pegkerr: (HP Politics)
pegkerr ([personal profile] pegkerr) wrote2008-08-28 05:52 pm

Uppity architecture? What the HELL?

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.

[identity profile] bluewaterlilies.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] nwl.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] bluewaterlilies.livejournal.com 2008-08-29 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
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."