Tag: Missouri

Everything I learned about fighting the next Revolutionary War I learned from a Republican billboard

war!This sign can be seen in Missouri while driving on I-70. It’s paid for by the Lafayette County Republicans. I guess by “corrupt government” they mean we have a black man with a funny sounding name as our duly elected president.

Racist Missouri Obama billboard angers some

Outside West Plains, Missouri on U.S. 63 sits a sign so absurd and racist that it’s almost funny.  At least it doesn’t follow John McCain and Sarah Palin’s latest talking points claiming that Barack Obama has terrorists for friends.

The billboard attempts to capitalize on Obama’s middle name, Hussein.  It’s not like he picked that name for himself in 1992.  The name was given to him by his parents when he was born.  I can’t see the logic in attacking someone over their middle name.  If I did, I might have something to say about John McCain’s middle name, Sidney.

And the billboard is not even factually accurate. I wish Barack Obama did favor gay marriage. Unfortunately, he does not. Instead, he favors civil unions. As far as taxes go, he is only raising taxes on the top 5% of taxpayers. He wants to give the rest of us a tax cut.

I’m not even sure that it is Obama wearing that turban.  It looks more like Baba Booey from the Howard Stern show. [Link]

This is why I like Joe Biden

Once again, the McCain campaign is offended over something said on the campaign trial. Will this be on ongoing theme until the election? From CNN:

During a campaign event in Columbia, Missouri, Biden did not mention his Republican counterpart by name but said, “I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy … and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect.”

Biden’s support of stem cell research is at odds with the position taken by the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose 5-month-old son, Trig, has Down syndrome.

Palin, an evangelical Christian, opposes stem cell research because it involves the use of human embryos, but her running mate, GOP presidential nominee McCain, does support stem cell research.
“Well, guess what, folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?” asked Biden, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.

Biden is exactly right. You cannot pretend to care about those with disabilities if you are going to insist that a 100-cell blastocyst is a human being and be against government funded stem cell research.

There is only one political party that supports stem cell research.