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lookatthisfuckingteabagger:

generic1:

Most of the tea partyers I’ve talked to aren’t just Randian selfish autobots or racists who want to see the President’s birth certificate. They’re people who see the same problems as most progressives do — their economic futures being ruined, the destructive feelings of a government that is unaccountable, the increasing tension between different geographical parts of the country — and they feel like they need to do something about it …

Rather than mocking the largely white, southern demographic that makes up this movement, we should be trying to engage with it — no matter how difficult that is — to enlist it on our side.
Zaid Jilani (via azspot)

This is without a doubt, the most naive string of words I’ve read on the internet today. Jilani must believe it pure coincidence that these convenient libertarians materialized after November 4th, 2008.

Where were they before? What changed? Oh yes, the melanin count.

NEWSFLASH: The “tension between different geographical parts of the country” has been around for a long fucking time. Please compare that map with results of the 2008 Presidential Election. ThinkProgress isn’t usually this gullible.

Go to bed, will you?

There’s a little quote from John Cole that fits this situation:

I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

There’s no middle ground with nutters who believe Obama was born in Kenya and is the son of Malcolm X, who think Obama wants to enslave white people, who think Obama is going to sacrifice babies in order to call forth Cthulhu to devour our souls.

Tim F. pretty much hits the nail on the head:

Barack Obama stripped millions of Americans of their right to not have a black President.