself.
I wish I had an embeddable version of the video, but it’s worth the click-thru. You might just piss yourself laughing.

That’s pretty much how Bill’O described a dinner with Al Sharpton in Sylvia’s in Harlem. What was so amazing?
I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily […]

Stick with the video. It’s about double standards and racial injustice… still alive in the South today.

ESPN has a fantastic article about the history of racial injustice in the South, and how it’s influencing opinions about Michael Vick’s alleged dogfighting.
“You would think that Michael Vick is the largest criminal this country has ever encountered, by the media play,” [prominent 1960s civil rights activist Juanita Abernathy] says. “The way they have portrayed […]

PBS provides evidence of the GOP fixing the election here in Ohio. Of course, this will be ignored because of “media bias”.
Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004? Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections? This week NOW examines documents and evidence that points to a Republican […]

This morning, RABid is pimping Ken Blackwell’s latest column on TownHall. The entire column is a fabrication - a lie - and plainly claims a bill does something it explicitly does not. Let’s take a closer look, shall we?
Blackwell says:
A bill making it illegal for people of various faiths to freely hold and […]