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mrph ([personal profile] mrph) wrote2008-06-18 10:43 pm

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Spotted via [profile] warren_ellis and [info]asw909 -

Barack Obama badge, on sale at the Texas Republican state convention

Words aren't actually failing me, but I'm not finding any that are useful and appropriate.

[identity profile] mister-jack.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
You're surprised? Not really being keeping up with the US election, have you?

[identity profile] mrph.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
No, 'surprised' wasn't quite the word I was looking for...

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2008-06-21 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
In politics it seems one needs a word for astonished-but-not-in-the-least-surprised. [livejournal.com profile] purplerabbits and I eventually settled on "struck"...

[identity profile] valkyriekaren.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, so you've not seen the one that depicts him as a monkey, then?

http://wonkette.com/390464/rednecks-enjoy-obama-monkey-t+shirt

[identity profile] mrph.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I have now. I think I'm going to take a short break from the internet for the rest of the evening.

[identity profile] mister-jack.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
I find it rather harder to get irate about that one given how often I, and others, have described Dubyah as a chimp.

Mind you associated blacks and monkeys seems to have a bitter history in the US which is, I think, rather lost on me.

[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
He'll still win.

[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
In fact he's more likely to win the more ridiculous shit like that the racist part of the Republican party pull, I would like to think.

[identity profile] aoakley.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
The original blogger's apparent shock at such prejudice is somewhat marred by his trivialisation of disabilities such as red-green deutanopia (colour blindness).

[identity profile] dakiara.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
I think my brain has words, it's just that they're falling out of my open mouth... O_O

[identity profile] mhw.livejournal.com 2008-06-22 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
That's a jawdrop moment, that is.