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ANOTHER BLOG POST exclusive to MTV, as it is part of my Street Team 08 duties! This one delves more into one of my favorite paradigms, Symbol and Essence.

Words that came to me while thinking on our many forms of warring with the Other.

Crossposted at The Unapologetic Mexican, Jesus' General, and OpEdNews.

YOUR FAITHFUL OREGON representative for the MTV Street Team '08 (ahem, yours truly) is invisible on this day, because Oregon doesn't exist when it comes to Super Tuesday. But my Street Team peeps are LIVE on the scene in each Super Tuesday state.

DEAR MISTER ROMNEY, I really appreciate your steadfast commitment to your faith. I've heard people choose these types of ideologies because it grounds a person in morality and integrity and human values. And of course I can admire that. With all the hate- and fear-mongering filling the public square today, I welcome men of your caliber.

I only have a small question. Given that a central tenet of Mormonism is that the Indians of the Americas are descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel, how do you reconcile your current anti-immigrant stance with the fact that Mexicans are descended, too, from these same people? How do your actions fit into the theological framework now that you are the one trying to stop them from wandering?

and furthermore—

You might not recognize the words at first, but it's still the same old tune. And if we get this one right, our Bilderbergers handlers good friends in gummint have promised us that we can all hold hands and sing "Kumbayah" next.

Oh, why can't everyone tell
A statesman from a thug
Who's got our telephones bugged
A frat boy who took drugs
Who Lays down with thieves
The one who deceived
About the Dubya MDs

How did you get us to trade
Our heroes for shrubs
Democrats for Repubs
A stain we never could scrub
A living, breathing oil spill
How did we reject
Surplus safety net
For nine trillion in debt

How I wish
How I wish you were Gore
It's been two lost terms swimming in a cesspool
Of malfeasance and shame
Trashing all of the Bill of Rights
And starting losing fights
With pre-emptive war
Wish you were Gore

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Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.

There's something hideously funny about Newt Gingrich's latest idiotic pronouncement. I think it's his delivery. He obviously knows that what he is saying is inflammatory and absurd, and that its chief "value" is to incite the passions of people who hate Spanish-speaking people as much as they hate the people who live in the "ghetto," which includes many people who are not white and many people who do not speak Spanish.

I think I admire Newt's comic ability. Not everyone can say things he knows are ridiculous with a straight face. It's the irony between the straight face and the ridiculous assertion that causes people to laugh. And laugh we do whenever New Gingrich speaks in public, until we remember that many of our countrymen and women may be taking him seriously.

Lately, I've perceived some anti-immigrant sentiment in unexpected places. I hope this Newt Gingrich video will show everyone that, as far as Newt Gingrich is concerned, all those who have lived in the ghetto and all those who speak Spanish can be insulted as one, no matter where they were born.

Last night, flipping through the channels, I saw "BREAKING NEWS". Immediately, I realized I had made a mistake--the breaking news was on FOX, and what was it? Bush was speaking at the National Correspondents' Dinner. So I shut it the fuck off and watched something else.

Now, it turns out that the puppet master decided to participate in a little shuck and jive, to demonstrate that he could get down with his bad self. Except he dances like someone pulling marionette strings. No, he dances like the animated, soulless corpse that he is. The master who sends troops to die while he prances around the stage.

This is not funny. It it pathetic. Offensive. Almost as good as the moment when Bush did the "skit" where he pretended to look for those pesky WMDs that he had lied about.
I fucking hate this administration.

from Talk to Action

In their avid thirst for the blessing of the Christian right, GOP presidential hopefuls such as Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Sam Brownback lined up last fall to prostrate themselves before James Dobson and Tony Perkins. Now, in the grip of his own presidential fever, John McCain publicly joins them in pandering to the anti-woman agenda of the religious right.

The New York Times reminds us that McCain once played harder to get.

In his unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination in 2000, McCain called [the Christian right] "the agents of intolerance." ... For a taste of their views, you can visit the Web site of Concerned Women for America (C.W.A.), which bills itself as the "nation's largest public-policy women's organization." Its mission is "to protect and promote biblical values among all citizens," the Bible being "the inerrant Word of God and the final authority on faith and practice." As for dissenters from C.W.A.'s stand on issues like the "sanctity of human life," a handy link to Bible passages explains "why you are a sinner and deserve punishment in Hell."

A woman who dissented from that narrow view of godliness by having an illegal abortion might get to hell sooner than most. That's the only thing that criminalization of safe and legal abortion ever has accomplished through all of recorded time, and all it ever will accomplish  -- killing women before their time. That's the dirty little secret that no one wants to talk about, because saying such a thing out loud dirties the Christian right's whited sepulcher of religious purity.  And that truth doesn't matter when power-hungry candidates are selling their souls to be anointed as the chosen one.

Ahhhh, yes indeed. It is that time of year again. We are gearing up for the Presidential election bullshit I mean campaigns. And in honor of that special time of forthrightness, I give you a few of my suggestions for possible candidates' campaign slogans. Now, some of these people may not run this time around, but like Rocky, they will surely rise up for that final bout at some point. And by "final", I mean, "God help us".

1. Sam Brownback: Vote for the Skidmark
2. Hillary Clinton: I'm In and I'm In to Win, Though the South Hates Me and I Hope You Forgot Whitewater and So What I Let You Down on the War and Obama Who?
3. Rudy Giuliani: Taking Care of the Terrorists Like I Took Care of Donna
4. John Edwards: Rockin'the House at Riverside and Beyond...Uh, Yo.
5. Al Gore: It's Gettin' Hot in Here So Take Off All Your Clothes for Global Warmin'!
6. John Kerry: Eat More Ketchup So I Have Something to Fall Back On
7. Jeb Bush: What's a Slogan?
8. Barack Obama: Only Slightly Overwhelmed in 2008
4. John McCain: First the Cong; Then the Dong!

Oh, I can't wait to see the commercials!