Is it Thursday already? This week is really flying by fast. Frankly, I’m exhausted by all the chicken jokes. Who knew there were so many? Let’s open this open thread and you share what’s on your mind.
Michael Steele strikes again! This time with what we call a political gaffe, when a politician accidentally speaks the truth.
Why should an African-American vote Republican?
“You really don’t have a reason to, to be honest — we haven’t done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True,” Republican National Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students Tuesday night.
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“We have lost sight of the historic, integral link between the party and African-Americans,” Steele said. “This party was co-founded by blacks, among them Frederick Douglass. The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship. People don’t walk away from parties, Their parties walk away from them.
“For the last 40-plus years we had a ‘Southern Strategy’ that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, ‘Bubba’ went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton.”
Republicans are doing nothing to bring African-Americans to their party right now. Their tea party protests often contain outright racists and they didn’t help themselves by declaring Civil Rights leaders liars. Now Republicans are busy working on alienating latino voters as well. Great job guys!
Iranian President Ahmadinejad has some cockamamie plan to evacuate Tehran to save people from a devastating earthquake there. An Iranian cleric has an explanation for why earthquakes happen in the first place.
In the best both-sides-of-every-issue newsmedia tradition, Reuters reports a different opinion on the best way to preserve Tehran:
Leading Friday prayers, the focal point of Iran’s religious week, Ayatollah Kazem Sadighi said better observance of Islamic rules on modesty would help ward off an earthquake. “Those women who dress inappropriately will tempt youngsters and it will finally lead major sins being committed and in that case the wrath of God will be sent upon us,” he said.
Isn’t always the woman’s fault?