Partnership for a McCain-free White House

[prog]

Hee hee hee. (Teh funny is fuller if you grew up in the U.S. while watchin TV over the last few decades.)

I like the practical message, too. As a commenter on another LJ said, this rather justifies moveon.org's existence.

(I've written off my own parents as being completely irrational due to deep-seated swarthiphobia (literally - they are so, so scared), but I know at least one person close to me whose parents live in a swing state and are still undecided, and their education is an ongoing project...)

(My mom was telling me how she and dad went to a Todd Palin rally in Newport last weekend. He's a rather soft-spoken man, apparently, and they had to strain to hear him.)

Comments

[jadelennox]

you know, I wonder if your mother being scared of "the blacks" could actually give you an in. A lot of people -- is your mother one of them? -- justify their racism by framing it in terms of culture. "It's not that I don't like them because they have black skin, it's that I don't like them because they have that gangsta rap and all that crime and they talk funny." If your mother rationalizes in this way, then possibly you could use that self identification as your entry point, pointing out that -- well, to quote Biden's horrific statement -- Obama is clean and well spoken and articulate and isn't like all those other black people she is scared of. Of course, in order to do this you will have to participate on the playing field that accepts the underlying assumption that most black people(the ones who didn't go to Harvard and Columbia) actually *are* that scary boogeyman that frightens her, but still, it's a start.

And maybe after four years of our Obama presidency, when she sees that Teh Scary Black People haven't actually taken over the world, maybe then it will start to be a crack in the façade.

[prog.livejournal.com]

OMG I totally forgot it was Biden who made those comments!! That's such an obvious hey-interesting hook on Obama's decision for his running mate, that I wonder how it is I didn't hear anyone bring that up since. (Eh, probably because the RNC came right after.)

I thought of the after-the-fact defense too, since it's what people have been (correctly, I feel) offering about why the national resistance to same-sex marriage is destined to dissolve. But I predict plenty "THERE! YOU SEE?!" reactions any time, say, an African-American cabinet member is appointed, or SCOTUS justice is tapped, or new Mos Def movie hits theaters, etc.