Uppity architecture? What the HELL?

[pegkerr]

What the hell kind of point is the john McCain site trying to make with this stupidity? As Daily Kos put it:

Gawd. So they're really going with this, eh? Their attack is going to be that the elitist Barack Obama is using... ETHNIC ARCHITECTURE?

What the h... I mean, how does... with the... and half of D.C... the White House... aaaargh.

Holy F@*(%ing Thundercats, I can't even find words for the stupid. Nobody can be this stupid. Nobody. Not even in politics. Not even among Republicans...

I just can't take it anymore. I knew that Republicans were going to be engaged in an all-out, no-holds-barred festival of attempted outrage, throughout this whole thing, but... I have no words. This is what McCain is running with? This is what Fox News has farted onto American television screens, in an attempt to fairly and balancelyed find a new way being offended at the uppityness or foreignness of this scary, scary ethnic candidate? It's not that Hillary Clinton said "I" too many times, or that Bill Clinton did not smile sufficiently, or that Barack's kids were insufficiently something-or-other -- now the architecture is uppity?

Make. It. Stop. We're electing the leader of the free world, not having a national staring contest with the dog. Just. Make. It. Stop.

Also see Daily Kos' comparative photos of other uppity architecture around Washington D.C. Like the White House. And the Lincoln Memorial. And the Capitol Building.

This is the first time I've looked at the McCain site. When I first clicked on the link, I couldn't believe it; I thought I'd somehow landed on a parody site. If this is what John McCain have to offer to a nation that is in real trouble and looking to him for leadership, I guess I'm not missing much.

Comments

[ckd]

Of course, the Republicans would never use columns as a backdrop.

It gets better, though. Click through to the "memo". It's a PDF that has a link to a YouTube clip from Animal House, which I'm absolutely sure was authorized by the copyright holder because it was posted by "solidpython", aka "Tom" from the United Kingdom.

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

What's really alarming is that people will drink it up without thinking.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable. But not. I am...speechless.

[moony]

I know who I'm voting for, so I'm just going to hide until November. This is when I'm glad not to own a television.

[aome.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing anything about "uppity architecture", only poking (highly inappropriate) fun at the whole convention venue, by suggestion toga garb.

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Ditto... did the link get changed on McCain's site? I'm also a bit confused.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

This is just unbelievable. Apparently the Republicans aren't even bothering to pretend to be a legitimate political party anymore.

[legomymalfoy.livejournal.com]

Am somehow convinced that they really feel like they're going to landslide in Nov, and that it really doesn't matter what we do and d'aww, aren't the ickle Dems cuuuuute? *stab* No, we're not cute. We're gonna cut you(r lead). :)

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I get the opposite impression - that McCain's people are flailing in sinking desperation, looking for anything they can get against Obama. Which seems equally odd, given how close the polls have been.

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

WTF!?!

My favourite part is the "For celebrities and lobbyists, please add the red over toga" jab. Remind me whose campaign is financed by lobbyists again? OH YEAH. It's not Obama's!

[bluewaterlilies.livejournal.com]

They posted a video yesterday congratulating Barack Obama for gaining his party's nomination on the 40th anniversary of Dr. King's speech. Were they being facetious? I couldn't decide.

[nwl.livejournal.com]

Were they being facetious?

Well, most people would think it was classy to congratulate an opponent. According to the news blurb I heard (I can't recall if it was NBC or ABC) McCain was running this ad for a day.

Will you think the same thing if Obama runs an ad for a day congratulating McCain?

Considering people constantly gripe about how campaigns are so negative, one would think a courtesy would be considered positive. I guess not.

[bluewaterlilies.livejournal.com]

It was an honest question, actually. I'll own up to being cynical, but I "read" it as, "Congratulations on taking advantage of this historic day for your own personal benefit."

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Well, seems to me they're just trying to be funny.

[nwl.livejournal.com]

Apparently the writer of the comments - Micheal Goldfarb - has under estimated the humor of Democrats. If this was in Obama's website and about Republicans, wouldn't it be considered a knee slapper? Of course it would! I'm not sure what the "McCain Report" is about, but it's under Blogs, so - like LJ - it's people gassing off. I'm not sure where the page cited claims to the opinion of McCain. The writer obviously don't know much about ancient Rome.

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