Seen this McCain ad?:
Man, they're letting it all hang out, aren't they? Telling white working-class people that Obama's going to take their money and give it to the nigras. There's good ol' Joe the Plumber at the start of the ad, and the background country music, and the misspelled word "everbody" for "everybody" -- it so happens that many uneducated blacks pronounce the word "everbody." This is an ad for a presidential candidate -- that could not have been an error. I interned once for a political consultant in Washington, when I was in college, and spent a lot longer than I care to remember in the editing room with our team, combing over commercials we cut for our candidates. This was no typo.
It's sad, really. Because see, I agree with Ross Douthat that liberals are way too quick to interpret fair shots that Republicans and conservatives take as veiled racism. But honestly, how else can you interpret this ad except as a pretty naked appeal to racial resentment? You're going to ignore the perfectly legitimate issue of Jeremiah Wright's racial radicalism for the entire campaign, but then come out with something as crude as this in the waning days? WTF?
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" 'Average federal receipts during the Bush years have been 18% of GDP vs. 19% during the Clinton years. Average federal outlays? 19.9% under Clinton and…19.8% under Bush.'
Which only goes to show that Bush was no conservative, as some of us have been saying for quite awhile."
O.K., how about this one then? Average federal outlays were 22.1% of GDP during Reagan's second term. Was Reagan not a conservative, too?
One of my points is that the entire smaller-government meme on which the conservative momement has based the last 28 years of its sales pitch has not amounted to much of anything, in practice, except borrowing money in order to reduce the tax rate on those in the higher brackets. The government hasn't gotten smaller and won't get smaller without major changes to the programs targeted at our older citizens. Welfare is a miniscule target by comparison.
Until someone is willing to touch that one, we either raise taxes or continue to mortgage the accumulated wealth and hard assets of the nation by borrowing abroad to keep going. Which does everyone prefer?
I have never noticed "everbody" as an ethnic pronunciation of "everybody".
The ad has "everybody" in the caption for Obama's line, then the typoed "everbody". The announcer distinctly says ever***Y***body while the typo is on the screen. If they were trying to send a message to the rednecks, you would think they would make it more obvious.
There are other very reasonable explanations for the typo. Maybe it was a rush job. Maybe this is just more proof that our educational system is failing. Or maybe the ad was worked on by someone who pronounces the word "everbody".
Finally, Rod, your comment contains a racial slur and racism accusation which IMHO does not even meet your own rules of conduct. It is inappropriate.
I think Rob G's idea of denying welfare recipients the vote is ludicrous, personally. We shouldn't be disenfranchising people, we should be encouraging everyone (except for ineligible convicted felons) to vote.
Welfare should be a temporary fall-back, however, not a permanent entitlement, just like unemployment insurance is a temporary fall-back. It should be there to help someone get on their feet, not a guaranteed income for life.
I don't see that the ad is racist.
But once again I have to say that there is very little difference between the parties. Both sides are fully owned by big business. If you dig into it, and follow the money, you will surely come to the same conclusion that I have. (Unless you are a weak minded partisan and you are intellectually bankrupt/brainwashed)
ALL of them should be thrown out on their asses. They SUCK. Their stupidity and greed has destroyed a once great country. I'm not sure that we will ever recover.
Conservatives believe in and practice smaller government and lower taxes.
Neo-cons (neo-conservatives) beleive in praising smaller government and lower taxes just to get votes. Once in office they balloon government spending as long as it benefits them and theirs and cutting taxes for those who have the most leaving the deficit to be paid by our children and grandchildren.
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