Day Two Tidbits
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
- The latest issue of “The Black Republican,” was being distributed to delegates at the convention yesterday. With a stunning lack of creativity, three points are driven home again and again:
1) Sen. Barack Obama is a radical left-wing nut;
2) The Democratic Party is racist and;
3) Republicans support civil rights more than Democrats.
To reinforce the last point, the magazine, which is a product of the National Black Republican Association, points out that Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Bumper stickers advertising this come with the magazine, and according to news sources, the group also put up 50 billboards around Denver touting the piece of trivia for last week’s convention. (The Washington Post eviscerated this claim about King nearly two years ago. See the story here.)
It appears the association is banking on this distortion winning some support. The question is, from who? Take a step back from the mishmash of gross generalizations and misinformation and what do you have?
Just 2 percent of the GOP delegates to this year’s convention are black.
- Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul will host a rally today in the Twin Cities.
- Also on tap for today: Minnesota activist and former vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange, will speak at the Ripple Effect festival in St. Paul, subtitled “Beyond the Convention | Beyond Partisanship.”
- Texas alternate delegate Vincent Campos was cited in today’s Star Tribune as participating in yesterday’s protest events in St. Paul. Campos, 22, told the paper he is an Iraq vet.
- Ramsey County, where the convention is taking place, sought and was awarded a court order last week allowing disconnection of cell phone service of anyone deemed a threat to the RNC.
- Creative activist group Lobbyists for McCain were running around the Capitol in black three-piece suits and earpieces yesterday, amusing the crowds by chanting things like “No, you can’t” and “Hope, but different.”
On its website, the group says “We lobby for lobbyists; one could say we are the lobbyist lobby. After all, lobbyists need lobbyists, too.”
Check it out for detailed information on McCain’s stable of lobbyists.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
If John McCain didn’t have no bad luck, he wouldn’ hardly have no luck at all. He has only had partisan pasta to eat ! !